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  • Title: Vasoactive and beta-adrenoceptor blocking properties of 3,4-dihydro-8-(2-hydroxy-3-isopropylamino) propoxy-3-nitroxy-2H-1-benzopyran (K-351), a new antihypertensive agent.
    Author: Uchida Y, Nakamura M, Shimizu S, Shirasawa Y, Fujii M.
    Journal: Arch Int Pharmacodyn Ther; 1983 Mar; 262(1):132-49. PubMed ID: 6135395.
    Abstract:
    Single oral administration of K-351 showed a long lasting antihypertensive action in spontaneously hypertensive rats, accompanied by slight bradycardia. K-351 reduced systolic and diastolic blood pressures almost to the same degree. K-351 showed a competitive antagonistic effect on norepinephrine-induced contraction of isolated canine blood vessels. This alpha-adrenoceptor blocking action of K-351 was about 5 times less potent than that of phentolamine. Furthermore, K-351 produced a nitroglycerin-like relaxant action on isolated blood vessels previously contracted with high K+. K-351 showed a nonselective beta-adrenoceptor blocking action in isolated guinea-pig atrium and trachea, and its action was about 2 times more potent than that of propranolol. K-351 did not show an intrinsic sympathomimetic action. In anesthethized dogs, low doses of K-351 reduced the heart rate and antagonized the positive chronotropic and hypotensive responses to isoproterenol. In higher doses, K-351 lowered the blood pressure and showed an antagonistic action on the pressor response to phenylephrine. The desnitro compound of K-351 was deprived of vasoactive properties on isolated blood vessels and hypotensive activity. Results have revealed that K-351 has both beta-adrenoceptor blocking and vasoactive properties which may result in an antihypertensive effect without reflex tachycardia in hypertensive animals.
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