BACKGROUND: Incidence of cardiac pathological changes is high under acute cerebral damage, which affects its prognosis. The massive increase of plasma monoamine transmitters might be one of the key reasons of the dependent effects of the heart after cerebral apoplexy.OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effects of monoamine transmitters on the cardiac injury in cerebral hemorrhage in rats for the exploration of the mechanism for the generation and development of cerebral-cardiac syndrome(CCS).DESIGN: A prospective, randomized and controlled study using experimental animals as subjects.MATERIALS: Study was conducted in the Laboratory of Neurology of Daping Hospital. Seventy healthy Wistar rats in either gender with a body mass between 250 g and 300 g were obtained from the animal center of Daping Hospital affiliated to Third Military Medical University of Chinese PLA.INTERVENTIONS: 1 μL of normal saline containing collagenase(l μ/μL) and heparin(7 μ/μL) was injected into the right caudate nucleus of the rats to establish cerebral hemorrhage animal model, while 1 μL of normal saline was injected into the rats of control group.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Plasma noradrenaline (NE) content was analyzed by high-potent electrochemical method, changes of serous creatine kinase-MB (CK-MB) were analyzed by enzyme reaction rate method.RESULTS: Both plasma NE and serous CK-MB significantly elevated at 6 hours since the formation of hematoma in the brain of the rat, which were (2. 782 ± 0. 244) μg/L and(3. 504 ± 0. 742) μkat/L respectively. Plasma NE and serous CK-MB most significantly increased at 24 hours, the peak of hematoma after cerebral hemorrhage, which were(3. 517 ± 0. 200) μg/L and(5. 474 ± 1. 540) μkat/L respectively. NE and CK-MB gradually decreased afterwards, and plasma NE returned to preoperative level at 72 hours [ (1. 663 ±0. 094) μg/L] while serous CK-MB still higher than preoperative level [ (2. 713 ± 0. 526) μkat/L].CONCLUSION: Peripheral NE content elevation might participate the generation and development process of CCS.