Release of Endogenous ATP from Rat Caudal Artery
- 1 January 1987
- journal article
- neurohumoral control-of-blood-vessel-tone
- Published by S. Karger AG in Journal of Vascular Research
- Vol. 24 (3) , 125-127
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000158684
Abstract
Electrical field stimulation of the rat caudal artery (0.5-ms pulses at 8 Hz for 3 min) results in the release of norepinephrine (quantified by HPLC-electrochemical detection) and adenyl purines including ATP, ADP and AMP (quantified by HPLC-fluorescence detection). The amount of ATP released from the tissue exceeded the amount of norepinephrine. Because postjunctional α1-adrenoceptor stimulation with methoxamine also causes release of ATP, both neuronal and extraneuronal sites may contribute to the overflow of ATP. Results with the α1-adrenoceptor antagonist prazosin lend support to this notion. Prazosin (10–6M) completely blocked the release of ATP by methoxamine but only partially reduced the release of ATP by field stimulation.Keywords
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