title: Infarct size-reducing effect of ischemic preconditioning is related to alpha1b-adrenoceptors but not to alpha1a-adrenoceptors in rabbits.
abstract: In rabbits and rats, both stimulation of alpha-adrenoceptors and ischemic preconditioning (PC) reduce infarct size. Activation of alpha1b-adrenoceptors play an important role in the PC effect on ventricular function in rats. However, the alpha1-adrenoceptors have not been reported to be related to the PC effect in rabbits, because the infarct size-reducing effect of PC is not blocked by the nonselective alpha-adrenoceptor antagonist, phenoxybenzamine (POB) or by the alpha1-adrenoceptor antagonist, BE2254. However, we speculated that alpha1b-adrenoceptors but not alpha1a-adrenoceptors may be related to the infarct size-reducing effect of PC in rabbit hearts. Thus we examined in rabbits whether the alpha1b-adrenoceptor blocker chloroethylclonidine (CEC), the alpha1a-adrenoceptor blocker 5-methylurapidil (5-MU), the selective alpha1-adrenoceptor antagonist bunazosin (BN), and the nonselective apha-adrenoceptor antagonist phenoxybenzamine (POB) can block the PC effect on infarct size. Eighty-eight anesthetized open-chest Japanese white male rabbits were subjected to 30-min coronary occlusion and 48-h reperfusion. In five PC groups, the rabbits were subjected to a single 5-min occlusion and 5-min reperfusion before 30-min sustained ischemia. In the PC groups, those with CEC (3 mg/kg, n = 10), 5-MU (3 mg/kg, n = 10), BN (0.3 mg/kg, n = 10), POB (4 mg/kg, n = 10), or placebo saline (n = 10) were pretreated before PC. In the non-PC groups, those with CEC (3 mg/kg, n = 7), 5-MU (3 mg/kg, n = 7), BN (0.3 mg/kg, n = 7), POB (4 mg/kg, n = 7), or placebo saline (n = 10) were pretreated before 30-min sustained ischemia. After a 48-h reperfusion, the infarct size was measured histologically and expressed as a percentage of the area at risk. PC caused a marked reduction of infarct size as compared with the non-PC control (10 +/- 3% vs. 42 +/- 2%; p < 0.05). The PC effect was completely blocked by CEC (36 +/- 2%) and by BN (42 +/- 4%) but not by 5-MU (14 +/- 1%) or POB (13 +/- 2%). None of the drugs by itself affected the infarct size. Stimulation of alpha1b-adrenoceptors but not of alpha1a-adrenoceptors during PC plays an important role in the PC effect on infarct size. This may explain the previous confusion concerning the PC blocking effect of various alpha1-blockers.
authors.affiliation: Second Department of Internal Medicine, Gifu University School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kariya
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Minatoguchi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ohno
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yamashita
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Uno
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Arai
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Koshiji
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Fujiwara
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fujiwara
mesh_terms: D000317:Adrenergic alpha-Antagonists / Q000494:pharmacology; D000818:Animals; D003000:Clonidine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000494:pharmacology; D019157:Ischemic Preconditioning, Myocardial; D008297:Male; D010643:Phenoxybenzamine / Q000494:pharmacology; D010879:Piperazines / Q000494:pharmacology; D011799:Quinazolines / Q000494:pharmacology; D011817:Rabbits; D018340:Receptors, Adrenergic, alpha-1 / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D000317:Adrenergic alpha-Antagonists; D010879:Piperazines; D011799:Quinazolines; D018340:Receptors, Adrenergic, alpha-1; D010643:Phenoxybenzamine; C057446:5-methylurapidil; C051731:chlorethylclonidine; C018176:bunazosin; D003000:Clonidine