In vivo study | In anesthetized dogs, intravenous (i.v.) injection of NSP-805 produces dose-dependent increases in left ventricular VVdp/dtmax and decreases in aortic blood pressure (ABP) with relatively small increases in heart rate (HR). The ED 50 value for LVdP/dtmax of NSP-805 is 12 μg/kg. When the drugs is administered intraduodenally to anesthetized dogs, the ED 50 value for LVdP/dtmax of NSP-805, is approximately 10 μg/kg. In the propranolol-induced heart failure model, NSP-805 completely improves the hemodynamic state of heart failure to normal levels. NSP-805(100 μg/kg) reduces systemic blood pressure significantly, but the increase of chorio-retinal blood flow is less than that at the low dose of NSP-805 (40 μg/kg) in rabbit eyes. |