Solute-free water diuretics (aquaretics) by antagonizing hydrosmotic vasopressin receptors (V2) may be useful in treating water-retaining diseases. The effects of intravenous administration of a newly developed nonpeptide, selective V2 antagonist, OPC-31260, at doses ranging from 0.017 to 1.0 mg/kg to groups of healthy, normally hydrated men were compared with those of 0.33 mg/kg furosemide and placebo. OPC-31260 increased the hypotonic urine volume dose dependently for the first 4 h, while furosemide induced sodium diuresis for 2 h. The absolute increase in the cumulative response in the urine to the highest doses of OPC-31260 was not significantly different from that to furosemide. The higher doses of OPC-31260 rapidly lowered urine osmolality for 2 h, particularly between minutes 15 and 45 (e.g., 1.0-mg/kg dose: 63 +/- 2 mOsm/kg in urine collected between minutes 30 and 45). In a marked hypotonic diuresis, mean free water clearance of the 4-h urine increased dose proportionally into the positive range, reaching 1.80 +/- 0.21 ml/min at 1.0 mg/kg. Whereas furosemide induced marked Na and K diuresis, OPC-31260 increased urinary Na excretion only slightly. At 4 h, 0.75 and 1.0 mg/kg of OPC-31260 almost doubled the plasma arginine vasopressin; and the higher doses increased plasma osmolality and plasma Na slightly, but did not alter plasma K, blood pressure, or heart rate. OPC-31260 thus safely induced a potent aquaretic effect in men.
A Ohnishi, Y Orita, R Okahara, H Fujihara, T Inoue, Y Yamamura, Y Yabuuchi, T Tanaka
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