title: Characterization of the 5-HT receptor mediating endothelium-dependent relaxation in porcine vena cava.
abstract: 1. 5-Hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) relaxes rings of neonatal porcine isolated vena cava by both an endothelium-dependent and an endothelium-independent mechanism. The receptor mediating the latter response has been shown to be a 5-HT1-like receptor (positively coupled to adenylyl cyclase) located on the vascular smooth muscle. The features of the endothelium-dependent response to 5-HT in this preparation are now described. 2. In ring preparations contracted with the stable thromboxane-A2-mimetic, U-46619 (10 nM), and in the presence of the 5-HT2 receptor antagonist ketanserin (1 microM), low concentrations of 5-HT (1-100 nM) evoked an endothelium-dependent, rapid, 'spike-like' relaxation. Higher concentrations of 5-HT (0.1-10 microM) elicited a more sustained, but endothelium-independent relaxation. 3. Relaxation induced by low concentrations (1-100 nM) of 5-HT was abolished by endothelium removal, and was markedly (but not totally) inhibited by the guanylate cyclase inhibitor, methylene blue (10 microM) or by the inhibitor of endothelium-derived nitric oxide (NO) synthesis, L-NG-monomethylarginine (L-NMMA; 100-500 microM). 4. The endothelium-dependent response to 5-HT was mimicked by alpha-methyl-5-HT, 5-methoxytryptamine, tryptamine and 2-methyl-5-HT, but not by sumatriptan or 8-hydroxy-di-n-propylaminotetralin (8-OH-DPAT) at concentrations up to 10 microM. In contrast, relaxation evoked by 5-carboxamidotryptamine (5-CT) was endothelium-independent. 5. The endothelium-dependent relaxation induced by 5-HT or alpha-methyl-5-HT was antagonized by methysergide, methiothepin, cyproheptadine and metergoline, but not by ketanserin, spiperone, ondansetron, verapamil, cyanopindolol, mesulergine, ICS 205-930, or indomethacin. 6. These results suggest that the endothelium-dependent relaxation of porcine vena cava induced by 5-HT is largely mediated by the release of NO (although other endothelium-derived relaxing factors may also be involved) and that 5-HT is acting at a receptor which is not '5-HT1-like', 5-HT2, 5-HT3 or 5-HT4 and is not comparable to recognised 5-HT receptor ligand binding sites. The characteristics of this receptor are discussed in relation to the endothelial 5-HT receptor types in other blood vessels.
authors.affiliation: Peripheral Pharmacology Department, Glaxo Group Research, Ware, Hertfordshire.
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Sumner
mesh_terms: D019796:15-Hydroxy-11 alpha,9 alpha-(epoxymethano)prosta-5,13-dienoic Acid; D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn / Q000502:physiology; D001120:Arginine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000494:pharmacology; D004730:Endothelium, Vascular / Q000502:physiology*; D007650:Ketanserin / Q000494:pharmacology; D008781:Methyltyrosines / Q000494:pharmacology; D009126:Muscle Relaxation / Q000187:drug effects; D009131:Muscle, Smooth, Vascular / Q000502:physiology*; D011450:Prostaglandin Endoperoxides, Synthetic / Q000494:pharmacology; D011985:Receptors, Serotonin / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D012701:Serotonin / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000494:pharmacology; D013552:Swine; D014684:Venae Cavae / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D019805:alpha-Methyltyrosine; D019323:omega-N-Methylarginine
chemical_list: D008781:Methyltyrosines; D011450:Prostaglandin Endoperoxides, Synthetic; D011985:Receptors, Serotonin; D019323:omega-N-Methylarginine; D012701:Serotonin; D019805:alpha-Methyltyrosine; D019796:15-Hydroxy-11 alpha,9 alpha-(epoxymethano)prosta-5,13-dienoic Acid; C047087:5-carboxamidotryptamine; D001120:Arginine; D007650:Ketanserin