Journal
CIRCULATION RESEARCH
Volume 95, Issue 2, Pages 210-216Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1161/01.RES.0000135483.12297.e4
Keywords
reactive oxygen species; brain; subfornical organ; neurons; blood pressure
Funding
- NHLBI NIH HHS [HL-14388, HL-63887] Funding Source: Medline
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vasculature and kidney. The role of redox mechanisms in the central nervous system (CNS), a tissue known to be pivotal in Ang II-dependent hypertension, has not been investigated. We recently identified superoxide (O-2(.-)) in the brain as a key signaling intermediate in the transient pressor response elicited by acute injection of Ang II directly into the CNS. Here we tested the hypothesis that hypertension caused by chronic systemic infusion of Ang II is mediated by a central neurogenic mechanism involving O-2(.-). Infusion of Ang II (600 ng . kg(-1) . min(-1)) over a 2-week period in mice caused a gradually developing hypertension that was correlated with marked elevations in O-2(.-) production specifically in the subfornical organ (SFO), a brain region lying outside the blood-brain barrier and known to be a primary sensor for blood-borne Ang II. Adenoviral-mediated delivery of cytoplasmically targeted superoxide dismutase ( SOD) selectively to this site prevented the hypertension and the increased O-2(.-) production, whereas gene transfer of SOD targeted to the extracellular matrix had no effect. These data suggest that increased intracellular O-2(.-) production in the SFO is critical in the development of Ang II -induced hypertension.
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