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Jones RL, Woodward DF. Interaction of prostanoid EP₃ and TP receptors in guinea-pig isolated aorta: contractile self-synergism of 11-deoxy-16,16-dimethyl PGE₂. Br J Pharmacol 2011; 162:521-31. [PMID: 20955363 DOI: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.2010.01039.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Surprisingly high contractile activity was reported for 11-deoxy-16,16-dimethyl prostaglandin E₂ (DX-DM PGE₂) on pig cerebral artery when used as a selective EP₃ receptor agonist. This study investigated the selectivity profile of DX-DM PGE₂, focusing on the interaction between its EP₃ and TP (thromboxane A₂-like) agonist activities. EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH Contraction of guinea-pig trachea (EP₁ system) and aorta (EP₃ and TP systems) was measured in conventional organ baths. KEY RESULTS Strong contraction of guinea-pig aorta to sulprostone and 17-phenyl PGE₂ (EP₃ agonists) was only seen under priming with a second contractile agent such as phenylephrine, histamine or U-46619 (TP agonist). In contrast, DX-DM PGE₂ induced strong contraction, which on the basis of treatment with (DG)-3ap (EP₃ antagonist) and/or BMS-180291 (TP antagonist) was attributed to self-synergism arising from co-activation of EP₃ and TP receptors. EP₃/TP self-synergism also accounted for contraction induced by PGF(2α) and its analogues (+)-cloprostenol and latanoprost-FA. DX-DM PGE₂ also showed significant EP₁ agonism on guinea-pig trachea as defined by the EP₁ antagonists SC-51322, (ONO)-5-methyl-1 and AH-6809, although AH-6809 exhibited poor specificity at concentrations ≥3 µM. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS EP₃/TP self-synergism, as seen with PGE/PGF analogues in this study, may confound EP₃ agonist potency comparisons and the characterization of prostanoid receptor systems. The competitive profile of a TP antagonist may be distorted by variation in the silent/overt contraction profile of the EP₃ system in different studies. The relevance of self-synergism to in vivo actions of natural prostanoid receptor agonists is discussed.
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- R L Jones
- Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK.
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El-Mas MM, Abdel-Rahman AA. Intermittent Clonidine Regimen Abolishes Tolerance to Its Antihypertensive Effect: A Spectral Study. J Cardiovasc Pharmacol 2007; 49:174-81. [PMID: 17414230 DOI: 10.1097/fjc.0b013e3180318afb] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The development of tolerance to the antihypertensive effect of clonidine and related imidazolines is clinically recognized. Here, we employed a restricted daytime (8:30 AM until 4:30 PM) clonidine regimen to establish a model of sustained hypotension in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRs). Blood pressure (BP), heart rate (HR), and myocardial contractility (dP/dt(max)) were measured by radiotelemetry in pair-fed SHRs receiving liquid diets with or without clonidine (150 microg/kg per day) for 12 weeks. The cardiovascular autonomic control was assessed by power spectral analysis [fast Fourier transformations (FFT)] of hemodynamic variability. Clonidine had no effect on dP/dt(max) and significantly decreased BP and HR during the 8 hour exposure periods throughout the study duration. BP returned to control levels during overnight periods, with no signs of rebound hypertension. FFT analysis of interbeat intervals (IBI) showed pronounced decreases and increases of spectral powers in low-frequency (IBI-LF, 0.20-0.75 Hz) and high-frequency (IBI-HF, 0.75-3 Hz) bands, respectively, in clonidine-treated rats. The IBI(LF/HF) ratio was significantly reduced by clonidine, suggesting cardiac parasympathetic dominance. Clonidine also decreased the vasomotor sympathetic tone, as reflected by the reduced BP-LF spectral density. The sympathoinhibitory effect of clonidine is further confirmed by the significant reductions in urinary norepinephrine levels. Clonidine increased urine output during the 8 hour treatment period but not during the 24 hour period. Plasma and urine osmolality and electrolytes were not altered by clonidine. It is concluded that by adopting the limited-access paradigm, tolerance to the hypotensive and sympathoinhibitory actions of clonidine and, possibly, its side effects, could be minimized.
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- Mahmoud M El-Mas
- Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA
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Hung GHY, Jones RL, Lam FFY, Chan KM, Hidaka H, Suzuki M, Sasaki Y. Investigation of the pronounced synergism between prostaglandin E2 and other constrictor agents on rat femoral artery. Prostaglandins Leukot Essent Fatty Acids 2006; 74:401-15. [PMID: 16737803 DOI: 10.1016/j.plefa.2006.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2005] [Revised: 03/22/2006] [Accepted: 04/11/2006] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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This study investigates the pronounced synergism between the weak contractile action of prostaglandin E(2) (PGE(2)) and strong actions of phenylephrine, U-46619 and K(+) on rat isolated femoral artery. The potency ranking for synergism was SC-46275 (prostanoid receptor agonist selectivity: EP(3)>>EP(1))=sulprostone (EP(3)>EP(1))>17-phenyl PGE(2) (EP(1)>EP(3)). The novel EP(3) antagonist L-798106 (0.2-1microM) blocked the enhanced action of sulprostone (pA(2)=7.35-8.10), while the EP(1) antagonist SC-51322 (1microM) did not (pA(2)<6.0). Matching responses to priming agent and priming agent/sulprostone were similarly suppressed by nifedipine (300nM) and the selective Rho-kinase inhibitors H-1152 (0.1-1microM) and Y-27632 (1-10microM). Our findings implicate an EP(3) receptor in the prostanoid component of contractile synergism. While the synergism predominantly operates through a Ca(2+) influx-Rho-kinase pathway, the EP(3) receptor does not necessarily transduce via Rho-kinase.
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MESH Headings
- 15-Hydroxy-11 alpha,9 alpha-(epoxymethano)prosta-5,13-dienoic Acid/pharmacology
- Alprostadil/analogs & derivatives
- Alprostadil/pharmacology
- Animals
- Dinoprostone/analogs & derivatives
- Dinoprostone/analysis
- Dinoprostone/pharmacology
- Drug Interactions
- Drug Synergism
- Femoral Artery/drug effects
- In Vitro Techniques
- Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins
- Male
- Nifedipine/pharmacology
- Phenylephrine/pharmacology
- Potassium/pharmacology
- Prostaglandins F, Synthetic/pharmacology
- Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases/antagonists & inhibitors
- Rats
- Rats, Sprague-Dawley
- Receptors, Prostaglandin/agonists
- Receptors, Prostaglandin/metabolism
- Receptors, Prostaglandin E/agonists
- Receptors, Prostaglandin E/antagonists & inhibitors
- Receptors, Prostaglandin E/metabolism
- Receptors, Prostaglandin E, EP1 Subtype
- Receptors, Prostaglandin E, EP3 Subtype
- Sensitivity and Specificity
- Sulfonamides/metabolism
- Vasoconstrictor Agents/pharmacology
- rho-Associated Kinases
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- Gloria H Y Hung
- Department of Pharmacology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR, China
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Monassier L, Greney H, Thomas L, Bousquet P. Chronic treatment with rilmenidine in spontaneously hypertensive rats: differences between two schedules of administration. J Cardiovasc Pharmacol 2004; 43:394-401. [PMID: 15076223 DOI: 10.1097/00005344-200403000-00010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Rilmenidine is one of the lead compounds of the second generation of centrally acting antihypertensive drugs. In the first part of this study, 2 routes of administration of chronic treatment (1 month) with rilmenidine were compared. In conscious and pentobarbital-anesthetized spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR), rilmenidine was delivered intraperitoneally either 250 microg/kg b.i.d. or 500 microg/kg/d infusion by means of minipumps. The possibility of rilmenidine-induced desensitization of central (brain cortex) and/or peripheral (kidney) alpha2-adrenoreceptors was studied in saturation experiments with the classic alpha2-adrenergic antagonist [H]rauwolscine. In the second part of this study, the cardiovascular and cardiac antihypertrophic effects of the most efficient procedure were investigated. The discontinuous administration of the drug was more effective than infusion. In rats treated with rilmenidine b.i.d., mean blood pressure was reduced by nearly 15% when no reduction occurred in SHRs treated with minipumps. With the first schedule of administration, plasma concentration of the drug reached a maximum of approximately 30 ng/ml when it was only 12 ng/ml with the continuous infusion of the same dose. Anesthesia with pentobarbital potentiated the antihypertensive effect of rilmenidine in rats treated discontinuously and unmasked an antihypertensive action in rats receiving the drug with minipumps. In saturation binding experiments, no significant changes in adrenergic receptors were observed in kidney membrane preparations. In contrast, in brain cortical membranes a reduction by about 50% of the Bmax of [H]rauwolscine value was observed in rats treated discontinuously with rilmenidine. In contrast, a 400% increase of the Bmax was observed in the brain of rats treated with minipumps. Over the one-month period of the second study, the discontinuous treatment with the 500 microg/kg/d dose of rilmenidine was still able to reduce blood pressure, at least at the peak concentration time, but did not induce any significant reduction of the ventricular mass. In conclusion, rilmenidine has only weak antihypertensive effects in conscious SHRs, even at doses higher than those that are active in rabbits and humans. As a consequence, it lacks significant cardiac antihypertrophic effects in this species. Pharmacokinetic data show that the rapid plasma withdrawal of this drug may explain this particular feature in rats.
