ISSN:
0091-7419
Keywords:
Life Sciences
;
Molecular Cell Biology
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Biology
,
Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Medicine
Notes:
The binding of one irreversible and two reversible radioactive antagonists to muscarinic receptors in synaptosome preparations of rat cerebral cortex has been studied. The ligands all bind to the same receptor pool and directly and competitively yield self-consistent binding constants closely similar to those obtained by pharmacological methods on intact smooth muscle. The binding process for antagonists seems to be a simple mass action-determined process with a Hill slope of 1.0. The quantitative correlations strongly support the view that the receptor studied by ligand binding corresponds to the receptor studied by pharmacological methods.Inhibition of antagonist binding by most agonists shows a reduced Hill slope which also applies to direct binding studies of [3H] acetylcholine. Mechanisms that might account for the behavior of agonists are discussed but do not conclusively point to any single mechanism.
Additional Material:
2 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jss.400040307
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