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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1983-6-10
pubmed:abstractText
Effects of an antihypertensive drug, guanfacine, on blood pressure and heart rate were studied in comparison with findings in a related drug, clonidine. Conscious rats (normotensive rat, SHR, DOCA-hypertensive rat and renal hypertensive rat), anesthetized rats and pithed rats were used. Effects of guanfacine resembled those of clonidine but were about 10 times less potent. Both drugs produced an initial transient increase in blood pressure and a prolonged decrease then followed. In the SHR, a decrease in blood pressure occurred. The vasopressor effect of guanfacine was inhibited by phentolamine (1 mg/kg i.v.) and potentiated after previous treatment of the rats with reserpine (5 mg/kg i.p. 24 hr prior to drug administration, indicating that the effect was produced through activation of peripheral alpha-adrenoceptors. The vasodepressor effect of guanfacine was clearly dose-dependent, and was more marked when the initial level of the blood pressure was high, while that of clonidine was dose-dependent, only within a limited dosage range. Vasodepressor effects of guanfacine were associated with a decrease in the efferent discharges of the renal sympathetic nerve. Guanfacine, when given intracisternally produced a greater fall of blood pressure and a greater inhibition of the renal nerve activity than when given intravenously. It is concluded that the antihypertensive effects of guanfacine are due to stimulation of alpha-adrenoceptors within the central nervous system.
pubmed:language
jpn
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0015-5691
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
77
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
295-312
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-7-27
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:6762984-Anesthesia, pubmed-meshheading:6762984-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:6762984-Antihypertensive Agents, pubmed-meshheading:6762984-Blood Pressure, pubmed-meshheading:6762984-Clonidine, pubmed-meshheading:6762984-Consciousness, pubmed-meshheading:6762984-Decerebrate State, pubmed-meshheading:6762984-Electric Stimulation, pubmed-meshheading:6762984-Guanfacine, pubmed-meshheading:6762984-Guanidines, pubmed-meshheading:6762984-Heart Rate, pubmed-meshheading:6762984-Hypertension, pubmed-meshheading:6762984-Hypertension, Renal, pubmed-meshheading:6762984-Male, pubmed-meshheading:6762984-Phenylacetates, pubmed-meshheading:6762984-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:6762984-Rats, Inbred Strains, pubmed-meshheading:6762984-Respiration, pubmed-meshheading:6762984-Sympathetic Nervous System
pubmed:year
1981
pubmed:articleTitle
[Antihypertensive effect of guanfacine in rats].
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, English Abstract