Adrenergic and Serotoninergic Mechanisms in Human Hand Arteries and Veins Studied by Fluorescence Histochemistry and in vitro Pharmacology

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Isolated hand arteries and veins from healthy human subjects were tested in vitro for their contractile response to adrenergic agonists and 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) under standardized conditions. This allowed for quantitative estimation of various receptor characteristics. The relative sympathomimetic potency suggested α-adrenergic receptors, which was confirmed in Schild plots following phentolamine antagonism of the response (pA2 for artery 7.57, for vein 7.75). 5-HT contracted with a relative potency approximately equal to noradrenaline and adrenaline in arteries, but only one fifth to one tenth of the catecholamine activity in veins. Ketanserin inhibited the 5-HT response in a competitive, probably also irreversible, manner in arteries (pA2 9.50, KA 8.90 × 10–7 M). In the veins, ketanserin counteracted the 5-HT-induced contraction in a noncompetitive way.

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Journal ID (publisher-id): JVR

Journal ID (nlm-ta): J Vasc Res

Journal ID (doi): 10.1159/issn.1018-1172

Title: Journal of Vascular Research

Publisher: S. Karger AG

ISSN (Print): 1018-1172

ISSN (Electronic): 1423-0135

Publication date Subscription-year: 1985

Publication date (Print): 1985

Publication date (Electronic): 23 September 2008

Volume: 22

Issue: 1

Pages: 1-12

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Departments of Surgery and Histology, University of Lund, Sweden

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Publisher ID: 158579 Other ID: Blood Vessels 1985;22:1–12

DOI: 10.1159/000158579

SO-VID: 29ec3fa0-05d7-47f4-ba14-9f2349678a3f

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History

Date received : 20 August 1983

Date accepted : 30 July 1984

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Pages: 12

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