Abstract
Earlier work by others has shown that the catecholamines, epinephrine and isoproterenol, can raise blood calcium levels in parathyroidectomized but not intact rats, and can restrict the hypocalcemic effect of injected thyrocalcitonin (TCT). The present findings support this earlier work, further showing that such catecholamines can produce hypercalcemia in rats after removal of the thyroid gland by acute thyroparathyroidectomy (TPTX) and indicating that these drugs may raise blood calcium by mobilizing calcium from bone. Rats were fasted overnight, subjected to TPTX and concurrently injected with adrenergic agonist or antagonist drugs alone or in combination. Epinephrine, isoproterenol, and the beta-2 adrenergic agonist, salbutamol, in doses greater than or equal to 1 mg/kg raised blood calcium from low normal levels (approximately 9-10 mg/100 ml) by 1.5 to 2 mg/100 ml (p less than 0.01). Hypercalcemia was apparent by 1 hour after injection and lasted for 1-4 hours. The extent of Ca elevation was dose-related. Pretreatment of rats with the alpha-adrenergic antagonist, phenoxybenzamine, enhanced the effect of epinephrine while pretreatment with the beta-antagonist, propranolol, reduced the effect of isoproterenol. The more selec...Continue Reading
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