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Cardiovascular effects of central choline during endotoxin shock in the rat

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Savcı, Vahide
Ulus, İsmail Hakkı

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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The cardiovascular effects of intracerebroventricular (i.c.v.) administration of choline were studied in endotoxin-treated rats. Intravenous (i.v.) endotoxin (20 mg/kg) caused a moderate hypotension and tachycardia within 10 min of treatment. Choline (50, 100, and 150 mu g; i.c.v.) increased blood pressure and decreased heart rate in this condition in a dose-dependent manner. Mecamylamine (50 mu g; i.c.v.) pre treatment prevented the presser and bradycardic responses to choline, whereas atropine (10 mu g; i.c.v.) failed to alter both responses. Atropine pretreatment, alone, inhibited endotoxin-induced hypotension. The presser responses to choline in endotoxin-treated rats were attenuated by pretreatment with hemicholinium-3 (20 mu g; i.c.v.), a high-affinity neuronal choline-uptake inhibitor. Plasma vasopressin levels of endotoxin-treated rats were severalfold higher than those of control animals, and choline (50-150 mu g; i.c.v.) produced further increases in plasma vasopressin in this condition. Mecamylamine abolished vasopressin response to endotoxin as well as to choline. The vasopressin receptor antagonist, (beta-mercapto-beta,beta-cyclopentamethylene-propionyl(1)-O-Me-Tyr(2),Arg(8))-vasopressin (10 mu g/kg; i.v.) administered 5 min after choline decreased blood pressure from the increased level to the precholine levels but did not alter bradycardia. These results indicate that, in rats treated with endotoxin, choline increases blood pressure and decreases heart rate by a presynaptic mechanism leading to the activation of central nicotinic cholinergic pathways. An increase in plasma vasopressin levels seems to be involved in the presser, but not in the bradycardic response, to choline.

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Cardiovascular system & cardiology, Pharmacology & pharmacy, Choline, Brain acetylcholine, Hypotension, Endotoxin shock, Vasopressin, Nitric-oxide synthase, Platelet-activating-factor, Central nervous-system, Conscious rats, Acetylcholine-release, Hemorrhagic-shock, Endothelin antagonist, Tyrosine-hydroxylase, Vasopressin release, Alpha-adrenoceptor

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Savcı, V. ve Ulus, İ. H. (1997). "Cardiovascular effects of central choline during endotoxin shock in the rat". Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology, 30(5), 667-675.

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