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Mechanism of the clonidine-induced protection against acetylcholinesterase inhibitor toxicity.

J J Buccafusco
Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics September 1982, 222 (3) 595-599;
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Clonidine, an alpha-2 adrenergic agonist can inhibit the release of acetylcholine from central and peripheral cholinergic neurons. This study was designed to examine the ability of clonidine to protect animals from the toxic manifestations of cholinesterase poisoning. Physostigmine, a central and peripheral cholinesterase inhibitor produced tremors, and at high doses death, by respiratory paralysis. Mice were injected with physostigmine at a dose (0.75 mg/kg) which evoked tremors in 100% and death in 90% of the animals. Clonidine pretreatment (0.3 mg/kg) increased the onset latency to tremor from 5 to 20 min, increased the onset latency to death from 12 to 24 min and increased the percentage of survivors to 50%. Yohimbine (1 mg/kg) reversed these protective effects of clonidine. The physostigmine-induced accumulation of forebrain and hindbrain acetylcholine also was reduced by 50% in both brain regions in clonidine-pretreated mice. Neostigmine, a selective peripheral cholinesterase inhibitor, induced respiratory paralysis which was not affected by clonidine pretreatment. These findings indicate that central cholinergic neurons involved in the regulation of respiration and fine motor control, but not peripheral motor neurons, are inhibited by clonidine acting on alpha receptors.

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Mechanism of the clonidine-induced protection against acetylcholinesterase inhibitor toxicity.

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