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- Laurent Monassier
- Laboratoire de Neurobiologie et de Pharmacologie Cardiovasculaire, Université Louis Pasteur, Faculté de Médecine, Strasbourg, France.
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Bishai JM, Penninga L, Nijland R, Meulenaar R, Gheorghe CP, Zhao Y, Buchholz JN, Zhang L, Longo LD. Pre- and postjunctional alpha(2)-adrenergic receptors in fetal and adult ovine cerebral arteries. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2002; 282:R1654-62. [PMID: 12010747 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00475.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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In ovine cerebral arteries, adrenergic-mediated vasoconstrictor responses differ significantly with developmental age. We tested the hypothesis that, in part, these differences are a consequence of altered alpha(2)-adrenergic receptor (alpha(2)-AR) density and/or affinity. In fetal (approximately 140 days) and adult sheep, we measured alpha(2)-AR density and affinity with the antagonist [(3)H]idazoxan in main branch cerebral arteries and other vessels. We also quantified contractile responses in middle cerebral artery (MCA) to norepinephrine (NE) or phenylephrine in the presence of the alpha(2)-AR antagonists yohimbine and idazoxan and contractile responses to the alpha(2)-AR agonists clonidine and UK-14304. In fetal and adult cerebral artery homogenates, alpha(2)-AR density was 201 +/- 18 and 52 +/- 6 fmol/mg protein, respectively (P < 0.01); however, antagonist affinity values did not differ. In fetal, but not adult, MCA, 10(-7) M yohimbine significantly decreased the pD(2) for NE-induced tension in the presence of 3 x 10(-5) M cocaine, 10(-5) M deoxycorticosterone, and 10(-6) M tetrodotoxin. In fetal, but not adult, MCA, UK-14304 induced a significant decrease in pD(2) for the phenylephrine dose-response relation. In addition, stimulation-evoked fractional NE release was significantly greater in fetal than in adult cerebral arteries. In the presence of 10(-6) M idazoxan to block alpha(2)-AR-mediated inhibition of prejunctional NE release, the fractional NE release was significantly increased in both age groups. We conclude that in fetal and adult ovine cerebral arteries, alpha(2)-AR appear to be chiefly prejunctional. Nonetheless, the fetal cerebral arteries appear to have a significant component of postjunctional alpha(2)-AR.
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- John M Bishai
- Center for Perinatal Biology, Department of Physiology, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Loma Linda, California 92350, USA
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Figueroa XF, Poblete MI, Boric MP, Mendizábal VE, Adler-Graschinsky E, Huidobro-Toro JP. Clonidine-induced nitric oxide-dependent vasorelaxation mediated by endothelial alpha(2)-adrenoceptor activation. Br J Pharmacol 2001; 134:957-68. [PMID: 11682443 PMCID: PMC1573023 DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjp.0704320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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1. To assess the involvement of endothelial alpha(2)-adrenoceptors in the clonidine-induced vasodilatation, the mesenteric artery of Sprague Dawley rats was cannulated and perfused with Tyrode solution (2 ml min(-1)). We measured perfusion pressure, nitric oxide (NO) in the perfusate using chemiluminescence, and tissue cyclic GMP by RIA. 2. In phenylephrine-precontracted mesenteries, clonidine elicited concentration-dependent vasodilatations associated to a rise in luminal NO. One hundred nM rauwolscine or 100 microM L(omega)-nitro-L-arginine antagonized the clonidine-induced vasodilatation. Guanabenz, guanfacine, and oxymetazoline mimicked the clonidine-induced vasorelaxation. 3. In non-contracted mesenteries, 100 nM clonidine elicited a maximal rise of NO (123+/-13 pmol); associated to a peak in tissue cyclic GMP. Endothelium removal, L(omega)-nitro-L-arginine, or rauwolscine ablated the rise in NO. One hundred nM aminoclonidine, guanfacine, guanabenz, UK14,304 and oxymetazoline mimicked the clonidine-induced surge of NO. Ten microM ODQ obliterated the clonidine-induced vasorelaxation and the associated tissue cyclic GMP accumulation; 10 - 100 nM sildenafil increased tissue cyclic GMP accumulation without altering the clonidine-induced NO release. 4. alpha(2)-Adrenergic blockers antagonized the clonidine-induced rise in NO. Consistent with a preferential alpha(2D)-adrenoceptor activation, the K(B)s for yohimbine, rauwolscine, phentolamine, WB-4101, and prazosin were: 6.8, 24, 19, 165, and 1489 nM, respectively. 5. Rat pretreatment with 100 mg kg(-1) 6-hydroxydopamine reduced 95% tissue noradrenaline and 60% neuropeptide Y. In these preparations, 100 nM clonidine elicited a rise of 91.9+/-15.5 pmol NO. Perfusion with 1 microM guanethidine or 1 microM guanethidine plus 1 microM atropine did not modify the NO surge evoked by 100 nM clonidine. 6. Clonidine and congeners activate endothelial alpha(2D)-adrenoceptors coupled to the L-arginine pathway, suggesting that the antihypertensive action of clonidine involves an endothelial vasorelaxation mediated by NO release, in addition to presynaptic mechanisms.
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MESH Headings
- 3',5'-Cyclic-GMP Phosphodiesterases
- Acetylcholine/pharmacology
- Adrenergic alpha-Agonists/pharmacology
- Adrenergic alpha-Antagonists/pharmacology
- Animals
- Clonidine/pharmacology
- Cyclic GMP/metabolism
- Cyclic Nucleotide Phosphodiesterases, Type 5
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Endothelium, Vascular/drug effects
- Endothelium, Vascular/metabolism
- Enzyme Inhibitors/pharmacology
- Guanylate Cyclase/antagonists & inhibitors
- Guanylate Cyclase/metabolism
- In Vitro Techniques
- Mesenteric Arteries/drug effects
- Mesenteric Arteries/metabolism
- Mesenteric Arteries/physiology
- Nitric Oxide/metabolism
- Nitric Oxide/physiology
- Nitroarginine/pharmacology
- Oxadiazoles/pharmacology
- Oxidopamine/pharmacology
- Phenylephrine/pharmacology
- Phosphodiesterase Inhibitors/pharmacology
- Phosphoric Diester Hydrolases/metabolism
- Piperazines/pharmacology
- Purines
- Quinoxalines/pharmacology
- Rats
- Rats, Sprague-Dawley
- Receptors, Adrenergic, alpha-2/drug effects
- Receptors, Adrenergic, alpha-2/metabolism
- Saponins/pharmacology
- Sildenafil Citrate
- Solubility
- Sulfones
- Sympatholytics/pharmacology
- Time Factors
- Vascular Resistance
- Vasodilation/drug effects
- Vasodilator Agents/pharmacology
- Yohimbine/pharmacology
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Affiliation(s)
- Xavier F Figueroa
- Unidad de Regulación Neurohumoral, Departamento de Ciencias Fisiológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Unidad de Regulación Neurohumoral, Departamento de Ciencias Fisiológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
- Centro de Regulación Celular y Patología, & Instituto de Biología Fundamental y Aplicada MIFAB, Santiago, Chile
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- Unidad de Regulación Neurohumoral, Departamento de Ciencias Fisiológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Farmacológicas (ININFA-CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Unidad de Regulación Neurohumoral, Departamento de Ciencias Fisiológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
- Centro de Regulación Celular y Patología, & Instituto de Biología Fundamental y Aplicada MIFAB, Santiago, Chile
- Author for correspondence:
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Watts SW. 5-Hydroxytryptamine-induced potentiation of endothelin-1- and norepinephrine-induced contraction is mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway dependent. Hypertension 2000; 35:244-8. [PMID: 10642305 DOI: 10.1161/01.hyp.35.1.244] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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5-Hydroxytryptamine (5-HT)-induced arterial contraction depends on activation of the tyrosine kinase-dependent extracellular signal-regulated mitogen-activated protein kinase (Erk MAPK) pathway. The importance of 5-HT in the control of peripheral resistance has been questioned because circulating free levels of 5-HT are low (in the nanomolar range). We tested the hypothesis that physiologically relevant concentrations of 5-HT potentiate arterial contraction in response to agonists proved to have importance in blood pressure maintenance (norepinephrine [NE] and endothelin-1 [ET-1]) in a tyrosine kinase- and an Erk MAPK-dependent manner. Strips of endothelium-denuded rat tail artery were used for the measurement of isometric force. The general tyrosine kinase inhibitor genistein (5 micromol/L) and the inhibitor of MAPK/Erk kinase activation PD098059 (10 micromol/L) shifted concentration-response curves to 5-HT (1x10(-9) to 3x10(-4) mol/L) rightward but did not shift concentration-response curves to NE or ET-1. In separate experiments, 5-HT (10 nmol/L) potentiated contraction in response to NE (20 nmol/L) by approximately 200% to 300% and to ET-1 (0.3 and 1 nmol/L) by 640% and 180%, respectively. Genistein and PD098059 significantly (66% to 100%) reduced 5-HT-induced potentiation of both NE (20 nmol/L)- and ET-1 (0.3 and 1 nmol/L)-induced contraction. Thus, these data support the ability of low physiological concentrations of 5-HT to amplify arterial responses to hormones with bona fide effects on blood pressure in the novel manner of depending on a tyrosine kinase/Erk MAPK pathway. Although these findings were generated in large arteries, we speculate that they may be applicable to vascular functioning in the deoxycorticosterone acetate salt model of hypertension in which all 3 hormones, 5-HT, NE, and ET-1, have been implicated as causal factors.
