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Lack of beneficial effects on the NO-donor, molsidomine, in the L-NAME-induced pre-eclamptic syndrome in pregnant rats.

1. In pregnant rats, chronic NO-synthase inhibition induces the development of a pre-eclamptic syndrome, characterized by an increase in maternal blood pressure, a loss of vascular refractoriness to pressor stimuli, a reduction in litter size and a decrease in pups (and maternal) weight. We investigated whether a NO-donor, molsidomine, administered during NO synthase inhibition, could restore a normal pregnancy. 2. Pregnant rats were given daily, starting from day 14 of gestation, saline (controls), or L-NAME (50 mg kg-1 d-1), or molsidomine (15 or 30 mg kg-1 d-1), or the L-NAME + molsidomine combinations. Maternal blood pressure and body weight, litter size, pups weight and vascular reactivity to pressor stimuli (angiotensin II, noradrenaline, electrical stimulation of the spinal cord) were investigated. 3. L-NAME alone, as compared to controls, increased maternal blood pressure, reduced litter size (-59%), increased foetal reabsorptions (+ 625%) and decreased foetal weight (-10%). Vascular reactivity to pressor stimuli was enhanced. 4. Molsidomine alone, as compared to controls, dose-dependently decreased maternal blood pressure but had no effect vascular reactivity and, whatever the dose, on foetal outcome. 5. The L-NAME-molsidomine combinations dose (of molsidomine)-dependently limited the rise in maternal blood pressure induced by L-NAME alone but unexpectedly, dose-dependently and significantly worsened pregnancy evolution, e.g., at 30 mg kg-1 d-1: litter size (-80%), foetal reabsorptions (+ 1025%), foetal weight (-24%). Vascular reactivity to pressor stimuli was paradoxically further enhanced. 6. Thus, in a chronic NO deprivation-induced model of pre-eclampsia in rats, molsidomine, possibly because of its hypotensive action, worsens the foetal outcome, which questions the usefulness of NO-donors in pre-eclamptic women.[1]

References

  1. Lack of beneficial effects on the NO-donor, molsidomine, in the L-NAME-induced pre-eclamptic syndrome in pregnant rats. Richer, C., Boulanger, H., Es-Slami, S., Giudicelli, J.F. Br. J. Pharmacol. (1996) [Pubmed]
 
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