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The present study was undertaken to compare the presynaptic interaction of neuronal noradrenaline uptake inhibitors with imidazoline and phenylethylamine α2adrenoceptor agonists under two different conditions: at low and high noradrenaline concentrations in the biophase.
Isolated mouse vasa deferentia were stimulated with trains of 7 pulses given at 0.2 Hz and the inhibition by the α2-adrenoceptor agonists clonidine, α-methylnoradrenaline, and UK-14,304 of twitch responses was measured in the absence and in the presence of either cocaine (12 μmol/l) or desipramine (40 nmol/l). The effects were determined for the first (equivalent to single pulse stimulation) and the last stimulus of each train. Both uptake inhibitors antagonized the presynaptic inhibitory effects of imidazolines (clonidine and UK-14,304) on the last twitch; the effects on the first twitch remained unchanged. In contrast, the uptake inhibitors potentiated the inhibitory effect of the phenylethylamine (α-methylnoradrenaline) on both the first and the last twitches.
These results support the view that the concentration of noradrenaline in the biophase plays a decisive role in the inhibition by a2-adrenoceptor agonists of the electrically evoked release of noradrenaline. Agonists that are not substrates of neuronal uptake (i.e., clonidine, UK-14,304) become less effective when noradrenaline is present in the biophase while substrates of neuronal uptake (i. e., α-methylnoradrenaline) do not. The results argue against the hypothesis that uptake inhibitors interact directly with presynaptic α2-adrenoceptors or act at some link between uptake and receptor sites.
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Gonçalves, J., Carvalho, F. & Guimarães, S. Uptake inhibitors do not change the effect of imidazoline α2-adrenoceptor agonists on transmitter release evoked by single pulse stimulation in mouse vas deferens. Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Arch Pharmacol 339, 288–292 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00173579
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