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Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 261: H463-H468, 1991;
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AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Vol 261, Issue 2 463-H468, Copyright © 1991 by American Physiological Society

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Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide enhances automaticity of supraventricular pacemakers in anesthetized dogs

D. F. Rigel and D. A. Lathrop
Department of Pharmacology and Cell Biophysics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Ohio 45267.

Effects of the cardiac neuropeptide vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) and isoproterenol (ISO) were compared on sinus nodal, subsidiary atrial, and atrioventricular junctional pacemaker automaticity in pentobarbital sodium-anesthetized dogs (n = 14). Autonomic cardiac nerves were decentralized by bilateral vagotomy and stellectomy. VIP and ISO (30, 100, and 300 pmol/kg iv) were administered during sinus rhythm and either after crushing the sinus node to unmask a latent subsidiary atrial pacemaker (n = 7 dogs) or after injecting pentobarbital sodium into the sinus node artery to elicit an atrioventricular junctional pacemaker (n = 7). Spontaneous sinus nodal, subsidiary atrial, and atrioventricular junctional pacemaker rates (after autonomic nerve decentralization) were 142 +/- 4, 114 +/- 3, and 79 +/- 4 beats/min (means +/- SE), respectively. Both VIP and ISO dose dependently increased the rates of all three pacemaker sites. Combined muscarinic-cholinergic (atropine; 0.11 mg/kg iv) and beta-adrenergic receptor blockade (nadolol; 0.5 mg/kg iv) abolished the stimulatory effects of ISO on subsidiary atrial and atrioventricular junctional pacemakers but did not affect the responses to VIP. We conclude that exogenous VIP enhances the automaticity of sinus nodal, subsidiary atrial, and atrioventricular junctional pacemakers independently of muscarinic-cholinergic and beta-adrenergic receptors. Based on the previous demonstration of VIP-immunoreactive nerves throughout the heart, our findings also suggest that endogenous VIP may be involved in cardiac pacemaker regulation.


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