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- S W Watts
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48824-1317, USA.
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Chen DC, Duckles SP, Krause DN. Postjunctional alpha2-adrenoceptors in the rat tail artery: effect of sex and castration. Eur J Pharmacol 1999; 372:247-52. [PMID: 10395019 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-2999(99)00226-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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To investigate sex-related differences in vasoconstrictor responses to postjunctional alpha2-adrenoceptor activation, isolated ring segments of tail arteries from Fischer-344 rats were studied. Addition of the alpha2-adrenoceptor agonist, UK-14304 [5-bromo-6-(2-imidazoline-2yl)-aminol-quinoxaline], enhanced vasoconstriction to the selective alpha1-adrenoceptor agonist, methoxamine, in arteries from both males and females. The response to UK-14304 was significantly greater in arteries from males as compared to female arteries. Addition of alpha2-adrenoceptor antagonist, idazoxan or rauwolscine, shifted norepinephrine concentration response curves to the right. Antagonist effects also tended to be greater in arteries from males as compared to females. After gonadectomy, male-female differences persisted; thus, removal of sex hormones in either males or females did not alter responses to either agonists or antagonists of alpha2-adrenoceptors. These findings suggest that sex differences in alpha2-adrenoceptor function are not maintained by either male or female gonadal steroid hormones but may be developmentally regulated.
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- D C Chen
- Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, University of California, Irvine 92697-4625, USA
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Feres T, Borges AC, Silva EG, Paiva AC, Paiva TB. Impaired function of alpha-2 adrenoceptors in smooth muscle of mesenteric arteries from spontaneously hypertensive rats. Br J Pharmacol 1998; 125:1144-9. [PMID: 9863640 PMCID: PMC1565689 DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjp.0702177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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The alpha2-adrenoceptor function in mesenteric arteries of spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) was investigated by comparing membrane potential changes in response to adrenergic agonists in preparations from female SHR, Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) and normotensive Wistar rats (NWR). Resting membrane potential was found to be less negative in mesenteric arteries from SHR than in those from NWR and WKY. Apamin induced a decrease in the membrane potential of mesenteric artery rings without endothelium from NWR and WKY, but had no effects in those from SHR. Both UK 14,304 and adrenaline, in the presence of prazosin, induced a hyperpolarization that was significantly lower in de-endothelialized mesenteric rings from SHR than in those from NWR and WKY. In mesenteric rings with endothelium, however, similar hyperpolarization was observed in the three strains. In NWR mesenteric rings with endothelium the hyperpolarization induced by activation of alpha2-adrenoceptors was abolished by apamin, whereas in intact SHR mesenteric rings this hyperpolarization was slightly reduced by apamin and more efficiently reduced by Nomega-nitro-L-arginine. It is concluded that the activity of potassium channels coupled to alpha2-adrenoceptors is altered in the smooth muscle cells of SHR mesenteric arteries, contributing to their less negative membrane potential. On the other hand, the endothelial alpha2-receptors are functioning in mesenteric vessels from SHR and their stimulation induces a hyperpolarization mainly through the release of nitric oxide.
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MESH Headings
- Adrenergic alpha-Agonists/pharmacology
- Adrenergic alpha-Antagonists/pharmacology
- Animals
- Apamin/pharmacology
- Biological Factors/physiology
- Brimonidine Tartrate
- Endothelium, Vascular/drug effects
- Endothelium, Vascular/physiology
- Enzyme Inhibitors/pharmacology
- Female
- Hypertension/physiopathology
- In Vitro Techniques
- Membrane Potentials/drug effects
- Membrane Potentials/physiology
- Mesenteric Arteries/drug effects
- Mesenteric Arteries/physiopathology
- Mesenteric Arteries/ultrastructure
- Muscle, Smooth, Vascular/drug effects
- Muscle, Smooth, Vascular/physiopathology
- Muscle, Smooth, Vascular/ultrastructure
- Nitric Oxide/physiology
- Nitroarginine/pharmacology
- Prazosin/pharmacology
- Quinoxalines/pharmacology
- Rats
- Rats, Inbred SHR
- Rats, Inbred WKY
- Receptors, Adrenergic, alpha-2/drug effects
- Receptors, Adrenergic, alpha-2/physiology
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- T Feres
- Department of Biophysics, Escola Paulista de Medicina, São Paulo, SP Brazil
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Brock JA, McLachlan EM, Rayner SE. Contribution of alpha-adrenoceptors to depolarization and contraction evoked by continuous asynchronous sympathetic nerve activity in rat tail artery. Br J Pharmacol 1997; 120:1513-21. [PMID: 9113373 PMCID: PMC1564618 DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjp.0701055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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1. The effects of continuous but asynchronous nerve activity induced by ciguatoxin (CTX-1) on the membrane potential and contraction of smooth muscle cells have been investigated in rat proximal tail arteries isolated in vitro. These effects have been compared with those produced by the continuous application of phenylephrine (PE). 2. CTX-1 (0.4 nM) and PE (10 microM) produced a maintained depolarization of the arterial smooth muscle that was almost completely blocked by alpha-adrenoceptor blockade. In both cases, the depolarization was more sensitive to the selective alpha-adrenoceptor antagonist, idazoxan (0.1 microM), than to the selective alpha 1-adrenoceptor antagonist, prazosin (0.01 microM). 3. In contrast, the maintained contraction of the tail artery induced by CTX-1 (0.2 nM) and PE (2 and 10 microM) was more sensitive to prazosin (0.01) microM, than to idazoxan (0.01 microM). In combination, these antagonists almost completely inhibited contraction to both agents. 4. Application of the calcium channel antagonist, nifedipine (1 microM), had no effect on the depolarization induced by either CTX-1 or PE but maximally reduced the force of the maintained contraction to both agents by about 50%. 5. We conclude that the constriction of the tail artery induced by CTX-1, which mimics the natural discharge of postganglionic perivascular axons, is due almost entirely to alpha-adrenoceptor activation. The results indicate that neuronally released noradrenaline activates more than one alpha-adrenoceptor subtype. The depolarization is dependent primarily on alpha 2-adrenoceptor activation whereas the contraction is dependent primarily on alpha 1-adrenoceptor activation. The links between alpha-adrenoceptor activation and the voltage-dependent and voltage-independent mechanisms that deliver Ca2+ to the contractile apparatus appear to be complex.
