title: [Effect of octopamine on arterial pressure and renal function in the normal rat].
abstract: Octopamine is a beta hydroxylated phenylethanolamine which accumulates in patients with chronic liver damage. A pathogenic role of octopamine in hemodynamic and systemic alterations of advanced liver failure was investigated in normal awake rats. An infusion of octopamine (220 ug/kg/min) was associated with an increase in mean arterial pressure, urinary volume, urinary Na and K output and their filtration fractions. Glomerular filtration rate and renal plasma flow were not affected. A sudden and marked decrease in mean blood pressure and diuresis was observed after stopping octopamine infusion. Findings during the infusion differ from those observed in the hepatorenal syndrome, although the post infusion period was characterized by hypotension and oliguria. Octopamine behaves as a vasoconstrictor and may interfere with the action of physiologic neurotransmitters.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Nefrourología, Escuela de Medicina, Universidad Católica, Santiago, Chile.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Valdivieso
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Loutzenhiser
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Epstein
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000187:drug effects*; D005260:Female; D007668:Kidney / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology; D009655:Octopamine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley
chemical_list: D009655:Octopamine
vernacular_title: Efecto de la octopamina sobre la presión arterial y la función renal en la rata normal.