title: Salivatory effects induced by pirenzepine, atropine, metacine and hexamethonium in preganglionar chronically denervated human parotid gland.
abstract: Both classical (atropine) and non-traditional (pirenzepine, metacine) antagonists of the muscarinic cholinoreceptors induce, rather than block, an intense and prolonged salivary response in chronically denervated human parotid glands and thus are capable of discriminating between neuronal and aneuronal receptors. Hexamethonium (benzohexonium) a ganglion-blocking agent (0.4 mL, 2.5%) completely inhibits this paradoxical salivation to atropine, benzilylcholine (metacine) and pirenzepine in the chronic preganglionically denervated human parotid gland. The authors discuss the essence of the revealed paradoxical phenomena.
authors.affiliation: Clinic for Nervous Diseases and Neurosurgery of Medical Pediatric College, Leningrad, USSR.
authors.forename: S L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Levin
authors.forename: I M
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: Kiselman
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000639:Amitriptyline / Q000494:pharmacology; D001285:Atropine / Q000494:pharmacology; D001561:Benzilates / Q000494:pharmacology; D002794:Choline / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000494:pharmacology; D003714:Denervation; D005260:Female; D006584:Hexamethonium Compounds / Q000494:pharmacology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010276:Parasympatholytics / Q000494:pharmacology*; D010306:Parotid Gland / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000294:innervation; D010890:Pirenzepine / Q000494:pharmacology; D012472:Salivation / Q000187:drug effects*
chemical_list: D001561:Benzilates; D006584:Hexamethonium Compounds; D010276:Parasympatholytics; C053908:metacine; D000639:Amitriptyline; D010890:Pirenzepine; D001285:Atropine; D002794:Choline