PMID- 7963266 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 19941221 LR - 20190909 IS - 0165-1838 (Print) IS - 0165-1838 (Linking) VI - 49 IP - 1 DP - 1994 Sep TI - Involvement of muscarinic M1 receptor in the central pathway of the serotonin-induced Bezold-Jarisch reflex in rats. PG - 61-8 AB - The involvement of central muscarinic receptors in mediating the Bezold-Jarisch reflex elicited by injection of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) was studied in urethane/chloralose-anesthetized rats. Intravenous bolus injection of 5-HT (3.1 to 50 micrograms/kg) evoked a short-lasting dose-related bradycardia and hypotension, the Bezold-Jarisch reflex, accompanied with bursts of the efferent cervical vagus nerve. Systemic administration of atropine (0.1 and 1 mg/kg) blocked not only the cardiac responses but also the efferent cervical vagus nerve activity changes. Although the afferent cervical vagus nerve was also activated by an intravenous bolus injection of 5-HT, these responses were not altered by the systemic administration of even a high dose of atropine (1 mg/kg). Intracerebroventricular (i.c.v.) administration of pirenzepine (1 and 10 micrograms/10 microliters), a selective M1 receptor antagonist, caused a rightward shift of the 5-HT dose-response curve for efferent vagus nerve activity. In contrast, i.c.v. administration of muscarinic type 2 receptor antagonist, gallamine, and type 3 receptor antagonist, p-fluorohexahydrosiladifenidol, failed to alter the response in nerve activity to 5-HT. These results suggest that the activation of central nervous muscarinic receptors might be involved in mediating the Bezold-Jarisch reflex and that the subtype might belong to type 1. FAU - Saito, K AU - Saito K AD - Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan. FAU - Yoshioka, M AU - Yoshioka M FAU - Kohya, T AU - Kohya T FAU - Kitabatake, A AU - Kitabatake A LA - eng PT - Journal Article PL - Netherlands TA - J Auton Nerv Syst JT - Journal of the autonomic nervous system JID - 8003419 RN - 0 (Muscarinic Antagonists) RN - 0 (Receptors, Muscarinic) RN - 333DO1RDJY (Serotonin) RN - 7C0697DR9I (Atropine) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Atropine/administration & dosage/pharmacology MH - Heart Rate/drug effects MH - Hemodynamics/drug effects/physiology MH - Injections, Intraventricular MH - Male MH - Muscarinic Antagonists MH - Neural Pathways/drug effects/physiology MH - Neurons, Efferent/drug effects MH - Rats MH - Rats, Wistar MH - Receptors, Muscarinic/*physiology MH - Reflex/*drug effects MH - Serotonin/*pharmacology MH - Vagus Nerve/drug effects/physiology EDAT- 1994/09/01 00:00 MHDA- 1994/09/01 00:01 CRDT- 1994/09/01 00:00 PHST- 1994/09/01 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 1994/09/01 00:01 [medline] PHST- 1994/09/01 00:00 [entrez] AID - 0165-1838(94)90021-3 [pii] AID - 10.1016/0165-1838(94)90021-3 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Auton Nerv Syst. 1994 Sep;49(1):61-8. doi: 10.1016/0165-1838(94)90021-3.