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The distribution of DFP has been investigated by several authors in intact animals and human beings. Since investigations of this kind depend on a rather large number of variables, in the present paper the distribution of3H-labelled DFP was studied in a simplified model using isolated guinea-pig atria incubated in oxygenated whole blood. The degree of cholinesterase-inhibition and the corresponding negative inotropic effect of acetylcholine has been simultaneously determined.
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Taking the binding of DFP by the plasma proteins into account, the uptake of DFP by atrial tissue and erythrocytes was still rather low, since the tissue-medium ratio did not exceed 0.5. In addition to the uptake by erythrocytes there is an appreciable but easily reversible binding to the membrane.
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The uptake processes approached equilibrium values after about 4 hours of incubation and revealed two exponential functions with different half life times.
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The inhibition of the acetylcholinesterase of the red cells was proportional to the amount of DFP taken up. At the lowest DFP concentration (1.1×10−6M) the more sensitive butyrylcholinesterase of plasma and atrial tissue was already completely inhibited.
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In the presence of DFP the acetylcholine-sensitivity of the electrically driven atria was increased as indicated by a parallel shift of the dose-response curves towards lower concentrations of ACh.
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Schuh, F. über die Verteilung von Diisopropyl-phosphorofluoridat (DFP) zwischen isoliertem Vorhofgewebe und zirkulierendem oxygenierten Vollblut von Meerschweinchen. Naunyn-Schmiedebergs Arch. Pharmak. 267, 327–340 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00999546
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