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“This results in increase in cytosolic levels of calcium (Ca2+), which triggers the production and release of several vasodilator substances from these cells.”
“It is known that calcium induces the formation of potent vasodilators in endothelial cells and vasoconstriction in smooth muscle cells, whereas in the renal parenchyma, it modulates sodium excretion through vascular and tubular mechanisms.”
American journal of hypertension • 1991 | View Paper
“Due to an influence on the membrane potential they are important regulators of vascular tone by modulating endothelial calcium ions signaling and synthesis of vasodilating factors.”
The American journal of medicine • 1984 | View Paper
“SummaryIntra-arterial infusions of Ca antagonistic vasodilator substances such as nifedipine (1–10 μg/min) and verapamil (30–100 μg/min) inhibited renal autoregulation in the perfused dog kidney.”
Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology • 2004 | View Paper
“The vasodilator effect of barbiturates is associated in part with inhibition of transmembrane influx of Ca++ ; the inhibition is more predominant on the influx evoked by KCl‐induced depolarization than by a stimulation of PGF2a receptors.”
Acta anaesthesiologica Scandinavica • 1990 | View Paper
“These results suggest that changes in intracellular concentrations of free Ca 2 + and sulfhydryl groups could influence the rate of formation of cyclic GMP by vasodilators and that this, in turn, could alter smooth muscle tone.”
The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics • 1979 | View Paper
“In normal Tyrode's solution, all three vasodilators produced a shift to the right to the dose-response curve for calcium , the pA2 values being 5.90 for nifedipine, 4.88 for verapamil and 4.07 for diltiazem.”
Japanese journal of pharmacology • 1977 | View Paper
“If it antagonises the effects of calcium ions, as has been suggested, then its powerful vasodilator action could result from interference with the role of calcium in generating action potentials or in the release of calcium ions during the initiation of muscle contraction.”