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- J A Brock
- Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, Randwick, NSW, Australia
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Haynes JM, Hill SJ. Alpha-adrenoceptor mediated responses of the cauda epididymis of the guinea-pig. Br J Pharmacol 1996; 119:1203-10. [PMID: 8937724 PMCID: PMC1915889 DOI: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.1996.tb16023.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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1. The subtypes of alpha-adrenoceptor mediating the contractile responses of the cauda epididymis of the guinea-pig were investigated. The alpha 1-adrenoceptor agonist phenylephrine, but not the alpha 2-adrenoceptor agonist, xylazine (up to 10 microM), elicited concentration-dependent contractions from preparations of cauda epididymis (EC50 3.4 microM). The L-type Ca2+ channel antagonist, nifedipine (10 microM), reduced the maximal response to phenylephrine (by 77%). Preincubation of tissues with the alpha 1B-adrenoceptor-alkylating agent, chloroethylclonidine (50 microM, 30 min), shifted phenylephrine concentration-response curves to the right (4 fold) only when the alpha 2-adrenoceptor antagonist idazoxan (100 nM) was included during the pre-incubation with chloroethylclonidine. 2. Xylazine (1 microM) significantly shifted phenylephrine concentration-response curves to the left (3 fold); this effect was attenuated by idazoxan (100 nM). Both the incubation of preparations with nifedipine (10 microM) and the pre-incubation of preparations with chloroethylclonidine (50 microM, 30 min) attenuated the potentiating effects of xylazine (1 microM). Protection of alpha 2-adrenoceptors with idazoxan (100 nM) during the chloroethylclonidine (50 microM, 30 min) incubation restored the xylazine-mediated enhancement of phenylephrine concentration-response curves. Pertussis toxin (200 ng ml-1, 24 h) attenuated the xylazine (1 microM)-mediated potentiation of phenylephrine concentration-response curves. 3. Following the pre-incubation of preparations with chloroethylclonidine (50 microM, 30 min) 5-methylurapidil (10 nM to 3 microM) shifted phenylephrine concentration-response curves, in parallel, to the right with mean pKB values in the range of 8.27 (at 10 nM 5-methylurapidil) to 7.76 (at 3 microM 5-methylurapidil), the addition of idazoxan (100 nM) to the incubation medium did not significantly affect the 5-methylurapidil (10 to 300 nM) pKB values (8.41 to 7.64, respectively). In the presence of both idazoxan (100 nM) and nifedipine (10 microM), and following the pre-incubation with chloroethylclonidine (50 microM, 30 min), 5-methylurapidil (30 to 300 nM) still shifted phenylephrine concentration-response curves to the right (pKB values 7.77 to 7.36, respectively). 4. Phenylephrine (1 microM to 1 mM) increased the accumulation of [3H]-inositol phosphates (10 fold) in preparations of cauda epididymis (EC50 12 microM). This effect was sensitive to chloroethylclonidine pretreatment (50 microM, 30 min), antagonized with low affinity by 5-methylurapidil (- log pKi 7.8), but not potentiated by xylazine (1 microM). Xylazine (10 nM - 100 microM) reversed the forskolin (10 or 30 microM) stimulated accumulation of [3H]-adenosine 3':5'-cylic monophosphate (cyclic AMP) in preparations of cauda epididymis (by approximately 45%). Incubation of tissues with both pertussis toxin (200 ng ml-1, 24 h) and pertussis toxin vehicle increased the basal activity of adenylate cyclase (3 fold) but did not increase the capacity of forskolin (30 microM) to stimulate the accumulation of [3H]-cyclic AMP in these tissues. Xylazine did not significantly inhibit the forskolin-stimulated accumulation of [3H]-cyclic AMP in either vehicle or pertussis toxin treated tissues. 5. These studies indicate that the epididymis of the guinea-pig contains alpha 1- and alpha 2-adrenoceptors. On the basis of the actions of chloroethylclonidine and 5-methylurapidil the alpha 1-adrenoceptors of this tissue may be of the alpha 1A- and alpha 1B-subtypes and are linked to both the influx of extracellular Ca2+ and to phospholipase C. The alpha 2-adrenoceptors of this tissue are negatively coupled to adenylate cyclase, sensitive to pertussis toxin, but do not amplify phenylephrine-stimulated [3H]-inositol phosphate accumulation. Stimulation of the alpha 2-adrenoceptors of this tissue may selectively potentiate the influx of extracellular Ca2+.
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- J M Haynes
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Medical School, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham
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Bryant CE, Clarke KW. The actions of medetomidine may not be mediated exclusively by alpha 2-adrenoceptors in the equine saphenous vein. J Vet Pharmacol Ther 1996; 19:124-9. [PMID: 8735420 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2885.1996.tb00024.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Spirals of endothelially denuded equine saphenous vein were used to study the pre- and post-junctional effects of medetomidine in vitro. The pD2 values were calculated for noradrenaline (6.7 +/- 0.1), phenylephrine (5.6 +/- 0.1), BHT 920 (6.2 +/- 0.2) and UK 14304 (5.7 +/- 0.2). Medetomidine produced a biphasic response, with a pD(2)1 of 8.2 +/- 0.1 and a pD(2)2 of 5.7 +/- 0.1 in the equine saphenous vein (n = 6). Prazosin (10(-7) M) significantly shifted the second phase of the medetomidine concentration-response curve to the right (pD(2)1 was 8.1 +/- 0.2 and pD(2)2 was 5.0 +/- 0.2, P < 0.05). Rings of equine saphenous vein were electrically stimulated to investigate the pre-junctional effects of medetomidine. Increasing concentrations of the alpha 2-adrenoceptor agonist BHT 920 reduced the response to electrical stimulation in a concentration dependent manner to a maximum of 40 +/- 5%, whereas medetomidine (0.1-100 nM) caused a concentration dependent enhancement to a maximum of 490 +/- 150%. These results suggest alpha 1- and alpha 2-adrenoceptors are functional in the equine saphenous vein, but that medetomidine is not acting exclusively as an alpha 2-adrenoceptor agonist.
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MESH Headings
- Adrenergic alpha-Agonists/administration & dosage
- Adrenergic alpha-Agonists/pharmacokinetics
- Adrenergic alpha-Agonists/pharmacology
- Adrenergic alpha-Antagonists/pharmacology
- Animals
- Azepines/pharmacology
- Brimonidine Tartrate
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Electric Stimulation
- Endothelium, Vascular/drug effects
- Endothelium, Vascular/metabolism
- Endothelium, Vascular/physiology
- Female
- Horses
- Imidazoles/administration & dosage
- Imidazoles/pharmacokinetics
- Imidazoles/pharmacology
- Male
- Medetomidine
- Muscle Contraction/drug effects
- Muscle, Smooth, Vascular/drug effects
- Muscle, Smooth, Vascular/metabolism
- Muscle, Smooth, Vascular/physiology
- Neuromuscular Junction/drug effects
- Norepinephrine/pharmacology
- Phenylephrine/pharmacology
- Prazosin/pharmacology
- Quinoxalines/pharmacology
- Receptors, Adrenergic, alpha-2/drug effects
- Receptors, Adrenergic, alpha-2/metabolism
- Saphenous Vein/drug effects
- Saphenous Vein/metabolism
- Saphenous Vein/physiology
- Structure-Activity Relationship
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- C E Bryant
- Department of Large Animal Medicine and Surgery, Royal Veterinary College, University of London, Hatfield, Herts, UK
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Redfern WS, MacLean MR, Clague RU, McGrath JC. The role of alpha 2-adrenoceptors in the vasculature of the rat tail. Br J Pharmacol 1995; 114:1724-30. [PMID: 7599941 PMCID: PMC1510371 DOI: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.1995.tb14963.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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1. The effects of alpha 2-adrenoceptor agonists and antagonists on rat tail skin temperature (tts), an indicator of local cutaneous blood flow, were studied in conscious and anaesthetized rats and in the isolated, Krebs perfused, vascular bed of the rat tail. 2. In conscious rats, at an ambient temperature of 18.5-20 degrees C, tts was 21.0 +/- 0.2 degrees C and core (rectal) temperature (tc) was 38.2 +/- 0.04 degrees C (n = 126). The alpha 2-adrenoceptor antagonist, delequamine (RS-15385-197; 1 mg kg-1, s.c., n = 6), produced a rapid elevation in tts to 29.1 +/- 0.7 degrees C (P < 0.001 vs. saline-treated control group), attained 10 min after injection. tc fell slightly, by 1.0 +/- 0.1 degrees C. The tts response was dose-related over the dose-range tested (0.01-1 mg kg-1, s.c.), with an ED50 of 17 micrograms kg-1, s.c. (n = 6 per dose). 3. The maximum increases in tts in response to a dose of 1 mg kg-1, s.c. of alpha 2-adrenoceptor antagonists were as follows (n = 6 per drug): delequamine (+9.6 +/- 0.8 degrees C) > yohimbine (+9.0 +/- 1.0 degrees C) > WY-26703 (+7.9 +/- 1.3 degrees C) > piperoxan (+5.6 +/- 1.7 degrees C) > idazoxan (+4.6 +/- 1.3 degrees C) > imiloxan (+4.1 +/- 1.3 degrees C) > SKF 104078 (+2.0 +/- 1.9 degrees C) > BDF-6143 (+1.3 +/- 0.8 degrees C). 4. Prazosin (0.3 mg kg-1, s.c.), hydralazine (10 mg kg-1, s.c.) and nifedipine (3 mg kg-1, s.c.) did not increase tts, whereas propranolol (10 mg kg-1, s.c.) evoked a small increase in tts (+2.9 +/- 1.0 degrees C). Pentolinium (2-10 mg kg-1, s.c.) elicited a dose-related increase in tts, which was elevated by 4.4 +/- 1.3 degrees C after a dose of 10 mg kg-1; tc was reduced in a dose-related manner. Drug vehicles (1 ml kg-1, s.c.) had no effect on tts or tc. 5. In anaesthetized rats, idazoxan (300 microg, i.v.) produced a rapid increase in tts which was detectable 2 min after beginning the injection, reaching a peak after 7 min. When the same dose was administered i.c.v., tts also rose, but more slowly. The peak response (+ 3.6 +/- 0.70C, n = 5) was significantly smaller than when idazoxan was administered intravenously (+ 6.3 +/- 1.2 C, n = 5), which suggests that the increase in tts following systemic administration of M2-adrenoceptor antagonists is not due to a central effect. The change in tts was not secondary to changes in blood pressure.6. In the isolated, Krebs perfused, tail vascular bed of the rat, at an ambient temperature of 20-21C,under constant flow conditions (3.5-4.0 ml min-1; n = 4), baseline perfusion pressure was 57 +/- 4 mmHg.5-Hydroxytryptamine (5-HT; 70-150 nM) increased perfusion pressure by 56+/- 9 mmHg. The alpha2-adrenoceptor agonist, UK-14,304 (10 nmol), elicited a further increase in perfusion pressure by27.5 +/- 15 mmHg but had no effect in the absence of 5-HT; this response to UK-14,304 was abolished by rauwolscine (1 microM).7. Under constant pressure conditions (-100 mmHg; n = 9), baseline mean perfusion flow was 2.1 +/- 0.2 ml min-1, and mean tail skin temperature was 31.6 +/- 0.6C. 5-HT (119 +/- 28 nM) decreased tts.by 3.3 +/- 2.0 C and reduced flow by 1.2 +/- 0.3 ml min-1. UK-14,304 (10 nmol) further reduced tts by 3.0 +/- 0.3 C without significant effect on flow; this effect was also abolished by 1 microM rauwolscine.8. We conclude that post-junctional M2-adrenoceptors in the vasculature of the rat tail have a major vasoconstrictor role, controlling both the flow and distribution of blood within the tail and thereby thermoregulatory heat loss from its surface.
