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Bms 191011 Case Study

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BMS 191011 is a maxi-K channel opener [1]. Maxi-K channels consist of a pore-forming α subunit and a regulatory β subunit. Maxi-K channels are of a high Ca2+ sensitivity [2]. Bath application of BMS-191011 at a concentration of 20 μM strongly reduced the calcium transients. This effect was associated with bursts of bAPs (100 Hz) recorded from Fmr1−/y dendrites without affecting those recorded from wild-type dendrites. This treatment decreased dendritic calcium transients of Fmr1−/y neurons to baseline levels of wild-type neurons [3]. In normoxia, BMS-191011 significantly induced cell death. This effect was indicted by the increases in propidium iodide (PI) uptake by 9.4 ± 2.4 and 16.8 ± 2.1% at 12 and 24 h treatments, respectively. At 12 h and then 24 h, the cellular [ATP] was decreased to 83.4 ± 3.1 and further to 72.3 ± 2.8%. During hypoxia, these effects were increased by ~2-fold in all time points and measurements. PI uptake was increased to 15.1 ± 1.8 at 12 h and then 40.7 ± 1.7% at 24 h. Cellular [ATP] was decreased to 77.8 ± 1.9 at 12 h and then to 43.3 ± 3.4% at 24 h [4]. …show more content…

administration with BMS-191011 at 10-100 µg/kg/min increased the retinal arteriol diameter, whereas it did not significantly affect mean arterial pressure and heart rate. Intravitreal injection of iberiotoxin at a dose of 20 pmol/eye significantly attenuated the vasodilator responses of retinal arterioles to BMS-191011 [5]. BMS-191011 demonstrated efficacy as an opener of the cloned large-conductance Ca2+-activated potassium (maxi-K) channel in in vivo stroke models

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