Evidence for participation of kinins in the antihypertensive effect of converting enzyme inhibition
Abstract
In low- and normal- renin hypertensive patients, but not in high-renin patients, the acute antihypertensive response to the angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor captopril was completely blocked by aprotinin-induced kallikrein inhibition. Blood pressure reduction with long-term ACE inhibition could be overcome only in part by aprotinin. It is proposed that in low- and normal-renin hypertension the vasodepressor effect of acute ACE inhibition is mainly due to kinin accumulation. Conversely, in high-renin patients a fall in angiotensin II concentration accounts for the hypotensive response to captopril. From the pressor effect of aprotinin in chronically captopril treated patients it appears that kinins are also involved in the blood pressure reduction with long-term ACE inhibition. The finding that ACE inhibition and kallikrein blockade produced predictable and opposite effects on blood pressure suggests broad participation of changes in depressor kinin production in the control of vascular tone in essential hypertension.
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