“…The aortic rings were incubated with vehicle, mecamylamine (nAChR inhibitor; 10 Ϫ4 M) (Bacher et al, 2009), atropine (mAChR inhibitor; 10 Ϫ5 M) (Clark, 1926), mecamylamine plus atropine, dihydro--erthroidine hydrobromide (DHE; selective antagonist at ␣4-nAChRs; 10 Ϫ5 M) (Roegge and Levin, 2006), ␣-bungarotoxin (selective antagonist at ␣7-nAChRs; 10 Ϫ6 M) ), ␣-conotoxin (antagonist at ␣7 and ␣9 nAChRs; 10 Ϫ6 M) (Johnson et al, 1995), N -nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME; NO synthase inhibitor; 10 Ϫ5 M) (Rees et al, 1990) (Gluais et al, 2005), and 6,12,19,20,25,26-hexahydro-5,27:13,18:21,24-trietheno-11,7-metheno-7H-dibenzo[b,n] Banquet et al, 2011).…”