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  • Title: Responses of isolated dog coronary arteries to tyramine.
    Author: Hayashi S, Toda N.
    Journal: Jpn J Pharmacol; 1982 Feb; 32(1):47-54. PubMed ID: 6953261.
    Abstract:
    In isolated dog coronary arteries contracted with prostaglandin F2 alpha, tyramine in concentrations of 10(-6) and 5 x 10(-6) M caused relaxations, but it produced contractions at 2 x 10(-5) M or higher. The relaxant response to tyramine was attenuated, but the contractile response was enhanced at the second trial as compared with the responses at the first. Relaxations induced by low concentrations of tyramine were reversed to contractions by treatment with propranolol (10(-6) M) or sotalol (10(-5) M), and were abolished by cocaine (3 x 10(-6) M) or bretylium (2 x 10(-5) M). In coronary arteries isolated from reserpine (0.5 mg/kg)-pretreated dogs, tyramine produced only a contraction. Under resting conditions, contractions induced by tyramine (5 x 10(-6) to 2 x 10(-3) M) were potentiated by cocaine and propranolol, and were inhibited by phentolamine. Norepinephrine produced a dose-dependent relaxation in the arteries contracted with prostaglandin F2 alpha. In the presence of propranolol, the arteries under resting conditions were contracted by norepinephrine, the contraction being suppressed by treatment with phentolamine. It may be concluded that relaxations of dog coronary arteries induced by tyramine are mediated by liberation of norepinephrine from adrenergic nerves which stimulates beta-adrenoceptors in the smooth muscle. It seems likely that the tyramine (2 x 10(-5) M or higher)-induced contraction is not mediated by norepinephrine released, but it is partly due to a direct action on alpha-adrenoceptors.
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