In dog saphenous vein--a tissue possessing both postsynaptic alpha 1- and alpha 2-adrenoceptors--the effects of two selective alpha 1-adrenoceptor agonists (phenylephrine and methoxamine) were compared with that of the selective alpha 2-adrenoceptor agonist, UK-14,304, before and after phenoxybenzamine. Furthermore, the influence exerted by prazosin, yohimbine and verapamil on the effects of these agonists was also studied before and after phenoxybenzamine. In the absence of phenoxybenzamine, prazosin (56 nmol/l) caused a parallel shift of the concentration-response curves of both phenylephrine and methoxamine to the right (by 0.94 and 1.1 log units, respectively) and had no effect on the concentration-response curve of UK-14,304, while 20 nmol/l yohimbine caused a marked parallel shift of the concentration-response curve of UK-14,304 to the right (by 1.18 log units) and caused only minor displacements of those of phenylephrine and methoxamine (by 0.2 and 0.33 log units, respectively). After exposure of the strips to 30 nmol/l phenoxybenzamine, prazosin (56 nmol/l) caused small shifts of the concentration-response curves of both phenylephrine (by 0.36 log units) and methoxamine (by 0.31 log units) and did not change that of UK-14,304, while yohimbine (20 nmol/l) caused pronounced parallel shifts of the concentration-response curves (to the right) of all the agonists: phenylephrine (by 1.0 log units), methoxamine (by 0.93 log units) and UK-14,304 (by 1.28 log units).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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