The effect of cetirizine on the human isolated bronchus: Interaction with salbutamol
1991
Abstract The effects of
cetirizine(C), a new generation, nonsedative, H 1 -
antihistaminedrug, were studied on human isolated bronchi. C is a potent antagonist of the bronchial muscle contraction induced by histamine, irrespective of whether C is administered by cumulative addition or prophylactically. In the former case, this effect of C was significant at a concentration of 3 × 10 −8 mol/L and was maximal at a concentration of 10 −5 mol/L. The −log of concentration of C causing 50% of the maximal effect induced was 7.30 ± 0.05 (n = 6), and the effect produced was not significantly modified by bronchial epithelium removal. When C was administered prophylactically, the concentration-response curves to histamine were displaced to the right, but the reduction of maximum histamine response suggests a noncompetitive type of antagonism. C is devoid of notable
anticholinergiceffects. At concentrations of 10 −8 to 10 −7 mol/L, C proved capable of enhancing the relaxant effect produced by
salbutamol(10 −7 to 3 × 10 −7 mol/L) on human isolated bronchi that had been contracted by either histamine or acetylcholine (ACh). The synergy appeared to be additive or potentiating, depending on
salbutamol(SAL) concentrations. Under similar conditions,
mepyraminedoes not potentiate the effects of SAL against histamine. Finally, at concentrations of 10 −8 to 10 −6 mol/L, C reduced the functional antagonism observed between SAL and ACh, as can be observed by the increase, in the presence of C, of the maximal relaxant effect of SAL on contractions produced by 10 −3 mol/L of ACh. We may, therefore, conclude that C appears to be a specific
antihistamineon human isolated bronchi and that it appears to potentiate the bronchodilator effect of SAL on this preparation.
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