Abstract
In electrically driven left atria isolated from guinea pig and rat, a new milrinone analog, 6-ethyl-5-propionyl-1,2-dihydro-2-oxo-3-pyridine carbonitrile, produced a positive inotropic effect that was not dependent on adrenergic mechanisms and was more marked than that exerted by the parent compound. Its inotropic action was almost completely abolished by pretreatment of atria with adenosine deaminase and correlated well with its binding ability to the cardiac adenosine A1 receptor. In this regard, the analog showed a 100-fold higher affinity for adenosine receptor than that of milrinone. Moreover, it shifted to the right the concentration-response curves for the negative inotropic action of the stable adenosine receptor agonist R-phenylisopropyladenosine. The new analog behaved as a competitive inhibitor of Type III phosphodiesterase isolated from both guinea pig and rat, although its Ki value was 10 times higher than that of milrinone. However, an increase in cAMP levels does not seem to be involved in the mechanism of action of the new compound, because the presence of carbachol did not decrease the extent of the positive inotropic effect of the analog and did not modify its EC50 in either guinea pig or rat myocardial preparations. Taken together, these results suggest that the milrinone structure can be modified, giving rise to a more active compound whose inotropic effect in both guinea pig and rat appears to be more clearly related to antagonism toward endogenous adenosine than to Type III phosphodiesterase inhibition.
Footnotes
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Send reprint requests to: Prof. Maura Floreani, Department of Pharmacology, University of Padova, Largo Meneghetti 2, 35131 Padova, Italy.
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↵1 This study was supported by a grant from Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca Scientifica e tecnologica (MURST 40%), Italy. Part of this work appeared in abstract form in Drug Dev. Res. 37: 190, 1996.
- Abbreviations:
- ADA
- adenosine deaminase
- [3H]DPCPX
- [3H]8-cyclopentyl-1,3-dipropylxanthine
- R-PIA
- R-phenylisopropyladenosine
- PDE
- phosphodiesterase
- DMSO
- dimethylsulfoxide
- Tris
- Tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane
- Ca++ ATPase
- Ca++-activated adenosine triphosphatase
- Na+/K+ ATPase
- Na+/K+-activated adenosine triphosphatase
- Received April 21, 1997.
- Accepted July 28, 1997.
- The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
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