M2 and M3 muscarinic receptor activation of urinary bladder contractile signal transduction. I. Normal rat bladder

J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 2006 Feb;316(2):869-74. doi: 10.1124/jpet.105.097303. Epub 2005 Oct 21.

Abstract

The muscarinic receptor subtype-activated signal transduction mechanisms mediating rat urinary bladder contraction are incompletely understood. M(3) mediates normal rat bladder contractions; however, the M(2) receptor subtype has a more dominant role in contractions of the hypertrophied bladder. Normal bladder muscle strips were exposed to inhibitors of enzymes thought to be involved in signal transduction in vitro followed by a single cumulative concentration-response curve to the muscarinic receptor agonist carbachol. The outcome measures were the maximal contraction, the potency of carbachol, and the affinity of the M(3) -selective antimuscarinic agent darifenacin for inhibition of contraction. Inhibition of phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase C (PI-PLC) with 1-O-octadecyl-2-O-methyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphorylcholine (ET-18-OCH(3)) reduces carbachol potency and reduces darifenacin affinity, whereas inhibition of phosphatidyl choline-specific phospholipase C (PC-PLC) with O-tricyclo[5.2.1.02,6]dec-9-yl dithiocarbonate potassium salt (D609) attenuates the carbachol maximal contraction. Inhibition of rho kinase with (R)-(+)-trans-4-(1-aminoethyl)-N-(4-pyridyl)cyclohexanecarboxamide dihydrochloride (Y-27632) reduces carbachol potency and increases darifenacin affinity. Inhibition of rho kinase, protein kinase A (PKA), and protein kinase G (PKG) with 1-(5-isoquinolinesulfonyl)-homopiperazine.HCl (HA-1077) reduces the carbachol maximal contraction, carbachol potency, and darifenacin affinity. Inhibition of protein kinase C (PKC) with chelerythrine increases darifenacin affinity, whereas inhibition of rho kinase, PKA, PKG, and PKC with 1-(5-isoquinolinesulfonyl)-2-methylpiperazine.2HCl (H7) reduces the carbachol maximum and carbachol potency while increasing darifenacin affinity. Inhibition of rho kinase, PKA, and PKG with N-[2-(p-bromocinnamylamino)ethyl]-5-isoquinolinesulfonamide.2HCl (H89) reduces carbachol maximum and carbachol potency. Both the M(2) and the M(3) receptor subtype are involved in normal rat bladder contractions. The M(3)subtype seems to mediate contraction by activation of PI-PLC, PC-PLC, and PKA, whereas the M(2) signal transduction cascade may include activation of rho kinase, PKC, and an additional contractile signal transduction mechanism independent of rho kinase or PKC.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Benzofurans / pharmacology
  • Carbachol / pharmacology
  • Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
  • Enzyme Inhibitors / pharmacology
  • In Vitro Techniques
  • Muscarinic Agonists / pharmacology
  • Muscarinic Antagonists / pharmacology
  • Muscle Contraction / drug effects*
  • Pyrrolidines / pharmacology
  • Rats
  • Receptor, Muscarinic M2 / agonists
  • Receptor, Muscarinic M2 / antagonists & inhibitors
  • Receptor, Muscarinic M2 / metabolism*
  • Receptor, Muscarinic M3 / agonists
  • Receptor, Muscarinic M3 / antagonists & inhibitors
  • Receptor, Muscarinic M3 / metabolism*
  • Signal Transduction / drug effects*
  • Urinary Bladder / drug effects
  • Urinary Bladder / enzymology
  • Urinary Bladder / metabolism*

Substances

  • Benzofurans
  • Enzyme Inhibitors
  • Muscarinic Agonists
  • Muscarinic Antagonists
  • Pyrrolidines
  • Receptor, Muscarinic M2
  • Receptor, Muscarinic M3
  • Carbachol
  • darifenacin