TY - JOUR
T1 - Mechanisms of intrinsic force in small human airways
AU - Wylam, Mark E.
AU - Xue, Ailing
AU - Sieck, Gary C.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank the division of anatomic pathology, department of laboratory medicine and pathology staff for help collecting specimen. This work was supported by National Institute of Health grants AI050494 and HL74309 .
PY - 2012/4/15
Y1 - 2012/4/15
N2 - We quantified the magnitude and investigated mechanisms regulating intrinsic force (IF) in human airway smooth muscle (hASM). IF was identified by reducing extracellular calcium (Ca 2+) concentration to nominally zero in freshly isolated isometrically mounted 2mm human bronchi. Our results show: (1) the magnitude of IF is ~50% of the maximal total force elicited by acetylcholine (10 -5M) and is epithelial independent, (2) IF can also be revealed by β-adrenergic activation (isoproterenol), non-specific cationic channel blockade (La 3+) or L-type voltage gated Ca 2+ channel blockade (nifedipine), (3) atropine, indomethacin, AA-861, or pyrilamine did not affect IF, (4) IF was reduced by the intracellular Ca 2+ ([Ca 2+] i) chelating agent BAPTA-AM, (5) ω-conotoxin had no effect on IF. In studies in cultured hASM cells nominally zero Ca 2+ buffer and BAPTA-AM reduced [Ca 2+] i but isoproterenol and nifedipine did not. Taken together these results indicate that rapid reduction of [Ca 2+] i reveals a permissive relationship between extracellular Ca 2+, [Ca 2+] i and IF. However IF can be dissipated by mechanisms effecting Ca 2+ sensitivity. We speculate that an increase of IF, a fundamental property of ASM, could be related to human airway clinical hyperresponsiveness and must be accounted for in in vitro studies of hASM.
AB - We quantified the magnitude and investigated mechanisms regulating intrinsic force (IF) in human airway smooth muscle (hASM). IF was identified by reducing extracellular calcium (Ca 2+) concentration to nominally zero in freshly isolated isometrically mounted 2mm human bronchi. Our results show: (1) the magnitude of IF is ~50% of the maximal total force elicited by acetylcholine (10 -5M) and is epithelial independent, (2) IF can also be revealed by β-adrenergic activation (isoproterenol), non-specific cationic channel blockade (La 3+) or L-type voltage gated Ca 2+ channel blockade (nifedipine), (3) atropine, indomethacin, AA-861, or pyrilamine did not affect IF, (4) IF was reduced by the intracellular Ca 2+ ([Ca 2+] i) chelating agent BAPTA-AM, (5) ω-conotoxin had no effect on IF. In studies in cultured hASM cells nominally zero Ca 2+ buffer and BAPTA-AM reduced [Ca 2+] i but isoproterenol and nifedipine did not. Taken together these results indicate that rapid reduction of [Ca 2+] i reveals a permissive relationship between extracellular Ca 2+, [Ca 2+] i and IF. However IF can be dissipated by mechanisms effecting Ca 2+ sensitivity. We speculate that an increase of IF, a fundamental property of ASM, could be related to human airway clinical hyperresponsiveness and must be accounted for in in vitro studies of hASM.
KW - Airway smooth muscle
KW - Asthma
KW - Human
KW - Intracellular calcium concentration [Ca ]
KW - Intrinsic force
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U2 - 10.1016/j.resp.2012.01.011
DO - 10.1016/j.resp.2012.01.011
M3 - Article
C2 - 22322114
AN - SCOPUS:84857763824
SN - 1569-9048
VL - 181
SP - 99
EP - 108
JO - Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology
JF - Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology
IS - 1
ER -