title: Effect of 17 alpha-ethinylestradiol, levonorgestrel, 3-keto-desogestrel, and gestodene on calcium influx via voltage-gated calcium channels in human aortic smooth muscles.
abstract: The effect of the synthetic estradiol, 17 alpha-ethinylestradiol, and three progestogens on calcium influx was investigated in cell cultures of human aortic smooth muscle. Neither the synthetic estrogen nor the progestogens levonorgestrel, 3-keto-desogestrel, and gestodene showed, in the concentration range of 10(-9) to 10(-6) M, a significant effect on calcium influx both alone or in equimolar estrogen-gestagen combinations. The results indicate that these substances, commonly used in contraceptive pills, do not change vasotonus interfering with calcium homeostasis.
authors.affiliation: Department Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Tübingen, Germany.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Seeger
authors.forename: A O
authors.initials: AO
authors.lastname: Mück
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lorkowski
authors.forename: A T
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Teichmann
authors.forename: T H
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Lippert
mesh_terms: D001011:Aorta; D002118:Calcium / Q000032:analysis / Q000378:metabolism*; D015220:Calcium Channels / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D002132:Calcium Radioisotopes; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D017135:Desogestrel / Q000494:pharmacology; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D045166:Estradiol Congeners / Q000494:pharmacology*; D004997:Ethinyl Estradiol / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006801:Humans; D016912:Levonorgestrel / Q000494:pharmacology; D009131:Muscle, Smooth, Vascular / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D009652:Norpregnenes / Q000494:pharmacology; D045167:Progesterone Congeners / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D015220:Calcium Channels; D002132:Calcium Radioisotopes; D045166:Estradiol Congeners; D009652:Norpregnenes; D045167:Progesterone Congeners; C033273:Gestodene; C044815:etonogestrel; D004997:Ethinyl Estradiol; D016912:Levonorgestrel; D017135:Desogestrel; D002118:Calcium