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Nicardipine, a calcium antagonist, does not aggravate intracerebral haemorrhage in an intracerebral haemorrhage model in rats.
Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology 2005 April
Despite controversy over their safety in patients with intracerebral haemorrhage, calcium antagonists are widely used in the treatment of hypertensive emergencies. Here, we investigated the effects of nicardipine on haematoma size and neurological deficit in a rat model of collagenase-induced intracerebral haemorrhage. Injection of collagenase (0.014 U) into the striatum induced haematoma (19.9+/-3.4 mm(3)) in the striatum and brain oedema. Drugs were infused from 30 min after collagenase injection for 3 h under conscious conditions. Nicardipine intravenously at 0.1, 1 and 10 microg kg(-1) min(-1) affected neither haematoma size nor the degree of brain oedema. Nicardipine at these doses provided a stable and dose-dependent decrease in mean blood pressure of 6%, 13% and 33%, respectively, with an increase in heart rate that was apparently caused reflexively. Further, nicardipine did not aggravate the neurological deficits in these intracerebral haemorrhage rats, primarily forearm flexion behaviour on suspension by the tail and circling behaviour. These results indicate that nicardipine infusion stably decreased blood pressure without affecting intracerebral haemorrhage in an intracerebral haemorrhage model in rats.
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