TY - JOUR
T1 - Assessment of anti-arrhythmic activity of antipsychotic drugs in an animal model
T2 - Influence of non-cardiac α1-adrenergic receptors
AU - Mow, Tomas
AU - Frederiksen, Kristen
AU - Thomsen, Morten B.
N1 - Copyright © 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
PY - 2015/2/5
Y1 - 2015/2/5
N2 - Torsades de Pointes (TdP) is a potentially lethal cardiac arrhythmia and a known adverse effect of many drugs secondary to block of the rapidly activating delayed rectifier potassium current (IKr). In animal models antipsychotic drugs have shown reduced pro-arrhythmic potential compared to drugs with comparable IKr-blocking characteristics. The reduced pro-arrhythmic properties of antipsychotic drugs has been attributed to a variety of different causes e.g., effects on α1-adrenergic receptors, β-adrenergic receptors, muscarinic receptors or cardiac ion channels like Ca2+- and Na+-channels. Since only limited experimental information exists about the effects of α1-adrenergic receptor activity of antipsychotic drugs in pro-arrhythmic models, we have decided to investigate this. In this study we show that four antipsychotic drugs all have high affinity for α1-adrenergic receptor (sertindole>risperidone>haloperidol>olanzapine) and all block IKr (sertindole>haloperidol>risperidone>olanzapine). In canine Purkinje fibres, α1-adrenergic stimulation prolonged action potential duration; however, the stimulation does not cause afterdepolarizations, even in the presence of dofetilide-induced delayed repolarization. We showed for the first time in an in vivo pro-arrhythmic rabbit model that several antipsychotic drugs in accordance with their known α1-adrenergic receptor blocking properties reduced the incidence of drug-induced TdP and that the overall ability of the antipsychotic drugs to prevent TdP was associated with prevention of methoxamine induced increase in blood pressure. Further investigations are required to clarify the relative importance of α1-adrenergic receptor antagonism in conjunction with the additional effects of antipsychotic drugs on various receptors and ion channels.
AB - Torsades de Pointes (TdP) is a potentially lethal cardiac arrhythmia and a known adverse effect of many drugs secondary to block of the rapidly activating delayed rectifier potassium current (IKr). In animal models antipsychotic drugs have shown reduced pro-arrhythmic potential compared to drugs with comparable IKr-blocking characteristics. The reduced pro-arrhythmic properties of antipsychotic drugs has been attributed to a variety of different causes e.g., effects on α1-adrenergic receptors, β-adrenergic receptors, muscarinic receptors or cardiac ion channels like Ca2+- and Na+-channels. Since only limited experimental information exists about the effects of α1-adrenergic receptor activity of antipsychotic drugs in pro-arrhythmic models, we have decided to investigate this. In this study we show that four antipsychotic drugs all have high affinity for α1-adrenergic receptor (sertindole>risperidone>haloperidol>olanzapine) and all block IKr (sertindole>haloperidol>risperidone>olanzapine). In canine Purkinje fibres, α1-adrenergic stimulation prolonged action potential duration; however, the stimulation does not cause afterdepolarizations, even in the presence of dofetilide-induced delayed repolarization. We showed for the first time in an in vivo pro-arrhythmic rabbit model that several antipsychotic drugs in accordance with their known α1-adrenergic receptor blocking properties reduced the incidence of drug-induced TdP and that the overall ability of the antipsychotic drugs to prevent TdP was associated with prevention of methoxamine induced increase in blood pressure. Further investigations are required to clarify the relative importance of α1-adrenergic receptor antagonism in conjunction with the additional effects of antipsychotic drugs on various receptors and ion channels.
U2 - 10.1016/j.ejphar.2014.12.012
DO - 10.1016/j.ejphar.2014.12.012
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 25530269
SN - 0014-2999
VL - 748
SP - 10
EP - 17
JO - European Journal of Pharmacology
JF - European Journal of Pharmacology
ER -