title: Toxicity study of the angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor rentiapril in rats.
abstract: A three-months toxicity study of an angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor, rentiapril (CAS 80830-42-8), was performed in Sprague-Dawley rats by oral administration. The dose levels of 0, 30, 125, 500 and 1000 mg/kg were tested in both sexes, in which each experimental group comprised 10 rats. Another ACE inhibitor, captopril, was used as a reference compound. Rentiapril at the highest dose of 1000 mg/kg caused low food consumption and death of some animals with signs of bloody feces and anemia. In males and females receiving 500 and 1000 mg/kg, there were low body weight gain, increases in water intake, urine volume and serum BUN level, and decreases in levels of various erythrocytic parameters. Kidney weight was increased dose-dependently in both sexes. Histopathologically, renal changes in the 500 and 1000 mg/kg groups consisted of proximal tubular degeneration, juxtaglomerular cell hyperplasia and interstitial cell infiltration. Similar, but mild, changes in proximal tubules were present in the female 125 mg/kg group. Dead animals from the highest dose groups further showed gastrointestinal hemorrhagic erosion and/or ulcer, decreased bone marrow erythropoiesis and hepatocytic vacuolar degeneration. There was no pathological alteration in rats from other rentiapril-treated groups, as well as in controls. These results indicate that the no-effect dose of rentiapril in rats by three months oral administration is 30 mg/kg in female and 125 mg/kg in male, and suggest that, like other ACE-inhibitors, this compound also has a toxic potential to affect renal tissues.
authors.affiliation: Development Research Laboratories, Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Osaka, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Takase
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ikuse
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Aono
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Okahara
mesh_terms: D015097:3-Mercaptopropionic Acid / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000633:toxicity; D000806:Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors / Q000633:toxicity*; D000818:Animals; D002216:Captopril / Q000633:toxicity; D004573:Electrolytes / Q000097:blood / Q000652:urine; D005260:Female; D007668:Kidney / Q000473:pathology; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D009929:Organ Size / Q000187:drug effects; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D053778:Thiazolidines
chemical_list: D000806:Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors; D004573:Electrolytes; D053778:Thiazolidines; D002216:Captopril; D015097:3-Mercaptopropionic Acid; C033437:rentiapril