title: Haemodynamic effects of prazosin.
abstract: Parzosin, 0.001 to 10 mg/kg, was administered intravenously to anesthetized normal rats. In the dose range 0.001 to 0.01 mg/kg, the drug induced highly significant, dose-related falls in blood pressure, pulse pressure and heart rate. With doses above 0.01 mg/kg, there was a plateau in hypotensive efficacy and a diminution in negative chronotropic activity. Both actions of prazosin (0.01 mg/kg) were unaffected by vagal blockade with atropine, while hypotensive potency was unimpaired after beta-adrenoreceptor blockade. The vasodilator, diazoxide, lowered blood pressure, widened pulse pressure and caused tachycardia in rats pre-treated with pentolinium. In contrast, all effects of prazosin were abolished by ganglion blockade. These findings, together with the absence of compensatory tachycardia or gross renin hypersecretion during prazosin-induced hypotension, are compatible with an antisympathotonic mode of action for the drug. However, consistent with its effects on cyclic nucleotide distribution, prazosin appears to enhance isoprenaline-induced beta-receptor stimulation.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001285:Atropine / Q000494:pharmacology; D001772:Blood Cell Count; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000187:drug effects; D003981:Diazoxide / Q000494:pharmacology; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004347:Drug Interactions; D006339:Heart Rate / Q000187:drug effects; D006439:Hemodynamics / Q000187:drug effects*; D007545:Isoproterenol / Q000494:pharmacology; D010425:Pentolinium Tartrate / Q000494:pharmacology; D011224:Prazosin / Q000494:pharmacology*; D011799:Quinazolines / Q000494:pharmacology*; D051381:Rats; D012083:Renin / Q000097:blood; D013999:Timolol / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D011799:Quinazolines; D001285:Atropine; D013999:Timolol; D010425:Pentolinium Tartrate; D012083:Renin; D007545:Isoproterenol; D003981:Diazoxide; D011224:Prazosin