Cardiovascular effects of the irreversible MAO-A inhibitor clorgyline and reversible MAO-inhibitors, moclobemide and brofaromine, were compared in the anesthetized rat. Electrical activity of the sympathetic renal nerve was monitored as an index of central sympathetic output. A long lasting decrease in the recorded parameters: blood pressure (BP), renal nerve activity (RNA) and heart rate (HR) was produced by acute administration of clorgyline (2 mg/Kg, IP). Acute treatment with moclobemide (10 mg/Kg, IP) or brofaromine (10 mg/Kg, IP) caused only a transient decrease in RNA. Pretreatment with the α2 antagonist yohimbine, decreased significantly the inhibitory effect of clorgyline on all three parameters. The selective α2 antagonist CH-38083 blocked the sympathoinhibitory effect of brofaromine. These results indicate an α2 adrenoceptor involvement in the central sympathoinhibitory effect of MAO inhibitors, which may be manifested as a hypotensive effect, including orthostatic hypotension, in patients treated with irreversible selective MAO inhibitors.
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Lavian, G., Finberg, J. P. M., & Youdim, M. B. H. (1994). Comparison of the effect of reversible and irreversible MAO inhibitors on renal nerve activity in the anesthetized rat. In Journal of Neural Transmission, Supplement (pp. 107–113). Springer-Verlag Wien. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-9324-2_14
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