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Negative and positive inotropic responses to muscarinic agonists in guinea pig and rat atria in vitro

RM Eglen, WW Montgomery and RL Whiting

Institute of Pharmacology, Syntex Research, Palo Alto, California.

In the guinea pig atria, carbachol, acetylcholine and bethanechol elicited negative inotropic and positive inotropic effects. In the rat atria, a negative inotropic response occurred, but the positive inotropic response was small. The positive and negative inotropic responses to carbachol and bethanechol (but not acetylcholine) were unaffected by pretreating the animals with reserpine and were antagonised by pirenzepine with pKB values of 6.7. Pretreatment with pertussis toxin abolished the negative inotropic responses, but was without effect on the positive inotropic responses in the guinea pig. Pretreatment of rats with pertussis toxin abolished the negative inotropic response and enhanced the positive inotropic response. The positive inotropic response was attenuated by pretreatment with dietary lithium for 2 weeks, whereas no effect was observed on the negative inotropic response. Negative and positive inotropic responses to muscarinic agonists in these species are mediated directly through an M2 muscarinic receptor. The ability of dietary lithium to selectively inhibit the positive inotropic response may provide evidence for the involvement of inositol phospholipid hydrolysis in this effect.

Volume 247, Issue 3, pp. 911-917, 12/01/1988
Copyright © 1988 by American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics




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