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  • Title: Pharmacological characterization of alpha 1-adrenoceptor subtypes in rat heart: a binding study.
    Author: Noguchi H, Muraoka R, Kigoshi S, Muramatsu I.
    Journal: Br J Pharmacol; 1995 Mar; 114(5):1026-30. PubMed ID: 7780636.
    Abstract:
    1. The alpha 1-adrenoceptor subtypes of rat heart were characterized in binding experiments performed with [3H]-prazosin as the radiolabel. The specific binding to the alpha 1-adrenoceptors was determined with 0.3 microM prazosin, because phentolamine (10 microM) was insufficient to inhibit completely the specific binding of high concentrations of [3H]-prazosin. 2. In saturation experiments, [3H]-prazosin bound to two distinct affinity sites (pKD = 10.39 and 8.19). The proportion of the low affinity sites was approximately 84% of total specific binding. Membranes pretreated with chloroethylclonidine (CEC, 10 microM) also showed two distinct affinity sites for [3H]-prazosin, although the maximum numbers of high and low affinity sites were reduced by 86 and 64%, respectively. 3. In competition experiments, [3H]-prazosin (100 pM) binding was inhibited by WB4101 (2-(2,6-dimethoxy-phenoxyethyl)aminomethyl-1,4-benzodioxane) and 5-methylurapidil. The inhibition curves displayed shallow slopes which could be subdivided into high and low affinity components (pKi = 10.43 and 8.36 for WB4101, 8.62 and 6.61 for 5-methylurapidil). However, unlabelled prazosin or HV723 (alpha-ethyl-3,4,5-trimethoxy-alpha-(3-((2-(2-methoxyphenoxy)-ethyl)amin o) propyl)benzeneacetonitrile fumarate) competed for [3H]-prazosin binding monophasically (pKi = 10.34 and 8.28, respectively). In CEC-pretreated membranes, prazosin, WB4101, 5-methylurapidil and HV723 antagonized the [3H]-prazosin (100 pM) binding monophasically (pKi = 9.70, 9.56, 8.60 and 8.82, for each antagonist). 4. On the other hand, 1000 pM [3H]-prazosin binding was inhibited by unlabelled prazosin biphasically (pKi = 10.49 and 8.49). HV723 did not discriminate both prazosin-high and low affinity sites (pKi = 8.18). 5. These results suggest the presence of at least three distinct alpha1-adrenoceptor subtypes in rat hearts(two prazosin-high affinity sites and one prazosin-low affinity site). According to the recent alpha l-adrenoceptor subclassifications, one of the former two sites corresponds to the alpha 1B subtype with low affinities for WB4101 and 5-methylurapidil and sensitive to CEC, while another site with relatively high affinities for WB4101 and 5-methylurapidil may be classical alpha 1A, cloned alpha 1c, alpha 1D subtypes or their mixture. The prazosin-low affinity site corresponds to putative alpha 1L subtype with low affinity for HV723,which may be predominantly involved in the positive inotropic response to phenylephrine.
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