Prostaglandins do not modulate the positive chronotropic and inotropic effects of sympathetic nerve stimulation and injected norepinephrine in the isolated blood perfused canine atrium |
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Authors: | Shigetoshi Chiba Kafait U Malik |
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Institution: | Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, The University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences, Memphis, Tennessee 38162, USA |
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Abstract: | In isolated canine atrium, perfused with blood from a donor dog, the infusions of both prostaglandins (PG)I2 and E2 (0.1–1 μg/min) into the sinus node arterial cannula neither altered the sinus rate and developed tension nor the positive chronotropic and inotropic responses elicited by either electrical stimulation or by injected norepinephrine. Infusion of arachidonic acid (10–100 μg/min), a precursor of PGs, or indomethacin (15–20 μg/min), an inhibitor of PG synthesis, into the sinus node arterial cannula also failed to alter the increase in sinus rate or developed tension produced by either adrenergic stimulus in the isolated atria. When arachidonic acid, 100–300 μg/kg or PGI2, 1 μg/kg, were injected into the jugular vein of the donor dog, they produced a fall in systemic blood pressure; this effect of arachidonic acid but not of PGI2 was abolished by indomethacin, 1 mg/kg. During administration of either arachidonic acid or indomethacin to the donor dog, the positive chronotripic and inotropic responses to adrenergic stimuli in the isolated atria also remained unaltered. These data indicate that PGs do not modulate adrenergic transmission in the blood perfused canine atrium. |
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