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  • Title: Roles of endothelin receptors in the regional and systemic vascular responses to ET-1 in the anaesthetized ganglion-blocked rat: use of selective antagonists.
    Author: Allcock GH, Warner TD, Vane JR.
    Journal: Br J Pharmacol; 1995 Nov; 116(5):2482-6. PubMed ID: 8581288.
    Abstract:
    1. Endothelin-1 (ET-1) produces vasoconstriction, via activation of ETA and ETB receptors on vascular smooth muscle, and vasodilatation via ETB receptors on endothelial cells. Here we have used the ETA receptor-selective antagonist, BQ-123, the ETB receptor-selective antagonist, BQ-788 and the ETA/ETB receptor non-selective antagonist, PD 145065, to study the role of these receptors in mediating the haemodynamic changes induced by an infusion of ET-1 to the anesthetized ganglion-blocked rat. 2. Infusion of ET-1 (10 pmol kg-1 min-1) increased the mean arterial pressure (MAP) by 57.5 +/- 5.1 mmHg over 70 min. This pressor response was reduced by about 50% by coinfusion of BQ-123 (10 mmol kg-1 min-1), but was unaffected by either BQ-788 (10 nmol kg-1 min-1) or PD 145065 (10 nmol kg-1 min-1). 3. After infusion of ET-1 for 70 min the cardiac output had fallen from 102.6 +/- 11.3 to 55.7 +/- 7.6 ml min-1 and the total peripheral resistance had increased from 3.24 +/- 0.6 to 10.0 +/- 0.8 mmHg ml-1 min-1 (per 100g body weight). BQ-123 decreased the magnitudes of these changes whereas BQ-788 potentiated them. PD 145065 was without effect. 4. ET-1 increased the vascular resistances of all the organs studied except the brain and stomach. These changes were attenuated by BQ-123 in the kidneys, skin, adrenal glands and caecum and potentiated by BQ-788 in the kidneys, small intestine, large intestine and mesentery. PD 145065 had little effect on the individual tissues. 5. Thus, BQ-123, a selective ETA receptor antagonist, inhibits the pressor and vascular constrictor effects of ET-1 more actively than PD 145065. As BQ-788 potentiates some of the vasoconstrictor effects of ET-1 and increases the effects of ET-1 on total peripheral resistance, the predominant role of ETB receptors in the rat circulation is to limit the pressor effects of ET-1.
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