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  • Title: Influence of thyroid hormones on the sensitivity of cardiac and smooth muscle to biogenic amines and other drugs.
    Author: Coville PF, Telford JM.
    Journal: Br J Pharmacol; 1970 May; 39(1):49-68. PubMed ID: 5420145.
    Abstract:
    1. Rats and guinea-pigs were injected with 1-thyroxine or thyroidectomized. Sensitivity of isolated tissues and of the intact cardiovascular system to drugs was investigated.2. Thyroxine increased the sensitivity of the isolated perfused heart to noradrenaline, adrenaline, isoprenaline, acetylcholine and histamine.3. Thyroxine increased the sensitivity of the rat isolated uterus to noradrenaline, adrenaline, isoprenaline, acetylcholine, histamine and 5-hydroxytryptamine.4. In contrast, thyroxine decreased the sensitivity of the isolated ileum to acetylcholine, histamine and 5-hydroxytryptamine, but not to adrenaline.5. Thyroxine also decreased the sensitivity of the isolated aorta to noradrenaline, adrenaline, histamine and 5-hydroxytryptamine.6. In pithed rats, thyroxine potentiated pressor responses to (+)-amphetamine but not to noradrenaline or synephrine.7. In anaesthetized thyroxine-treated rats, blood pressure responses to (+)-amphetamine were potentiated while those to noradrenaline were unaltered. Responses to acetylcholine were increased, and the response to isoprenaline became purely pressor.8. Thyroxine-induced changes in the sensitivity of the isolated uterus and ileum to modification of the concentration of calcium in the physiological salt solution paralleled the changes in drug sensitivity of these tissues.9. In general, thyroidectomy produced the opposite effects to those of thyroxine.10. It is concluded that there is no specific interaction between thyroxine and sympathomimetic amines, the effect of thyroxine on drug sensitivity being non-specific.
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