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Effects of lysophosphatidylcholine and palmitylcarnitine--lipid metabolites produced in ischemia--on porcine coronary and rabbit femoral arteries.

Abstract
In organ bath experiments, amphiphilic lipids lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC) and palmitylcarnitine (PLC) produced a small increase in tension of nonprecontracted strips of porcine coronary artery with a subsequent decrease to initial level after high concentrations of the agents, both in intact and endothelium-denuded preparations. Both amphiphiles produced dose-dependent but incomplete relaxation of intact coronary strips precontracted with high potassium. The effect of PLC was more pronounced. LPC, 3.10(-6) mol.l-1, did not influence Ca++-dose-response relationships, while PLC in concentration of 10(-5) mol.l-1 abolished the decline in the second Ca++-dose-response curve. Neither PLC nor LPC in concentrations of 3.10(-6) mol.l-1 influenced endothelium-dependent relaxation produced by bradykinin precontracted with high potassium porcine coronary artery. Both amphiphiles did not change tension of nonprecontracted and precontracted with phenylephrine, 10(-6) mol.l-1, rabbit femoral artery ring segments or Ca++-dose-response relationships with and without endothelium.
Authors Vedernikov YuP, T Gräser, N Tiedt, A M Vikhert
JournalBasic research in cardiology (Basic Res Cardiol) 1989 Jul-Aug Vol. 84 Issue 4 Pg. 371-7 ISSN: 0300-8428 [Print] Germany
PMID2818436 (Publication Type: Comparative Study, Journal Article)
Chemical References
  • Lysophosphatidylcholines
  • Palmitoylcarnitine
  • Phenylephrine
  • Potassium
  • Carnitine
  • Bradykinin
  • Calcium
Topics
  • Animals
  • Bradykinin (pharmacology)
  • Calcium (pharmacology)
  • Carnitine (analogs & derivatives)
  • Coronary Vessels (drug effects)
  • Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
  • Endothelium, Vascular (metabolism)
  • Femoral Artery (drug effects)
  • In Vitro Techniques
  • Lysophosphatidylcholines (pharmacology)
  • Palmitoylcarnitine (pharmacology)
  • Phenylephrine (pharmacology)
  • Potassium (pharmacology)
  • Rabbits
  • Swine

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