This study reports the efficacy of vasodilator sodium nitroprusside (SNP), for treatment acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema in dogs. For this study, patients were divided into SNP only group, SNP, furosemide and dobutamine non-SNP group. Seven dogs, 6 dogs 2 favorable responders group with each. The results suggest that can be an effective alternative therapy edema.

The effects of the commonly employed systemic vasodilators phentolamine, nitroprusside, and intravenous glyceryl trinitrate on cardiac performance, peripheral resistance, and vascular capacitance, as judged by changes in left ventricular filling pressure, were compared in 29 patients studied within 24 hours after the onset of acute myocardial infarction. To provide a common basis for comparison...

it has been shown that nitric oxide is synthesized in the central nervous system as well as in vascular endothelial cells. recently, it was reported that nitric oxide was involved in central cardiovascular regulation, baroreflex modulation, and involved in a reciprocal release with excitatory amino acids in the nucleus tractus solitarii of rats. the purpose of the present study was to investiga...

The Escherichia coli norVW genes encode a flavorubredoxin and NADH:(flavo)rubredoxin reductase, respectively, which are involved in nitric oxide detoxification under anaerobic growth conditions. Here it is shown that the norVW genes also have a role in protection against reactive nitrogen intermediates generated from nitroprusside. Transcription from the norV promoter is activated by the presen...

The infusion of sodium nitroprusside during surgical operations produced plasma levels of cyanide of up to four times the control value. Plasma thiocyanate showed little change except during prolonged infusion of the drug, but total plasma B(12) tended to fall, as did methylcobalamin. Other cobalamins showed little change after nitroprusside infusion for short periods. During longer infusions t...