| Literature DB >> 3033532 |
J Kapocsi, G T Somogyi, N Ludvig, P Serfozo, L G Harsing, R J Woods, E S Vizi.
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Neurochemical and pharmacological evidence has been obtained that noradrenergic varicosities (in mouse and rat vas deferens) and cholinergic varicosities (in the Auerbach's plexus) contain heterogenous alpha 2-adrenoceptors through which the release of [3H]noradrenaline and [3H]acetylcholine can be modulated. The quantitative data also support the hypothesis that different noradrenaline and xylazine sensitive alpha 2-adrenoceptors are present prejunctionally in the vas deferens and Auerbach's plexus preparations. Prazosin, although it has a presynaptic inhibitory effect on alpha 2-adrenoceptors of noradrenergic axon terminals, has no effect on cholinergic axon terminals. These data suggest that there are two different types of alpha 2-adrenoceptors at the presynaptic axon terminals.Entities:
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Year: 1987 PMID: 3033532 DOI: 10.1007/BF00979530
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Neurochem Res ISSN: 0364-3190 Impact factor: 3.996