title: Differences among beta-adrenoceptor blocking drugs in modifying platelet aggregation and arachidonic acid liberation under thrombin stimulation.
abstract: The dose-dependent inhibition of thrombin stimulated platelet aggregation due to beta-adrenoceptor blocking drugs followed the rank order of potency: propranolol greater than alprenolol greater than metipranolol and correlated with arachidonic acid (3H-AA) liberation. Atenolol which slightly potentiated stimulated aggregation increased also the liberation of 3H-AA from membrane phospholipids of isolated platelets. Stimulation of platelets resulted in decreased 3H-AA incorporation into phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylinositol and phosphatidic acid and increased incorporation into phosphatidylethanolamine and phosphatidylserine. Alprenolol, metipranolol and propranolol enhanced the incorporation of 3H-AA into phosphatidylcholine of stimulated platelets.
authors.affiliation: Centre of Physiological Sciences, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Jancinová
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Nosál
mesh_terms: D000319:Adrenergic beta-Antagonists / Q000494:pharmacology*; D000526:Alprenolol / Q000494:pharmacology; D016718:Arachidonic Acid; D001095:Arachidonic Acids / Q000378:metabolism*; D001262:Atenolol / Q000494:pharmacology; D006868:Hydrolysis; D014290:Metipranolol / Q000494:pharmacology; D010713:Phosphatidylcholines / Q000378:metabolism; D010714:Phosphatidylethanolamines / Q000378:metabolism; D010716:Phosphatidylinositols / Q000378:metabolism; D010975:Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors / Q000494:pharmacology*; D011433:Propranolol / Q000494:pharmacology; D012995:Solubility; D013917:Thrombin / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D000319:Adrenergic beta-Antagonists; D001095:Arachidonic Acids; D010713:Phosphatidylcholines; D010714:Phosphatidylethanolamines; D010716:Phosphatidylinositols; D010975:Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors; D016718:Arachidonic Acid; D001262:Atenolol; D000526:Alprenolol; D011433:Propranolol; D013917:Thrombin; D014290:Metipranolol