Influence of ethanol on the antiarrhythmic activity of verapamil

Pol J Pharmacol Pharm. 1992 Sep-Oct;44(5):443-52.

Abstract

The aim of this work was to determine the influence of ethanol on the antiarrhythmic activity of verapamil in the model of calcium arrhythmia in rats non-dependent and dependent on ethanol. The results of the experiment show that a combined, single administration of ethanol and verapamil attenuates in a statistically significant manner the antiarrhythmic effect of verapamil. Ethanol administered repeatedly together with verapamil does not diminish the antiarrhythmic activity of verapamil.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Alcoholism / complications
  • Animals
  • Arrhythmias, Cardiac / chemically induced
  • Arrhythmias, Cardiac / complications
  • Arrhythmias, Cardiac / drug therapy*
  • Calcium Chloride
  • Disease Models, Animal
  • Drug Interactions
  • Ethanol / blood
  • Ethanol / toxicity*
  • Male
  • Rats
  • Verapamil / pharmacology*
  • Verapamil / therapeutic use

Substances

  • Ethanol
  • Verapamil
  • Calcium Chloride