Aminergic histofluorescence and contractile responses to transmural electrical field stimulation and norepinephrine of human middle cerebral arteries obtained promptly after death.

Author:

Duckworth J W1,Wellman G C1,Walters C L1,Bevan J A1

Affiliation:

1. Department of Surgery, University of Vermont, Burlington 05405.

Abstract

The responses of cerebral arteries to catecholamines and sympathetic nerve stimulation show wide variation between animal species. We examined the catecholaminergic histofluorescence and the contractile responses elicited by transmural electrical field stimulation and norepinephrine (NE) in proximal segments of human middle cerebral artery (MCA) obtained during autopsy. Twenty-four percent of the specimens were obtained within 2 hours and 76% within 4 hours of death. A moderately dense catecholaminergic histofluorescence was seen in all segments of human MCA using the glyoxylic acid technique, counterstained with pontamine sky blue. However, only seven of 35 (20%) MCA segments tested showed tetrodotoxin-blocked transmural electrical field stimulation contractions, and all of these were harvested within 4 hours of death. The responses were mostly seen in the most proximal MCA segments and, at 32 Hz, only achieved 6 +/- 1% of the maximal tissue contraction. NE caused two distinct responses in human MCA segments. At low concentrations, it acts via an alpha-like adrenoreceptor to cause contractions 20 +/- 3% of the maximal tissue response. The NE ED50s for the three successive segments were not different from each other; the value for the most-proximal segment was 7.9 +/- 0.2 x 10(-7) M. At concentrations above 10(-5) M, this catecholamine acts on low-affinity sites resistant to alpha-adrenergic antagonists causing contractions that at 10(-3) M reach 52 +/- 5% of the maximal tissue response.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

Publisher

Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)

Subject

Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine,Physiology

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