• Eur. J. Pharmacol. · Nov 1989

    Intrinsic sympathomimetic activity of beta-adrenoceptor antagonists: down-regulation of cardiac beta 1- and beta 2-adrenoceptors.

    • C Reithmann, F Wieland, K H Jakobs, and K Werdan.
    • Medizinische Klinik I, Universität München, Klinikum Grosshadern, F.R.G.
    • Eur. J. Pharmacol. 1989 Nov 7;170(3):243-55.

    AbstractProlonged treatment of cultured rat heart muscle cells containing beta 1- and non-muscle cells containing beta 2-adrenoceptors with beta-adrenoceptor antagonists devoid of intrinsic sympathomimetic activity had no effect on beta-adrenoceptor density. In contrast, antagonists with intrinsic sympathomimetic activity decreased beta-adrenoceptor density and response (adenylate cyclase stimulation) in both heart muscle (beta 1) and non-muscle cells (beta 2) by a maximum of about 50%. An even larger down-regulation of beta-adrenoceptors and loss of receptor-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity was induced by the full endogenous agonist, noradrenaline, with the beta-adrenoceptors of heart muscle cells (beta 1) being much more sensitive to the beta 1-selective noradrenaline than the heart non-muscle cell beta 2-adrenoceptors. When combined with noradrenaline, the antagonists with intrinsic sympathomimetic activity prevented the action of noradrenaline at both beta 1- and beta 2-adrenoceptors, thereby leading to an apparent up-regulation of receptor density and response. This apparent reversal from an agonist to an antagonist action was observed at much lower concentrations of noradrenaline at beta 1- than at beta 2-adrenoceptors. The data presented indicate that the beta-adrenoceptor antagonists with intrinsic sympathomimetic activity, but not those without, upon prolonged treatment decrease the density and responsiveness of both beta 1- and beta 2-adrenoceptors in cultured rat heart cells. This suggests that the intrinsic sympathomimetic activity of these agents is not a subtype-selective component. Furthermore, the agonist and antagonist activity of these agents apparently depends on the concomitant presence of an endogenous full agonist and an its own affinity and that of the partial agonist for the beta-adrenoceptor subtype.

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