Cyclic GMP modulates release of norepinephrine from adrenergic nerves innervating canine arteries.
Evidence is presented that compounds which stimulate the soluble form of the enzyme guanylate cyclase or which inhibit the enzyme cGMP phosphodiesterase (PDE), responsible for the degradation of cGMP (including endothelium-derived relaxing factor) are inhibitors of sympathetic neurotransmission to vascular smooth muscle and inhibit the efflux of norepinephrine from sympathetic nerves. Moreover, prostacyclin, papaverine, iloprost, and forskolin, compounds which stimulate the enzyme adenylate cyclase, and rolipram (neural specific) and milrinone, enoximone, and piroximone (muscle specific) inhibitors of Type III cAMP PDE and degradation of cAMP, do not inhibit nerve stimulation to most blood vessels. The data support the concept that cGMP may act as a negative feedback modulator of physiologic frequencies of sympathetic nerve activity to blood vessels. cAMP does not appear to modulate adrenergic neurotransmission to vascular smooth muscle at physiologic frequencies of neural stimulation.
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Department of Physiology, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School, Newark 07103.
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Diecke
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Tanaka
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D000109:Acetylcholine / Q000494:pharmacology; D000818:Animals; D000959:Antihypertensive Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D001158:Arteries / Q000294:innervation*; D001808:Blood Vessels / Q000187:drug effects; D002316:Cardiotonic Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D000242:Cyclic AMP / Q000502:physiology; D006152:Cyclic GMP / Q000502:physiology*; D004285:Dogs; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D009131:Muscle, Smooth, Vascular / Q000187:drug effects; D009638:Norepinephrine / Q000378:metabolism*; D010726:Phosphodiesterase Inhibitors / Q000494:pharmacology; D013564:Sympathetic Nervous System / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000502:physiology; D009435:Synaptic Transmission / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology
D000959:Antihypertensive Agents; D002316:Cardiotonic Agents; D010726:Phosphodiesterase Inhibitors; D000242:Cyclic AMP; D006152:Cyclic GMP; D000109:Acetylcholine; D009638:Norepinephrine