Effect of vascular effectors, bradykinin and angiotensin, on HPASMC contraction.

<p>A representative HPASMC sample (Control-5) showing the average normalized cell index of triplicate wells treated without (CON) or with 100 nM bradykinin (BK) or 100 nM angiotensin II (AT) (A). Bar graph where bar heights represent average relative cell index at negative peak for n = 4 HPASMC strains. The error bars represent standard deviation. Relative cell index at negative peak was calculated by dividing the minimum cell index of the treatment group (AT, BK or ET-1) by the control group (CON) at that same time point. This was done for each HPASMC cell strain. Then, an average and standard deviation were calculated across n = 4 biological replicates. * p< 0.01 vs CON.