Nonadrenergic, noncholinergic contractile responses of the guinea pig hilar bronchus involve the preferential activation of tachykinin neurokinin2 receptors

LM Renzetti, A Shenvi and CK Buckner

Department of Pharmacology, ICI Pharmaceuticals Group, ICI Americas Inc., Wilmington, Delaware.

Experiments were designed to characterize receptor(s) that mediate nonadrenergic, noncholinergic contractions of the guinea pig hilar bronchus using selective neurokinin (NK)1 (CP 96,345) and NK2 (R396 and MEN 10,376) tachykinin receptor antagonists. Left and right hilar bronchi were studied as pairs in the presence of atropine, propranolol, phentolamine; indomethacin and thiorphan. (2S, 3S)-cis-2- (diphenylmethyl)-N-(2-methoxyphe nyl)-1-azabicyclo[2,2,2]octan-3-amine (CP 96,345) selectively antagonized contractions of the bronchus to the NK1 agonist Ac-[Arg6,Sar9,Met(O2)11]-SP(6-11) with a -log molar KB value of about 8.0. Similarly, Ac-Leu-Asp-Gln-Trp-Phe-Gly-NH2 (R396) and [Tyr5, D-Trp6,8,9, Lys10]-NKA(4-10) (MEN 10,376) selectively antagonized contractions to the NK2 agonist [beta Ala8]-NKA(4-10) with - log molar KB values of about 5.5 and 6.7, respectively. CP 96,345 (3 x 10(-7) M) had no effect on contractions evoked by transmural electrical stimulation (TES). However, both R396 (1 x 10(-5) to 1 x 10(-4) M) and MEN 10,376 (1 x 10(-6) to 1 x 10(-5) M) caused blockade of responses to TES. CP 96,345 (3 x 10(-7) M) antagonized TES-induced contractions only when studied after substantial blockade by R396 or MEN 10,376. Contractions to TES were not abolished by R396, MEN 10,376 or a combination of these antagonists with CP 96,345. R396 (1 x 10(-6) M) increased the maximum contraction to TES and potentiated the frequency- response curve in bronchi treated with MEN 10,376 (1 x 10(-6) M).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

Volume 262, Issue 3, pp. 957-963, 09/01/1992
Copyright © 1992 by American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

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