Mechanism of the endothelium-dependent vasodilator effect of an alcohol-free extract obtained from a vinifera grape skin

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• 作者：Socorro Vanesca Frota Madeira ; Angela de Castro Resende ; Dayane Teixeira Ognibene ; Marcelo Augusto Vieira de Sousa and Roberto Soares de Moura
• 关键词：Vitis labrusca ; Nitric oxide ; Mesenteric ; Vasodilation ; Hyperpolarization
• 刊名：Pharmacological Research
• 出版年：2005
• 出版时间：2005
• 年：2005
• 卷：52
• 期：4
• 页码：321-327
• 全文大小：167 K

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An alcohol-free grape-skin extract (GSE) obtained from skins of Vitis labrusca has significant anti-hypertensive, antioxidant and vasodilator effects. According to our previous results, the vasodilator effect of GSE in the isolated mesenteric vascular bed (MVB) of the rat is dependent on endothelium and partially dependent on nitric oxide (NO). In the MVB of the rat pre-contracted with norepinephrine (NE), bolus injections of GSE induced a long-lasting dose-dependent vasodilation that is significantly reduced after the treatment with 1H-[1,2,3] oxadiazolo [4,4-a] quinoxalin-1-one (ODQ). Additionally, in vessels pre-contracted with norepinephrine and depolarized with KCl (25 mM) or treated with Ca²⁺-dependent K⁺-channel blockers charybdotoxin (ChTx) plus apamin, the vasodilator effect of GSE was significantly reduced and almost abolished by ChTx plus apamin plus L-NAME. However, the vasodilator effect of GSE was unaffected by d-Arg[Hyp(3),Thi(5),d-Tic(7),Oic(8)]bradykinin (HOE-140), atropine, yohimbine, pyrilamine and 4-aminopyridine (4-AP). The vasoconstriction response elicited by bolus injection of KCl was not affected by GSE, whereas the vasoconstrictor response induced by NE was dose-dependently and completed inhibited by GSE in the presence but not in the absence of endothelium. However, NE-induced vasoconstriction in calcium-free condition or without endothelium was not reduced by GSE. The present results demonstrate that GSE induces a vasodilator effect in the rat MVB, which is dependent on NO in combination with endothelium-derived hyperpolarizing factor (EDHF). Additionally, our results indicated that extracellular Ca²⁺ has an important role on the endothelium-dependent vasodilator effect induced by GSE.