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Record W2135773940 · doi:10.1159/000159079

α-Adrenoceptor Responses of an Isolated Human Artery and Blood Pressure

2008· article· en· W2135773940 on OpenAlex
George Wyse

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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Vascular Research · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicReceptor Mechanisms and Signaling
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Calgary
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPrazosinPhenylephrineYohimbineInternal medicineEndocrinologyBlood pressureAlpha (finance)NorepinephrinePotencyClonidineAdrenergic receptorAlpha-2 adrenergic receptorMedicineAgonistReceptorChemistryAntagonistDopamineIn vitroBiochemistry

Abstract

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This cross-sectional study examined responses of the isolated cystic artery to 3 α-adrenoceptor agonists and the effects of 2 antagonists in relation to subjects’ blood pressures. Potency of the 3 amines studied was: α-methylnorepinephrine > norepinephrine > phenylephrine. Responses to clonidine were trivial (<5% of maximum) and remained <25% of maximum in the presence of sub-threshold concentrations of angiotensin II. A weak trend for increased potency of α-methylnorepinephrine was noted in arteries of subjects with higher blood pressures (r = 0.268, p = 0.027). There was no relationship between blood pressure and pA<sub>2</sub> for yohimbine. The pA<sub>2</sub> for prazosin could not be calculated because of a decline in maximal responses but prazosin was clearly more potent than yohimbine. The decline in maximal responses to norepinephrine and phenylephrine after prazosin treatment was related to subjects’ diastolic blood pressures (r = –0.400, p = 0.003). There were no significant relationships between these measurements of vascular responsiveness and a family history of hypertension. There were also no significant relationships betwen these measurements of vascular responsiveness and plasma norepinephrine levels, α<sub>2</sub>-adrenoceptor binding or platelets of β<sub>2</sub>-adrenoceptor binding of lymphocytes. The major postjunctional α-adrenoceptors in this artery are of the α<sub>1</sub> type. The data suggest that differences in potency of α-adrenoceptor agonists in relation to blood pressure may be due to differences in the α<sub>2</sub>-adrenoceptor but are not likely due to a difference in binding to the receptor itself. The explanation for the effect of prazosin on maximal responses to α-adrenoceptor agonists in relationship to blood pressure in the present study requires further study. If the results in blood cell adrenoceptors are parallel to those in cystic artery, increased potency of α<sub>2</sub>-adrenoceptor agonists in the artery in subjects with higher blood pressure is not due to an increased number of adrenoceptors and therefore is most likely due to differences in postreceptor excitation-contraction coupling. Future experiments should utilize preparations such as subcutaneous resistance vessels where α<sub>2</sub>-adrenoceptors are more predominant.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.012
Threshold uncertainty score0.311

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.043
GPT teacher head0.333
Teacher spread0.290 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it