Abstract
The involvement of ganglionic muscarinic M1 receptors in vagally induced bronchoconstriction in guinea-pig airways is controversial. Therefore, we studied the effects of the M1-selective muscarinic receptor antagonist pirenzepine on vagus nerve (VNS, preganglionic) and electrical field stimulation (EFS, postganglionic)-induced contractions of the guinea-pig main bronchus under various experimental conditions.
Using identical stimulation parameters for VNS and EFS (8V, 30 Hz, 0.5 ms, 5s every min), the amplitude of the VNS-induced twitch contractions was 30.4% of the EFS-induced responses, and pirenzepine showed 2.3-fold selectivity (pIC50-values 6.45 and 6.09, respectively) to inhibit vagally induced contractions. With the stimulation frequency for EFS lowered to match contraction levels obtained using VNS, pirenzepine was equipotent to inhibit both types of response at M3 receptor-selective concentrations, suggesting that M1 receptors are not involved. By contrast, when the stimulation episode was prolonged until plateau contraction (10–20 s), in the presence of the nicotinic antagonist hexamethomum (5 μM), the M2 receptor antagonist AQ-RA 741 (0.1 μM) and the β-adrenoceptor antagonist timolol (1 μM), and again using matched VNS- and EFS-induced contraction levels, pirenzepine inhibited nerve stimulation-evoked responses in a biphasic manner, yielding (pIC50-values of 8.12 indicative of M1 receptor blockade) and 6.43 (indicative of M3 receptor blockade) for the first and second phase, respectively, while postganglionic stimulation showed a purely monophasic inhibition (pIC50 = 6.32).
These results show that facilitatory muscarinic M1 receptors are involved in vagally mediated contraction of guinea-pig bronchi, under conditions of elevated neurotransmission and partial nicotinic receptor blockade.
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ten Berge, R.E.J., Roffel, A.F. & Zaagsma, J. Conditional involvement of muscarinic M1 receptors in vagally mediated contraction of guinea-pig bronchi. Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Arch Pharmacol 352, 173–178 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00176771
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