Depressed cyclic AMP levels in airway smooth muscle from asthmatic dogs
AUTOR(ES)
Rinard, Gilbert A.
RESUMO
We tested mongrel dogs by intradermal injection and tracheobronchial aerosol challenge with Ascaris suum antigen extract. All dogs were skin-test positive but could be segregated, on the basis of airways resistance measurements, into “asthmatic” (bronchoreactive) and “nonasthmatic” (nonbronchoreactive) groups. By using tracheal rings from these dogs, we measured the abilities of the β-adrenergic agonist, isoproterenol, to relax tracheal smooth muscle contracted by methacholine and to cause cyclic AMP (cAMP) accumulation in the presence and absence of methacholine. The magnitude of relaxation induced by any concentration of isoproterenol was always less in the smooth muscle from “asthmatic” dogs. In the same tissues the concentrations of cAMP after in vitro equilibration, but prior to isoproterenol addition, were significantly less in the “asthmatic” than “nonasthmatic” samples. The accumulation of cAMP due to isoproterenol was similar in both groups for every dose of isoproterenol so that the initial difference between groups in cAMP concentration was maintained in an additive fashion over the entire dose—response curve. Total protein content of trachealis muscles from both groups of dogs was the same. We conclude that β-adrenergically sensitive adenylate cyclase is not impaired in tracheal smooth muscle from “asthmatic” dogs; rather, the basal concentration of cAMP is depressed in “asthmatic” airway smooth muscle, and this difference is maintained throughout the isoproterenol dose—response curve. The depressed intracellular cAMP concentrations may be related to the decreased relaxation induced by isoproterenol in the “asthmatic” tracheal smooth muscle.
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