Abstract
The effects of histamine were studied in atria obtained from untreated and reserpine-pretreated rats. At high doses, histamine caused a positive chronotropic response that was not antagonized by either promethazine or cimetidine. In the presence of propranolol or in atria from reserpine-pretreated rats histamine caused an atropine-sensitive negative chronotropic response. Large doses of histamine also caused a positive inotropic response in left atria that were antagonized by the β adrenoceptor antagonist propranolol. Reserpine pretreatment abolished the inotropic response of histamine in the rat heart. The results indicate that in large doses histamine causes an indirect stimulation of β adrenoceptors (right and left atrium) by releasing endogenous noradrenaline and of muscarinic receptors (right atrium) by releasing acetylcholine.
Publisher
Canadian Science Publishing
Subject
Physiology (medical),Pharmacology,General Medicine,Physiology
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32 articles.
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