Smooth Muscle Flashcards
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Mechanisms of Smooth Muscle Contraction:
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- **Electromechanical Coupling: **operates through changes in cell membrane potential
- Resting membrane potential = -40 to -70 mV
- **Pharmacomechanical Coupling: **operates independent of cell membrane potential
- Receptors / Intracellular Signaling
- Neurotransmitters, Hormones, Paracrine Factors
2
Q
What are the 3 pathways involved in smooth muscle contraction:
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- Eletrochemical signaling
- Rho kinase pathway
- Mysoin light chain kinase
3
Q
Mechanisms of Smooth Muscle Relaxation:
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- Inhibit contractile mechanisms
- Paracrine factors – nitric oxide, dopamine, prostacyclin
- Membrane potential
4
Q
What are some therapeutic applications for smooth muscle relaxation?
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- Cardiovascular – vasodilators
- Obstetrics – uterine relaxation
- Pulmonary – bronchodilators
5
Q
- What is preload and when is it increased?
- What is afterload and when is it increased?
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- **Preload: **Volume of blood in the ventricles at the end of diastole (end diastolic pressure)
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Increased in:
- hypervolemia
- regurgitation of cardiac valves
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Increased in:
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Afterload: Resistance left ventricle must overcome to circulate blood
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Increased in:
- Vasoconstriction
- HTN
- Inc. afterload: Inc. cardiac workload
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Increased in:
6
Q
Organic Nitrates (2):
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- Nitroglycerin
- Nitroprusside
7
Q
Organic Nitrates:
Mechanism of Action
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- Nitric Oxide (NO) Donors
- Intracellular Signaling:
- Cyclic GMP/protein kinase G
- Arterial and venous circulation (venous dominant)
- Primarily affects preload
8
Q
Nitroglycerine:
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Relaxation of arterial and venous smooth muscle
- Venous dominant
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Treatment:
- Heart Failure
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Toxicity:
- Hypotension
9
Q
Nitroprusside:
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- Relaxation of arterial and venous circulations
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Treatment:
- Heart Failure
- Hypertensive emergencies
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Toxicity:
- Hypotension
10
Q
Direct Vasodilators (2):
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- Hydralazine
- Minoxidil
11
Q
Hydralazine:
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- Arterial circulation
- Heart Failure
- Affects afterload
- Hypertension
- Severe emergencies
- Toxicity:
- Hypotension
12
Q
Minoxidil:
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- Severe HTN
- K+ ATP Channel Opener
- Arterial Circulation
- Fluid Retention – Use with diuretics
13
Q
Membrane Channel Dilators (2):
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- K+ Channel Activators
- Ca2+ Channel Blockers
14
Q
K+ Channel Activator - Diazoxide
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- K+ Channel Opener
- Hypertensive Emergencies
- Hypoglycemia
15
Q
Membrane Channel Dilators – Ca2+ Channel Blockers
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- Dihydropyridines – nifedipine
- Phenylalkylamine – verapamil
- Benzothiazapine – diltazem
- Non-selective
- Arterial circulation