title: Recruitment of functionally active heart beta2-adrenoceptors in the initial phase of endotoxic shock in pithed rats.
abstract: A supersensitivity of the beta-adrenoceptor-mediated chronotropic response has been demonstrated in atria isolated from rats subjected to septic shock. Our study was undertaken to investigate whether bacterial endotoxin/LPS affects the increase in heart rate induced by beta-adrenoceptor agonists in the rat also in vivo. In pithed and vagotomized rats, the nonselective beta-adrenoceptor agonist isoprenaline (0.05-0.15 nmol/kg) and agonists at the high- and low-affinity state of beta1-adrenoceptors, that is, prenalterol (0.3-3 nmol/kg) and (+/-)-4-[3-[(1,1-dimethylethyl)amino]-2-hydroxypropoxy]-1,3-dihydro-2H-benzimidazole-2-one (CGP 12177; 3-6 nmol/kg), respectively, and at beta2-adrenoceptors, that is, fenoterol (1-5 nmol/kg), increased heart rate by 50 to 60 beats/min. Administration of LPS (0.4, 1, and 1.5 mg/kg), under continuous infusion of vasopressin, dose-dependently amplified the chronotropic response to isoprenaline, prenalterol, and fenoterol (by 80%, 50%, and 100%, respectively) but not to CGP 12177. The beta2-adrenoceptor antagonist erythro-(+/-)-1-(7-methylindan-4-yloxy)-3-isopropylaminobutan-2-ol (ICI 118551 0.1 mumol/kg) did not affect the chronotropic responses of isoprenaline, fenoterol, and prenalterol under non-endotoxic conditions, but abolished the potentiation of tachycardia produced by LPS (1.5 mg/kg). The beta1-adrenoceptor antagonist (+/-)-2-hydroxy-5-[2-[[2-hydroxy-3-[4-[1-methyl-4-(trifluoromethyl)-1H-imidazol-2-yl]-phenoxy]propyl]-amino]ethoxy]-benzamide CGP 20712A; 0.1 mumol/kg almost completely reduced the chronotropic effects of isoprenaline, fenoterol, and prenalterol both in control rats and in animals exposed to LPS (1.5 mg/kg). We conclude that LPS sensitizes cardiac beta-adrenoceptors by recruiting functionally active beta2-adrenoceptors, but the amplification of tachycardia occurs only when both beta1- and beta2-adrenoceptors are concomitantly activated. The pithed rat may serve as a model to examine the beta-adrenoceptor supersensitivity in vivo.
authors.affiliation: Zakład Fizjologii Doświadczalnej, Akademia Medyczna w Białymstoku, ul. Mickiewicza 2A, PL-15-089 Białystok, Poland.
authors.forename: Grzegorz
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Godlewski
authors.forename: Eberhard
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Schlicker
authors.forename: Urszula
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Baranowska
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Malinowska
mesh_terms: D000318:Adrenergic beta-Agonists / Q000494:pharmacology; D000319:Adrenergic beta-Antagonists / Q000494:pharmacology; D000818:Animals; D002320:Cardiovascular Physiological Phenomena / Q000187:drug effects; D005280:Fenoterol / Q000494:pharmacology; D006339:Heart Rate / Q000187:drug effects; D007545:Isoproterenol / Q000009:adverse effects; D008070:Lipopolysaccharides; D008297:Male; D009206:Myocardium / Q000378:metabolism*; D011294:Prenalterol / Q000494:pharmacology; D011412:Propanolamines / Q000494:pharmacology; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D018343:Receptors, Adrenergic, beta-2 / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D012772:Shock, Septic / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000503:physiopathology; D013610:Tachycardia / Q000139:chemically induced
chemical_list: D000318:Adrenergic beta-Agonists; D000319:Adrenergic beta-Antagonists; D008070:Lipopolysaccharides; D011412:Propanolamines; D018343:Receptors, Adrenergic, beta-2; D005280:Fenoterol; C026777:ICI 118551; D007545:Isoproterenol; D011294:Prenalterol; C033394:CGP 12177