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标题：Docosahexaenoic Acid Selectively Suppresses U46619- and PGF2α-Induced Contractions in Guinea Pig Tracheal Smooth Muscles
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作者：Keisuke Obara ; Rikako Inaba ; Mirai Kawakita 等
期刊名称：Biological and Pharmaceutical Bulletin
印刷版ISSN：0918-6158
电子版ISSN：1347-5215
出版年度：2022
卷号：45
期号：2
页码：240-244
DOI：10.1248/bpb.b21-00905
语种：English
出版社：The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan
摘要：We investigated the potential inhibitory effects of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) on the contractions of guinea pig tracheal smooth muscles in response to U46619 (a thromboxane A2 (TXA2) mimetic) and prostaglandin F2α (PGF2α) to examine whether this n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid suppresses prostanoid-induced tracheal contractions. DHA (3 × 10−5 M) significantly suppressed tracheal contractions elicited by lower concentrations of U46619 (10−8 M) and PGF2α (5 × 10−7 M) (vs. control), although it did not suppress the contractions induced by higher concentrations (U46619: 10−7 M; PGF2α: 10−5 M). Supporting these findings, DHA (4 × 10−5 M/6 × 10−5 M) shifted the concentration-response curves for U46619 (10−9–10−6 M) and PGF2α (10−8–10−5 M) to the right. However, the slope of the regression line in the Schild plot of DHA vs. U46619/PGF2α was larger than unity. The tracheal contractions induced by U46619 (10−8 M) and PGF2α (5 × 10−7 M) were significantly suppressed by the prostanoid TP receptor antagonist SQ 29,548 (10−6 M) (vs. ethanol-treated). In contrast, DHA (4 × 10−5 M) did not show significant inhibitory effects on the contractions induced by acetylcholine (10−8–10−4 M), histamine (10−8–10−4 M), and leukotriene D4 (10−11–10−7 M) (vs. ethanol-treated). These findings indicate that DHA selectively suppresses tracheal contractions induced by U46619 and PGF2α. Therefore, DHA may be a useful therapeutic agent against asthma associated with tracheal/bronchial hyper-constriction caused by prostanoids including TXA2 and PGF2α.
关键词：docosahexaenoic acid;tracheal smooth muscle;U46619;prostaglandin F2α;prostanoid TP receptor