a Second Department of Surgery, Fukui Medical School, Matsuoka, Fukui 910-11, Japan
b Department of Pharmacology, Fukui Medical School, Matsuoka, Fukui 910-11, Japan
Abstract:
Phenylephrine produced positive inotropic responses in isolated rat right and left atria. The responses were competitively inhibited by 1-adrenoceptor antagonists (prazosin, WB4101 and HV723) with relatively low affinities (pA2 values close to 8.0). Chloroethylclonidine had no significant effect on the responses to phenylephrine. These results suggest that the positive inotropic response to phenylephrine in rat atria is mediated through 1-adrenoceptors which cannot be defined by the 1A, 1B subclassification.