Abstract
The purpose of the present study was the identification of A1 adenosine
receptors in intact rat ventricular myocytes, which are thought to
mediate the negative inotropic effects of adenosine. The adenosine
receptor antagonist 3H-8-cyclopentyl-1,3-dipropylxanthine was used
as radioligand. Binding of the radioligand to intact myocytes was
rapid, reversible, and saturable with a binding capacity of 40,000
binding sites per cell. The dissociation constant of the radioligand
was 0.48 nM. The adenosine receptor antagonists 8-cyclopentyl-1,3-dipropylxanthine,
"xanthine amine congener," and theophylline were competitive inhibitors
with affinities in agreement with results obtained for A1 receptors
in other tissues. Competition experiments using the adenosine receptor
agonists R-N(6)-phenylisopropyladenosine, 5'-N-ethylcarboxamidoadenosine,
and S-N(6)-phenylisopropyladenosine gave monophasic displacement
curves with Ki values of 50 nM, 440 nM, and 4,300 nM, which agreed
well with the GTP-inducible low affinity state in cardiac membranes.
The low affinity for agonists was not due to agonist-induced desensitization,
and correlated well with the corresponding IC50 values for the inhibition
of cyclic AMP accumulation by isoprenaline. It is suggested that
only a low affinity state of A1 receptors can be detected in intact
rat myocytes due to the presence of high concentrations of guanine
nucleotides in intact cells.
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