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  • Title: Effects of diltiazem on smooth muscles and neuromuscular junction in the mesenteric artery.
    Author: Suzuki H, Itoh T, Kuriyama H.
    Journal: Am J Physiol; 1982 Mar; 242(3):H325-36. PubMed ID: 6278954.
    Abstract:
    Effects of diltiazem on membrane properties, neuromuscular transmissions, and mechanical responses were investigated in intact and skinned muscles of the guinea pig mesenteric artery. Diltiazem (greater than 10(-6) M) depolarized the membrane, increased the membrane resistance, and suppressed the spike evoked by either electrical depolarization or summation of excitatory junction potentials (EJPs). This drug also suppressed the facilitation process of amplitudes of EJPs produced by repetitive perivascular nerve stimulations. These suppressions of EJPs were not caused by a reduced number of active nerves contributing to the generation of EJP but but rather to a reduction in the release of chemical transmitters. Norepinephrine (NE)-induced and K-induced contractions were suppressed by diltiazem noncompetitively, but the contraction evoked in Na-deficient solution was not suppressed, i.e., diltiazem is not a nonselective inhibitor of the Ca influx. In the saponin-treated skinned muscles diltiazem did not suppress the release from or the accumulation into the Ca store site, nor did it suppress activation of the Ca receptor in contractile proteins. These results indicate that diltiazem acts on the surface membrane and nerve terminal as a Ca antagonist or Ca-channel blocker.
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