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Query: UNIPROT:P20020 (adenosine triphosphatase)
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Membrane vesicles from Azotobacter vinelandii O prepared by osmotic lysis of spheroplasts in tris (hydroxymethyl) aminomethane/acetate buffer (pH 7.8) contain a latent adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase). The ATPase can be activated when the vesicles are incubated in the presence of an electron donor (D-lactate) and a mixture of adenosine diphosphate and inorganic phosphate or by controlled treatment with trypsin. After the ATPase is activated, the membrane vesicles in the presence of adenosine triphosphate accumulate calcium but not glucose or rubidium (in the presence of valinomycin). ATP-dependent calcium uptake follows Michaelis-Menten kinetics with a Km of 48 muM and a Vmax of 20 nmol/min/mg of membrane protein and is highly specific for calcium over cations magnesium, barium, lanthanum, sodium, potassium, and lithium. The calcium accumulated in the presence of ATP is freely exchangeable with external calcium and is rapidly released in the presenceof uncouplers or ATPase inhibitors. Calcium uptake in the presenceof ATP is blocked by dicyclohexylcarbodiimide, ADP, p-chloromercuriphenylsulfonate, by the proton-conducting ionophores m-chlorophenylcarbonylcyanide hydrazone, nigericin, monensin, and gramicidin D, but not by potassium cyanide, anoxia, or valinomycin (in the presence of potassium). Measurements of the external pH of vesicle suspensions reveal that protons are actively taken up by the membranes during hydrolysis of ATP. These results suggest that vesicles prepared under these conditions have a topology which is inverted with respect to the intact cell and that calcium is accumulated by means of proton antiport.
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PMID:ATP-dependent calcium transport in isolated membrane vesicles from Azotobacter vinelandii. 0 92

A smooth muscle cell line (H7CM) was established from the ciliary muscle of a 1-day-old human infant. The cultured cells had a normal female karyotype (46 XX) and could be maintained in cell culture for at least 11 generations. A common feature of confluent cultures was the presence of abundant bundles of 6-7 nm microfilaments associated with dense bodies. Both the ultrastructural appearance and the presence of smooth muscle-specific alpha-isoactin (also present in the human ciliary muscle in situ) support the smooth muscle origin of the H7CM cell line. Continuous membrane voltage (Vm) recordings were obtained in confluent monolayers of H7CM cells using glass microelectrodes. Resting Vm in 105 impalements averaged -66.2 +/- 0.7 mV (mean +/- standard error of the mean). In this system, rapid membrane transients induced by changing of the superfusing test solutions were detectable. Relative K+ conductance was characterized, and the contribution of electrogenic sodium/potassium adenosine triphosphatase to Vm was investigated. Under control conditions, H7CM cells were electrically quiescent. However, action potentials could be induced by application of 10 mM barium. Barium-induced action potentials were not abolished by removal of extracellular Na+ nor were they inhibited by the presence of tetrodotoxin. However, they were blocked by verapamil, fulfilling criteria believed to be typical for smooth muscle cells. Acetylcholine, carbachol, and to a lesser extent pilocarpine induced a reversible Vm depolarization. The effect of acetylcholine was blocked by atropine, implying muscarinic receptor involvement in the Vm response. Collectively, these findings show the potential usefulness of cultured ciliary muscle cells in understanding further the cellular mechanisms underlying drug-induced contraction of the human ciliary muscle.
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PMID:Membrane voltage recordings in a cell line derived from human ciliary muscle. 217 89

In the rat hepatic artery, the endothelium-derived hyperpolarizing factor (EDHF) was identified as potassium. Potassium hyperpolarizes the smooth muscles by gating inward rectified potassium channels and by activating the sodium-potassium adenosine triphosphatase (Na(+)-K(+)ATPase). Our goal was to examine whether potassium could explain the EDHF in porcine coronary arteries. On coronary strips, the inhibition of calcium-dependent potassium channels with 100 nM apamin plus 100 microM charibdotoxin inhibited the endothelium-dependent relaxations, produced by 10 nM substance P and 300 nM bradykinin and resistant to nitro-L-arginine and indomethacin. The scavenging of potassium with 2 mM Kryptofix 2.2.2 abolished the endothelium-dependent relaxations produced by the kinins and resistant to nitro-L-arginine and indomethacin. Forty microM 18alpha glycyrrethinic acid or 50 microM palmitoleic acid, both uncoupling agents, did not inhibit these kinin relaxations. Therefore, EDHF does not result from an electrotonic spreading of an endothelial hyperpolarization. Barium (0.3 nM) did not inhibit the kinin relaxations resistant to nitro-L-arginine and indomethacin. Therefore, EDHF does not result from the activation of inward rectified potassium channels. Five hundred nM ouabain abolished the endothelium-dependent relaxations resistant to nitro-L-arginine and indomethacin without inhibiting the endothelium-derived NO relaxation. The perifusion of a medium supplemented with potassium depolarized and contracted a coronary strip; however, the short application of potassium hyperpolarized the smooth muscles. These results are compatible with the concept that, in porcine coronary artery, the EDHF is potassium released by the endothelial cells and that this ion hyperpolarizes and relaxes the smooth muscles by activating the Na(+)-K(+)ATPase.
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PMID:An evaluation of potassium ions as endothelium-derived hyperpolarizing factor in porcine coronary arteries. 1105 18