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- W S Redfern
- Department of Pharmacology, Syntex Research Centre, Heriot-Watt University Research Park, Riccarton, Edinburgh
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Watts SW, Traub O, Lamb FS, Myers JH, Webb RC. Effect of ramipril on alpha-adrenoceptor-mediated oscillatory contractions in tail artery of hypertensive rats. Eur J Pharmacol 1993; 242:245-53. [PMID: 8281989 DOI: 10.1016/0014-2999(93)90248-g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Recent studies indicate that norepinephrine-induced contractile oscillations in the tail artery from stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRSP) may be a vascular phenomenon independent of blood pressure level. The objectives of this study were: (1) to characterize pharmacologically the alpha-adrenoceptor mediating norepinephrine-induced oscillations in tail artery; and (2) to investigate the relationship between blood pressure level, altered by treatments with hydralazine/hydrochlorothiazide or the angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor ramipril, and the observation of norepinephrine-induced oscillations in tail artery. The alpha 2-adrenoceptor agonists clonidine and guanabenz potently stimulated oscillatory contractions in the tail artery while the alpha 1-adrenoceptor agonists phenylephrine and methoxamine were considerably less potent. Yohimbine, an alpha 2-adrenoceptor antagonist, but not the alpha 1-adrenoceptor antagonist prazosin demonstrated high affinity for the receptor mediating norepinephrine-induced oscillatory contractions. These results support the hypothesis that norepinephrine-induced oscillatory contractions in the tail artery from SHRSP occur primarily through stimulation of alpha 2-adrenoceptors. Ramipril lowered blood pressure in SHRSP after 4 weeks of treatment during 6-10 weeks of life but did not alter the ability of the alpha 2-adrenoceptor agonist clonidine (10(-5) M) to induce contractile oscillations in tail arteries from SHRSP, indicating these oscillations are not a secondary effect of high blood pressure. These studies suggest that norepinephrine-induced oscillations in tail artery from SHRSP may be a vascular trait separate and distinct from blood pressure level and angiotensin II expression early in life.
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- S W Watts
- Department of Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109
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Tsai H, Buchholz J, Duckles SP. Postjunctional alpha 2-adrenoceptors in blood vessels: effect of age. Eur J Pharmacol 1993; 237:311-6. [PMID: 8103463 DOI: 10.1016/0014-2999(93)90283-n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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To investigate the impact of age on function of vascular postjunctional alpha 2-adrenoceptors in tail arteries of F-344 rats aged 6 and 20 months, vasoconstrictor responses of isolated ring segments were studied. In both 6 and 20 months old animals, norepinephrine concentration response curves were significantly shifted to the right in the presence of the alpha 2-adrenoceptor antagonists idazoxan (300 nM) or rauwolscine (50 nM). Furthermore, in both age groups alpha 2-adrenoceptor agonists UK14304 (300 nM) or BHT920 (25 nM) produced significant enhancements in the vasoconstrictor response to the selective alpha 1-adrenoceptor agonist, methoxamine. Concentration response curves for norepinephrine and methoxamine were not different with age. These data verify the existence of postjunctional alpha 2-adrenoceptors and demonstrate that the function of these receptors does not change with age. This supports the proposition that overall vascular adrenergic function in blood vessels is maintained with advancing age.
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- H Tsai
- Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, University of California, Irvine 92717
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MacLean MR, McCulloch KM, McGrath JC. Influences of the endothelium and hypoxia on alpha 1- and alpha 2-adrenoceptor-mediated responses in the rabbit isolated pulmonary artery. Br J Pharmacol 1993; 108:155-61. [PMID: 8094023 PMCID: PMC1907688 DOI: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.1993.tb13456.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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1. The effects of the inhibitor of nitric oxide synthase, N omega-nitro-L-arginine methylester (L-NAME, 10(-4) M), mechanical disruption of the endothelium and hypoxia on contraction to noradrenaline (alpha 1- and alpha 2-adrenoceptor agonist), phenylephrine (alpha 1-adrenoceptor agonist) and UK 14304 (alpha 2-adrenoceptor agonist) were compared in the rabbit isolated pulmonary artery. The effects of the selective antagonists rauwolscine (10(-6) M, alpha 2-adrenoceptors) and prazosin (10(-7) M, alpha 1-adrenoceptors) on the contractions to noradrenaline before and after exposure to L-NAME were also assessed. 2. Noradrenaline, phenylephrine and UK 14304 all produced concentration-dependent increases in vascular tone. The responses to noradrenaline were sensitive to both rauwolscine and prazosin (effect of prazosin >> rauwolscine). L-NAME increased the potency of both noradrenaline and UK 14304, and also the maximum tension achieved. It had no effect on the responses to phenylephrine. After L-NAME, contractions to noradrenaline, although still sensitive to both rauwolscine and prazosin, were now more sensitive to inhibition by rauwolscine. 3. Endothelium removal augmented the potency and maximum contractions to noradrenaline, phenylephrine and UK 14304. 4. Hypoxia decreased both the potency of phenylephrine and its maximum contractile response, but increased the maximum response to noradrenaline without effecting responses to UK 14304. 5. In conclusion, in the rabbit pulmonary artery, augmentation of contractile responses to noradrenaline by L-NAME involves a potentiation of alpha 2-adrenoceptor-mediated contraction probably through an effect on the synthesis of endothelium-derived nitric oxide. Experimental hypoxia had differential effects on all three agonists and did not mimic the effect of nitric oxide synthase inhibition.
