caa a22 4500 46904909X CHVBK 20180323132825.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00174319 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00174319 Formoterol, fenoterol, and salbutamol as partial agonists for relaxation of maximally contracted guinea pig tracheae: Comparison of relaxation with receptor binding [Elektronische Daten] [Horst Lemoine, Clemens Overlack, Armin Köh, Heinrich Worth, Dietrich Reinhardt] In severe asthma attacks ß2-sympathomimetics lose part of their therapeutic efficiency. To elucidate this loss of efficiency in an experimental model we compared the relaxant potency of salbutamol (SAL), fenoterol (FEN), formoterol (FOR), and (−)-isoprenaline (ISO) in guinea pig tracheae partially and maximally precontracted by 0.1 and 60 μol/L carbachol, respectively. In partially precontracted tracheae the ß2-sympathomimetics exerted maximum relaxation in comparison with ISO and low EC50s (nmol/L) for relaxation (SAL, 20; FEN, 5.6; FOR, 0.28; and ISO, 2.5). In maximally precontracted tracheae, however, the ß2-sympathomimetics were only partial agonists for relaxation with reduced intrinsic activities (%) in comparison to ISO (SAL, 59%; FEN, 61%; FOR, 76%) and significantly increased EC50s (nmol/L) for relaxation (SAL, 130; FEN, 57; FOR, 3.0; ISO, 37). To investigate if the high relaxant potency of FOR is correlated with a higher binding affinity and/or a higher intrinsic activity for adenylate cyclase stimulation than for FEN and SAL, we performed experiments in receptor membranes from guinea pig lung. Binding competition of SAL, FEN, and FOR with [3H]ICI 118,551 for lung ß2-adrenoceptors yielded dissociation constants (KD) of 320 (SAL), 120 (FEN), and 7.6 (FOR) nmol/L, which exhibited the same ranking as EC50s for relaxation. Concentrations of SAL, FEN, and FOR equivalent to 100 KD of the respective dissociation constants stimulated ß2-adrenoceptor-coupled adenylate cyclase with different intrinsic activities (%) incomparison to ISO (SAL, 61%; FEN, 63%; FOR, 89%) matching intrinsic activities for relaxation. From these experiments it may be concluded that FOR might improve drug therapy of severe asthma not only due to its long mode of action discovered in clinical studies but also due to its high intrinsic activity and receptor affinity. Springer-Verlag, 1992 Tracheal smooth muscle nationallicence ß2-Sympathomimetics nationallicence Partial agonism nationallicence Functional antagonism nationallicence Radioligand binding nationallicence Lemoine Horst Institute for Lasermedicine, Molecular Drug Research Group, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Universitätsstrasse 1, 4000, Düsseldorf 1 aut Overlack Clemens Institute for Lasermedicine, Molecular Drug Research Group, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Universitätsstrasse 1, 4000, Düsseldorf 1 aut Köh Armin Institute for Lasermedicine, Molecular Drug Research Group, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Universitätsstrasse 1, 4000, Düsseldorf 1 aut Worth Heinrich Department of Cardiology, Angiology, and Pneumology, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Moorenstrasse 5, 4000, Düsseldorf 1 aut Reinhardt Dietrich Childrens Hospital 2, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Pettenkoferstrasse 8 a, 8000, München 2, Germany aut Lung Springer-Verlag 170/3(1992-05-01), 163-180 0341-2040 170:3<163 1992 170 408 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00174319 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00174319 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lemoine Horst Institute for Lasermedicine, Molecular Drug Research Group, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Universitätsstrasse 1, 4000, Düsseldorf 1 aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Overlack Clemens Institute for Lasermedicine, Molecular Drug Research Group, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Universitätsstrasse 1, 4000, Düsseldorf 1 aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Köh Armin Institute for Lasermedicine, Molecular Drug Research Group, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Universitätsstrasse 1, 4000, Düsseldorf 1 aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Worth Heinrich Department of Cardiology, Angiology, and Pneumology, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Moorenstrasse 5, 4000, Düsseldorf 1 aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Reinhardt Dietrich Childrens Hospital 2, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Pettenkoferstrasse 8 a, 8000, München 2, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Lung Springer-Verlag 170/3(1992-05-01), 163-180 0341-2040 170:3<163 1992 170 408 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer