Protein Information

Name endothelin 1
Synonyms EDN 1; EDN1; ET1; Endothelin 1; Endothelin 1 precursor; PPET 1; PPET1; Preproendothelin 1…

Compound Information

Name 4-aminopyridine
CAS 4-pyridinamine

Reference List

PubMed Abstract RScore(About this table)
11588116 MacLean MR, Morecroft I: Increased contractile response to 5-hydroxytryptamine1-receptor stimulation in pulmonary arteries from chronic hypoxic rats: role of pharmacological synergy. Br J Pharmacol. 2001 Oct;134(3):614-20.

Here we investigate the influence of vascular tone induced by endothelin-1 (ET-1), neuropeptide Y (NPY), KCl, 4-aminopyridine (inactivator of K (v) channels, 4-AP) or the calcium ionophore A23187 on contractile responses to the 5-HT (1)-receptor agonist 5-carboxamidotryptamine (5-CT) in small muscular pulmonary arteries from control rats and rats exposed to chronic hypoxia.
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19033883 Van der Sterren S, Agren P, Zoer B, Kessels L, Blanco CE, Villamor E: Morphological and functional alterations of the ductus arteriosus in a chicken model of hypoxia-induced fetal growth retardation. Pediatr Res. 2009 Mar;65(3):279-84.

The ductal contractions induced by oxygen, KCl, H2O2, 4-aminopyridine, and endothelin-1 were similar in control and hypoxic fetuses.
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10864884 Betts LC, Kozlowski RZ: Electrophysiological effects of endothelin-1 and their relationship to contraction in rat renal arterial smooth muscle. Br J Pharmacol. 2000 Jun;130(4):787-96.

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11597902 Shimoda LA, Sylvester JT, Booth GM, Shimoda TH, Meeker S, Undem BJ, Sham JS: Inhibition of voltage-gated K (+) currents by endothelin-1 in human pulmonary arterial myocytes. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2001 Nov;281(5):L1115-22.

K (V) currents were isolated by addition of 100 nM charybdotoxin and were identified by current characteristics and inhibition by 4-aminopyridine (10 mM).
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18689502 Xu M, Remillard CV, Sachs BD, Makino A, Platoshyn O, Yao W, Dillmann WH, Akassoglou K, Yuan JX: p75 neurotrophin receptor regulates agonist-induced pulmonary vasoconstriction. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2008 Oct;295(4):H1529-38. Epub 2008 Aug 8.

Pulmonary artery rings from p75 (-/-) mice exhibited significantly elevated active tension due to endothelin-1-mediated Ca (2+) influx.
Active tension induced by serotonin, U-46619 (a thromboxane A (2) analog), thrombin, 4-aminopyridine (a K (+) channel blocker), and high extracellular K (+) in p75 (-/-) rings was similar to that in WT rings.
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10926549 Sham JS, Crenshaw BR Jr, Deng LH, Shimoda LA, Sylvester JT: Effects of hypoxia in porcine pulmonary arterial myocytes: roles of K (V) channel and endothelin-1. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2000 Aug;279(2):L262-72.

Inhibition of voltage-dependent K (+) (K (V)) channel with 4-aminopyridine produced a greater increase in [Ca (2+)](i) in distal than in proximal PASMCs.
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15127573 Fan ZW, Zhang ZX, Xu YJ: [Inhibition of voltage-gated K+ current in rat intrapulmonary arterial smooth muscle cells by endothelin-1]. Yao Xue Xue Bao. 2004 Jan;39(1):9-12.

RESULTS: ET-1 (1 x 10 (-9) mol.L-1) and the voltage-dependent K+ (KV)-channel antagonist 4-aminopyridine (4AP), but not the Ca (2+)-activated K (+)-channel antagonist tetraethylammonium (TEA), caused membrane depolarization.
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15749740 Gao Y, Raj JU: Parathyroid hormone-related protein-mediated responses in pulmonary arteries and veins of newborn lambs. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2005 Jul;289(1):L60-6. Epub 2005 Mar 4.

In vessels constricted with endothelin-1, PTHrP (PTHrP 1-34) caused greater relaxation of veins than of arteries.
However, relaxation was attenuated by 4-aminopyridine, inhibitor of voltage-dependent potassium channels, in both arteries and veins, and by charybdotoxin, inhibitor of calcium-activated potassium channels, in veins.
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14724755 Roderick C, Reinach PS, Wang L, Lu L: Modulation of rabbit corneal epithelial cell proliferation by growth factor-regulated K (+) channel activity. J Membr Biol. 2003 Nov 1;196(1):41-50.

