title: Halothane myocardial depression: interactions with the adenylate cyclase system.
abstract: The involvement of the adenylate cyclase system in myocardial depression by halothane was investigated in an isolated, electrically stimulated, rat left atrial preparation. The twitch tension dose-response curve to the muscarinic agent, carbachol, was unaltered by 0.27 mM (0.8%) halothane. Pertussis toxin irreversibly blocks the inhibition of adenylate cyclase by muscarinic agonists. Atria from animals pretreated with pertussis toxin were insensitive to the negative inotropic effect of carbachol, but the depression in twitch tension by halothane was unaltered. Halothane shifted the dose-response curve to isoproterenol downward and to the right. However, the depression in twitch tension by 0.27 mM halothane was similar in preparations incubated with the nonhydrolyzable cAMP analogue, dibutyryl-cAMP, compared to control atria stimulated with isoproterenol. We conclude that halothane attenuates the response to beta-adrenergic stimulation in myocardial tissue, and alterations in adenylate cyclase activity do not contribute significantly to this process.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, University of Chicago, Illinois 60637.
authors.forename: T A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Thurston
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Glusman
mesh_terms: D037361:Adenylate Cyclase Toxin; D000067956:Adenylyl Cyclase Inhibitors; D000262:Adenylyl Cyclases / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D002217:Carbachol / Q000494:pharmacology; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004347:Drug Interactions; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D006221:Halothane / Q000494:pharmacology*; D007545:Isoproterenol / Q000494:pharmacology; D008297:Male; D009200:Myocardial Contraction / Q000187:drug effects; D009206:Myocardium / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000378:metabolism; D037342:Pertussis Toxin; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D010566:Virulence Factors, Bordetella / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D037361:Adenylate Cyclase Toxin; D000067956:Adenylyl Cyclase Inhibitors; D010566:Virulence Factors, Bordetella; D002217:Carbachol; D037342:Pertussis Toxin; D000262:Adenylyl Cyclases; D007545:Isoproterenol; D006221:Halothane