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  • Title: Role of prostanoids in the regulation of central cholinergic receptor sensitivity.
    Author: Buccafusco JJ, Lapp CA, Aronstam RS, Hays AC, Shuster LC.
    Journal: J Pharmacol Exp Ther; 1993 Jul; 266(1):314-22. PubMed ID: 8331566.
    Abstract:
    Tachyphylaxis develops to the hypertensive response to central (i.c.v.) injection of carbachol in conscious rats. This pressor response exhibits tachyphylaxis if the injection is repeated within 8 hr of the first injection. Blockade of brain prostaglandin synthesis with indomethacin does not inhibit the pressor response to carbachol in naive rats, but eliminates the pressor response to carbachol when the muscarinic agonist is repeated within a few hours of the first injection. If the time interval is extended to permit return of the full response (i.e., 24 hr later), indomethacin no longer inhibits the pressor response. The related cyclooygenase inhibitor meclofenamate produced effects which were identical to those of indomethacin, but at approximately 10-fold higher doses. When shorter acting drugs (duration of action < 30 min), physostigmine or arecoline, were used according to the same paradigm, indomethacin was less effective at inhibiting the pressor response to the second injection, even when the two agonist injections were spaced only 30 min apart. The ability of indomethacin to enhance central muscarinic receptor tachyphylaxis was also observed in carbachol-induced hypothermia. The density of diencephalic muscarinic receptors was estimated by using N-[3H]methylscopolamine as a probe. Carbachol-induced a down-regulation of muscarinic receptors, and indomethacin increased the extent of this down regulation. These findings suggest that prostaglandins play a role in the development of tachyphylaxis to brain muscarinic receptor stimulation: activation of prostaglandin synthesis may decelerate the development of desensitization to muscarinic agonists.
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