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Effects of Phentolamine on Responses to PAMP in the Hindquarters Vascular Bed of the Rat

Departments of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology, Tulane University Medical School, New Orleans, Louisiana

Alan D. Kaye, MD

Departments of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology, Tulane University Medical School, New Orleans, Louisiana

Hunter C. Champion, BS

Departments of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology, Tulane University Medical School, New Orleans, Louisiana

Bin Kang, MS

Departments of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology, Tulane University Medical School, New Orleans, Louisiana

Chang J. Feng, MD

Departments of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology, Tulane University Medical School, New Orleans, Louisiana

Philip J. Kadowitz, PhD

Departments of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology, Tulane University Medical School, New Orleans, Louisiana

Background: Responses to proadrenomedullin NH₂-terminal 20 peptide (PAMP), a novel hypotensive peptide formed from preproadrenomedullin, and the effects of inhibition of adrenergic vasomotor tone with the -receptor antagonist, phentolamine, on responses to PAMP were investigated in the systemic and hindquarters vascular bed of the rat.

Methods and Results: Intravenous injections of PAMP decreased systemic arterial pressure and in the hindquarters vascular bed of the rat under conditions of controlled hindquarters blood flow, intra-arterial injections of PAMP decreased perfusion pressure in a dose-related manner. Following administration of the alpha receptor blocking agent, phentolamine, sys temic depressor and hindquarters vasodilator responses to PAMP were not significantly decreased, whereas phentolamine significantly decreased systemic and hindquarters pressor responses to norepinephrine. Phentolamine had no significant effect on vasodilator responses to bradykinin, albuterol, or to nitroglycerin.

Conelusions: The present data show that PAMP has significant systemic vasodepressor and vasodilator activity in the hindquarters vascular bed of the rat and suggest that vasodepressor and hindquarters vasodilator responses to PAMP are not dependent upon the presence of adrenergic vasomotor tone.

Key Words: norepinephrine • bradykinin • albuterol • nitroglycerin • alpha adrenergic receptors • hindquarters vascular bed • rat.

Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Vol. 2, No. 3, 153-157 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/107424849700200302


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