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Br J Pharmacol. 1985 Jun;85(2):457-62. doi: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.1985.tb08882.x.

The properties of the clonidine withdrawal response of guinea-pig isolated ileum.

British journal of pharmacology

L A Chahl

PMID: 2411324 PMCID: PMC1916593 DOI: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.1985.tb08882.x
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Abstract

The dependence-inducing effects of clonidine were investigated on the guinea-pig isolated ileum. Clonidine produced relaxation of the ileum with a threshold concentration between 0.01 and 0.1 mumol 1(-1). Washout of clonidine did not induce a withdrawal contraction. Following 2 min contact of the ileum with clonidine, 1 mumol 1(-1), addition of phentolamine, 5 mumol 1(-1), induced a contracture. The phentolamine-precipitated withdrawal contracture did not increase in height with a longer period of contact (32 min) of the ileum with clonidine. The phentolamine-precipitated withdrawal contracture following 2 min contact of ileum with clonidine was abolished by atropine, 5 mumol 1(-1), and substance P (SP) antagonists, (D-Pro2,D-Phe7, D-Trp9)-SP and spantide, 10 mumol 1)-1). [Met5]enkephalin, 1 mumol 1(-1), abolished the withdrawal response to clonidine and clonidine, 1 mumol 1(-1), abolished the withdrawal response to [Met5]enkephalin. Following 2 min contact of the ileum with noradrenaline, 5 mumol 1(-1), washout or addition of phentolamine or yohimbine, 5 mumol 1(-1), also induced a withdrawal response. The noradrenaline washout withdrawal response was abolished by atropine, 5 mumol 1(-1), and spantide, 10 mumol 1(-1). Since clonidine dependence may be induced as rapidly as opiate dependence in the ileum and the pharmacology of the withdrawal responses is similar, it is suggested that they both induce the same post-receptor neuronal feedback disturbance in which substance P neurones play a major role.

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