%0 Journal Article %T Vasodilating action of methylhesperidin %A Chen Qing-Ming %A Feng Gao-Hong %J Acta Pharmacologica Sinica %D 2016 %B 2016 %9 %! Vasodilating action of methylhesperidin %K %X The vascular resistance in the hindlimb of anesthetized dogs was measured by constant-rate perfusion. It showed that methylhesperidin (MH) 40 mg/kg iv reduced both vascular resistance and blood pressure. MH 1.6, 3.2, 6.4 mg/kg ia caused a dose-dependent reduction of vascular resistance. The vasodilating action of MH was partially prevented by propranolol 20μg/kg only but neither affected by atropine 50μg/kg nor by diphenhydramine 0.3 mg/kg. MH 3.2 mg/kg did not affect the vasoconstrictive action of methoxamine 2.5μg/kg. NA- and KCl-induced contraction of the rabbit aortic strip was inhibited by MH which made the cumulative dose-response curve of the aortic strip to CaCl2 unparallelly shift rightward. MH inhibited intracellular Ca2+-dependent contraction of the aortic strip induced by NA but failed to suppress the extracellular Ca2+-dependent contraction. It is suggested that MH inhibited the voltage-dependent Ca2+ channel and the release of intracellular Ca2+ by NA. %U http://www.chinaphar.com/article/view/5157 %V 8 %N 4 %P 344-348 %@ 1745-7254