Pharmacological evaluation of N-methyl-actinodaphnine, a new vascular alpha-adrenoceptor antagonist, isolated from Illigera luzonensis.

Abstract:

:The pharmacological activity of N-methyl-actinodaphnine, isolated from Illigera luzonensis, was determined by functional and binding experiments with peripheral tissues. In a functional study, N-methyl-actinodaphnine was a simple competitive antagonist of contractions elicited by phenylephrine (pA2 = 7.11) in rat thoracic aorta; it also competitively antagonised the clonidine-induced inhibition of the twitch response of rat vas deferens (pA2 = 5.01). In addition, [3H]inositol monophosphate formation caused by noradrenaline (3 microM) in rat isolated thoracic aorta was concentration dependently inhibited by N-methyl-actinodaphnine (1 and 10 microM); however, it had no effect on cyclic AMP and cyclic GMP contents. Additionally, N-methyl-actinodaphnine had extremely low affinity for thromboxane receptors, prostaglandin receptors, Ca2+ channels, muscarinic receptors, histamine receptors, beta-adrenoceptors, neurokinin and leukotriene receptors in vitro. However, N-methyl-actinodaphnine also possessed 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) receptor blocking activity. Its potency for blocking 5-HT receptors was about 14 times less than that for blocking alpha 1-adrenoceptors. In binding experiments, N-methyl-actinodaphnine displaced biphasically the binding of 0.2 nM [3H]prazosin to cultured A10 cells. The selectivity for alpha 1-adrenoceptor subtypes was also investigated in rat vas deferens and spleens. The contractile response in rat vas deferens to noradrenaline was competitively inhibited by N-methyl-actinodaphnine with a pA2 value of 6.58; N-methyl-actinodaphnine also competitively antagonized the phenylephrine-induced contraction in rat spleen with a pA2 value of 7.38. These results indicate that N-methyl-actinodaphnine is a selective alpha 1-adrenoceptor antagonist. Furthermore, it is more selective for the alpha 1B- than for the alpha 1A-adrenoceptor subtype.

journal_name

Eur J Pharmacol

authors

Guh JH,Ko FN,Yu SM,Wu YC,Teng CM

doi

10.1016/0014-2999(95)00135-8

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1995-06-06 00:00:00

pages

33-41

issue

1

eissn

0014-2999

issn

1879-0712

pii

0014-2999(95)00135-8

journal_volume

279

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