Adrenoceptor-mediated regulation of the contractility in horse penile resistance arteries

Journal of Vascular Research
U SimonsenA García-Sacristán

Abstract

The receptors mediating the contractions to both exogenously applied noradrenaline and electrical field stimulation (EFS) were characterized in horse isolated penile resistance arteries. The alpha 1-adrenoceptor-selective antagonist, prazosin, caused competitive rightward shifts of the contractile concentration-response curves (CRC) to phenylephrine. The alpha 2-antagonist, rauwolscine, also displaced to the right the CRC to the alpha 2-adrenoceptor-selective agonist, BHT 920. EFS (0.3 ms, 20-second trains) caused tetrodotoxin-sensitive frequency-dependent contractions which were enhanced in the presence of NG-nitro-L-arginine (L-NOARG, 3 x 10(-5) M), but not affected by mechanical endothelial cell removal. In experiments performed in the presence of L-NOARG, prazosin inhibited contractions to EFS, while rauwolscine inconsistently enhanced the contractile responses. Exogenously added noradrenaline induced contractions which were not changed in endothelium-denuded arteries, but significantly increased in the presence of L-NOARG. Prazosin inhibited the noradrenaline-induced contractions, while rauwolscine did not change the response to noradrenaline either alone or in the presence of prazosin. In the presence of phentolamine (10(...Continue Reading

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