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  2. Ikarisoside A inhibits acetylcholine-induced catecholamine secretion and synthesis by suppressing nicotinic acetylcholine receptor-ion channels in cultured bovine adrenal medullary cells

Ikarisoside A inhibits acetylcholine-induced catecholamine secretion and synthesis by suppressing nicotinic acetylcholine receptor-ion channels in cultured bovine adrenal medullary cells

  • Naunyn Schmiedebergs Arch Pharmacol. 2015 Dec;388(12):1259-69. doi: 10.1007/s00210-015-1161-y.
Xiaojia Li 1 Yumiko Toyohira 1 Takafumi Horisita 2 Noriaki Satoh 3 Keita Takahashi 1 Han Zhang 4 Munekazu Iinuma 5 Yukari Yoshinaga 1 Susumu Ueno 6 Masato Tsutsui 7 Takeyoshi Sata 2 Nobuyuki Yanagihara 8
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Affiliations

  • 1 Department of Pharmacology, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Medicine, 1-1, Iseigaoka, Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyushu, 807-8555, Japan.
  • 2 Department of Anesthesiology, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Medicine, Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyushu, Japan.
  • 3 Shared-Use Research Center, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyushu, Japan.
  • 4 Research Center of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
  • 5 Department of Pharmacognosy, Gifu Pharmaceutical University, Daigakunishi, Gifu, Japan.
  • 6 Department of Occupational Toxicology, Institute of Industrial Ecological Sciences, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyushu, Japan.
  • 7 Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of The Ryukyus, Nishihara, Okinawa, Japan.
  • 8 Department of Pharmacology, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Medicine, 1-1, Iseigaoka, Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyushu, 807-8555, Japan. yanagin@med.uoeh-u.ac.jp.
Abstract

Ikarisoside A is a natural flavonol glycoside derived from Plants of the genus Epimedium, which have been used in Traditional Chinese Medicine as tonics, antirheumatics, and aphrodisiacs. Here, we report the effects of ikarisoside A and three other flavonol glycosides on Catecholamine secretion and synthesis in cultured bovine adrenal medullary cells. We found that ikarisoside A (1-100 μM), but not icariin, epimedin C, or epimedoside A, concentration-dependently inhibited the secretion of catecholamines induced by acetylcholine, a physiological secretagogue and agonist of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. Ikarisoside A had little effect on Catecholamine secretion induced by veratridine and 56 mM K(+). Ikarisoside A (1-100 μM) also inhibited (22)Na(+) influx and (45)CA(2+) influx induced by acetylcholine in a concentration-dependent manner similar to that of Catecholamine secretion. In Xenopus oocytes expressing α3β4 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, ikarisoside A (0.1-100 μM) directly inhibited the current evoked by acetylcholine. It also suppressed (14)C-catecholamine synthesis and tyrosine hydroxylase activity induced by acetylcholine at 1-100 μM and 10-100 μM, respectively. The present findings suggest that ikarisoside A inhibits acetylcholine-induced Catecholamine secretion and synthesis by suppression of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor-ion channels in bovine adrenal medullary cells.

Keywords

Adrenal medulla; Catecholamine secretion; Epimedium; Flavonoids; Ikarisoside A; Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor.

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