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Cardiovascular effects of the essential oil of Croton zehntneri leaves in DOCA-salt hypertensive, conscious rats.

Abstract
This study investigated the cardiovascular effects of the essential oil of Croton zehntneri (EOCZ) in deoxycorticosterone-acetate (DOCA)-salt hypertensive rats. Furthermore, in vitro experiments using isolated thoracic aortic rings were performed to assess the vascular effects of the EOCZ. In conscious hypertensive rats, intravenous (i.v.) injections of EOCZ (1-20 mg/kg) induced rapid (2-4 s) and dose-dependent hypotension and bradycardia (phase 1). The hypotension was followed by a significant pressor effect that was more evident at the higher doses (10 and 20 mg/kg) of EOCZ. Hypotension and bradycardia of EOCZ (phase 1) were abolished and respectively reversed into pressor and tachycardiac effects by methylatropine (1 mg/kg, i.v.) pretreatment. In isolated endothelium-intact aortic preparations, increasing concentrations (1-1000 microg/mL) of EOCZ relaxed the potassium-induced contraction in a concentration-dependent manner with an IC50 (geometric mean [95% confidence interval]) value of 202.0 [92.0-443.7] microg/mL. This vasorelaxant effect remained unaffected by either mechanical removal of functional vascular endothelium (IC50 = 189.0 [159.4-224.7] microg/mL) or the addition of atropine (1 microM) (IC50 = 158.6 [79.8-316.2] microg/mL) in the perfusion medium. These data show that i.v. administration of EOCZ in DOCA-salt hypertensive rats induces a vago-vagal reflex decreases in heart rate and blood pressure (phase 1). EOCZ may induce a second and delayed hypotension due to its direct endothelium-independent vasorelaxant effects, but it seems to be buffered by the pressor component (subsequent to phase 1) of EOCZ. This pattern of blood pressure and heart rate responses to EOCZ seems unaltered by DOCA-salt hypertension, as was similar to that previously reported in conscious normotensive rats.
AuthorsRodrigo José Bezerra de Siqueira, Gloria Pinto Duarte, Pedro Jorge Caldas Magalhães, Saad Lahlou
JournalNatural product communications (Nat Prod Commun) Vol. 8 Issue 8 Pg. 1167-70 (Aug 2013) ISSN: 1934-578X [Print] United States
PMID24079196 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
Chemical References
  • Cardiovascular Agents
  • Oils, Volatile
  • Desoxycorticosterone
Topics
  • Animals
  • Aorta, Thoracic (drug effects)
  • Bradycardia (chemically induced)
  • Cardiovascular Agents (analysis)
  • Croton (chemistry)
  • Desoxycorticosterone
  • In Vitro Techniques
  • Male
  • Oils, Volatile (chemistry, pharmacology)
  • Rats
  • Rats, Wistar

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