The influence of L‐NG‐nitro‐arginine on sympathetic nerve induced contraction and noradrenaline release in the rat isolated anococcygeus muscle

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1. The possibility of an interaction between the motor sympathetic and inhibitory non-adrenergic, non-cholinergic (NANC) nerves in the rat anococcygeus was investigated using L-NG-nitro-arginine (L-NOARG), an inhibitor of L-arginine: NO synthase. 2. L-NOARG (50 microM) increased contractions induced by field stimulation (20 s trains; 0.5-40 Hz); overall, the frequency-response curve was displaced six-fold to the left. D-NOARG (50 microM) was without effect. 3. The potentiation produced by L-NOARG was reversed by 200 microM L-, but not D-, arginine. 4. L-NOARG had no effect on contractions induced by exogenous noradrenaline (NA) or on field stimulation-induced overflow of tritium from muscles previously loaded with [3H]-NA. 5. It is concluded that the endogenous nitrate NANC transmitter does not influence release of NA from the sympathetic nerves and the potentiation of contractions induced by field stimulation in the presence of L-NOARG most probably results from removal of the opposing relaxing influence of concomitantly released NANC transmitter.

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