ArticleBritish journal of pharmacology2000
Contractile responses to sumatriptan and ergotamine in the rabbit saphenous vein: effect of selective 5-HT(1F) receptor agonists and PGF(2alpha).
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- The 5-HTNature reviews. Neurology · 2023Review
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- International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology. CX. Classification of Receptors for 5-hydroxytryptamine; Pharmacology and Function.Pharmacological reviews · 2021Review
- Characterization of binding, functional activity, and contractile responses of the selective 5-HTBritish journal of pharmacology · 2019Article
- Pathophysiological Mechanisms in Migraine and the Identification of New Therapeutic Targets.CNS drugs · 2019Review
- Quantitative systems pharmacology analysis of drug combination and scaling to humans: the interaction between noradrenaline and vasopressin in vasoconstriction.British journal of pharmacology · 2018Article
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- 5-HT(1F) Receptor agonists: a new treatment option for migraine attacks?Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2010Review
- Cardiovascular responses produced by 5-hydroxytriptamine:a pharmacological update on the receptors/mechanisms involved and therapeutic implications.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2007Review
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Abstract
Contractile responses to ergotamine, sumatriptan and the novel 5-HT(1F) receptor agonists, LY334370 and LY344864 were examined using the rabbit saphenous vein. Ergotamine (pEC(50)=8.7+/-0.06) was 30 fold more potent than 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) (pEC(50)=7.2+/-0.13) and 300 fold more potent than sumatriptan (pEC(50)=6.0+/-0.08) in contracting the rabbit saphenous vein in vitro. The selective 5-HT(1F) receptor agonists, LY334370 or LY344864 (up to 10(-4) M), did not contract the rabbit saphenous vein. The contractile response to ergotamine in this tissue resulted from activation of both alpha(1) and 5-HT(1B/1D) receptors based on the observation that prazosin (10(-6) M), an alpha-adrenoceptor antagonist, and GR127935 (10(-8) M) a 5-HT(1B/1D) receptor antagonist, dextrally shifted the contractile response to ergotamine. In contrast, prazosin (10(-6) M) did not alter contraction to sumatriptan whereas GR127935 (10(-8) M) was a potent antagonist (-log K(B)=10.0) suggesting that sumatriptan-induced contraction of the rabbit saphenous vein was mediated only by activation of receptors similar or identical to 5-HT(1B/1D) receptors. PGF(2alpha) (3x10(-7) M) produced a modest increase (approximately 5.0 - 10.0% maximum PGF(2alpha) contraction) in saphenous vein force. Precontraction with PGF(2alpha) (3x10(-7) M) dramatically augmented the potency and maximal contractile response to sumatriptan (pEC(50)=7.1) and modestly enhanced the contractile potency of ergotamine (pEC(50)=9.0) in the rabbit saphenous vein. However, PGF(2alpha) (3x10(-7) M) only unmasked a contraction to the 5-HT(1F) receptor agonists when concentrations exceeded 10(-5) M, concentrations considerably higher than their 5-HT(1F) receptor affinities. LY334370 (10(-6) M) pretreatment did not alter contraction to either sumatriptan or ergotamine and a higher concentration (10(-5) M) of LY334370 or LY344864 inhibited contraction to sumatriptan. Thus, activation of 5-HT(1F) receptors will not induce vascular contraction (either alone or following modest tone with PGF(2alpha)) or augment contraction to other contractile agonists in the rabbit saphenous vein.
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