title: Presynaptic dopamine receptors involved in the inhibition of noradrenaline and dopamine release in the human gastric and uterine arteries.
abstract: Electrical stimulation-induced depolarization releases both dopamine (DA) and noradrenaline (NA) from sympathetic neurones of the human gastric and uterine arteries. The overflow of catecholamines elicited by electrical stimulation was measured by using high performance liquid chromatography with electrochemical detection. The addition of yohimbine (0.01-10 microM), an alpha2-adrenoceptor antagonist, to the perfusion fluid increased, in a concentration-dependent manner, the electrically-evoked DA and NA overflow from gastric and uterine arteries. In the presence of sulpiride (0.01-10 microM), a dopamine D2-type receptor antagonist, the overflow of both amines was found to be increased in the uterine artery, but not in the gastric artery. Apomorphine (0.1-10 microM), a dopamine receptor agonist, produced a dose-dependent inhibition in the amount of DA and NA released from gastric and uterine arteries. SCH 23390 (0.1-10 microM), a dopamine D1 receptor antagonist, had no effect on the release of both amines in both preparations. The inhibitory effect of apomorphine was blocked by sulpiride in the gastric and uterine arteries but not by SCH 23390. The results presented suggest the existence of dopamine D2-type receptors in the human gastric and uterine arteries. They seem to have, in each artery, a different physiological importance.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, Portugal.
authors.forename: M T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Morgadinho
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Fontes Ribeiro
authors.forename: T R
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Macedo
mesh_terms: D000317:Adrenergic alpha-Antagonists / Q000494:pharmacology*; D001058:Apomorphine / Q000494:pharmacology; D001158:Arteries; D004298:Dopamine / Q000378:metabolism*; D018491:Dopamine Agonists / Q000494:pharmacology*; D018492:Dopamine Antagonists / Q000494:pharmacology*; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004347:Drug Interactions; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009131:Muscle, Smooth, Vascular / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000378:metabolism; D009638:Norepinephrine / Q000378:metabolism*; D017448:Receptors, Dopamine D2 / Q000187:drug effects*; D017661:Receptors, Presynaptic / Q000187:drug effects*; D013270:Stomach; D013469:Sulpiride / Q000494:pharmacology; D014599:Uterus; D015016:Yohimbine / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D000317:Adrenergic alpha-Antagonists; D018491:Dopamine Agonists; D018492:Dopamine Antagonists; D017448:Receptors, Dopamine D2; D017661:Receptors, Presynaptic; D015016:Yohimbine; D013469:Sulpiride; D001058:Apomorphine; D004298:Dopamine; D009638:Norepinephrine