Effect of stress and sympathetic activity on rat cardiac and aortic ornithine decarboxylase activity. |
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Authors: | P V Thadani S M Schanberg |
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Affiliation: | Duke University Medical Center Department of Pharmacology Durham, N.C. 27710, USA |
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Abstract: | Adult male rats were injected either with α- or ß-adrenergic agonists and/ or antagonists and ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) activity in the heart and aorta was measured 4 hours later. At the lower doses, isoproterenol (0.2–0.4 mg/kg) resulted in a 10-fold increase in cardiac ODC activity but caused no significant change in aortic ODC activity. In contrast, phenylephrine (1 mg/kg) caused a 4-fold increase in aorta but no change in cardiac ODC activity levels. Phenoxybenzamine pretreatment completely abolished the PE-induced increase whereas no change was seen in ISop injected animals. Similarly, pretreatment with propranolol blocked the ISop induced response on ODC activity but had no effect on the increases observed after PE. These data suggest that the sympathetic regulation of ODC activity levels is mediated primarily via the ß-receptor in the heart but through the α-receptor in the aorta. |
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