[Effect of imipramine on the vasomotor tone, blood supply and activity of the heart].
In tests conducted on anesthetized cats it was shown that imipramine used in doses of 1 and 3 mg/kg causes hypertension, increases the vascular tone in the kidneys and limbs. In doses of 5 and 10 mg/kg the drug provokes a short-lived (1--3 minutes) hypertension with a subsequent prolonged drop of the arterial pressure. The tonicity of the kidney and limb arteries changes in the same way as the arterial pressure, but the vascular tone in the heart only falls. In these doses imipramine blocks the adrenergic transmission of the excitation from the sympathetic nerve to the effector, e. g. produces a sympatholytic effect. Imipramine in a dose of 1 mg/kg intensifies the coronary circulation and then the oxygen absorption by the heart increases to a still greater degree. This is attended by the development of tachycardia, a greater cardiac output and an intensified contractility of the myocardium. In doses of 5 and 10 mg/kg imipramine protractedly reduces the cardiac ejection, coronary blood flow and significantly lowers the contractile function of the heart muscle.
D000818:Animals; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000187:drug effects; D002302:Cardiac Output / Q000187:drug effects; D002306:Cardiac Volume / Q000187:drug effects; D002415:Cats; D003326:Coronary Circulation / Q000187:drug effects; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000187:drug effects*; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D005121:Extremities / Q000098:blood supply; D005260:Female; D006321:Heart / Q000187:drug effects*; D007099:Imipramine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D007668:Kidney / Q000098:blood supply; D008297:Male; D009200:Myocardial Contraction / Q000187:drug effects; D011674:Pulse / Q000187:drug effects; D014655:Vascular Resistance / Q000187:drug effects; D014666:Vasomotor System / Q000187:drug effects*
D007099:Imipramine
O vliianii imipramina na vazomoternyĭ tonus, krovosnabzhenie i deiatelnostserdtsa.