Abstract

Desipramine (DMI), decreased the maximum number of beta-adrenergic receptors by approximately 10, 20, 30, and 20% in groups of rats treated i.p. with 5 mg/kg for 14 days or 10 mg/kg for 7, 14, or 21 days, respectively. In studies of agonist competition for beta-adrenergic receptors labelled with [125I]-CYP, chronic DMI administration caused a selective decrease in those receptors normally found in the high affinity conformation in proportion to the dose of DMI administered. No change was observed in either the number of receptors in the agonist low affinity conformation or in the affinity of any drug for the high or low affinity conformations of the receptors. Therefore, chronic DMI caused a selective decrease in the beta-adrenergic receptors linked to adenylate cyclase but did not appear to change other properties of the receptors that would be manifested as a change in their ability to interact with adrenergic agonists. Neither iprindole (15 mg/kg i.p., 14 days) nor mianserin (10 mg/kg i.p., 14 days) decreased the number of receptors, the proportions of agonist high or low affinity receptors, or the affinity of competitor drugs for these receptors, suggesting a different mechanism for the reported loss of adenylate cyclase activity following these drugs than the down-regulation of receptors observed with chronic DMI treatment.

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