• Teratology · Aug 1987

    Reduction of uterine blood flow by phenylephrine, an alpha-adrenergic agonist, in the day 11 pregnant rat: relationship to potentiation of acetazolamide teratogenesis.

    • K E Ugen and W J Scott.
    • Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio.
    • Teratology. 1987 Aug 1; 36 (1): 133-41.

    AbstractWe have demonstrated previously that phenylephrine, a selective postsynaptic alpha-1-adrenergic agonist, significantly potentiates the incidence of acetazolamide-induced right forelimb ectrodactyly in a dose-response manner. As reported herein, phenylephrine also decreases maternal uterine blood flow in a dose-response manner as measured by radioactive microsphere methodology. At the potentiative dose of 12.5 mg/kg phenylephrine decreases uterine blood flow by 86.8% when compared to control. In turn, pretreatment with prazosin, a selective postsynaptic alpha-1-adrenergic antagonist, prevents this large decrease in uterine blood flow and abolishes the potentiation of acetazolamide teratogenesis by phenylephrine. Although the effects of acetazolamide or acetazolamide + phenylephrine on uterine blood flow were not measured the data suggest a correlation between decreased uterine blood flow and potentiation of acetazolamide teratogenesis.

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