Benzamide action at ?2-adrenoceptors modifies catecholamine-induced contraction and relaxation of circular smooth muscle from guinea-pig stomach

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Summary Dopamine was shown to act on the circular smooth muscle of the stomach body to cause contraction at a yohimbine-sensitive site (α2) and a relaxation at a prazosin-sensitive site (α1). Metoclopramide and tiapride failed to modify either response, failed to antagonise a relaxation to phenylephrine at 1(α1 sites in the same tissue, and failed to modify the contractions caused by dopamine and phenylephrine at an α2-adrenoceptor site in the pyloric sphincter. However, (+)- and (−)-sultopride and (+)-sulpiride antagonised the dopamine-induced contractions of the stomach body indicating an α2-antagonist action. An ability to attenuate the relaxation of this tissue may reflect a displacement of the contraction curve to the right rather than an α2-antagonist action since the response to phenylephrine was not antagonised either in this tissue or in the pyloric sphincter. Within the central nervous system the (−)-enantiomers of sultopride and sulpiride have a highly selective dopamine receptor blocking action. This cotrasts with the present findings in the stomach musculature of a non-stereospecific antagonism at α2-type adrenoceptors.