ATP, β-γ-methylene-ATP, and adenosine inhibit non-cholinergic non-adrenergic transmission in rat urinary bladder
- 1 June 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Acta Physiologica Scandinavica
- Vol. 109 (2), 137-142
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-1716.1980.tb06578.x
Abstract
ATP and adenosine caused a dose-dependent and reversible inhibition of the atropine-resistant contraction response to transmural nerve stimulation in the rat urinary bladder. Both purines also inhibited contraction responses to acetylcholine and direct muscle stimulation, indicating a postjunctional effect on the transmission. It seems as ATP per se inhibits the excitatory transmission, because the stable ATP-analogue .beta.-.gamma.-methylene-ATP was inhibitory as well, and because exogenous adenosine deaminase annulled the inhibition by adenosine but not that by ATP or .beta.-.gamma. -methylene-ATP. Blockade of purine inactivation enhanced the inhibitory action of ATP and adenosine, and by itself inhibited the transmission. Endogenous purines possibly modulate non-cholinergic non-adrenergic excitatory transmission in the rat urinary bladder.Keywords
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