title: Pharmacological characterization of muscarinic receptors in mouse isolated urinary bladder smooth muscle.
abstract: The pharmacological characteristics of muscarinic receptors in the male mice urinary bladder smooth muscle were studied. (+)-Cis-dioxolane, oxotremorine-M, acetylcholine, carbachol and pilocarpine induced concentration-dependent contractions of the urinary bladder smooth muscle (pEC(50)=6.6+/-0.1, 6.9+/-0.1, 6.7+/-0.1, 5.8+/-0.1 and 5.8+/-0.1, E(Max)=3.2+/-0.8 g, 2.7+/-0.4 g, 1.0+/-0.1 g, 2.7+/-0.3 and 0.9+/-0.2 g, respectively, n=4). These contractions were competitively antagonized by a range of muscarinic receptor antagonists (pK(B) values): atropine (9.22+/-0.09), pirenzepine (6.85+/-0.08), 4-DAMP (8.42+/-0.14), methoctramine (5.96+/-0.05), p-F-HHSiD (7.48+/-0.09), tolterodine (8.89+/-0.13), AQ-RA 741 (7.04+/-0.12), s-secoverine (8.21+/-0.09), zamifenacin (8.30+/-0.17) and darifenacin (8.70+/-0.09). In this tissue, the pK(B) values correlated most favourably with pK(i) values for these compounds at human recombinant muscarinic M(3) receptors. A significant correlation was also noted at human recombinant muscarinic m5 receptors given the poor discriminative ability of ligands between M(3) and m5 receptors. In recontraction studies, in which the muscarinic M(3) receptor population was decreased, and conditions optimized to study M(2) receptor activation, methoctramine exhibited an affinity estimate consistent with muscarinic M(3) receptors (pK(B)=6.23+/-0.14; pA(2)=6.16+/-0.03). Overall, these data study suggest that muscarinic M(3) receptors are the predominant, if not the exclusive, subtype mediating contractile responses to muscarinic agonists in male mouse urinary bladder smooth muscle.
authors.affiliation: Genitourinary-Pharmacology, Neurobiology Unit, Roche Bioscience, Palo Alto, California, CA 94304, U.S.A. Achoppin@Deltagen.com
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Choppin
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Eglen
mesh_terms: D000109:Acetylcholine / Q000494:pharmacology; D000818:Animals; D002217:Carbachol / Q000494:pharmacology; D003959:Diamines / Q000494:pharmacology; D004148:Dioxolanes / Q000494:pharmacology; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D018721:Muscarinic Agonists / Q000494:pharmacology; D018727:Muscarinic Antagonists / Q000494:pharmacology; D009119:Muscle Contraction / Q000187:drug effects; D009130:Muscle, Smooth / Q000187:drug effects*; D010095:Oxotremorine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000494:pharmacology; D010862:Pilocarpine / Q000494:pharmacology; D010880:Piperidines / Q000494:pharmacology; D011976:Receptors, Muscarinic / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology; D001743:Urinary Bladder / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D003959:Diamines; D004148:Dioxolanes; D018721:Muscarinic Agonists; D018727:Muscarinic Antagonists; D010880:Piperidines; D011976:Receptors, Muscarinic; D010862:Pilocarpine; D010095:Oxotremorine; C042743:oxotremorine M; C042375:4-diphenylacetoxy-1,1-dimethylpiperidinium; D002217:Carbachol; D000109:Acetylcholine; C054938:methoctramine; C010962:formal glycol