• Clin. Pharmacol. Ther. · Jul 1988

    Comparative Study

    The role of alpha-adrenoceptor blockade in the antihypertensive effects of fenoldopam in humans.

    • M B Murphy, R R Weber, K Nelson, and L I Goldberg.
    • University of Chicago, IL 60637.
    • Clin. Pharmacol. Ther. 1988 Jul 1;44(1):49-55.

    AbstractFenoldopam, a dopamine-1 receptor agonist, has been reported to exhibit alpha-adrenoceptor-blocking actions in intact and isolated animal preparations. To determine whether alpha-adrenoceptor blockade contributes to its antihypertensive properties in humans, the effects of fenoldopam on the pressor responses to norepinephrine and angiotensin II were compared in eight normal volunteers. Fenoldopam (0.5 micrograms/kg/min) shifted the dose-response curves for both agonists to the right (p less than 0.05). Dose ratios for an increase in mean blood pressure of 10 mm Hg were 3.3 +/- 0.9 for norepinephrine and 3.2 +/- 0.6 for angiotensin II (p not significant). Consequently, fenoldopam is not a selective alpha-adrenoceptor antagonist at therapeutic concentrations in humans.

      Pubmed     Full text   Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…