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  • Title: Reactivity of dorsal pedal vein of cattle to selected alkaloids associated with Acremonium coenophialum-infected fescue grass.
    Author: Solomons RN, Oliver JW, Linnabary RD.
    Journal: Am J Vet Res; 1989 Feb; 50(2):235-8. PubMed ID: 2719386.
    Abstract:
    We determined the vasoconstrictive effects of selected ergot alkaloids, and a sample containing loline and its derivative alkaloids, on the isolated dorsal pedal vein of cattle, as a model system to study one of the toxic effects that result from cattle ingesting fescue forage infected with the endophytic fungus Acremonium coenophilalum. The ergot compounds ergotamine, ergosine, and agroclavine constricted this peripheral vein of cattle, but much less so than did the alpha-adrenergic agonist norepinephrine, which supports the ergots acting as partial agonists for these receptors. However, the sample of loline and loline-derivative alkaloids did not affect the dorsal pedal vein when given at concentrations similar to those of the ergot compounds. Loline and loline-derivative alkaloid sample at high concentrations partially inhibited norepinephrine-elicited vascular contraction, an effect that appeared to be unrelated to alpha-adrenoceptor activity. Thus, in the dorsal pedal vein model in cattle, the ergopeptide alkaloids were more venoconstrictive than were loline and its derivative alkaloids.
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