Cisapride reverses the anticholinergic effect of disopyramide on the isolated guinea-pig urinary bladder |
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| Authors: | Koutsoviti-Papadopoulou M Nikolaidis E Batzias G C Kounenis G |
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| Institution: | Department of Pharmacology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki 540 06, Greece. mariakp@vet.auth.gr |
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| Abstract: | The present investigation aims to examine whether the prokinetic agent cisapride is able to reverse disopyramide's anticholinergic effect on the isolated guinea-pig urinary bladder. Acetylcholine, at concentrations ranging from 10(-7) to 10(-3) M, produced a stimulatory effect on the urinary bladder (pEC(50) value=5.1). Disopyramide competitively antagonized the contractile effect of acetylcholine with an ID(50)=4.4 x 10(-6) M. Although cisapride by itself had either no intrinsic contractile action or a modest effect on the urinary bladder, at concentrations ranging from 3 x 10(-7) to 10(-6) M, it significantly reversed the above inhibitory effect of disopyramide, and produced a parallel leftward shift of the concentration-response curve for acetylcholine in the presence of disopyramide. The pEC(50) values for acetylcholine in the presence of 3 x 10(-6) M and 10(-5) M disopyramide were 4.7 and 4.2, respectively, while in the presence of 10(-5) M disopyramide, after pretreatment with 5 x 10(-7) M cisapride, the pEC(50) value for acetylcholine was 4.6. It is concluded that cisapride is effective in reversing the anticholinergic activity of disopyramide on the isolated guinea-pig urinary bladder, probably by facilitating cholinergic neurotransmission. |
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