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Relationship between the level of cAMP and the contractile force under stimulation of α- and β-adrenoceptors by phenylephrine in the isolated rabbit papillary muscle

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The time course of changes of the level of 3′,5′-cyclic AMP (cAMP) and of the tension developed under stimulation of α- and β-adrenoceptors by phenylephrine was investigated in the isolated rabbit papillary muscle. Furthermore the doseresponse relationships for increases of cAMP and of developed tension elicited by phenylephrine were determined.

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    A submaximally effective concentration of phenylephrine (10−5 M) increased significantly the level of cAMP of the papillary muscle at 15 and 30 s by 45 and 36%, respectively; the level of cAMP returned to the control value at 60 s after the administration. The developed tension increased significantly not before 45 s and reached its maximal level at 180 s.

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    When α-adrenoceptors were blocked by phentolamine (10−6 M), the positive inotropic effect of phenylephrine was decreased significantly but the increase of cAMP induced by phenylephrine was not reduced. In the presence of phentolamine the increase of cAMP induced by phenylephrine lasted longer than in the control experiments.

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    The effects of phenylephrine (10−5 M) both on the level of cAMP and the developed tension mediated via stimulation of β-adrenoceptors in the presence of phentolamine were enhanced by the phosphodiesterase inhibitor papaverine throughout the course of responses.

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    Phenylephrine produced an increase in developed tension as well as in cAMP. The corresponding dose-response curves run parallel to each other but differed by about 1.5 log units whereby the developed tension was evoked by lower concentrations. Phentolamine (10−6 M) shifted the curve for the positive inotropic action by about 1.5 log units but did not affect that for increase in cAMP. Therefore, in the presence of the α-adrenolytic drug phentolamine the difference between both curves became smaller so that both curves were superimposed. Papaverine (10−5 M) shifted the whole curve for cAMP upwards and enhanced the maximal contractile response to phenylephrine mediated by stimulation of β-adrenoceptors.

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    The present results indicate that the positive inotropic action of phenylephrine in lower concentrations (<10−5 M) induced by stimulation of α-adrenoceptors is independent of the level of cAMP. The positive inotropic action of the higher concentrations of phenylephrine induced via stimulation of β-adrenoceptors was preceded by an accumulation of cAMP; the inhibition of the cAMP phosphodiesterase activity by papaverine enhanced the actions of phenylephrine both on the level of cAMP and on the contractile force.

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    Present address: Department of Pharmacology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, 980, Sendai, Japan

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    M. Endoh, O. -E. Brodde & H. J. Schümann

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Endoh, M., Brodde, O.E. & Schümann, H.J. Relationship between the level of cAMP and the contractile force under stimulation of α- and β-adrenoceptors by phenylephrine in the isolated rabbit papillary muscle. Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Arch. Pharmacol. 295, 109–115 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00499441

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