Title Contractions induced in human pulmonary arteries by a H2S donor, GYY 4137, are inhibited by low-frequency (20 kHz) ultrasound /
Authors Tunaitytė, Agilė ; Abramavičius, Silvijus ; Volkevičiūtė, Augusta ; Venslauskas, Mantas ; Bubulis, Algimantas ; Bajoriūnas, Vytis ; Simonsen, Ulf ; Ostaševičius, Vytautas ; Jūrėnas, Vytautas ; Briedis, Kasparas ; Stankevičius, Edgaras
DOI 10.3390/biom14030257
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Is Part of Biomolecules.. Basel : MDPI. 2024, vol. 14, iss. 3, art. no. 257, p. 1-12.. ISSN 2218-273X
Keywords [eng] human pulmonary arteries ; insonation ; low-frequency (20 kHz) ultrasound ; pulmonary hypertension
Abstract [eng] The present study aimed to investigate the effect of a H2S donor, GYY 4137, on human pulmonary arteries and whether low-frequency ultrasound (20 kHz, 4 W/cm2) inhibits GYY 4137 contractions. Functional studies were conducted on human and rat pulmonary arteries mounted on microvascular myographs. We placed an ultrasonic gadget in the tissue organ bath to insonate the arteries with low-frequency ultrasound. To measure the effect of the low-frequency ultrasound on the entrance of extracellular Ca2+, the preparations were placed in a Ca2+-free solution, and the thromboxane agonist, U46619, and extracellular calcium were added in the presence of insonation. In isolated human pulmonary arteries, GYY 4137 induced contractions, which were most pronounced in the arteries contracted with the thromboxane analogue, U46619. The transient GYY4137 contractions were reversed by low-frequency ultrasound, a blocker of KV7 channels, XE-991 (10 µM), and glibenclamide (1 μM), a blocker of ATP-sensitive channels. Low-frequency ultrasound also inhibited the contractions induced by the smooth muscle entrance of increasing extracellular calcium concentrations. The present findings show that GYY 4137 can cause a transient contraction of pulmonary arteries in human arteries. GYY 4137 alone does not cause significant vascular contraction in rat lung arteries, but it contracts rat lung arteries precontracted with U46619. The transient contractions induced by GYY 4137 can be inhibited by low-frequency ultrasound, probably by counteracting the influx of external Ca2+. The effect of low-frequency ultrasound counteracts contraction in pulmonary arteries; therefore, a possibility could be to develop a larger device allowing treatment of patients with pulmonary hypertension.
Published Basel : MDPI
Type Journal article
Language English
Publication date 2024
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