Marta Villegas-Esguevillas, Suhan Cho, Alba Vera-Zambrano, Jae Won Kwon, Bianca Barreira, Göcken Telli, Jorge Navarro-Dorado, Daniel Morales-Cano, Beatriz de Olaiz, Laura Moreno, Iain Greenwood, Francisco Pérez-Vizcaíno, Sung Joon Kim, Belén Climent, Angel Cogolludo
KV 7 channels exert a pivotal role regulating vascular tone in several vascular beds. In this context, KV 7 channel agonists represent an attractive strategy for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Therefore, in this study, we have explored the pulmonary vascular effects of the novel KV 7 channel agonist URO-K10. Consequently, the vasodilator and electrophysiological effects of URO-K10 were tested in rat and human pulmonary arteries (PA) and PA smooth muscle cells (PASMC) using myography and patch-clamp techniques...
June 7, 2023: Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy