title: Hypotensive effects of peptide T in conscious rats.
abstract: 1. The present study investigated the effects of peptide T on mean arterial blood pressure (MAP) in conscious normotensive Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats, spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and two-kidney one-clip (2K1C) hypertensive rats. 2. Peptide T was infused via the left jugular vein at a rate of 1 mg/kg per h in SD, SHR and 2K1C rats and then at doses of 0.1, 0.25, 0.5, 1 and 5 mg/kg per h in SHR, with 0.9% saline as a sham control in SHR and 2K1C. Mean arterial pressure was measured directly before, during and after infusion. 3. Peptide T (1 mg/kg per h) decreased blood pressure in both SHR (P < 0.01) and 2K1C (P < 0.05). In normotensive SD rats the fall in MAP approached statistical significance (P = 0.06). The effect of peptide T was not significantly different in normotensive compared with hypertensive rats. Saline infusion had no effect. The blood pressure lowering effect of peptide T appeared to be dose-dependent in SHR.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, St George Hospital, University of New South Wales, Australia.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wen
authors.forename: D T
authors.initials: DT
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Michaelis
authors.forename: G W
authors.initials: GW
authors.lastname: Grigg
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Whitworth
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000959:Antihypertensive Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000187:drug effects; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D006978:Hypertension, Renovascular / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D008954:Models, Biological; D015717:Peptide T / Q000494:pharmacology*; D051381:Rats; D011918:Rats, Inbred SHR; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley
chemical_list: D000959:Antihypertensive Agents; D015717:Peptide T