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Cardiac adrenoceptors at low temperature: what is the experimental evidence for the adrenoceptor interconversion
Abstract:
Isolated heart preparations of frog and rat were used to test the validity of the adrenoceptor interconversion hypothesis. This hypothesis claims that low temperature converts the inotropic beta-adrenoceptors in isolated frog and rat heart to alpha-adrenoceptors. The present results do not support the adrenoceptor interconversion hypothesis. In the isolated frog ventricle, lowering the temperature from 24 C to 14 C did not significantly alter the inotropic potency of the sympathomimetic drugs isoprenaline, epinephrine, and phenylephrine and did not reduce the potency of the beta-adrenoceptor blocking drug propranolol as an epinephrine antagonist. In the isolated rat left atrium, lowering the temperature from 31 C to 17-19 C did not significantly change the inotropic potency of isoprenaline, norepinephrine and phenylephrine, did not diminish the potency of propranolol, and did not increase the potency of the alpha-adrenoceptor blocking drug phentolamine.--Benfey, B. G. Cardiac adrenoceptors at low temperature; what is the experimental evidence for the adrenoceptor interconversion hypothesis?
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