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Cholinergic contractile reactions of smooth muscles in rabbit pulmonary arteries were studied by mechanography. The muscarinic receptor agonist pilocarpine induced biphasic relaxation of mesatone- or potassium-precontracted segments from lobar pulmonary arteries with intact endothelium. The low-threshold endothelium-dependent component of pilocarpine-in-duced relaxation was suppressed by denudation or nitric oxide synthese blocker L-NAME.
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Translated fromByulleten' Eksperimental'noi Biologii i Meditsiny, Vol. 130, No. 8, pp. 134–136, August, 2000
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Kapilevich, L.V., Anfinogenova, Y.D., Baskakov, M.B. et al. Peculiarities of cholinergic regulation of smooth muscles in rabbit pulmonary arteries. Bull Exp Biol Med 130, 728–730 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02681928
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02681928