Abstract：
:Exposure of the oestrogen-dominated rat myometrium to either isoproterenol or PGE2 resulted in a rapid but transient accumulation of cyclic AMP, with a progressive loss of responsiveness to the corresponding agonist. Induction of refractoriness was a time- and dose-related phenomenon. In the earliest time, desensitization was agonist-specific but was followed, with continued exposure, by a cross desensitization between isoproterenol and PGE2 and vice versa. Differential time courses for development and reversal of specific and heterologous refractoriness indicate at least 2 different processes for the 2 phenomena, the non-specific type being possibly mediated by cyclic AMP. Exposure to isoproterenol or PGE2 also caused an attenuated cyclic AMP response to prostacyclin (PGI2). Kinetics for PGE2-induced desensitization to PGI2 were comparable to that of an agonist-specific refractoriness, indicating that PGE2 and PGI2 may share common receptor sites. PGF2 alpha, PGD2 and 6-keto PGF1 alpha, which contract the myometrium but are ineffective on adenylate-cyclase activity, did not promote cyclic AMP refractoriness to PGE2, PGI2 or isoproterenol. Isoproterenol also caused refractoriness to its own relaxing activity, whereas PGE2 did not affect isoproterenol-induced relaxation despite a marked attenuation of the beta-adrenergic response to cyclic AMP. These results provide further evidence for the non-exclusive role of cyclic AMP in mediating uterine relaxation.
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Mol Cell Endocrinoljournal_title
Molecular and cellular endocrinologyauthors
Tougui Z,Do Khac L,Harbon Sdoi
10.1016/0303-7207(80)90091-xsubject
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1980-10-01 00:00:00pages
17-34issue
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1872-8057journal_volume
20pub_type
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