title: Gastric motility in soluble guanylate cyclase alpha 1 knock-out mice.
abstract: The principal target of the relaxant neurotransmitter nitric oxide (NO) is soluble guanylate cyclase (sGC). As the alpha(1)beta(1)-isoform of sGC is the predominant one in the gastrointestinal tract, the aim of this study was to investigate the role of sGC in nitrergic regulation of gastric motility in male and female sGCalpha(1) knock-out (KO) mice. In circular gastric fundus muscle strips, functional responses and cGMP levels were determined in response to nitrergic and non-nitrergic stimuli. sGC subunit mRNA expression in fundus was measured by real-time RT-PCR; in vivo gastric emptying of a phenol red meal was determined. No changes were observed in sGC subunit mRNA levels between wild-type (WT) and KO tissues. Nitrergic relaxations induced by short trains of electrical field stimulation (EFS) were abolished, while those by long trains of EFS were reduced in KO strips; the latter responses were abolished by 1H[1,2,4,]oxadiazolo[4,3-a]quinoxalin-1-one (ODQ). The relaxations evoked by exogenous NO and the NO-independent sGC activator BAY 41-2272 were reduced in KO strips but still sensitive to ODQ. Relaxations induced by vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) and 8-bromo-cGMP were not influenced. Basal cGMP levels were decreased in KO strips but NO, long train EFS and BAY 41-2272 still induced a moderate ODQ-sensitive increase in cGMP levels. Gastric emptying, measured at 15 and 60 min, was increased at 15 min in male KO mice. sGCalpha(1)beta(1) plays an important role in gastric nitrergic relaxation in vitro, but some degree of nitrergic relaxation can occur via sGCalpha(2)beta(1) activation in sGCalpha(1) KO mice, which contributes to the moderate in vivo consequence on gastric emptying.
authors: Heymans Institute of Pharmacology, De Pintelaan 185, B-9000, Ghent, Belgium.
authors: Gwen
authors: G
authors: Vanneste
authors: Ingeborg
authors: I
authors: Dhaese
authors: Patrick
authors: P
authors: Sips
authors: Emmanuel
authors: E
authors: Buys
authors: Peter
authors: P
authors: Brouckaert
authors: Romain A
authors: RA
authors: Lefebvre
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002217:Carbachol / Q000494:pharmacology; D006152:Cyclic GMP / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000494:pharmacology; D015237:Dinoprost / Q000494:pharmacology; D005260:Female; D005769:Gastrointestinal Motility / Q000187:drug effects / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology*; D006162:Guanylate Cyclase / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D018345:Mice, Knockout; D009569:Nitric Oxide / Q000494:pharmacology; D011720:Pyrazoles / Q000494:pharmacology; D011725:Pyridines / Q000494:pharmacology; D018160:Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D000071756:Soluble Guanylyl Cyclase; D014660:Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: C423582:3-(4-Amino-5-cyclopropylpyrimidine-2-yl)-1-(2-fluorobenzyl)-1H-pyrazolo(3,4-b)pyridine; D011720:Pyrazoles; D011725:Pyridines; D018160:Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear; C016276:8-bromocyclic GMP; D009569:Nitric Oxide; D014660:Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide; D002217:Carbachol; D015237:Dinoprost; D006162:Guanylate Cyclase; D000071756:Soluble Guanylyl Cyclase; D006152:Cyclic GMP
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