Analysis of the atypical characteristics of adenosine receptors mediating negative inotropic and chronotropic responses of guinea-pig isolated atria and papillary muscles
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Analysis of the atypical characteristics of adenosine receptors mediating negative inotropic and chronotropic responses of guinea-pig isolated atria and papillary muscles
Abstract
1. Adenosine receptor(s) mediating negative inotropy of paced left atria, isoprenaline-stimulated paced left atria and papillary muscles, and negative chronotropy of spontaneously beating right atria were characterized. 2. Isometric tension of guinea-pig isolated paced left atria and left ventricular papillary muscles and rate of contraction of spontaneously beating right atria were recorded. Papillary muscles were pre-stimulated with isoprenaline (1x10-8 M). Concentration-response curves (CRCs) for tension or rate reduction by N6-cyclopentyladenosine (CPA), the stereoisomers of N6-(2-phenylisopropyl)adenosine ((+)-PIA and (-)-PIA), 5'-(N-carboxamido)adenosine (NECA), N6-2-(4-aminophenyl)ethyladenosine (APNEA) and N6-(3-iodobenzyl)adenosine-5'-N-methyuromide (IB-MECA) revealed a potency order of CPA=(-)-PIA>NECA in right atria and papillary muscles, which is consistent with involvement of A1-receptors. The potency order in left atria was CPA=NECA>(-)-PIA>(+)-PIA>APNEA, which is not typical of A1 adenosine receptors. Weak activity of APNEA and IB-MECA discounts involvement of A3 receptors. 3. pA2 values for the antagonism of CPA by 8(p-sulfophenyl)theophylline (8-SPT) were calculated from Schild plots (log concentration-ratio against log 8-SPT concentration), the unity slopes of which indicated competitive antagonism. The pA2 value in the papillary muscles was significantly higher than for atrial preparations, indicating a possible difference in receptor characteristics between atrial and papillary muscle responses. 4. In left and right atria there was a limit to the displacement of the CPA CRCs at higher concentrations of 8-SPT. The 8-SPT-resistant component of the response is suggested to arise from duality of coupling of a common A1 receptor through either different G proteins or G protein subunits to independent transduction pathways. The results with papillary muscles can be explained by a typical A1 receptor coupled to a single transduction pathway.
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