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The purpose of the present study was to characterize the effects of mianserin at α2-adrenoceptors. Firstly, the action of mianserin on postganglionic sympathetic fibres has been studied using the tachycardia induced by stimulation of the cardiac nerve in dogs. Mianserin increased this tachycardia, but could not prevent the inhibitory effect of clonidine in this model. However, an antagonistic effect of mianserin against clonidine was observed when animals were pretreated with desipramine. Secondly, mianserin antagonized the inhibitory effect of clonidine on the electrically stimulated guinea-pig ileum. In high concentrations, mianserin reduced both electrically and acetylcholine induced contractions. Thirdly, mianserin antagonised the sleep induced by clonidine in chickens.
These results are consistent with α2-adrenoceptor blocking properties of mianserin in peripheral noradrenergic fibres in dogs, in cholinergic fibres in guinea-pig ileum and in the central nervous system in chickens.
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Pommier, Y., Andréjak, M., Mouillé, P. et al. Interaction between mianserin and clonidine at α 2-Adrenoceptors. Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Arch. Pharmacol. 318, 288–294 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00501167
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