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Characterization of beta adrenoceptor subtypes in canine airway smooth muscle by radioligand binding and physiological responses

PJ Barnes, JA Nadel, BE Skoogh and JM Roberts

Beta adrenoceptor subtypes in canine tracheal smooth muscle have been investigated by radioligand binding and by physiological responses to beta agonists and sympathetic nerve stimulation in vitro. Specific binding of [3H]dihydroalprenolol to tracheal smooth muscle membranes was of high affinity (Kd = 1.0 +/- 0.08 nM), as in peripheral lung membranes from the same animals, but the concentration of binding sites (95.6 +/- 4.7 fmol/mg of protein) was much lower than in lung (532 +/- 48 fmol/mg of protein). Binding was stereoselective and agonists competed with the rank order of potency isoproterenol greater than epinephrine greater than norepinephrine, signifying a preponderance of beta-2 receptors. Using selective beta antagonists, we determined the ratio of beta-1/beta-2 receptors in tracheal smooth muscle membranes to be 1:4. The relaxation response of tracheal smooth muscle strips to exogenous beta agonists was mediated by beta-2 receptors, with a very small contribution from beta-1 receptors. However, the relaxation response to electrical field stimulation of sympathetic nerves was mediated predominantly by beta-1 receptors. Our results suggest that most beta receptors in dog tracheal smooth muscle are of the beta-2 subtype and mediate responses to circulating catecholamines, but there is a small concentration of beta-1 receptors which mediate the response to neurally released norepinephrine.

Volume 225, Issue 2, pp. 456-461, 05/01/1983
Copyright © 1983 by American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics




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