Pharmacological Characterization of the Autonomous Innervation of the Guinea Pig Tracheobronchial Smooth Muscle

: From the trachea, main bronchi and hilus bronchi of guinea pigs, preparations were isolated for registration of mechanical tension on electrical field stimulation and drugs. The trachea contracted on short trains of electrical stimulation. Usually these contractions were followed by a relaxant res...

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Veröffentlicht in:Acta pharmacologica et toxicologica 1981-08, Vol.49 (2), p.150-157
Hauptverfasser: Grundström, Nils, Andersson, Rolf G. G., Wikberg, Jarl E. S.
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Zusammenfassung:: From the trachea, main bronchi and hilus bronchi of guinea pigs, preparations were isolated for registration of mechanical tension on electrical field stimulation and drugs. The trachea contracted on short trains of electrical stimulation. Usually these contractions were followed by a relaxant response. The contractions were abolished while the relaxations were potentiated by atropine. In the main bronchi field stimulation induced a contractile response which was abolished by atropine. In the latter preparation relaxant responses were never observed, even not after atropine. In the trachea and main bronchi neither the α1 blocker prazosin nor the α2 blocker yohimbine affected the contractile or relaxant responses when used in α‐blocking concentrations. The relaxant response in trachea was neither affected by the “P1 blocker” theophylline nor by the “P2 blocker” quinidine but it was partially inhibited by guanethidine or β‐blocking agents. The hilus bronchi contracted on field stimulation as well as by histamine. The contractile response on electrical stimulation was only slightly inhibited by atropine or guanethidine. In all three preparations responses on field stimulation were abolished by tetrodotoxin. It is suggested that in both trachea and main bronchi excitatory cholinergic innervation is present. Further, the trachea but not the main bronchi is innervated by both adrenergic and nonadrenergic inhibitory nerves. The hilus bronchi contains a non‐adrenergic non‐cholinergic excitatory nervous system.
ISSN:0001-6683
1600-0773
DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0773.1981.tb00884.x