Influence of N-allyl-normetazocine on acetylcholine release from brain slices: involvement of muscarinic receptors.
The effects of (+/-)N-allyl-normetazocine on the release of acetylcholine from different areas of guinea-pig and rat brain were investigated. 1. The drug did not modify the electrically (2 Hz) evoked tritium efflux from guinea-pig cerebral cortex, thalamus and caudate nucleus slices, preloaded with 3H-choline 0.1 mumol/l and superfused with Krebs solution containing hemicholinium-3 10 mumol/l. 2. (+/-)N-allyl-normetazocine 10 mumol/l enhanced the evoked 3H efflux from guinea-pig brain slices superfused with Krebs solution containing physostigmine 30 mumol/l or oxotremorine 0.3-1 mumol/l; the effect was naloxone-insensitive and was abolished by atropine 0.15 mumol/l, but not by pirenzepine 1 mumol/l. 3. (+/-)N-allyl-normetazocine 5 mumol/l enhanced the electrically evoked release of endogenous acetylcholine as well, in a naloxone-insensitive way. 4. Both (+/-) and (+)N-allyl-normetazocine were without effect on 3H efflux from rat caudate nucleus slices electrically stimulated at 0.2 Hz frequency, after preloading with 3H-choline and during superfusion with hemicholinium-3. 5. The results are discussed in view of the antimuscarinic properties of the drug.
Siniscalchi
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Department of Pharmacology, University of Ferrara, Italy.
Cristofori
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Veratti
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D000109:Acetylcholine / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D002421:Caudate Nucleus / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D006168:Guinea Pigs; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D010620:Phenazocine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000494:pharmacology; D051381:Rats; D011976:Receptors, Muscarinic / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology; D013788:Thalamus / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism
D011976:Receptors, Muscarinic; C012134:SK&F 10047; D010620:Phenazocine; D000109:Acetylcholine