Affiliation:
1. School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK
2. School of Biological Sciences, Portsmouth Polytechnic, Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK
Abstract
Abstract
The selectivity of the naturally occurring mine, N,N-dimethyltyramine (hordenine) for monoamine oxidase (MAO) and its action upon isolated vasa deferentia of the rat was investigated. Hordenine was deaminated by rat liver MAO with a Michaelis constant of 479 μM and maximum velocity of 128 nmol (mg protein)−1 h−1 compared with 144 μM and 482 nmol (mg protein)−1 h−1 for tyramine. Studies, with selective irreversible inhibitors of MAO, showed that hordenine was a highly selective substrate for MAO-B of liver and that it was not deaminated by the MAO-A of intestinal epithelium. In contrast to tyramine, hordenine did not produce contractions of isolated vasa deferentia. However, 25 μM hordenine potentiated contractile responses of vasa, from control animals, to submaximal doses of noradrenaline and inhibited responses to tyramine. It did not alter responses, to noradrenaline, of vasa denervated by chronic pretreatment of rats with guanethidine. Therefore, it appears that hordenine acted as an inhibitor of noradrenaline uptake, in isolated vasa deferentia. These results indicate that dietary-hordenine is unlikely to be deaminated by intestinal MAO as this is predominantly MAO-A. Consequently, it is likely to be absorbed and could affect the sympathetic nervous system, by virtue of its action as an inhibitor of noradrenaline uptake.
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Pharmaceutical Science,Pharmacology
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