Dopamine D2-like receptors in the rat kidney: effect of denervation |
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Authors: | P Barili M Sabbatini P Soares-da-Silva F Amenta |
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Affiliation: | Department of Pharmacology, Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, South Africa. fkldpv@puknet.puk.ac.za |
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Abstract: | A new method for estimation of agonist-affinity (KA) and relative efficacy was introduced. This method afforded a procedure by which relative efficacy may be estimated while the actual KA values of agonist-receptor complexes are unknown. The relative efficacy may be estimated by employing a newly defined drug parameter, namely the eES value. The eES value is related to drug efficacy and is defined in such a manner that an isolated eES is a meaningful quantity which may indicate whether or not spare receptors are present in an agonist-effector system. The estimation of eES was based on the fact that fixed agonist-competitive antagonist combinations mimic partial agonists and mediate submaximal concentration-effect curves. However, for the practical estimation of eES one may employ data acquired from agonistic concentration-effect curves determined in the absence and presence of increasing concentrations of a competitive antagonist. This procedure was illustrated by utilizing theoretical concentration-effect curves and applied practically by estimating eES and KA values acquired from sets of carbachol and salbutamol curves. The sets of carbachol and salbutamol concentration-effect curves were determined in the absence and presence of their respective competitive antagonists, namely tripitramine and pindolol. |
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