title: Systemic and regional hemodynamic effects of perindopril in experimental heart failure.
abstract: The effects of converting-enzyme inhibition by perindoprilat (0.5 mg/kg, intravenously, short-term administration) or perindopril (2 mg/kg, orally, long-term administration once a day for 21 days) on systemic and regional hemodynamics were studied on a new rat model of heart failure, which was induced by microembolization of coronary vessels by 15 microns plastic microspheres. Cardiac output and regional blood flows were measured by microsphere technique; the tone of the venous vessels was determined as mean circulatory filling pressure in conscious, freely moving rats. Perindoprilat evoked a much more prominent increase in kidneys, adrenal glands, intestine, and skin blood flows in embolized rats than in sham-operated rats. The differences between the effects of long-term treatment with perindopril in sham-operated and embolized rats were highly significant. Mean circulatory filling pressure was decreased by short-term and long-term administration of an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor. It is concluded that venous vessels could be one of the target sites for the effects of perindopril-like drugs.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Experimental Pharmacology, Cardiology Research Center, Moscow, Russia.
authors.forename: O S
authors.initials: OS
authors.lastname: Medvedev
authors.forename: E A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Gorodetskaya
mesh_terms: D000806:Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors / Q000494:pharmacology*; D000818:Animals; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000188:drug therapy*; D006439:Hemodynamics / Q000187:drug effects*; D007211:Indoles / Q000494:pharmacology*; D020913:Perindopril; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D012039:Regional Blood Flow / Q000187:drug effects; D014655:Vascular Resistance / Q000187:drug effects; D014680:Veins / Q000187:drug effects
chemical_list: D000806:Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors; D007211:Indoles; D020913:Perindopril