[Hemodynamic characteristics of polypeptide substance P compared to bradykinin and prostaglandin E1]

The effective doses of substance P, bradykinin and prostaglandin E1 that induced depressor responses in rats and rabbits were compared. On molar conversion substance P showed the most pronounced activity. There was an essential difference in doses that evoked standard responses in rabbits (the preparations were administered into the right or left heart ventricle). For bradykinin the dose difference was fivefold and prostaglandin E1 twenty-twofold. Substance P did not undergo inactivation in the lungs.