Narcotic antagonist-induced hypotension in the spontaneously hypertensive rat |
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Authors: | R M Quock F J Kouchich L K Vaughn D S Fries |
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Institution: | 1. Divisions of Pharmacology and Physiology, Marquette University School of Dentistry, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53233, USA;2. Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmaceutics, University of the Pacific School of Pharmacy, Stockton, California 95207, USA |
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Abstract: | Intravenous naloxone or naltrexone produced transient, dose-related reductions in the mean arterial pressure (MAP) and heart rate (HR) of urethane-anesthetized spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRs). Yet these same doses of narcotic antagonists reduced HR but not MAP of normotensive Wistar-Kyoto rats (WKYs). Such effects were not observed upon administration to SHRs of increasing doses of methylnaltrexone, which possesses no central activity. (+)-Naloxone, which does not block opiate receptors, reduced HR but not MAP of both SHRs and WKYs. These findings indicate that SHRs and WKYs differ in their MAP and HR responses to narcotic antagonists. The high doses required for effect plus the brevity of the responses suggest that these drug effects are perhaps not mu-opiate receptor-mediated; however, the methylnaltrexone and (+)-naloxone findings clearly implicate a central specificity of action. We conclude that narcotic antagonist-induced changes in MAP and HR in SHRs are possibly specific and central in origin yet not mediated by mu-opiate receptors. |
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