title: Effect of a novel 5-hydroxytryptamine3-antagonist, GR38032F, on the 5-hydroxytryptamine-induced increase in carotid sinus nerve activity in rats.
abstract: The mass discharges of the carotid sinus nerve were recorded and the effect of 5-hydroxytryptamine3 (5-HT3) antagonist on the 5-HT-induced alteration of the carotid sinus nerve activity was studied in anesthetized rats. The i.v. bolus injection of 5-HT produced a rapid and dose-dependent increase in the carotid sinus nerve activity. Pretreatment with a selective 5-HT3 antagonist, GR38032F (3 x 10(-8) mol/kg), caused a parallel shift to the right in the dose-response curve. A selective 5-HT3 agonist, 2-methyl-5-HT, also produced a dose-dependent increase in the carotid sinus nerve activity. GR38032F (3 x 10(-9) and 3 x 10(-8) mol/kg) pretreatment caused a parallel rightward shift in the dose-response curves. Neither methysergide (3 x 10(-7) mol/kg), which possesses both 5-HT1-like partial agonistic and 5-HT2 antagonistic actions, nor ketanserin (3 x 10(-7) mol/kg), a selective 5-HT2 antagonist, affected the 5-HT-induced increase in carotid sinus nerve activity. GR38032F (3 x 10(-8) mol/kg) produced no significant change in the NaCN (1 mg/kg)-induced increase in carotid sinus nerve activity. These findings indicate that the 5-HT-induced increase in carotid sinus nerve activity is mediated by the 5-HT3 receptor mechanism in the carotid body of the rat.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Pharmacology, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yoshioka
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000187:drug effects; D002346:Carotid Sinus / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D007093:Imidazoles / Q000494:pharmacology*; D008297:Male; D008784:Methysergide / Q000494:pharmacology; D017294:Ondansetron; D011311:Pressoreceptors / Q000502:physiology; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D012701:Serotonin / Q000494:pharmacology; D012702:Serotonin Antagonists / Q000494:pharmacology*; D012966:Sodium Cyanide / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D007093:Imidazoles; D012702:Serotonin Antagonists; D012701:Serotonin; D017294:Ondansetron; D012966:Sodium Cyanide; D008784:Methysergide