title: Absence of relationship between antiarrhythmic effects of antidepressant drugs and lipid peroxidation.
abstract: Tricyclic antidepressant drugs may affect the cardiovascular system, principally in patients with preexisting cardiac disease. The present study was undertaken to compare the effects of amitriptyline and mianserin with those of tianeptine, an atypical tricyclic antidepressant drug, in rat isolated working heart subjected to a local myocardial ischemia. Coronary, aortic and cardiac flows, and heart rate remained stable during the whole preischemic period in control hearts. Ligation of the left main coronary artery induced a 50% decrease in coronary, aortic and cardiac flow without any change in heart rate. Reperfusion was characterized by the occurrence of ventricular arrhythmias (ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation) and by a marked reduction in cardiodynamic parameters. Amitriptyline (1 and 10 mumol/l) and mianserin (1 and 10 mumol/l) exhibited an antiarrhythmic activity against reperfusion arrhythmias. Tianeptine (1 and 10 mumol/l) was not able to reduce the incidence of reperfusion arrhythmias. Although tianeptine did not change heart rate, mianserin and amitriptyline induced a bradycardia. Mianserin and amitriptyline improved the cardiac recovery of cardiac function during reperfusion. The cardiodynamic parameters (coronary, aortic and cardiac flows) were not altered by tianeptine during the preischemic period. Furthermore, these parameters were similar to those observed in the control group both during ischemia and reperfusion. The beneficial effects of amitriptyline and mianserin observed in the setting of myocardial reperfusion were not associated with a reduced lipoperoxidation investigated by using an in vitro model in the presence or absence of a free-radical-generating system. The results of the present study indicate that the pronounced antiarrhythmic activities of mianserin and amitriptyline cannot be explained by an antiperoxidative action of these drugs.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Physiopathologie et Pharmacologie Cardiovasculaire Experimentales, Facultés de Médecine et de Pharmacie, Dijon, France.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bril
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Abadie
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ben Baouali
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Maupoil
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Rochette
mesh_terms: D000639:Amitriptyline / Q000494:pharmacology* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000818:Animals; D000889:Anti-Arrhythmia Agents / Q000494:pharmacology* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000929:Antidepressive Agents, Tricyclic / Q000494:pharmacology* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001921:Brain / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D002302:Cardiac Output / Q000187:drug effects; D003326:Coronary Circulation / Q000187:drug effects; D006339:Heart Rate / Q000187:drug effects; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D015227:Lipid Peroxidation / Q000187:drug effects*; D008297:Male; D008803:Mianserin / Q000494:pharmacology* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000503:physiopathology; D015428:Myocardial Reperfusion Injury / Q000517:prevention & control; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D013841:Thiazepines / Q000494:pharmacology* / Q000627:therapeutic use
chemical_list: D000889:Anti-Arrhythmia Agents; D000929:Antidepressive Agents, Tricyclic; D013841:Thiazepines; C050504:tianeptine; D000639:Amitriptyline; D008803:Mianserin