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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Rose’Meyer, Roselyn B.
• Harden, Fiona A.
• Varela, Jose I.
• Harrison, Glenn J.
• Willis, Roger J.

Titel

Age-Related Changes in Adenosine in Rat Coronary Resistance Vessels

Ist Teil von

• General pharmacology, 1999, Vol.32 (1), p.35-40

Ort / Verlag

New York, NY: Elsevier Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

1999

Quelle

Elsevier Journal Backfiles on ScienceDirect (DFG Nationallizenzen)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 1. The vasodilator effects of adenosine receptor agonists, isoprenaline and histamine were examined in perfused heart preparations from young (4–6 weeks) and mature (12–20 weeks) rats. 2. Adenosine induced a biphasic concentration-dependent decrease in KCl (35 mM) raised coronary perfusion pressure in hearts from young and mature rats, suggesting the presence of both high- and low-affinity sites for adenosine receptors in the two age groups tested. In heart preparations from mature rats, vasodilator responses to adenosine were significantly reduced compared with responses observed in young rats. 3. Responses to 5′- N-ethylcarboxamidoadenosine (NECA) and 2- p-(2-carboxyethyl)phenethylamino-5′- N-ethylcarboxamidoadenosine hydrochloride (CGS-21680) were reduced in preparations from mature rats, whereas the vasodilator actions of N 6-cyclopentyladenosine (CPA) and N 6-2-(4-aminophenyl)ethyladenosine (APNEA) did not change with age. 4. The results presented in this study suggest that several adenosine receptor subtypes mediate vasodilator responses in the coronary circulation of the rat and that a reduction in response to adenosine with age may be due to changes in the high-affinity receptor site.