ISSN:
1474-8673
Source:
Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
Notes:
1 The present study attempted to pharmacologically characterize the subtypes of α-adrenoceptors mediating the vasoconstriction in the isolated and perfused canine vesical artery. 2 Noradrenaline (NA) and phenylephrine (PE, an α1-adrenoceptor agonist) induced a dose-dependent vasoconstriction, whereas xylazine (an α2-agonist) did not induce any clear vascular constrictor response. 3 Prazosin at 0.01 μm and rauwolscine at 0.1 μm failed to affect the NA-induced vasoconstriction. Prazosin at 0.1 μm antagonized the vasoconstrictor responses to NA, with pKB value of 7.8. 4 WB 4101 at 0.01–0.1 μm dose-dependently inhibited the responses to NA, with a pKB value of 8.9. The vasoconstrictor responses to NA were not significantly affected by chloroethylclonidine (10–30 μm) or BMY 7378 (0.1 μm). 5 The present results indicate that the canine vesical arteries dominantly contain α1-adrenoceptors but have no α2-adrenoceptors, and the functional subtype of α1-adrenoceptor is characterized as an α1A-adrenoceptor subtype.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1474-8673.2002.00267.x
