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Further observations on the mechanism of the cardiovascular reflexes caused by exposure of the peritoneum to neurotensin.

Abstract
Intraperitoneal (IP) injections of either 1, 3 or 9 ml of neurotensin-containing solutions (NTCS) with 5.4, 54, 540 or 5400 nM of neurotensin (NT) were found to cause concentration-dependent, but volume-independent, increases of blood pressure (BP) and heart rate (HR) in anesthetized, close-abdomen guinea pigs. The duration of both effects varied between 15 to 30 min depending both on the NT concentration and volume of NTCS utilized. Indirect evidence suggested that NT inactivation within the peritoneal cavity contributed to shorten the duration of NT effects. Animal pretreatment with a ganglion blocker, adrenoceptor antagonists, clonidine or capsaicin, reduced the BP and HR increases caused by IP injection of NTCS whereas both effects were either unaffected or slightly potentiated by animal pretreatment with atropine, morphine or captopril. Addition of a local anesthetic to NTCS inhibited the hemodynamic effects of NT whereas acute bilateral cervical vagotomy was without significant effect. These results suggest that NT has the ability to trigger cardiovascular reflexes following its IP injection in guinea pigs. The activation of peritoneal, sympathetic, capsaicin-sensitive primary afferents appears to be at the basis of these reflexes, the amplitudes of which seem poorly related to the volume of NTCS utilized (at least within the range of volume examined).
AuthorsF Rioux, M Lemieux, M Lebel
JournalPeptides (Peptides) 1990 Jul-Aug Vol. 11 Issue 4 Pg. 805-16 ISSN: 0196-9781 [Print] United States
PMID2235683 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
Chemical References
  • Solutions
  • Neurotensin
  • Lidocaine
  • Capsaicin
Topics
  • Animals
  • Blood Pressure (drug effects)
  • Capsaicin (pharmacology)
  • Drug Stability
  • Female
  • Guinea Pigs
  • Heart Rate (drug effects)
  • Hematocrit
  • Injections, Intraperitoneal
  • Injections, Intravenous
  • Lidocaine (pharmacology)
  • Male
  • Neurotensin (pharmacology)
  • Peritoneum (innervation)
  • Reflex (drug effects)
  • Solutions
  • Vagotomy
  • Vagus Nerve (physiology)

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