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  • Title: Effect of selective muscarinic antagonists on peristaltic contractions in opossum smooth muscle.
    Author: Gilbert RJ, Dodds WJ.
    Journal: Am J Physiol; 1986 Jan; 250(1 Pt 1):G50-9. PubMed ID: 2867684.
    Abstract:
    In this study we examined the role of M1- and M2-muscarinic receptors in the mediation of circular smooth muscle esophageal contractions elicited by pharmacological cholinergic stimulation and during peristalsis in anesthetized opossums. Esophageal-body contractions were induced by bethanechol administration, whereas peristalsis was elicited by pharyngeal stroking or cervical vagal stimulation. Contractions were measured by a low-compliance manometric recording system. The incidence and amplitude of bethanechol-induced contractions were antagonized by 4-diphenylacetoxy-n-methylpiperidine (4-DAMP) and atropine but not pirenzepine. 4-DAMP and atropine caused an increased velocity, decreased amplitude, and preferential reduction of the incidence of primary peristaltic contractions in the proximal smooth muscle esophagus. During long-train vagal stimulation, intra-stimulus A-waves had a velocity similar to primary peristalsis, whereas poststimulus B-waves showed a velocity considerably faster than primary peristalsis. Short-train vagal stimulation produced a contraction sequence, termed an "S-wave," that had a velocity similar to that of the A-wave. At low doses 4-DAMP increased the velocity and decreased the amplitude of A-wave and S-wave contractions, and at high doses 4-DAMP abolished both the A-wave and S-wave contractions. B-wave contractions were minimally affected by 4-DAMP. Pirenzepine had no effect on contractions induced by swallows or vagal stimulation. We conclude that M2-muscarinic receptors mediate esophageal contractions in the circular smooth muscle during primary peristalsis and during A-waves and S-waves induced by vagal stimulation, and M1-receptors do not have any important role in the excitatory neural pathway to the esophagus.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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