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EMBO JOURNAL
Volume 22, Issue 22, Pages 6027-6034Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/cdg583
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blood pressure; Ca2+ channels; RhoA; SMAKO; smooth muscle cells
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Blood pressure is regulated by a number of key molecules involving G-protein-coupled receptors, ion channels and monomeric small G-proteins. The relative contribution of these different signaling pathways to blood pressure regulation remains to be determined. Tamoxifen-induced, smooth muscle-specific inactivation of the L-type Ca(v)1.2 Ca2+ channel gene in mice (SMAKO) reduced mean arterial blood pressure (MAP) in awake, freely moving animals from 120 +/- 4.5 to 87 +/- 8 mmHg. Phenylephrine (PE)- and angiotensin 2 (AT2)-induced MAP increases were blunted in SMAKO mice, whereas the Rho-kinase inhibitor Y-27632 reduced MAP to the same extent in control and SMAKO mice. Depolarization-induced contraction was abolished in tibialis arteries of SMAKO mice, and development of myogenic tone in response to intravascular pressure (Bayliss effect) was absent. Hind limb perfusion experiments suggested that 50% of the PE-induced resistance is due to calcium influx through the Ca(v)1.2 channel. These results show that Ca(v)1.2 calcium channels are key players in the hormonal regulation of blood pressure and development of myogenic tone.
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