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  • Title: Possible mechanisms underlying the hypertensive response to clonidine in freely moving, normotensive rats.
    Author: Kawasaki H, Yamamoto R, Takasaki K.
    Journal: Jpn J Pharmacol; 1986 Nov; 42(3):405-17. PubMed ID: 3820860.
    Abstract:
    Possible mechanisms underlying the hypertensive response to intracerebroventricular (i.c.v.) or intravenous (i.v.) injection of clonidine were investigated in freely moving, normotensive rats. In conscious rats, clonidine (2-20 micrograms) injected i.c.v. caused a dose-dependent and long-lasting pressor response associated with bradycardia. A similarly long-lasting pressor response was induced following an initial rapid rise in mean blood pressure after i.v. bolus injections of clonidine (5-50 micrograms/kg). In pentobarbital-anesthetized rats, the prolonged pressor responses to i.v. and i.c.v. injected clonidine at high doses were significantly smaller than those in conscious rats. Low doses of clonidine caused only depressor responses which developed gradually. No significant changes in concentrations of plasma norepinephrine and epinephrine were found during the pressor period after i.c.v. injection of clonidine (20 micrograms). Systemic (2 mg/kg, i.v.) or central (100 micrograms, i.c.v.) pretreatment with phentolamine abolished only the prolonged pressor response to both i.c.v. (20 micrograms) and i.v. (50 micrograms/kg) injected clonidine. The prolonged pressor response to clonidine (20 micrograms, i.c.v.) was enhanced by pretreatment with hexamethonium (25 mg/kg, i.v.), methylatropine (1 mg/kg, i.v.) or atropine (1 mg/kg, i.v.) and it was not affected by pretreatment with saralasin (300 micrograms/kg and 25 micrograms/kg/min, i.v.), d(CH2)5Tyr(Me)-arginine-vasopressin, a vasopressin antagonist (50 micrograms/kg, i.v.) or naloxone (1 mg/kg, i.v.). Neither adrenalectomy nor adrenal demedullation had an effect on the pressor response to clonidine (20 micrograms, i.c.v.). In adrenalectomized rats, systemic pretreatment with hexamethonium (25 mg/kg, i.v.) caused a potentiation of the pressor response to clonidine (20 micrograms, i.c.v.). These results suggest that clonidine induces the pressor response through activation of central alpha-adrenoceptors, probably the alpha 2 subtype, without an increase in sympatho-adrenomedullary activity. It is speculated that the response may be mediated by vasoactive humoral substance(s).
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