title: The action of dazopride to enhance gastric emptying and block emesis.
abstract: The substituted benzamide derivatives, dazopride and metoclopramide, enhanced field stimulation-induced contractions of guinea-pig stomach strips and gastric emptying in the guinea-pig after peripheral, intracerebroventricular and intrahypothalamic injection. In the isolated vagal nerve preparation from the rabbit, both compounds were shown to be 5-hydroxytryptamine M-receptor antagonists. Dazopride and metoclopramide were equipotent in antagonising cisplatin-induced emesis in the ferret, whereas metoclopramide was approximately 200 times more potent than dazopride in antagonising the emesis caused by the dopamine agonist 2-di-n-propylamino-5,6-dihydroxytetralin in the marmoset. In behavioural tests which indicate dopamine receptor antagonism in the rat, metoclopramide induced catalepsy, antagonised amphetamine-induced stereotypy and the hyperactivity induced by the intrastriatal injection of dopamine, caused body asymmetry on unilateral injection into the striatum and also antagonised apomorphine-induced climbing and circling behaviour in the mouse. In contrast, dazopride had little or no action in these tests and failed to displace [3H]spiperone in radioligand binding assays. The use of dazopride provides evidence to dissociate a dopamine receptor blockade from an ability to facilitate gastric emptying and to antagonise cisplatin-emesis, and indicates that antagonism of 5-hydroxytryptamine M-receptors is the essential basis of action for dazopride and plays an important role in the actions of metoclopramide.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001549:Benzamides / Q000494:pharmacology*; D002143:Callitrichinae; D018492:Dopamine Antagonists; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D005289:Ferrets; D005746:Gastric Emptying / Q000187:drug effects*; D006168:Guinea Pigs; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D008297:Male; D008787:Metoclopramide / Q000494:pharmacology; D051379:Mice; D008815:Mice, Inbred Strains; D009119:Muscle Contraction / Q000187:drug effects; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D013270:Stomach / Q000187:drug effects; D014839:Vomiting / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000188:drug therapy*
chemical_list: D001549:Benzamides; D018492:Dopamine Antagonists; C047339:dazopride; D008787:Metoclopramide