Pharmacological Characterization of Contractile Responses Induced by α1-Agonists, Norepinephrine and Clonidine, by Selective Antagonists of Their Subtypes in Rabbit Thoracic Aorta

[摘要] References(41)Cited-By(14)In the rabbit isolated thoracic aorta, WB 4101 and 5-methylurapidil dose-dependently shifted the concentration-response curves for norepinephrine to the right. Schild plots showed that the inhibition of responses for WB 4101 and 5-methylurapidil was biphasic, implying that norepinephrine acted through two receptor populations. Clonidine produced a concentration-dependent contraction in the isolated rabbit thoracic aorta. WB 4101 and 5-methylurapidil antagonized the contractions for clonidine, and the Schild plot to both antagonists against clonidine yielded a monophasic slope. Schild plots of the results obtained from the inhibition by WB 4101 and 5-methylurapidil for norepinephrine in strips pretreated with chloroethylclonidine yielded a straight line with a slope of unity. Specific binding of [3H]prazosin in the aortic membrane preparations was saturable. The Hill coefficient obtained from the inhibition curves for clonidine was significantly different from unity. Clonidine interacted with two binding sites labelled by [3H]prazosin, but the low affinity site was completely eliminated by pretreatment with 10 μM chloroethylclonidine. These results suggest that the subtype activated by norepinephrine is different from that activated by clonidine, and that norepinephrine-induced contraction through both α1A- and α1B-subtypes and clonidine through only the α1A-subtype in the rabbit thoracic aorta.

[学科分类] 药理学

[关键词] Thoracic aorta (rabbit);α1-Adrenoceptor subtype;Partial agonist;Full agonist