These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: Mechanism of inhibitory action of ethanol on endothelium-dependent relaxation in rat aorta.
    Author: Hatake K, Wakabayashi I, Hishida S.
    Journal: Eur J Pharmacol; 1993 Jul 20; 238(2-3):441-4. PubMed ID: 8405115.
    Abstract:
    Using isolated rat aortic strips, we investigated the inhibitory effect of ethanol on endothelium-dependent relaxation induced by acetylcholine, especially on that mediated by endothelium-derived relaxing factor. Ethanol depressed the relaxation induced by acetylcholine and inhibited the increase in the content of intravascular cyclic GMP induced by acetylcholine, but not that induced by sodium nitroprusside or calcimycin. Ethanol also inhibited the acetylcholine-induced relaxation resistant to nitro-L-arginine. These results suggest that ethanol can inhibit the cyclic GMP-dependent relaxation mediated by endothelium-derived relaxing factor. Furthermore, ethanol seems to depress the cyclic GMP-independent relaxation mechanism.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]