STUDIES OF HYPOTENSIVE RESPONSE OF NITRENDIPINE, MNIFEDIPINE AND THEIR OIL PREPARATION / 中国药理学通报

The present experiments were designed to compare the antihypert-ensive effects of nitrendipine, m-nifedipine and their oil preparation in conscious renal hypertensive rats The left renal artery was narrowed by a silver clip of 0.2mm diameter under anaesthesia.The systolic blood pressure was measured by the tail cuff method. Nitrendipine and m-nifedipine dissolved in peanut oil ( 20mg/ml ) ; 20mg/kg were given im every other day for 4 weeks.Using sum of squares of deviations from mean in comparison with the untreated control animals the results showed that the 2 drugs reduced the blood pressure significantly (P