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. 1989 Jan;44(1):28–35. doi: 10.1136/thx.44.1.28

Beta adrenoceptor binding and induced relaxation in airway smooth muscle from patients with chronic airflow obstruction.

C J van Koppen 1, J F de Miranda 1, A J Beld 1, C L van Herwaarden 1, J W Lammers 1, C A van Ginneken 1
PMCID: PMC461660  PMID: 2538944

Abstract

Beta adrenoceptor function in central airway smooth muscle of patients with chronic airflow obstruction was investigated by radioligand binding studies and isoprenaline relaxation experiments. Receptor characteristics were determined in tracheal smooth muscle preparations obtained at necropsy from 12 patients and in bronchial tissue obtained at thoracototomy from 21 patients with chronic airflow obstruction. Receptor characteristics were compared with those obtained in airway tissue preparations from 65 control subjects without chronic airflow obstruction. The number of beta adrenoceptors, their binding affinity for the radioligand [125I]-(-)-cyanopindolol, and the tissue binding characteristics of isoprenaline were similar in tissue from patients with chronic airflow obstruction and from control subjects. Isoprenaline induced relaxation of tracheal smooth muscle without precontraction by methacholine showed slightly (though not significantly) less sensitivity to isoprenaline in patients with chronic airflow obstruction than in control subjects (mean (SEM) pD2--the negative logarithm of the concentration producing 50% relaxation--6.32 (0.16) v 6.62 (0.15)). The same pattern of pD2 values was found in segmental bronchial strips without precontraction by methacholine (chronic airflow obstruction 6.55 (0.27), control 7.14 (0.12)). Isoprenaline relaxation in segmental bronchial strips when contracted maximally was significantly less in the patients with airflow obstruction than in the control subjects (pD2 value 5.99 (0.18) v 6.45 (0.07)). These results suggest that beta adrenoceptors in airway smooth muscle of patients with chronic airflow obstruction are not abnormal in number or in binding affinity but that there is less effective coupling between components of the relaxant system distal to the beta adrenoceptor. The possibility that the reduced isoprenaline sensitivity is a consequence of previous bronchodilator treatment cannot be excluded.

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