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- M R MacLean
- Autonomic Physiology Unit, Glasgow University
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Vo PA, Reid JJ, Rand MJ. Attenuation of vasoconstriction by endogenous nitric oxide in rat caudal artery. Br J Pharmacol 1992; 107:1121-8. [PMID: 1467834 PMCID: PMC1907947 DOI: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.1992.tb13417.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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1. The effects of NG-nitro-L-arginine (L-NNA), NG-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME), haemoglobin and methylene blue have been examined on vascular reactivity in the rat isolated caudal artery. The effects of L-NNA and sodium nitroprusside were also investigated on the stimulation-induced (S-I) efflux of noradrenaline in the rat caudal artery. 2. L-NNA (10 microM) and L-NAME (10 microM) significantly attenuated the vasodilator responses to acetylcholine (1 nM-1 microM), but had no effect on vasodilator responses to papaverine (1-100 microM). 3. Vasoconstrictor responses to sympathetic nerve stimulation (3 Hz, 10 s), noradrenaline (0.01-1 microM), methoxamine (1-10 microM), 5-hydroxytryptamine (0.01-0.3 microM), phenylephrine (0.1-10 microM), endothelin-1 (10 nM) and KCl (40 mM) were significantly enhanced by 10 microM L-NNA. L-NAME (10 microM) caused a significant enhancement of vasoconstrictor responses to noradrenaline and sympathetic nerve stimulation in endothelium-intact, but not in endothelium-denuded tissues. 4. Haemoglobin and methylene blue (both 10 microM) enhanced the vasoconstrictor responses to sympathetic nerve stimulation and noradrenaline. The enhancements were absent in endothelium-denuded arterial segments. 5. In endothelium-denuded arterial segments precontracted with phenylephrine, the vasodilator responses to the nitric oxide donor, sodium nitroprusside (0.1-300 nM) were decreased by increasing the level of precontraction. 6. L-NNA (10 microM) had no effect on the S-I efflux of radioactivity from arteries in which transmitter stores had been labelled with [3H]-noradrenaline. 7. These results suggest that endothelial nitric oxide attenuates vasoconstrictor responses in the rat caudal artery through activation of soluble guanylate cyclase to decrease smooth muscle contractility. Therefore, the findings provide evidence that nitric oxide acts as a functional antagonist to oppose vasoconstriction.
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- P A Vo
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Evans BK, Mason R, Wilson VG. Evidence for direct vasoconstrictor activity of melatonin in "pressurized" segments of isolated caudal artery from juvenile rats. NAUNYN-SCHMIEDEBERG'S ARCHIVES OF PHARMACOLOGY 1992; 346:362-5. [PMID: 1407020 DOI: 10.1007/bf00173553] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Responses of isolated, 60 mmHg 'pressurized' segments of the distal caudal artery of adult and juvenile Wistar rats to melatonin and the selective alpha 2-adrenoceptor agonist 5-bromo-6-[2-imidazolin-2-ylamino]-quinoxaline bitartrate (UK-14304) were examined using the Halpern pressure myograph. Melatonin showed no direct vasoconstrictor activity in vessels from adult rats, whereas UK-14304 produced moderate vasoconstriction (pD2-7.43 +/- 0.09). In the presence of phenylephrine-induced tone, melatonin produced a variable but small constrictor response (less than 10 microns reduction in diameter) in some vessels; the response to 1 mumol/l UK-14304 was less than in the absence of tone. In vessels isolated from juvenile rats, melatonin caused concentration-dependent vasoconstriction with a maximum response about 70% of the maximum response elicited by UK-14304. Vessels from juvenile rats were more sensitive to melatonin (pD2-9.40 +/- 0.07) than they were to UK-14304 (pD2-8.12 +/- 0.14). In the presence of phenylephrine-induced tone, the vasoconstrictor responses to both melatonin and IK-14304 were markedly less; the sensitivity to melatonin was not different from that seen in the absence of tone. These findings indicate that 'pressurized' segments of the isolated distal caudal artery may provide a simple and convenient, functional model of melatonin receptors. The findings also appear to implicate melatonin in thermoregulatory processes in juvenile rats.
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- B K Evans
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Nottingham Medical School, Queen's Medical Centre, England
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Contractile responses to neurokinin A (NKA), neuropeptide gamma(NP gamma), and the NK2 receptor-selective analogs [Lys5,MeLeu9,Nle10]NKA(4-10) and MDL 28,564 were determined in the endothelium-denuded rabbit pulmonary artery. Responses to NKA, NP gamma, and [Lys5,MeLeu9,Nle10]NKA(4-10) were antagonized by the NK2 receptor antagonist MDL 29,913, with pA2 values of 6.67, 6.46, and 7.32, respectively. Autoradiographic studies failed to demonstrate any specific binding sites for [125I]-iodohistidyl NKA (INKA) over the pulmonary artery. These data suggest the presence in rabbit pulmonary artery of an unusual "nonclassical" NK2 receptor subtype, which appears to lack affinity for INKA.
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- X H Xiao
- School of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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Thaler CD, Haimo LT. Control of organelle transport in melanophores: regulation of Ca2+ and cAMP levels. CELL MOTILITY AND THE CYTOSKELETON 1992; 22:175-84. [PMID: 1330333 DOI: 10.1002/cm.970220305] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Melanophores of the cichlid Tilapia mossambica can be induced to aggregate pigment by addition of epinephrine to the medium, suggesting adrenergic control of this transport. The melanophore response to adrenergic stimulation was examined using agonists and antagonists that are highly specific for each alpha-adrenoceptor subclass. The signal transduction mechanism of each subclass is unique: stimulation of alpha 1 receptors results in a rise in intracellular free Ca2+, while alpha 2 stimulation results in decreased cAMP levels [Exton, 1985: Am. J. Physiol. 248:E633-E647]. Each alpha 1 or alpha 2 specific agonist tested showed a dose dependent ability to induce aggregation and each was able to effect complete aggregation of pigment, suggesting that aggregation can be mediated either by elevating Ca2+ or by lowering cAMP. However, in the presence of either an alpha 1 or an alpha 2 receptor antagonist, none of the agonists were able to induce significant aggregation, suggesting that changes in levels of both messengers are required for pigment aggregation in the melanophores. Moreover, experiments in which intracellular levels of Ca2+ or cAMP were perturbed, using BAPTA and forskolin, respectively, indicated that elevating Ca2+ in the presence of high cAMP is not sufficient to induce aggregation and, conversely, that lowering cAMP levels in the presence of reduced Ca2+ is not sufficient to induce pigment aggregation. These data indicate that the concentrations of both cAMP and Ca2+ are important in regulating pigment aggregation in teleost melanophores, and suggest that maximal aggregation of pigment requires altering the levels of both messengers.
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- C D Thaler
- Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside 92521
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Chan MY, Dai S, He JH, Ogle CW. In-vivo and in-vitro studies on the effects of chronic dexamethasone treatment on cardiovascular responses to sympathetic stimulation. ARCHIVES INTERNATIONALES DE PHYSIOLOGIE, DE BIOCHIMIE ET DE BIOPHYSIQUE 1991; 99:323-9. [PMID: 1723322 DOI: 10.3109/13813459109146944] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Rats treated with dexamethasone, 1.5 mg/kg s.c. weekly for 3 weeks exhibited significantly greater increases in mean arterial pressure than their controls, following either sympathetic nerve stimulation or noradrenaline administration. The atria from dexamethasone-treated rats showed greater chronotropic activity in response to noradrenaline but not to field stimulation, whereas the force of contraction was significantly less than that of the controls after either field or noradrenaline stimulation. Isolated rat tail artery preparations from dexamethasone-treated rats were found to be twice more sensitive to noradrenaline than the controls. Prazosin antagonised the noradrenaline-induced pressor response to the same extent in control and dexamethasone-treated rats. Dexamethasone treatment did not significantly increase the sensitivity to KCl or the angiotensin-potentiated pressor response to noradrenaline. This study shows that dexamethasone treatment increases postsynaptic sensitivity of the cardiovascular system to noradrenaline in rats.
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- M Y Chan
- Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong
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Vo PA, Reid JJ, Rand MJ. Endothelial nitric oxide attenuates vasoconstrictor responses to nerve stimulation and noradrenaline in the rat tail artery. Eur J Pharmacol 1991; 199:123-5. [PMID: 1893923 DOI: 10.1016/0014-2999(91)90647-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The effects of the nitric oxide synthesis inhibitor, NG-nitro-L-arginine (NOLA), have been examined in perfused segments of rat tail artery. NOLA (1 and 10 microM) significantly enhanced the vasoconstrictor responses to perivascular nerve stimulation (5 Hz, 10 s) and noradrenaline (10 ng). The enhancing effects of NOLA were prevented by L-arginine, but not by D-arginine, and were absent in endothelium-denuded artery segments. The results suggest that nitric oxide derived from endothelial cells attenuates vasoconstrictor responses to both nerve stimulation and noradrenaline.
