Lack of cross‐desensitization between structurally dissimilar α‐adrenoceptor agonists
Lack of cross‐desensitization between structurally dissimilar α‐adrenoceptor agonists
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结构不同的 α-肾上腺素受体激动剂之间缺乏交叉脱敏作用
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1977
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P. Patil
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R. Ruffolo;B. Turowski;P. Patil
Recently, we have described the binding of [?H]dihydroazapetine, a reversible a-adrenoceptor antagonist, to a crude membrane fraction from the rat vas deferens (Ruffolo, Miller & others, 1976a; Ruffolo, Fowble & others, 1976b). [3H]Dihydrozapetine binds to a site with many characteristics expected for the a-adrenoceptor. In particular, all a-adrenoreceptor antagonists, and those agonists of the imidazoline class, inhibited specific binding of [3H]dihydroazapetine with excellent correlation between affinity for the binding site and known affinity for the receptor. Direct-acting agonists of the phenethylamine class (i.e. structural analogues of noradrenaline), however, paradoxically increased binding. An allosteric effect was postulated to explain these results which are also consistent with the pharmacological experiments of Kalsner (1970, 1973). The differential effects between agonists of the phenethylamine and imidazoline classes with respect to [3H]dihydroazapetine binding, combined with the marked structural dissimilarities between the two classes, prompted us to propose that imidazolines interact at a different site on the receptor than the phenethylamines. A similar postulation involving different sites of interaction on the a-adrenoceptor for agonists and structurally dissimilar antagonists has been proposed by AriCns & Simonis (1964). We believe that our pharmacological experiments on receptor desensitization furnish evidence for the existence of different sites of interaction on the cr-adrenoceptor for agonists of the imidazoline and phenethylamine classes. The imidazoline agonists are relatively long-acting and produce receptor desensitization upon repeated administration (Mujic & van Rossum, 1965; Sanders, Miller & Patil, 1975). It was reasoned that if one common binding site, or mode of binding, existed for imidazolines and directly-acting phenethylamines, then desensitization of the a-adrenoceptor to an imidazoline would result in desensitization to other imidazolines as well as the phenethylamines. Conversely, if different sites of interaction were to exist, cross-desensitization between imidazolines and phenethylamines might not occur. It is believed that desensitization experiments may be useful in distinguishing between different receptors (Barsoum & Gaddum, 1935; Waud, 1968; Schild, 1973). The possibility exists, therefore, that the procedure may also discriminate between different sites of interaction on the same receptor protein. Vasa deferentia were isolated from male albino rats and mounted in constant temperature (37.5") organ baths for recording isometric drug-induced contractions