Efeitos cardiorrespiratórios do β-citronelol : envolvimento de fibras aferentes vagais e ação direta em músculos liso e cardíaco

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Ribeiro Filho, Helder Veras
• Orientador(a): Magalhães, Pedro Jorge Caldas
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Palavras-chave em Português: Hipotensão; Bradicardia; Apneia
• Link de acesso: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/12852

β-Citronellol is a monoterpene found in the essential oil of various aromatic plants used in folk medicine to treat hypertension such as Cymbopogon citratus. β-Citronellol possesses hypotensive and vasorelaxant properties, but the mechanism of such effects remains unclear. Therefore, the present study was undertaken to address this issue in normotensive rats. For in vivo experiments, male Wistar rats were subjected to catheterization of the left femoral artery and vein for mean arterial pressure monitoring and drug injection, respectively. Electrodes allowed heart rate recordings and some groups of rats were tracheostomized for respiratory rate analysis. For in vitro experiments, right and left atria, and mesenteric artery rings were suspended in organ baths at physiological conditions. In urethane-anesthetized rats, intravenous (i.v.) injections of β-citronellol (5 and 10 mg/kg) caused biphasic (phase 1 and phase 2) hypotension, bradycardia and apnea responses. Biphasic responses was observed also following i.v. injection of β-citronellol (5, 10 and 20 mg/kg) in unanesthetized rats. Phase 1 of this triad (onset time of 1-2 s) was abolished by bilateral vagotomy (BV), perineural treatment with capsaicin (PNT) or pretreatment with methylatropine (MA, i.v.), but remained unaltered by i.v. pretreatment with capsazepine, ondansetron, suramin or HC-030031. Phase 1 responses was absent when β-citronellol was injected into the left ventricle. The delayed phase 2 of bradycardia was also partially reduced by BV, PNT or MA while the apnea component of this phase 2 was only abolished by suramin. In atrial preparations, β-citronellol induced chronotropic and inotropic negative responses, an effect that was related to neither muscarinic and adrenergic receptor activation nor to altered calcium influx. In both endothelium-intact and denuded mesenteric artery rings, β-citronellol fully relaxed phenylephrine-induced contractions in a concentration-dependent manner and with equal potency. These findings reveal that the effects evoked by β-citronellol induced vago-vagal reflex due to stimulation of vagal pulmonary afferents, an effect that seems not involving TRPV1, TRPA1, 5-HT3, or P2X receptors. Phase 2 hypotensive and bradycardiac responses to β-citronellol appears resulting from a direct vasodilatory effect upon vascular smooth muscle and cardiac depressor action, respectively. Furthermore, P2X receptors seem to be involved in the mediation of phase 2 apneic response to this acyclic monoterpene.