Calculated and actual changes in β-adrenoceptor number associated with increases in rat and guinea-pig cardiac sensitivity

Author:

Chess-Williams Russell G1,Broadley Kenneth J1,Sheridan Desmond J2

Affiliation:

1. Cardiovascular Research Laboratory, Department of Pharmacology, Welsh School of Pharmacy, University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology, PO Box 13

2. Department of Cardiology, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff CF4 4XN, UK

Abstract

Abstract Chronic catecholamine depletion induced by reserpine pretreatment of rats, or 6-hydroxydopamine pretreatment of guinea-pigs, resulted in an enhanced sensitivity of isolated papillary muscles to isoprenaline. This hypersensitivity was accompanied by l.41-(rats) and 1.52-fold (guinea-pigs) increases in the number of [3H]dihydroalprenolol binding sites, without changes in binding affinity. An equation was derived for calculation of increases in receptor number. Application of this showed that substantially greater increases in receptor number were required (2.32- to 4.04-fold) to account for the degree of supersensitivity observed.

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Pharmaceutical Science,Pharmacology

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