title: Cardiovascular effects of a specific nonpeptide antagonist of substance P (NK-1) receptor in DOCA-salt hypertension.
abstract: The neurotransmitter substance P acts also as a potent vasodilator. Its participation in the pathogenesis of deoxycorticosterone acetate (DOCA)-salt hypertension was evaluated by an acute infusion of a newly synthesized, potent, specific nonpeptide antagonist of substance P at the NK-1 receptor, the agent CP 96,345. In conscious unrestrained rats, CP 96,345 induced significant and sustained increases in mean arterial pressure of DOCA-salt rats but only small, transient, and nonsignificant rises in blood pressure of sham-treated control rats. The rise in blood pressure was not accompanied by changes in heart rate. Maximal blood pressure increase in DOCA-salt rats was 31.7 +/- 14.8 mm Hg. In a second series of experiments, the hemodynamic effects of this antagonist were evaluated under anesthesia in both DOCA-salt and sham-treated control rats by the thermodilution method. During CP 96,345 infusion, sustained increases in cardiac index and stroke volume and decreases in total peripheral resistance were observed in both DOCA-salt and control rats. In DOCA-salt rats, cardiac index rose by 79.4%, while total peripheral resistance fell by 27.9% of the baseline values. In control rats, the changes were smaller (+27.2% and -22.5%, respectively). Stroke volume changed in parallel to cardiac output in both groups. The data suggest that acute blockade of NK-1 receptors increases blood pressure in DOCA-salt rats mainly by an increase in cardiac output. We conclude that endogenous substance P tends to counteract the DOCA-salt-induced elevation of blood pressure by modulating both cardiac output and peripheral resistance.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001713:Biphenyl Compounds / Q000494:pharmacology*; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000187:drug effects; D002302:Cardiac Output / Q000187:drug effects; D002306:Cardiac Volume / Q000187:drug effects; D003900:Desoxycorticosterone; D006339:Heart Rate / Q000187:drug effects; D006439:Hemodynamics / Q000187:drug effects*; D006973:Hypertension / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006993:Hypnotics and Sedatives / Q000494:pharmacology*; D008297:Male; D064729:Neurokinin-1 Receptor Antagonists; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D012965:Sodium Chloride; D013373:Substance P / Q000502:physiology*; D014655:Vascular Resistance / Q000187:drug effects
chemical_list: D001713:Biphenyl Compounds; D006993:Hypnotics and Sedatives; D064729:Neurokinin-1 Receptor Antagonists; D013373:Substance P; D003900:Desoxycorticosterone; D012965:Sodium Chloride; C066892:CP 96345