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- P A Vo
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Melbourne, Australia
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Bültmann R, von Kügelgen I, Starke K. Contraction-mediating alpha 2-adrenoceptors in the mouse vas deferens. NAUNYN-SCHMIEDEBERG'S ARCHIVES OF PHARMACOLOGY 1991; 343:623-32. [PMID: 1682818 DOI: 10.1007/bf00184294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The question of the existence of postjunctional, contraction-mediating alpha 2-adrenoceptors, in addition to the known alpha 1-adrenoceptors, was studied in the mouse isolated vas deferens. Both the alpha 1-selective agonist phenylephrine and the alpha 2-selective agonist 5-bromo-6-(2-imidazolin-2-ylamino)-quinoxaline (UK 14,304) caused contraction of the vas deferens. In the presence of the alpha 1-selective antagonist prazosin (added in order to prevent an alpha 1 component in the effect of high concentrations of UK 14,304), the alpha 2-selective antagonist yohimbine and idazoxan shifted the concentration-response curve of UK 14,304 to the right in a manner compatible with competitive antagonism and with dissociation constants KB indicating the involvement of alpha 2-adrenoceptors. The maximal contraction elicited by UK 14,304 (in the presence of prazosin) was much lower than the maximal contraction elicited by phenylephrine. The effect of UK 14,304 was not changed by the P2-purinoceptor agonist alpha,beta-methylene-ATP and was reduced by neuropeptide Y, but was markedly enhanced by relatively low concentrations of phenylephrine. When the sympathetic fibres of the vas deferens were stimulated by trains of ten widely spaced (0.5 Hz) electric pulses, the tissue responded with ten separate twitches in which purinergic and adrenergic components were isolated by prazosin and suramin, respectively. Prazosin reduced the first adrenergic twitch in these trains at concentrations close to its KB value at alpha 1-adrenoceptors, whereas yohimbine and idazoxan reduced the first adrenergic twitch at concentrations far lower than their KB values at alpha 1-adrenoceptors.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- R Bültmann
- Pharmakologisches Institut, Freiburg, Federal Republic of Germany
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Dai S, Wang Y. Naloxone-induced cardiovascular depression in rats that had received chronic morphine-treatment. Br J Pharmacol 1991; 103:1399-406. [PMID: 1715795 PMCID: PMC1908344 DOI: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.1991.tb09801.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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1. Cardiovascular changes in response to intravenous injection of naloxone were studied in pentobarbitone-anaesthetized rats which had been given morphine in their drinking water for 1-21 days. The mechanisms of the observed changes were investigated in intact animals and in isolated hearts and tail arteries. 2. In rats that had received chronic morphine-treatment, intravenous administration of naloxone caused immediate decreases in blood pressure, heart rate, left ventricular pressure and dLVP/dtmax which were followed by the occurrence of atrial or ventricular extrasystoles and other signs of opiate withdrawal such as faecal passage and muscle twitching. 3. The intensities of the naloxone-precipitated cardiovascular changes were directly related to the duration of chronic morphine pretreatment, reaching statistically significant levels on day 2 or 3 and maximal levels on day 7 or 14. This phenomenon disappeared on days 3 to 14 following opiate withdrawal in animals which had been treated previously with morphine for 21 days. 4. Either atropine or clonidine pretreatment significantly prevented the occurrence of faecal passage or muscle twitching during naloxone-precipitated opiate withdrawal. However, clonidine, but not atropine or yohimbine, abolished the decreases in various haemodynamic parameters. The occurrence of cardiac extrasystoles was not affected. 5. In isolated heart or tail artery preparations from chronically morphine-treated rats, naloxone administration did not elicit reactions which differed from those of the preparations from naive animals. These findings suggest that under pentobarbitone anaesthesia, the cardiovascular systems of rats that had received chronic morphine treatment exhibit inhibitory, instead of excitatory, reactions to naloxone-precipitated opiate withdrawal.
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- S Dai
- Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong
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Dunn WR, McGrath JC, Wilson VG. Postjunctional alpha-adrenoceptors in the rabbit isolated distal saphenous artery: indirect sensitivity to prazosin of responses to noradrenaline mediated via postjunctional alpha 2-adrenoceptors. Br J Pharmacol 1991; 103:1484-92. [PMID: 1679360 PMCID: PMC1908394 DOI: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.1991.tb09815.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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1. Under normal experimental conditions, the rabbit isolated distal saphenous artery appears to contain a homogeneous population of postjunctional alpha 1-adrenoceptors. Prazosin competitively antagonized responses to noradrenaline (NA) with a pA2 value of 8.6, while a relatively high concentration of rauwolscine (1 microM), produced only a 2 fold rightward displacement of the NA cumulative concentration-response curve (CCRC). 2. Despite the fact that angiotensin II (AII) was without effect on responses to NA or phenylephrine in this preparation, this peptide made responses to NA less susceptible to the antagonistic action of prazosin. This was particularly evident on the lower portion of the CCRC for NA. These results suggest that in the presence of AII, NA produces contractile responses by an action mediated through a prazosin-resistant adrenoceptor. 3. An attempt was made to isolate a homogeneous population of postjunctional alpha 2-adrenoceptors by use of a receptor protection procedure involving the combination of rauwolscine and phenoxybenzamine. After the protection protocol no responses were observed to the alpha-adrenoceptor agonists NA, phenylephrine or UK-14304. In the presence of angiotensin II however, concentration-dependent contractions were observed to each of these agonists. Under these conditions the rank order of potency, UK-14304 greater than NA greater than phenylephrine, is consistent with that of an effect mediated through postjunctional alpha 2-adrenoceptors. 4. The responses to NA, after the protection protocol, in the presence of AII, were susceptible to the selective alpha 2-adrenoceptor antagonist, rauwolscine (1 microM), but resistant to the selective alpha 2-adrenoceptor antagonist prazosin (0.1 microM). Furthermore, the combination of rauwolscine (1 microM) and prazosin (0.1 I microM) was no more effective in blocking responses to NA than was rauwolscine (1 microM) alone. These results are consistent with the presence of a homogeneous population of postjunctional alpha 2-adrenoceptors. 5. Inducing a small degree of tone with a low concentration of the selective alpha 1-adrenoceptor agonist, phenylephrine, markedly increased the threshold sensitivity to the selective alpha 2-adrenoceptor agonist UK- 14304, in a manner analogous to that seen with All. 6. The results in the present study indicate that responses mediated via postjunctional alpha 2-adrenoceptors in the rabbit isolated distal saphenous artery are dependent upon a degree of vascular smooth muscle stimulation by some other receptor system. It is hypothesized that under normal experimental conditions, this function is fulfilled by stimulation of alpha l-adrenoceptors, while after alpha 1-adrenoceptor blockade the necessary positive influence can be provided by stimulation of All receptors. The implications for such an interaction between postjunctional alpha-adrenoceptor subtypes in demonstrating prazosin-resistant, rauwolscine- or yohimbine-sensitive responses in isolated blood vessels is discussed.
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MESH Headings
- Adrenergic alpha-Antagonists/pharmacology
- Angiotensin II/pharmacology
- Animals
- Brimonidine Tartrate
- Female
- In Vitro Techniques
- Male
- Muscle Contraction/drug effects
- Muscle, Smooth, Vascular/drug effects
- Muscle, Smooth, Vascular/metabolism
- Muscle, Smooth, Vascular/physiology
- Norepinephrine/pharmacology
- Phenylephrine/pharmacology
- Prazosin/pharmacology
- Quinoxalines/pharmacology
- Rabbits
- Receptors, Adrenergic, alpha/drug effects
- Receptors, Adrenergic, alpha/physiology
- Yohimbine/pharmacology
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- W R Dunn
- Autonomic Physiology Unit, University of Glasgow
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Xiao XH, Rand MJ. Mechanisms of vasoconstrictor responses to KCl in rat isolated perfused tail arteries: interaction with the alpha 2-adrenoceptor agonist UK14304. Eur J Pharmacol 1991; 196:133-6. [PMID: 1678717 DOI: 10.1016/0014-2999(91)90418-p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The vasoconstriction in rat tail arteries during exposure to 56 mM KCl for 2-5 min consisted of an initial sharp peak followed by a secondary plateau. Both components were reduced by the alpha 1-adrenoceptor antagonists prazosin and WB4010. In arteries from reserpine-pretreated rats, the plateau was markedly reduced and only slightly further attenuated by prazosin, however the initial peak was not reduced but was now not affected by prazosin. Thus, the response to KCl in arteries from normal rats is partly due to release of noradrenaline, and this occurs to a greater extent in the plateau than in the peak component. Addition of UK14304 during the plateau reduced the vasoconstriction in arteries from normal rats; however, in arteries from reserpine-pretreated rats there was increased vasoconstriction. These effects of UK14304 were abolished by idazoxan and were not affected by prazosin, and can be attributed to prejunctional inhibition of noradrenaline release in arteries from normal rats and postjunctional enhancement of vasoconstriction in arteries from reserpine-pretreated rats.
