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Central cardiovascular effects of acetylcholine in the conscious dog.
Brefel, C; Lazartigues, E; Tran, M A; Gauquelin, G; Geelen, G; Gharib, C; Montastruc, J L; Montastruc, P; Rascol, O.
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  • Brefel C; Laboratoire de Pharmacologie Médicale et Clinique, INSERM U 317, Faculté de Médecine de Toulouse, France.
Br J Pharmacol ; 116(4): 2175-82, 1995 Oct.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-8564246
1. The effects of central cholinomimetic drugs on cardiovascular and vasoactive hormonal responses (blood pressure, heart rate, catecholamines, vasopressin, atrial natriuretic factor, neuropeptide Y plasma levels and plasma renin activity) were investigated in conscious Beagle dogs. For this purpose a catheter was chronically implanted into each dog's cisterna magna to allow repeated central injections in the awake animals. 2. Intracisternal acetylcholine (20 micrograms kg-1) significantly increased systolic and diastolic blood pressure. These changes were accompanied by an initial short term tachycardia followed by a long lasting bradycardia. Intracisternal acetylcholine also increased noradrenaline, adrenaline and vasopressin plasma levels, decreased plasma renin activity but did not modify plasma levels of neuropeptide Y and atrial natriuretic factor. 3. The effects of acetylcholine were completely abolished by pretreatment with intracisternal injection of the muscarinic antagonist, atropine (5 micrograms kg-1) but not by the intracisternal injection of the nicotinic antagonist, mecamylamine (25 micrograms kg-1). 4. The present results demonstrate that there are qualitative and quantitative differences between the central cardiovascular effects of acetylcholine in conscious dogs compared to what we previously reported, using a comparable protocol, in anaesthetized dogs. Under both conditions, we observed a central cholinergically mediated increase in blood pressure secondary to an increase in sympathetic tone and vasopressin release but these responses were shorter (less than 10 min) in the conscious dogs than in anaesthetized dogs (more than 10 min). Moreover, we detected in the response to the central cholinergic stimulation in the conscious dogs a significant increase in plasma adrenaline levels and biphasic changes in heart rate which were not described previously in the anaesthetized dog.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Acetilcolina / Hemodinâmica Tipo de estudo: Qualitative_research Limite: Animals Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 1995 Tipo de documento: Article

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Acetilcolina / Hemodinâmica Tipo de estudo: Qualitative_research Limite: Animals Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 1995 Tipo de documento: Article