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Am J Hypertens. 1995 May;8(5 Pt 1):454-60.
Effect of angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor (lisinopril) on insulin sensitivity and sodium transport in mild hypertension.
Falkner B, Canessa M, Anzalone D.
Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19129, USA.
The purpose of this study was to determine whether antihypertensive therapy with the angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor lisinopril would alter cell Na+ transport kinetics, metabolic parameters associated with insulin resistance, or both in young adults with mild hypertension. Sixteen young adults (mean age 29 +/- 4 years) were treated with placebo for 8 weeks, then with lisinopril for 12 weeks. Metabolic risk factors examined included plasma lipid levels, plasma insulin concentration during an oral glucose tolerance test, and insulin sensitivity determined by an euglycemic hyperinsulinemic clamp procedure. Red blood cells were assayed for Na+/H+ exchange, Na+/Li+ exchange, Na(+)-K+ pump activity, and Na(+)-K(+)-Cl- cotransport before and during treatment. Blood pressure decreased from 142 +/- 4/98 +/- 2 mm Hg before treatment to 131 +/- 3/85 +/- 1 mm Hg during lisinopril treatment (P < .001). During lisinopril treatment, there was a significant reduction in total cholesterol (from 177 +/- 8 to 161 +/- 8 mg/dL, P < .008), in low density lipoprotein-cholesterol (from 107 +/- 7 to 91 +/- 7 mg/dL, P < .002), and in insulin at 60 min into the oral glucose tolerance test (from 132 +/- 18 to 99 +/- 15 microU/mL, P < .05). There was a marginally significant increase in insulin sensitivity during lisinopril treatment (P < .08). The assays of cell Na+ transport showed a significant reduction in maximal activity (Vmax) for Na+/H+ exchange (from 33.7 +/- 3.8 to 19.7 +/- 2.6 mmol/L cell/h, P < .003).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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J Pharm Pharmacol. 1995 Jun;47(6):499-502.
Toxicodynamic analysis of inflammatory reactions by an angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor (lisinopril) in guinea-pig skin.
Ito K, Ito K, Sawada Y, Iga T.
Department of Pharmacy, University of Tokyo Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Japan.
There have been reports of rash and angioedema in the treatment of hypertension with angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors. To evaluate the inflammatory reaction, we continuously infused lisinopril for three days into the peritoneal cavity of ovalbumin-sensitized guinea-pigs and tested intradermal inflammation with ovalbumin. Inflammatory responses were measured in two perpendicular directions serially, and the areas of rash were used as an index of inflammatory reaction induced by lisinopril. Inflammatory responses were dose-dependently enhanced by treatment with lisinopril. Plasma concentration of lisinopril required to produce 50% of the maximum potentiation of the inflammatory reaction in guinea-pig skin was 40 times plasma unbound concentration after the clinical treatment of lisinopril in patients.
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Br J Pharmacol. 1993 Jul;109(3):873-9.
Effects of lisinopril on electromechanical properties and membrane currents in guinea-pig cardiac preparations.
Valenzuela C, Perez O, Casis O, Duarte J, Perez-Vizcaino F, Delpon E, Tamargo J.
Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain.
1. The effects of the angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor, lisinopril, were studied in guinea-pig atria and papillary muscles and in single isolated ventricular cells. 2. In isolated right atria, lisinopril (0.001-10 microM) decreased the amplitude and rate of the spontaneous contractions. In electrically driven left atria this negative inotropic effect was accompanied by a shortening of the time to peak tension and time for total contraction. 3. Lisinopril did not modify the electrophysiological characteristics of the ventricular action potentials recorded in papillary muscles perfused with normal Tyrode solution or elicited by isoprenaline in papillary muscles perfused with 27 mM K Tyrode solution. 4. In single ventricular cells, lisinopril (10 microM) had no effect on the inward L-type Ca2+ (ICa,L), the inward rectifier (IK1) or the delayed rectifier K+ currents (IK). However, it abolished the stimulation-dependent facilitation of the L-type Ca2+ current. 6. These results indicate that the negative inotropic effect of lisinopril cannot be explained by a decrease in Ca2+ entry through L-type channels and suggest that lisinopril may possibly act at an intracellular site to reduce contractile force.
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