Prazosin: differential affinities for two populations of α-noradrenergic receptor binding sites
Prazosin: differential affinities for two populations of α-noradrenergic receptor binding sites
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哌唑嗪:两组 α-去甲肾上腺素受体结合位点的不同亲和力
DOI:
10.1016/0014-2999(78)90258-3
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发表时间:
1978
影响因子:
5
通讯作者:
S. Snyder
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作者:
D. U'prichard;M. E. Charness;D. Robertson;S. Snyder
Prazosin, a recently introduced antihypertensive agent, produces very little orthostatic hypotension and tachycardia (Stokes and Oates, 1978). Its unique clinical efficacy may involve selective actions at postsynaptic a-receptors, unlike phentolamine and phenoxybenzamine which also block a-noradrenergic autoreceptors located on noradrenergic nerve terminals (Cambridge et al., 1977). Blockade of autoreceptors causes overflow of norepinephrine which, by stimulating~-receptors, would produce symptoms such as tachycardia.Berthelsen and Pettinger (1977) have proposed two distinct postsynaptic a-receptor populations, one with the same pharmacological properties as presynaptic autoreceptors (a2), and the other with properties classically associated with postsynaptic a-receptors (a~). We described two distinct CNS a-noradrenergic receptor binding sites (see Peroutka et al., 1978 for refs.). The receptor labaled by 3H-clonidine and 3H-catecholamines has uniquely high affinity for agonists, while the other receptor, labeled by the a-antagonist 3H-WB-4101, has lesser affinity for agonists and somewhat higher affinity for most antagonists. Since intraventricular 6-hydroxydopamine administration does not deplete the binding of 3H-clonidine or 3H-WB-4101, neither of these two sites seems to involve autoreceptors per se. In drug specificity studies, however, 3H-WB-4101 and 3H~ lonidine binding sites resemble a~-and a2-receptors respectively and