α2-Adrenoceptor activation inhibits noradrenaline release in human and rabbit isolated renal arteries
- 24 April 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier BV in European Journal of Pharmacology
- Vol. 196 (3), 277-283
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0014-2999(91)90440-2
Abstract
The aim of the present study was to investigate alpha 2-adrenoceptor modulation of noradrenaline release in superfused strips of human and rabbit renal arteries. The arteries were field-stimulated after incubation with [3H]noradrenaline. The stimulation-induced outflow of radioactivity was taken as an index of noradrenaline release. At a high stimulation frequency (4 Hz), the alpha 2-adrenoceptor agonist clonidine (0.1 mumol/l) failed to inhibit stimulation-induced outflow of radioactivity in human and rabbit renal arteries whereas the alpha 2-adrenoceptor agonist UK 14304 (0.1 mumol/l) did inhibit stimulation-induced outflow. The inhibitory effect of UK 14304 in human renal arteries was blocked by the alpha 2-adrenoceptor blocking drug rauwolscine (1 mumol/l). At a lower stimulation frequency (2 Hz), both clonidine and UK 14304 inhibited stimulation-induced outflow of radioactivity from rabbit renal arteries; both effects were blocked by rauwolscine. Rauwolscine by itself enhanced stimulation-induced outflow of radioactivity in both preparations. The results suggest that activation of prejunctional alpha 2-adrenoceptors in human and rabbit renal arteries inhibits noradrenaline release. Neuronally released noradrenaline exerts inhibitory feed-back modulation of its own release through activation of prejunctional alpha 2-adrenoceptors. At a higher stimulation frequency most of the prejunctional alpha 2-adrenoceptors are already occupied by endogenous noradrenaline and clonidine fails to inhibit noradrenaline release since it seems to act as a partial agonist at these prejunctional alpha 2-adrenoceptors.Keywords
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