Ranitidine and Nizatidine Stimulate Antral Smooth Muscle Contractility Via Excitatory Cholinergic Mechanisms

Overview

Journal Dig Dis Sci

Specialty Gastroenterology

Date 1998 Apr 16

PMID 9539643

Citations 6

Authors

H P Parkman

A P Pagano

J P Ryan

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Abstract

Histamine type 2 receptor antagonists (H2RAs) have been found to alter gastric motility. The aims of this study were to determine if H2RAs affect antral contractility in vitro and the mechanism of this effect. Guinea pig antral muscle strips were pinned in an organ bath after removing the mucosa, and circular muscle tension was measured using an isometric force transducer. Gastric myocytes were isolated from guinea pig stomach using collagenase digestion, and cell lengths were measured using an image analysis system. In muscle strips, ranitidine and nizatidine increased the amplitude of spontaneous phasic antral contractions in a concentration-dependent fashion with threshold concentrations of 5 microM. The order of potency for the H2RAs was ranitidine = nizatidine >> cimetidine > famotidine. The contractile effects of ranitidine and nizatidine were reduced, but not abolished, by tetrodotoxin and omega-conotoxin GVIA and nearly abolished by atropine. In isolated cells, ranitidine and nizatidine, but not famotidine or cimetidine, induced concentration-dependent cell shortening, with maximal shortening at 10 microM. These contractile effects of ranitidine and nizatidine in isolated cells were inhibited by atropine. Ranitidine and nizatidine increase antral contractility; this effect appears to be mediated by an interaction between ranitidine and nizatidine on cholinergic pathways with both direct effects on smooth muscle cholinergic receptors and indirect effects by increasing cholinergic neurotransmission.

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