NATURAL PRODUCT RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ›› 2015, Vol. 27 ›› Issue (6): 986-989. doi: 10.16333/j.1001-6880.2015.06.008

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Effect of Osthole on Isolated Pulmonary Arteries

HE Guan-hong,TENG Zhen-xia,YAO Li*   

  1. Department of Pharmacognosy,College of Pharmacy,Harbin Medical University,Harbin 150081,China
  • Online:2015-06-30 Published:2015-07-10

Abstract: To study the effect of osthole on isolated pulmonary arteries by using force-electricity transducers,pulmonary arteries isolated from human beings and healthy SD rats and mesenteric arteries from SD rats were cut into rings (about 3 mm in length) and observed the response of artery contraction to different doses of osthole. The results showed that osthole (109-105 mol/L) relaxed phenylephrine precontrated isolated pulmonary arteries of both human beings and rats in a dose-dependent manner,but not mesenteric arteries and normal pulmonary arteries.Therefore,osthole relaxed human and rat isolated pulmonary arteries in a dose-dependent manner and was tissue specific.

Key words: osthole, pulmonary arterial hypertension, pulmonary arterial rings

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