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  • Title: Studies on bethanidine and meobentine: direct and indirect effects of antifibrillatory drugs.
    Author: Dangman KH, Wang HH, Reynolds RD.
    Journal: J Cardiovasc Pharmacol; 1986; 8(6):1185-94. PubMed ID: 2434745.
    Abstract:
    The electrophysiological effects of bethanidine and meobentine were studied on isolated canine cardiac tissues and the in situ dog heart using standard techniques. The "direct" electrophysiological effects of bethanidine (in the beta-adrenergic-blocked Purkinje fiber) resemble the effects of meobentine in the normal canine Purkinje fiber; both drugs produce use-dependent decreases of the maximum rate of depolarization of phase 0 and action potential amplitude. In addition, meobentine prolongs action potential duration (100%) of Purkinje fibers. In ventricular muscle cells, the only significant effect of meobentine is a decrease in the maximum rate of depolarization. In studies of ouabain-induced tachycardias and 24-h infarct-induced ventricular arrhythmias, bethanidine tends to increase heart rate and/or exacerbate the ectopic activity (due to its sympathomimetic effects), whereas meobentine tends to reduce heart rate and restore normal sinus rhythm. Both bethanidine and meobentine increase ventricular fibrillation threshold. This increase is evident following bethanidine injection after the subsidence of the sympathomimetic effects. Finally, moderate increases of ventricular fibrillation threshold following treatment with meobentine are accompanied by partial cardiac sympathetic blockade, as indicated by reduced chronotropic responses to stellate ganglion stimulation. The antiarrhythmic and antifibrillatory effects of bethanidine and meobentine may be explained by the use-dependent effects of these drugs on phase 0 of the action potential and by their sympatholytic actions on the autonomic nervous system. Meobentine may, in addition, exert antiarrhythmic effects by decreasing automaticity in partially depolarized cells.
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