Abstract
To determine the vasodilative and negative inotropic effects of adenosine in hearts of diabetic rats, isolated hearts, perfused at constant perfusion pressure (Langendorff technique), were prepared from age-matched control Wistar rats and rats made diabetic 10 weeks prior to study by a single injection of streptozotocin (65 mg.kg-1, i.p.). Adenosine and nitroprusside each increased coronary inflow when administered either as bolus injections or as infusions. Coronary flow responses to nitroprusside were unchanged in diabetic hearts. Coronary flow responses of diabetic hearts to adenosine injections were unchanged, but responses to adenosine infusions tended to be larger than in normal hearts. Diabetes had no significant effect on the EC50 for either vasodilator. Adenosine inhibited the inotropic effect of isoproterenol (enhanced left ventricular (LV) pressure (P) and LV dP/dtmax) in normal hearts, independently of its vasodilative action. This negative inotropic action of adenosine appeared equally strong in diabetic hearts. We conclude that adenosine's coronary vasodilative and anti-beta-adrenergic, negative inotropic effects in the rat heart were not diminished after 10 weeks of streptozotocin-induced diabetes mellitus. Thus, earlier reports of diminished adenosine dilative efficacy in experimental diabetes may have been unique to those particular models.
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