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ToolsMartinsen, Anneloes, Baeyens, Nicolas, Yerna, Xavier and Morel, Nicole (2012) Rho kinase regulation of vasopressin-induced calcium entry in vascular smooth muscle cell: comparison between rat isolated aorta and cultured aortic cells. Cell Calcium, 52 (6). pp. 413-421. ISSN 0143-4160
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In addition to its role in artery contraction, Rho kinase (ROCK) is reported to be involved in the Ca(2+) response to vasoconstrictor agonist in rat aorta. However the signaling pathway mediated by ROCK had not been investigated so far and it was not known whether ROCK also contributed to Ca(2+) signaling in cultured vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC), which undergo profound phenotypic changes. Our results showed that in VSMC, ROCK inhibition by Y-27632 or H-1152 had no effect on the Ca(2+) response to vasopressin, while in aorta the vasopressin-induced Ca(2+) entry was significantly decreased. The inhibition of myosin light chain kinase (MLCK) by ML-7 depressed the vasopressin-induced Ca(2+) signal in aorta but not in VSMC. The difference in ROCK sensitivity of vasopressin-induced Ca(2+) entry between aorta and VSMC was not related to an alteration of the RhoA/ROCK pathway. However, MLCK expression and activity were depressed in cultured cells compared to aorta. We concluded that the regulation of vasopressin-induced Ca(2+) entry by ROCK in aorta could involve the myosin cytoskeleton and could be prevented by the downregulation of MLCK in VSMC. These results underline the important differences in Ca(2+) regulation between whole tissue and cultured cells.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Nutrition and Preventive Medicine |
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| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Sep 2015 14:00 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Nov 2022 11:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/54349 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ceca.2012.07.002 |
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