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- X H Xiao
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Xiao XH, Rand MJ. Effects of the alpha 2-adrenoceptor agonist UK14304 on pressor responses in pithed rats. Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol 1990; 17:725-34. [PMID: 1980235 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.1990.tb01272.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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1. Intravenous infusions of UK14304 (0.3-10 micrograms/kg per min) in pithed rat produced dose-dependent pressor responses which were not affected by prazosin (10 micrograms/kg) but were reduced by yohimbine (0.3 mg/kg). 2. Pressor responses to noradrenaline (0.1 micrograms/kg), phenylephrine (1 micrograms/kg) and vasopressin (10 mU/kg) were enhanced during infusions of UK14304 (0.03-1 micrograms/kg per min). Likewise, pressor responses to spinal sympathetic stimulation were enhanced during infusions of low concentrations of UK14304 (0.03-0.3 microgram/kg per min) but were reduced during infusion of a higher concentration of UK14304 (10 micrograms/kg per min). 3. After administration of yohimbine (0.3 mg/kg) or the calcium channel blocking drug diltiazem (infused at 50 micrograms/kg per min), pressor responses to noradrenaline and UK14304 were reduced, and responses to noradrenaline during infusion of UK14304 were not enhanced. 4. Prazosin (10 micrograms/kg) revealed a secondary depressor component in the response to sympathetic stimulation which is due to beta-adrenoceptor activation, since it was abolished by ICI 118551 (0.3 mg/kg). In the presence of ICI 118551 plus prazosin, pressor responses to sympathetic stimulation were enhanced during infusions of UK14304. 5. The depressor response to nitroprusside and the depressor component of responses to sympathetic stimulation after prazosin were enhanced during infusions of UK14304 at concentrations that increased the blood pressure. 6. The findings show that alpha 2-adrenoceptor activation enhanced the pressor responses to sympathetic nerve stimulation, noradrenaline, phenylephrine and vasopressin in the pithed rat and beta-adrenoceptor activation produced depressor responses which increased with increasing blood pressure.
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- X H Xiao
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Rajanayagam MA, Medgett IC, Rand MJ. Vasoconstrictor responses of rat tail artery to sympathetic nerve stimulation contain a component due to activation of postjunctional beta- or alpha 2-adrenoceptors. Eur J Pharmacol 1990; 177:35-41. [PMID: 1971218 DOI: 10.1016/0014-2999(90)90547-j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The role of alpha 1-, alpha 2- and beta-adrenoceptors in vasoconstrictor responses to sympathetic nerve stimulation was investigated in perfused proximal segments of rat tail artery by using selective blocking drugs. Prazosin (1 nM) markedly reduced the responses but idazoxan (100 nM) did not, and propranolol (1 microM) significantly enhanced them, indicating that the vasoconstriction was due to activation of alpha 1-adrenoceptors and that it was partly counteracted by a vasodilator component due to activation of beta-adrenoceptors. In the presence of propranolol, idazoxan or reduction of the concentration of Ca2+ in the perfusing solution from 2.5 to 0.63 mM significantly reduced responses to sympathetic nerve stimulation, indicating that a component of the vasoconstrictor response was due to activation of alpha 2-adrenoceptors. Forskolin, which increases cyclic AMP levels independently of beta-adrenoceptors, reduced responses to sympathetic nerve stimulation to a greater extent in the presence than in the absence of propranolol and this effect was additive with that of prazosin but not idazoxan. It is concluded that activation of beta-adrenoceptors inhibits the component of responses to sympathetic nerve stimulation due to activation of alpha 2-adrenoceptors because of an inhibitory effect of cyclic AMP on Ca2+ channels linked to alpha 2-adrenoceptors.
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- M A Rajanayagam
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Hamilton CA, Yakubu MA, Howie CA, Jardine E, Reid JL. Desensitization and down-regulation of brain alpha 2-adrenoceptors by centrally acting antihypertensive drugs. Br J Clin Pharmacol 1990; 30 Suppl 1:131S-134S. [PMID: 2176517 PMCID: PMC1368114 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2125.1990.tb05484.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Rabbits were treated with intravenous clonidine (8 mumol kg-1 day-1), guanabenz (20 mumol kg-1 day-1), rilmenidine (80 mumol kg-1 day-1) or vehicle via osmotic minipumps. After 6 days treatment mean arterial pressure (MAP), pressor responses to intravenous alpha-methyl noradrenaline and depressor responses to intracisternal clonidine were studied, and [3H]-yohimbine binding to forebrain and hindbrain examined in vitro. Clonidine, guanabenz and rilmenidine had similar effects on MAP and caused a similar attenuation of the depressor response to intracisternal clonidine, but only guanabenz attenuated pressor responses to intravenous alpha-methyl noradrenaline. Rilmenidine had no effect on [3H]-yohimbine binding to brain membranes. Clonidine treatment decreased binding in hindbrain while guanabenz treatment decreased binding in both fore- and hindbrain. Thus, the depressor effects of chronic treatment did not correlate with the effects on [3H]-yohimbine binding sites in rabbit brain suggesting that the blood pressure lowering effects of many centrally acting antihypertensive drugs are not necessarily dependent on binding to the alpha 2-adrenoceptor site labelled by [3H]-yohimbine.
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- C A Hamilton
- University Department of Materia Medica, Stobhill General Hospital, Glasgow
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Xiao XH, Rand MJ. Alpha 2-adrenoceptor agonists enhance vasoconstrictor responses to alpha 1-adrenoceptor agonists in the rat tail artery by increasing the influx of Ca2+. Br J Pharmacol 1989; 98:1032-8. [PMID: 2574060 PMCID: PMC1854755 DOI: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.1989.tb14635.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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1. The alpha 2-adrenoceptor agonists TL99 (2-(N N-dimethyl)amino-6,7-dihydroxy-1,2,3,4-tetrahydronaphthalene) and UK14304 (5-bromo-6-[2-imidazoline-2-yl-aminol]-quinoxaline), in concentrations that are less than 1% of those producing vasoconstriction, enhance vasoconstrictor responses to noradrenaline and phenylephrine in isolated perfused preparations of the rat tail artery. 2. The enhancing effect was abolished when Ca2+ was absent and by the calcium channel blocking drug diltiazem. 3. alpha 2-Adrenoceptor agonists had no effect on the component of the responses to noradrenaline and phenylephrine that is attributable to mobilization of intracellular Ca2+, but enhanced the component attributable to influx of extracellular Ca2+. 4. These results suggest that the enhancing effect of alpha 2-adrenoceptor agonists on responses of the rat tail artery to alpha 1-adrenoceptor agonists involves an increase in Ca2+-influx into smooth muscle cells through Ca2+ channels that are opened when alpha 2-adrenoceptors are activated.
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- X H Xiao
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- J C McGrath
- Autonomic Physiology Unit, University of Glasgow, Scotland
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Xiao XH, Rand MJ. Amplification by serotonin of responses to other vasoconstrictor agents in the rat tail artery. Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol 1989; 16:725-36. [PMID: 2805436 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.1989.tb01627.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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1. A low concentration of serotonin (3 nmol/L), which did not exert a direct vasoconstrictor action, amplified the responses to certain other vasoconstrictor agents (alpha 1-adrenoceptor agonists, KCl, ATP and vasopressin) in isolated perfused segments of the rat tail artery. 2. Low concentrations of serotonin (0.3 and 1 nmol/L) amplified vasoconstrictor responses to sympathetic nerve stimulation, but higher concentrations of serotonin (10 and 30 nmol/L) produced vasoconstriction and reduced responses to sympathetic nerve stimulation. 3. The calcium channel blocking drug diltiazem (1 and 10 mumol/L) produced concentration-dependent reductions of vasoconstrictor responses to phenylephrine. The amplifying effect of serotonin on responses to phenylephrine was attenuated by 1 mumol/L and abolished by 10 mumol/L diltiazem, and was also abolished in a Ca2+-free medium. 4. Ketanserin (10 nmol/L) antagonized the vasoconstrictor action of serotonin and, to a lesser extent, the vasoconstrictor actions of phenylephrine and noradrenaline. It abolished the amplifying effect of a low concentration of serotonin on responses to noradrenaline and phenylephrine. 5. The amplification of vasoconstrictor response in the rat tail artery by serotonin appears to be due to activation of receptors of the 5-HT2 subtype which are coupled to an increase in Ca2+ influx into the vascular smooth muscle cells.
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- X H Xiao
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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Rand MJ, Xiao XH, Rajanayagam S, Story DF. Does suppression of responsiveness to beta-adrenoceptor activation explain the enhancement of vasoconstrictor responses by alpha 2-adrenoceptor agonists? Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol 1989; 16:457-60. [PMID: 2569951 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.1989.tb01587.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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1. The alpha 2-adrenoceptor agonist TL99, in concentrations that had no other observable effect, enhanced constrictor responses to phenylephrine in perfused segments of the rat tail artery. 2. Vasoconstrictor responses to phenylephrine were also enhanced by propranolol (0.3 mumol/L). 3. Vasoconstrictor responses to phenylephrine in the presence of propranolol were further enhanced by TL99 (10 nmol/L). 4. The enhancement of vasoconstrictor responses by alpha 2-adrenoceptor agonists is not due to the removal of a counteracting vasodilator component produced by activation of beta-adrenoceptors.
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- M J Rand
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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