Exposure of starved cells to either 10% FBS, 5 ng/ml epidermal growth factor (EGF) or 2 n M endothelin-1 (ET-1) continuously increased its activity within 30 min by 40%, 54% and 29%, respectively.
Application of 100 micro M 4-aminopyridine (4-AP), a K (+) channel blocker, inhibited serum-stimulated K (+) channel activity by 85%.
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17526655 Yang Y, Jones AW, Thomas TR, Rubin LJ: Influence of sex, high-fat diet, and exercise training on potassium currents of swine coronary smooth muscle. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2007 Sep;293(3):H1553-63. Epub 2007 May 25.

In the presence of endothelin-1, 1) I (K (KV)) was similar in SED males and females and EX increased I (K (KV)) to a greater extent in males than in females and 2) I (K (BK)) was greater in SED females than in males and EX increased I (K (BK)) to a greater extent in males, resulting in I (K (BK)) similar to EX females.
VSM cells of normal-diet SED animals exhibited three components of I (K): 4-aminopyridine-sensitive I (K (KV)), TEA-sensitive I (K (BK)), and 4-aminopyridine + TEA-insensitive I (K).
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17267549 Remillard CV, Tigno DD, Platoshyn O, Burg ED, Brevnova EE, Conger D, Nicholson A, Rana BK, Channick RN, Rubin LJ, O'connor DT, Yuan JX: Function of Kv1.5 channels and genetic variations of KCNA5 in patients with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol. 2007 May;292(5):C1837-53. Epub 2007 Jan 31.

Here, we report that overexpression of the Kv1.5 channel gene (KCNA5) in human PASMC and other cell lines produced a 15-pS single channel current and a large whole cell current that was sensitive to 4-aminopyridine.
Extracellular application of nicotine, bepridil, correolide, and endothelin-1 (ET-1) all significantly and reversibly reduced the Kv1.5 currents, while nicotine and bepridil also accelerated the inactivation kinetics of the currents.
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17982012 Xu M, Platoshyn O, Makino A, Dillmann WH, Akassoglou K, Remillard CV, Yuan JX: Characterization of agonist-induced vasoconstriction in mouse pulmonary artery. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2008 Jan;294(1):H220-8. Epub 2007 Nov 2.


These arteries are also reactive to stimulation by alpha (1)-adrenergic agonists, serotonin, endothelin-1, vasopressin, and U-46619 (a thromboxane A (2) analog).
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11483700 Cheong A, Dedman AM, Beech DJ: Expression and function of native potassium channel [K (V) alpha1] subunits in terminal arterioles of rabbit. J Physiol. 2001 Aug 1;534(Pt 3):691-700.


Current activated on depolarisation positive of about -45 mV and a large fraction of this current was blocked by 3,4-diaminopyridine (3,4-DAP) or 4-aminopyridine (4-AP), inhibitors of K (V) channels.
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20164203 Flinsenberg TW, Van der Sterren S, van Cleef AN, Schuurman MJ, Agren P, Villamor E: Effects of gender and estrogen on chicken ductus arteriosus reactivity. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol. 2010 Feb 17.


In vitro contractions (assessed with a wire myograph) induced by normoxia, KCl, 4-aminopyridine, norepinephrine, phenylephrine, U46619, or endothelin-1 as well as relaxations induced by acetylcholine, sodium nitroprusside, BAY 41-2272, prostaglandin E2, isoproterenol, forskolin,Y-27632, and hydroxyfasudil were not significantly different between males and females.
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15678081 Mraiche F, Cena J, Das D, Vollrath B: Effects of statins on vascular function of endothelin-1. . Br J Pharmacol. 2005 Mar;144(5):715-26.

Pretreatment with the Kv channels inhibitor, 4-aminopyridine, attenuated the ability of SV to relax contractions mediated by ET-1 and NA. 7.
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10963252 Michelakis E, Rebeyka I, Bateson J, Olley P, Puttagunta L, Archer S: Voltage-gated potassium channels in human ductus arteriosus. . Lancet. 2000 Jul 8;356(9224):134-7.


We studied tone in the human ductus arteriosus and show that the constriction to oxygen is due to inhibition of voltage-gated potassium channels and, in the acute phase, is independent of endothelin-1.
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12933338 Gupte SA, Arshad M, Viola S, Kaminski PM, Ungvari Z, Rabbani G, Koller A, Wolin MS: Pentose phosphate pathway coordinates multiple redox-controlled relaxing mechanisms in bovine coronary arteries. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2003 Dec;285(6):H2316-26. Epub 2003 Aug 21.


High doses of K+ channel blockers [e.g., TEA (10 mM) and 4-aminopyridine (10 mM)] only partially inhibited the relaxation to 6-AN.
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