PMID: 6104724Aug 1, 1980Paper

Differential inhibiton of alpha-1 and alpha-2 adrenoceptor-mediated pressor responses in pithed rats

The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
I Yamaguchi, I J Kopin

Abstract

The relative potencies of alpha adrenoceptor antagonists at pre- and postsynaptic receptors were assessed by comparing their effects on increments in plasma norepinephrine levels and blood pressure during stimulation of the sympathetic outflow from the spinal cord of pithed rats. Since increments in blood pressure are related to the logarithms of increases in plasma norepinephrine, the latter appear to reflect levels of the catecholamine at vascular alpha receptors. Phenoxybenzamine, dibenamine and chlorpromazine were found to block preferentially postsynaptic alpha receptors, phentolamine and tolazoline were nearly equipotent at pre- and postsynaptic receptors and mianserin and piperoxan were more potent inhibitors of presynaptic alpha receptors. Phenoxybenzamine and dibenamine were much more effective in blocking the pressor responses to sympathetic stimulation than administered norepinephrine. The opposite was true of mianserin and piperoxan, whereas phentolamine appeared to be about equipotent in blocking the pressor response to stimulation and norepinephrine. These results suggest that the pressor effects of administered norepinephrine is mediated by different receptors (alpha-2-type) than is the pressor response to stimul...Continue Reading

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