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Acute effects of catecholamines on function of the rat right heart.

OBJECTIVE: Although the haemodynamic effects of catecholamines on the rat left ventricle have been investigated extensively, only few systematic in vivo studies have been performed on the right ventricle. The aim was to examine the acute effects of noradrenaline and isoproterenol on rat right ventricular function. METHODS: Haemodynamic variables were measured during acute, 20 minute infusion of noradrenaline (0.1 mg.kg-1 x h-1) or isoproterenol (12 micrograms.kg-1 x h-1) in female Sprague Dawley rats. To estimate the contribution of alpha and beta receptor stimulation to these effects, eight rats each were infused with prazosin (0.1 mg.kg-1 x h-1), metoprolol (1.0 mg.kg-1 x h-1), or the alpha and beta antagonist carvedilol (0.5 and 1.0 mg.kg-1 x h-1) alone and in combination with noradrenaline or isoproterenol. RESULTS: Noradrenaline and isoproterenol increased right ventricular systolic pressure (RVSP) from 30.3 (SEM 0.5) (n = 32) to 72.7(2.7) (n = 24) and 72.3(4.4) (n = 8) mm Hg, right ventricular (RV) dP/dtmax from 1848(70.3) to 4058(301) and 3612(366) mm Hg.s-1, and heart rate from 329(6) to 371(6) and 420(8) beats.min-1, respectively. Metoprolol completely prevented the isoproterenol induced haemodynamic changes, but neither metoprolol nor prazosin was able to significantly affect the pressure effect of noradrenaline (noradrenaline + metoprolol: 67.3(6.9) mm Hg, noradrenaline + prazosin: 67.0(3.8) mm Hg). The combination of both blockers, however, prevented the noradrenaline induced rise in RVSP (noradrenaline + metoprolol + prazosin: 36.5(5.1), and noradrenaline + prazosin + metoprolol: 30.0(1.2) mm Hg). Carvedilol (1.0 mg.kg-1 x h-1) significantly attenuated the noradrenaline induced RVSP increase (39.1(3.0) mm Hg), but not to the control range. Metoprolol or carvedilol completely prevented the noradrenaline elicited increases in heart rate (254(7) and 287(20) min-1) and RVdP/dtmax, but prazosin alone had no effect on the heart rate and RVdP/dtmax increase. Thus beta receptor blockade alone failed to significantly influence the noradrenaline induced increase of RVSP despite prevention of the increase in heart rate and RVdP/dtmax. Prazosin had a significant effect on RVSP only in combination with metoprolol. CONCLUSIONS: The combined effect of both alpha and beta blockade exceeds the pure addition of the single effects in the rat right ventricle. Moreover, we speculate that the failure to reduce the noradrenaline induced increase in RVSP by either alpha or beta blockade alone is due to the stimulation of the receptor that is not affected by the respective blocker.[1]

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  1. Acute effects of catecholamines on function of the rat right heart. Irlbeck, M., Zimmer, H.G. Cardiovasc. Res. (1993) [Pubmed]
 
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