title: The effect of prostaglandin E2 on the arterial blood pressure of normotensive and spontaneously hypertensive rats.
abstract: 1 In anaesthetized rats, injection of prostaglandin E(2) (0.5-5.0 mug/kg i.v.) caused a dose-dependent vasodepressor response. The magnitude of response was significantly greater in spontaneously hypertensive rats than in normotensive rats.2 In spontaneously hypertensive rats, the magnitude of the prostaglandin-induced depressor response was closely correlated with blood pressure. The higher the blood pressure, the greater was the response evoked by prostaglandin.3 In spontaneously hypertensive rats, a combination of guanethidine plus hydralazine reduced both blood pressure and prostaglandin-induced depressor responses.4 Spontaneously hypertensive rats and normotensive rats did not differ in the magnitude of their vasodepressor responses to intravenously administered acetylcholine or isoprenaline.
mesh_terms: D000109:Acetylcholine / Q000494:pharmacology; D000375:Aging; D000818:Animals; D000959:Antihypertensive Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000187:drug effects*; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D006145:Guanethidine / Q000494:pharmacology; D006830:Hydralazine / Q000494:pharmacology; D006973:Hypertension / Q000503:physiopathology*; D007545:Isoproterenol / Q000494:pharmacology; D008297:Male; D011453:Prostaglandins / Q000494:pharmacology*; D051381:Rats; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D000959:Antihypertensive Agents; D011453:Prostaglandins; D006830:Hydralazine; D007545:Isoproterenol; D000109:Acetylcholine; D006145:Guanethidine