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  • Title: Displacement of nortriptyline and uptake of 14C-lidocaine in the lung after administration of 14C-lidocaine to nortriptyline intoxicated pigs.
    Author: Post C, Lewis DH.
    Journal: Acta Pharmacol Toxicol (Copenh); 1979 Sep; 45(3):218-24. PubMed ID: 506745.
    Abstract:
    Six anaesthetized Swedish land-race pigs were intoxicated by an intravenous infusion of nortriptyline-HCl (NT) up to a concentration of 4.58 +/- 0.58 (mean +/- S.E.M.) microM in arterial whole blood. A rapid injection of 2 mg/kg b.wt. lidocaine-HCl in the right atrium was followed by a rise in arterial whole blood concentration of NT up to a maximum of 7.32 +/- 0.28 microM NT. Amount displaced NT from the cardio-pulmonary circulation after the 14C-lidocaine bolus, was calculated to be 0.66 +/- 0.03 mumol. Lung uptake of 14C-lidocaine during first-pass through the lung was not influenced to any statistically signficant degree compared to a control group. Thus, first pass uptake (FPU) was 30 +/- 8 (mean +/- S.E.M.)% and 39 +/- 5% respectively. The duration of the QRS-complex of the ECG was increased (P less than 0.01) during the infusion of NT from 0.07 +/- 0.01 (mean +/- S.E.M.) sec. to 0.14 +/- 0.02 sec. when 250 mg NT-HCl had been administered. The QRS-duration was decreased (P less than 0.01) after the injection of the 14C-lidocaine bolus to 0.09 +/- 0.01 sec. Mean arterial blood pressure and heartrate decreased slightly during the infusion of NT, but did not change immediately after the 14C-lidocaine bolus.
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