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BACKGROUND: Essential hypertension is characterized by an impairment of endothelium-dependent vasodilatation. OBJECTIVE: To test whether antihypertensive treatment with the angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor lisinopril can improve vasodilatation in response to endothelium-dependent agonists in essential hypertensive patients. DESIGN AND METHODS: We studied the effect of acute (6-8 h after dosing), prolonged (1 month) and chronic (12 months) lisinopril treatment on forearm blood flow response (strain-gauge plethysmography) induced in 10 hypertensive patients (aged 43.6 +/- 8.1 years, blood pressure 151.4 +/- 6.8/99.8 +/- 3.3 mmHg) by intrabrachial infusions of 0.15, 0.45, 1.5, 4.5, and 15 microg/100 ml per min acetylcholine and 5, 15, and 50 ng/100 ml per min bradykinin, two endothelium-dependent vasodilators, and 1, 2, and 4 microg/100 ml per min sodium nitroprusside, an endothelium-independent vasodilator. At baseline, vascular response was compared with that of 10 normotensive subjects (aged 42.4 +/- 6.6 years, blood pressure 118.4 +/- 6.1/77.8 +/- 3.4 mmHg). RESULTS: Hypertensive patients had blunted (P < 0.01 or less) vasodilatations in response to infusions of acetylcholine (from 3.7 +/- 0.3 to 18.3 +/- 4.9 ml/100 ml per min) and bradykinin (from 3.7 +/- 0.4 to 15.8 +/- 2.6 ml/100 ml per min) compared with those of controls (from 3.6 +/- 0.3 to 25.3 +/- 5.2 ml/100 ml per min for acetylcholine and from 3.7 +/- 0.3 to 26.9 +/- 4.9 ml/100 ml per min for bradykinin) whereas the responses to infusion of sodium nitroprusside were similar (from 3.6 +/- 0.3 to 18.5 +/- 3.9 and from 3.6 +/- 0.3 to 16.4 +/- 1.8 ml/100 ml per min, respectively). Acute and prolonged lisinopril treatments significantly (P < 0.05 or less) improved vasodilatation in response to infusion of bradykinin (from 3.7 +/- 0.4 to 24.5 +/- 4.9 and from 3.7 +/- 0.3 to 22.1 +/- 4.9 ml/100 ml per min, respectively), but not in response to infusions of acetylcholine and of sodium nitroprusside. Chronic lisinopril treatment increased (P < 0.05) the response to infusions of not only bradykinin (from 3.5 +/- 0.5 to 27.6 +/- 5.3 ml/100 ml per min), but also of acetylcholine (from 3.5 +/- 0.5 to 27.8 +/- 8.0 ml/100 ml per min) and sodium nitroprusside (from 3.4 +/- 0.6 to 25.9 +/- 8.5 ml/100 ml per min). However, when the responses to infusions of acetylcholine and bradykinin were normalized with respect to that to infusion of sodium nitroprusside, only the vasodilatation in response to infusion of bradykinin was shown to have been increased by lisinopril treatment. CONCLUSIONS: Administration of lisinopril to patients with essential hypertension can selectively increase vasodilatation in response to infusion of bradykinin.
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Clin Chim Acta. 2000 Sep;299(1-2):1-10.
Effects of lisinopril and amlodipine on antioxidant status in experimental hypertension.
Mantle D, Patel VB, Why HJ, Ahmed S, Rahman I, MacNee W, Wassif WS, Richardson PJ, Preedy VR.
Department of Neurochemistry, Regional Neurosciences Centre, Newcastle General Hospital, NE4 6BE, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
The objective of this investigation was to compare changes in antioxidant status (together with other metabolites relevant to hypertension) in plasma and cardiac tissue from spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and normotensive Wistar Kyoto rats (WKY), following 8 weeks of treatment with lisinopril (angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor) or amlodipine (Ca(2+) channel antagonist) respectively. There was no significant difference in the levels of total antioxidant capacity, retinol, urea, albumin or triglyceride in plasma from SHR or WKY rats, with or without lisinopril or amlodipine treatment. However in SHR rats, levels of alpha-tocopherol were substantially reduced in both plasma (-54% WKY, P<0.01) and cardiac tissue (-43% WKY, P<0.05). Treatment with lisinopril ameliorated reduced levels of plasma alpha-tocopherol in SHR rats, but not in cardiac tissue. Amlodipine treatment had no effect on alpha-tocopherol levels in plasma or cardiac tissue in SHR rats. In SHR rats total cholesterol levels were significantly lower thanWKY controls (-36%, P<0.001). This effect was reversed in lisinopril treated SHR rats (+27%, P<0.01). Plasma high density lipoprotein (HDL) and low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol were reduced in untreated SHR rats (P<0.025) when compared to WKY controls; neither lisinopril nor amlodipine treatment significantly altered these parameters. These findings suggest possible alternative mechanisms of action for lisinopril, and reinforce its use in hypertensive patients or patients with left ventricular hypertrophy.
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Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom. 1998;12(21):1591-4.
Quantitative determination of the angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor lisinopril in human plasma by stable isotope dilution gas chromatography/negative ion chemical ionization mass spectrometry.
Leis HJ, Fauler G, Raspotnig G, Windischhofer W.
University Childrens Hospital, Dept. of Biochemical Analysis and Mass Spectrometry, University of Graz, Austria.
A simple, highly accurate and precise method for the quantitative measurement of the angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor lisinopril in human plasma is presented. The assay is based on gas chromatography/negative ion chemical ionization mass spectrometry. The preparation of stable isotope labelled lisinopril for use as an internal standard is described. The method involves solid phase extraction on C18 sorbent and derivatization to the methyl diester-trifluoroacetamide derivatives. The detection limit was found to be 50 pg and a lower limit of quantification was reached down to 0.5 ng/mL plasma.
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