title: The inhibitory effects of isoflurane on protein tyrosine phosphorylation-modulated contraction of rat aortic smooth muscle.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Tyrosine kinase-catalyzed protein tyrosine phosphorylation plays an important role in initiating and modulating vascular smooth muscle contraction. The aim of the current study was to examine the effects of isoflurane on sodium orthovanadate (Na3VO4), a potent protein tyrosine phosphatase inhibitor-induced, tyrosine phosphorylation-mediated contraction of rat aortic smooth muscle.
  
  
  METHODS
  The Na3VO4-induced contraction of rat aortic smooth muscle and tyrosine phosphorylation of proteins including phospholipase Cgamma-1 (PLCgamma-1) and p44/p42 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) were assessed in the presence of different concentrations of isoflurane, using isometric force measurement and Western blotting methods, respectively.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Na3VO4 (10(-4) m) induced a gradually sustained contraction and significant increase in protein tyrosine phosphorylation of a set of substrates including PLCgamma-1 and p42MAPK, all of which were markedly inhibited by genistein (5 x 10(-5) m), a tyrosine kinase inhibitor. Isoflurane (1.2-3.5%) dose-dependently depressed the Na3VO4-induced contraction (P < 0.05-0.005; n = 8). Isoflurane also attenuated the total density of the Na3VO4-induced, tyrosine-phosphorylated substrate bands and the density of tyrosine-phosphorylated PLCgamma-1 band and p42MAPK band (P < 0.05-0.005; n = 4) in a concentration-dependent manner.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The findings of the current study, that isoflurane dose-dependently inhibits both the Na3VO4-stimulated contraction and tyrosine phosphorylation of a set of proteins including PLCgamma-1 and p42MAPK in rat aortic smooth muscle, suggest that isoflurane depresses protein tyrosine phosphorylation-modulated contraction of vascular smooth muscle, especially that mediated by the tyrosine-phosphorylated PLCgamma-1 and MAPK signaling pathways.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Wakayama Medical University, Japan.
authors.forename: Jingui
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Koji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ogawa
authors.forename: Yasuyuki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tokinaga
authors.forename: Kazuhiro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Mizumoto
authors.forename: Tetsuya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kakutani
authors.forename: Yoshio
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hatano
mesh_terms: D018685:Anesthetics, Inhalation / Q000494:pharmacology*; D000818:Animals; D001013:Aorta, Thoracic / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D015153:Blotting, Western; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors / Q000494:pharmacology; D019833:Genistein / Q000494:pharmacology; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D007530:Isoflurane / Q000494:pharmacology*; D007537:Isometric Contraction / Q000187:drug effects; D008297:Male; D019950:Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 1 / Q000378:metabolism; D048052:Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 3 / Q000378:metabolism; D009119:Muscle Contraction / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D009131:Muscle, Smooth, Vascular / Q000187:drug effects*; D051966:Phospholipase C gamma; D010766:Phosphorylation; D017027:Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors* / Q000378:metabolism; D011505:Protein-Tyrosine Kinases / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000187:drug effects; D010738:Type C Phospholipases / Q000378:metabolism; D014638:Vanadates / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D018685:Anesthetics, Inhalation; D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors; D014638:Vanadates; D007530:Isoflurane; D019833:Genistein; D011505:Protein-Tyrosine Kinases; D019950:Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 1; D048052:Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 3; D017027:Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases; D010738:Type C Phospholipases; D051966:Phospholipase C gamma