Beside its well-known role in bone development, vascularization plays a major role in bone cell migration for bone remodeling and metastatic tumor invasion. However, the various techniques used to identify vessels in bone have never been tested for trabecular bone vessel quantification, whereas bone remodeling quantitative parameters are commonly assessed. In this context, we developed and compared various histological techniques used to visualize blood vessels in rat bone in order to quantify them. First, several products were tested by intracardiac infusion to opacify the bone vascular network. The best results were obtained using either an India ink-1% agarose solution or an India ink-saturated barium sulfate solution followed by X-ray microradiography. Second, to identify the types of vessels, we also performed histoenzymology and immunohistochemistry stainings. Neither alkaline phosphatase (for endothelial cells) nor adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) stainings (for smooth muscle cells) provided a low enough background to allow for vessel identification and quantification. For immunohistochemistry, various specific vessel constituents were analyzed: laminin, smooth muscle cell alpha-actin, factor VIII, and lectin Griffonia simplifolia. Anti-laminin and anti-smooth muscle cell alpha-actin antibodies gave the best results for quantification. Third, after optimization of these techniques, we performed quantitative bone and vessel histomorphometry on two groups of 12 rats each, for which bone remodeling and vessel number and area parameters were measured. No statistical differences were observed between the two groups, confirming the reproducibility of our measurements. A significant relationship was found between vessel number and histodynamic parameters; that is, bone formation rate correlated positively with India ink-positive vessel area (p < 0.009, r2 = 0.54) and alpha-actin-positive vessel number (p < 0.05, r2 = 0.66). Furthermore, we report reproducible techniques for visualization and quantification of vessels in bone that also allowed for simultaneous conventional bone histomorphometry. This methodology should help researchers to better understand the functional and anatomical relationship between trabecular bone and its vascularization during normal or pathological processes.
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PMID:Relationships between trabecular bone remodeling and bone vascularization: a quantitative study. 1193 53

Several metals including barium (Ba) known as environmental pollutants provoke deleterious effects on human health. The present work pertains to the potential ability of selenium (Se) and/or vitamin C, used as nutritional supplements, to alleviate the toxic effects induced by barium chloride (BaCl2) in the heart of adult rats. Animals were randomly divided into seven groups of six each: group 1, serving as negative controls, received distilled water; group 2 received in their drinking water BaCl2 (67 ppm); group 3 received both Ba and Se (sodium selenite 0.5 mg kg-1 of diet); group 4 received both Ba and vitamin C (200 mg kg-1 bodyweight) via force feeding; group 5 received Ba, Se, and vitamin C; and groups 6 and 7, serving as positive controls, received either Se or vitamin C for 21 days. The exposure of rats to BaCl2 caused cardiotoxicity as monitored by an increase in malondialdehyde, hydrogen peroxide, and advanced oxidation protein product levels, a decrease in Na+-K+ adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase), Mg2+ ATPase, and acetylcholinesterase activities and in antioxidant defense system (catalase, glutathione peroxidase, superoxide dismutase, glutathione, and nonprotein thiols). Plasma lactate dehydrogenase and creatine kinase activities, total cholesterol, triglyceride, and low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol levels increased, while high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol level decreased. Coadministration of Se and/or vitamin C restored the parameters indicated above to near control values. The histopathological findings confirmed the biochemical results. Se and vitamin C may be a promising therapeutic strategy for Ba-induced heart injury.
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PMID:Protective effects of dietary selenium and vitamin C in barium-induced cardiotoxicity. 2794 Nov 67