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  • Title: Systemic and regional haemodynamic responses to isoprenaline in conscious renal hypertensive rabbits.
    Author: van Boom M, Saxena PR.
    Journal: Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol; 1981; 8(3):227-39. PubMed ID: 7249410.
    Abstract:
    1. Using the electromagnetic flow probe and the radioactive microsphere technique, systemic and regional haemodynamic variables were measured in conscious normotensive and hypertensive rabbits. The rabbits were made hypertensive by unilateral nephrectomy combined with cellophane-wrapping of the remaining kidney and systemic and regional haemodynamic effects of isoprenaline infusions (0.5 micrograms.kg-1 .min-1) were compared in the two groups of animals. 2. Isoprenaline evoked increases in heart rate and cardiac index while the total peripheral resistance decreased. In the hypertensive rabbits the effects were similar, except for a significantly more pronounced decrease in blood pressure. 3. Isoprenaline increased the fraction of the cardiac output delivered to the heart, skin and fat, at the expense of the fractions to the brain, stomach, small intestine, pancreas, liver and kidney(s) in both normotensive and hypertensive animals. Local peripheral resistance was decreased, most prominently, in the heart, skin, skeletal muscle and fat. 4. In the normotensive rabbits pretreatment with propranolol (4 mg.kg-1 infused in 1 h) effectively blocked the cardiovascular responses following isoprenaline infusion. 4. Since the systemic and regional haemodynamic effects of isoprenaline were not less (if anything, slightly more) in the hypertensive than in the normotensive rabbits, our results provide no evidence for subsensitivity of beta-adrenoceptors as a contributory factor in the development of hypertension in this model.
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