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Pharmacology of ATP-sensitive K+ currents in smooth muscle cells from rabbit mesenteric artery

J. M. Quayle, A. D. Bonev, J. E. Brayden and M. T. Nelson
Department of Pharmacology, University of Vermont Medical Research Facility, Colchester 05446, USA.

The inference that ATP-sensitive K+ (KATP) channels are involved in arterial responses to the synthetic K+ channel openers, hypoxia, adenosine, and calcitonin gene-related peptide, has relied on the sensitivity of these responses to the sulfonylureas glibenclamide and tolbutamide and to tetraethylammonium (TEA+). The inhibition of KATP currents by glibenclamide, tolbutamide, and TEA+ was investigated in single smooth muscle cells from rabbit mesenteric artery by use of the whole cell patch-clamp technique. The synthetic K+ channel openers pinacidil (half-activation 0.6 microM), cromakalim (half-activation 1.9 microM), and diazoxide (half-activation 37.1 microM) activated K(+)-selective currents that were blocked by glibenclamide. Elevation of pipette (intracellular) ATP concentration decreased K+ currents induced by pinacidil. Half-inhibition of KATP currents by glibenclamide and tolbutamide occurred at 101 nM and 351 microM, respectively. KATP currents were also inhibited by external TEA+, with half-inhibition at 6.2 mM. The results indicate that glibenclamide is an effective inhibitor of KATP channels in arterial smooth muscle and that tolbutamide and TEA+ are much less effective. Furthermore, these results support numerous functional studies that have demonstrated that the vasorelaxations to K+ channel openers are inhibited by < 10 microM glibenclamide but not by < 1 mM TEA+.

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