Cardiovascular effects in the rat of ketanserin, a novel 5-hydroxytryptamine receptor blocking agent.
Following intravenous administration of ketanserin (0.3-10 mg kg-1) to conscious or anaesthetized normotensive and spontaneously hypertensive rats there were dose-dependent blood pressure reductions but no compensatory tachycardia. Intracerebroventricular administration of ketanserin (25-500 microgram) had inconsistent and largely insignificant cardiovascular effects. In a dose range where it produces hypotension ketanserin antagonized the pressor responses to adrenaline and noradrenaline as well as to 5-hydroxytryptamine in monoamine depleted and spinalized rats. It is suggested that the hypotensive action of ketanserin in the rat does not involve a central mechanism but a peripheral alpha-adrenolytic action is implicated.
D000818:Animals; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000187:drug effects; D006339:Heart Rate / Q000187:drug effects; D006439:Hemodynamics / Q000187:drug effects*; D007276:Injections, Intraventricular; D007650:Ketanserin; D008297:Male; D010880:Piperidines / Q000494:pharmacology*; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D012702:Serotonin Antagonists / Q000494:pharmacology*; D013997:Time Factors
D010880:Piperidines; D012702:Serotonin Antagonists; D007650:Ketanserin