Article Dans Une Revue Toxins Année : 2024

Veratridine Induces Vasorelaxation in Mouse Cecocolic Mesenteric Arteries

Ziad Fajloun

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The vegetal alkaloid toxin veratridine (VTD) is a selective voltage-gated Na+ (NaV) channel activator, widely used as a pharmacological tool in vascular physiology. We have previously shown that NaV channels, expressed in arteries, contribute to vascular tone in mouse mesenteric arteries (MAs). Here, we aimed to better characterize the mechanisms of action of VTD using mouse cecocolic arteries (CAs), a model of resistance artery. Using wire myography, we found that VTD induced vasorelaxation in mouse CAs. This VTD-induced relaxation was insensitive to prazosin, an α1-adrenergic receptor antagonist, but abolished by atropine, a muscarinic receptor antagonist. Indeed, VTD–vasorelaxant effect was totally inhibited by the NaV channel blocker tetrodotoxin (0.3 µM), the NO synthase inhibitor L-NNA (20 µM), and low extracellular Na+ concentration (14.9 mM) and was partially blocked by the NCX1 antagonist SEA0400 (45.4% at 1 µM). Thus, we assumed that the VTD-induced vasorelaxation in CAs was due to acetylcholine release by parasympathetic neurons, which induced NO synthase activation mediated by the NCX1-Ca2+ entry mode in endothelial cells (ECs). We demonstrated NCX1 expression in ECs by RT-qPCR and immunohisto- and western immunolabelling. VTD did not induce an increase in intracellular Ca2+ ([Ca2+]i), while SEA0400 partially blocked acetylcholine-triggered [Ca2+]i elevations in Mile Sven 1 ECs. Altogether, these results illustrate that VTD activates NaV channels in parasympathetic neurons and then vasorelaxation in resistance arteries, which could explain arterial hypotension after VTD intoxication.

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hal-05093513 , version 1 (02-06-2025)

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Joohee Park, Christina Sahyoun, Jacinthe Frangieh, Léa Réthoré, Coralyne Proux, et al.. Veratridine Induces Vasorelaxation in Mouse Cecocolic Mesenteric Arteries. Toxins, 2024, 16 (12), pp.533. ⟨10.3390/toxins16120533⟩. ⟨hal-05093513⟩
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