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Chronic nicotine intake increases the responses to muscarinic receptor stimulation.
- Source :
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Pharmacology [Pharmacology] 1992; Vol. 44 (1), pp. 41-7. - Publication Year :
- 1992
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Abstract
- Chronic nicotine administration depresses the autonomic ganglia, but its effects on the muscarinic receptors at the neuroeffector sites remain unclear. The present study, using rats, examines the influence of chronic treatment with nicotine (25 micrograms/ml drinking water) for 10 or 15 days on muscarinic receptor responses, as reflected by bethanechol-evoked gastric secretion or by acetylcholine-induced decreases in mean blood pressure. Bethanechol, 0.4, 0.8, 1.6 or 3.2 mg/kg injected subcutaneously, dose-dependently increased the basal gastric secretory volume and acid output in pylorus-ligated control animals which normally drank tap water. Rats given nicotine in their drinking water for 10 or 15 days showed a further marked increase in both the volume of gastric secretion and acid output in response to bethanechol injections. Although bethanechol dose-dependently increased acid secretion, the ulcer index was very small and there was no significant difference between the control and nicotine-treated groups. The basal mean blood pressure remained normal after the 10-day nicotine treatment. Acetylcholine, 0.1, 0.3, 1 or 3 micrograms/kg given intravenously, decreased the mean blood pressure; this acetylcholine-evoked blood pressure fall was intensified by nicotine pretreatment. The findings suggest that the responses to muscarinic receptor stimulation are increased by chronic nicotine treatment for 10 or 15 days. These exaggerated effects are possibly the consequence of persistent autonomic ganglion blockade by chronic nicotine treatment.
- Subjects :
- Acetylcholine pharmacology
Administration, Oral
Animals
Bethanechol
Bethanechol Compounds pharmacology
Blood Pressure drug effects
Female
Ganglia, Autonomic drug effects
Gastric Acid metabolism
Rats
Rats, Inbred Strains
Receptors, Muscarinic drug effects
Stomach Ulcer pathology
Nicotine administration & dosage
Receptors, Muscarinic metabolism
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0031-7012
- Volume :
- 44
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Pharmacology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 1348128
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000138872