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The role of the sodium-calcium exchanger for calcium extrusion in coronary arteries

Published inLife sciences, vol. 67, no. 5, p. 549-557
Publication date2000-06
Abstract

Calcium ionophores, such as the A23187, cause endothelium-dependent relaxation of arterial strips with intact endothelium, whereas the effect of the ionophore should result from the combination of a relaxation caused by the endothelium-dependent factors and of a contraction of the smooth muscles. In addition, the application of a calcium ionophore to a strip of pig coronary arteries without endothelium does not change cytosolic free calcium concentration and force developed by the smooth muscle cells. To explain these paradoxes, the hypothesis that active calcium extrusion would match the entry of extracellular calcium caused by the ionophore was tested. We see that the sodium-calcium exchanger extrudes calcium that enters the smooth muscle cells in the absence of the ionophore. This exchanger is efficient enough to expel the increased influx of calcium created by the additional calcium carriers formed by the ionophore. This explains the inefficiency of calcium ionophores to increase cytosolic free calcium of smooth muscle cells and consequently, the fact that the ionophore does not cause a contraction of a strip without endothelium. This makes evident that a calcium ionophore fully relaxes, in an endothelium-dependent manner, an intact strip of porcine coronary artery.

Keywords
  • A23187
  • Calcium
  • Sodium-calcium exchanger
  • Endothelium-derived relaxing factor
  • Pig coronary arteries
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BUDEL, Stéphane, BENY, Jean-Louis. The role of the sodium-calcium exchanger for calcium extrusion in coronary arteries. In: Life sciences, 2000, vol. 67, n° 5, p. 549–557. doi: 10.1016/S0024-3205(00)00646-9
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