AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Vol 261, Issue 2 343-H348, Copyright © 1991 by American Physiological Society

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Adenosine receptor-mediated coronary artery relaxation and cyclic nucleotide production

D. J. Cushing, G. L. Brown, M. H. Sabouni and S. J. Mustafa
Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina 27858-4354.

We investigated the involvement of adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP) and guanosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cGMP) in adenosine (ADO) receptor-mediated coronary artery relaxation. Rings from left anterior descending coronary artery, with the endothelium mechanically removed, contracted with prostaglandin F2 alpha and relaxed in a concentration-dependent manner to ADO, 2-chloroadenosine (CAD), l-N6-(2-phenylisopropyl)adenosine (R-PIA), and 5'-(N-ethylcarboxamido)adenosine (NECA). These relaxations were blocked by addition of the ADO receptor antagonist 8-(sulfophenyl)theophylline (8-SPT), indicating ADO receptor involvement. In an endothelium-free membrane preparation, ADO, CAD, and R-PIA all stimulated adenylate cyclase activity in a concentration-dependent manner, and these responses were blocked by 8-SPT. The increase in adenylate cyclase activity produced by ADO, CAD, and R-PIA was completely dependent on the presence of guanosine 5'-triphosphate, suggesting G protein involvement. Surprisingly, NECA and CGS-21680 did not increase adenylate cyclase activity. Unlike atrial natriuretic factor, neither NECA, CAD, R-PIA, nor ADO increased guanylate cyclase activity, suggesting that cGMP is not involved in ADO receptor-mediated relaxation. Data presented in this study support the hypothesis that ADO receptor-mediated coronary artery relaxation may involve cAMP; however, the inability of NECA and CGS-21680 to stimulate adenylate cyclase suggests that the ADO receptor-signaling mechanisms in coronary artery may be more complicated than agonist interaction with a single adenylate cyclase-coupled A2 adenosine receptor.

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