title: Influence of calcium antagonists on renal function and secondary hyperparathyroidism in acute renal failure in rats.
abstract: Glycerol-induced acute renal failure (ARF) is characterized by an increase in serum creatinine, urea, and phosphate concentration, and severe impairment of creatinine clearance. Secondary hyperparathyroidism develops rapidly during ARF. The calcium antagonist nisoldipine clearly improves renal function, which becomes evident by an improvement of creatinine clearance and attenuation of the increase of serum creatinine, urea, and phosphate concentrations. Further secondary hyperparathyroidism is ameliorated by nisoldipine treatment. In spite of normalization of the hypocalcemia in ARF by nisoldipine, weak hyperparathyroidism persists, suggesting that hypocalcemia is not exclusively responsible for elevated parathyroid hormone serum levels in ARF.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology, Bayer AG, Wuppertal, Germany.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Neuser
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hirth-Dietrich
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Stasch
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kazda
mesh_terms: D058186:Acute Kidney Injury / Q000188:drug therapy*; D000818:Animals; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000187:drug effects; D005919:Glomerular Filtration Rate / Q000187:drug effects; D006962:Hyperparathyroidism, Secondary / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D015737:Nisoldipine / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains
chemical_list: D015737:Nisoldipine