D-myo-inositol-1,2,6-triphosphate (PP56) antagonizes nonadrenergic sympathetic vasoconstriction: possible involvement of neuropeptide Y.

The possibility that D-myo-inositol-1,2,6-triphosphate (PP56), which has shown some specificity for antagonism of neuropeptide Y (NPY) in vitro, may antagonize responses to sympathetic nerve stimulation was investigated in canine blood-perfused gracilis muscle in situ after pretreatment with irreversible alpha-adrenoceptor blockade by phenoxybenzamine and beta-adrenoceptor blockade by propranolol. Sympathetic nerve stimulation (10 Hz, 2 min) increased muscle perfusion pressure and evoked overflow of norepinephrine (NE) from the tissue. PP56 at 50 and 500 microM (calculated local arterial plasma concentrations) did not influence NE overflow but attenuated the late phase of the vasoconstrictor response to nerve stimulation and reduced the increase in perfusion pressure evoked by exogenous NPY. PP56 also induced vasodilatation per se, but had no effect on the vascular response to exogenous angiotensin II (AII) or the remaining vasoconstrictor response to exogenous NE. PP56 antagonizes late components in the nonadrenergic sympathetic vasoconstriction and vasoconstriction evoked by exogenous NPY, without influencing transmitter release. Because previous results with this and other models propose a role for NPY in mediating nonadrenergic vasoconstriction, we suggest that PP56 may antagonize effects of neuronally released NPY at the postjunctional level.