TY - JOUR
T1 - α 1‐ADRENOCEPTOR ACTIVATION CAN INCREASE HEART RATE DIRECTLY OR DECREASE IT INDIRECTLY THROUGH PARASYMPATHETIC ACTIVATION
AU - FLAVAHAN, N. A.
AU - McGRATH, J. C.
PY - 1982/10
Y1 - 1982/10
N2 - The chronotropic effects of α‐ and β‐adrenoceptor agonists were investigated in the pithed rat. The β‐adrenoceptor agonist, isoprenaline, produced only a positive chronotropic response. α1‐Adrenoceptor agonists, phenylephrine and amidephrine, produced positive and negative chronotropic effects. Part of the response to phenylephrine was β‐mediated. A positive chronotropic response to amidephrine and phenylephrine was mediated directly through cardiac α1‐adrenoceptors and had a different time course from β‐adrenoceptor‐mediated responses. A negative chronotropic response to α‐agonists was potentiated by neostigmine and blocked by atropine, tetrodotoxin or hexamethonium as well as by α1‐adrenoceptor antagonists. This may indicate α1‐adrenoceptors on preganglionic parasympathetic nerves, stimulation of these receptors causing release of acetylcholine. The α2‐adrenoceptor agonist, xylazine, produced a direct negative chronotropic effect on the heart, independent of α‐adrenoceptors. No evidence was found for functional post‐junctional α2‐adrenoceptors. At high doses xylazine stimulated cardiac α1‐adrenoceptors. 1982 British Pharmacological Society
AB - The chronotropic effects of α‐ and β‐adrenoceptor agonists were investigated in the pithed rat. The β‐adrenoceptor agonist, isoprenaline, produced only a positive chronotropic response. α1‐Adrenoceptor agonists, phenylephrine and amidephrine, produced positive and negative chronotropic effects. Part of the response to phenylephrine was β‐mediated. A positive chronotropic response to amidephrine and phenylephrine was mediated directly through cardiac α1‐adrenoceptors and had a different time course from β‐adrenoceptor‐mediated responses. A negative chronotropic response to α‐agonists was potentiated by neostigmine and blocked by atropine, tetrodotoxin or hexamethonium as well as by α1‐adrenoceptor antagonists. This may indicate α1‐adrenoceptors on preganglionic parasympathetic nerves, stimulation of these receptors causing release of acetylcholine. The α2‐adrenoceptor agonist, xylazine, produced a direct negative chronotropic effect on the heart, independent of α‐adrenoceptors. No evidence was found for functional post‐junctional α2‐adrenoceptors. At high doses xylazine stimulated cardiac α1‐adrenoceptors. 1982 British Pharmacological Society
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1476-5381.1982.tb09301.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1476-5381.1982.tb09301.x
M3 - Article
C2 - 6128039
AN - SCOPUS:0019962897
SN - 0007-1188
VL - 77
SP - 319
EP - 328
JO - British Journal of Pharmacology
JF - British Journal of Pharmacology
IS - 2
ER -