Mechanisms involved in kaempferol-induced relaxation in rat uterine smooth muscle
Abstract
The effect of kaempferol on KCI (60 mM)-induced tonic contraction in isolated rat uterus and its modification by inhibitors of cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) (Rp-cAMPS and TPCK), phosphodiesterase (papaverine), adenylyl cyclase (2',3'-dideoxyadenosine, DDA), transcription (actinomycin D), protein synthesis (cycloheximide) and ornithine decarboxylase (alpha-difluoromethyl-ornithine, DFMO), as well as a polyamine, spermine, have been assayed. Kaempferol (3 to 60 microM) induced concentration-dependent relaxation on KCl-induced tonic contraction (IC50: 10.1 +/- 1.89 microM). This relaxing effect was antagonized (p<0.05) by Rp-cAMPS (10 microM), TPCK (3 microM), DDA (100 microM), actinomycin D (4 and 12 microM), cycloheximide (100 microM), DFMO (10 mM), actinomycin D (12 microM) plus TPCK and actinomycin D (12 microM) plus spermine (1 mM). Furthermore, the displacement obtained with actinomycin D plus DFMO was not statistically significant. Our results suggest that kaempferol through cAMP produces transcriptional events and polyamines are, at least partially, involved in the relaxant effect of kaempferol.
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