title: Electric field stimulation alters the outputs of prostaglandins from isolated rat urinary bladder preparations. Influences of papaverine and tetradotoxin.
abstract: The effects of electric field stimulation (EFS) on the outputs of prostaglandins (PGs) E1, E2 and F2 alpha from isolated contracting rat urinary bladders, were explored. Also, the influences of papaverine (5.10(-6) M) and of tetradotoxin (TTX = 5.10(-7) M) on PGs released by spontaneously contracting or electrically driven preparations, were tested. The basal control outputs of the three PGs in spontaneously contracting urinary bladders, had a comparable magnitude. On the contrary, in electrically stimulated preparations the output of PGE2 rose significantly; that of PGF2 alpha presented a significant reduction and the release of PGE1 was similar to that in controls. Papaverine failed to modify the profile of basal control PG release in non-stimulated bladders, abolished contractile responses to EFS and blocked the augmented output of PGE2 elicited by EFS. The presence of TTX in the suspending solution had no action on the basal control release of PGs from non-stimulated spontaneously contracting preparations, depressed between 80-90% the inotropic responses triggered by EFS and completely antagonized the enhanced output of PGE2 evoked by EFS. Results are discussed in terms of the relative participations of the evoked inotropism of the detrusor muscle or by the stimulation of nerve endings, accounting for the greater release of tissue PGE2 after EFS.
authors.affiliation: Centro de Estudios Farmacológicos y de Principios Naturales (CEFAPRIN), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Técnicas de la República Argentina (CONICET), Buenos Aires.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Dveksler
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Franchi
authors.forename: E T
authors.initials: ET
authors.lastname: Gonzalez
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Gimeno
authors.forename: A L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Gimeno
mesh_terms: D000527:Alprostadil / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D015237:Dinoprost / Q000378:metabolism; D015232:Dinoprostone / Q000378:metabolism; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D005260:Female; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D009119:Muscle Contraction / Q000187:drug effects; D010208:Papaverine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D011453:Prostaglandins / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D009435:Synaptic Transmission / Q000187:drug effects; D013779:Tetrodotoxin / Q000494:pharmacology*; D001743:Urinary Bladder / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D011453:Prostaglandins; D013779:Tetrodotoxin; D015237:Dinoprost; D010208:Papaverine; D000527:Alprostadil; D015232:Dinoprostone