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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LUNG CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 285, Issue 2, Pages L296-L304Publisher
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.00362.2002
Keywords
calcium; guanylate cyclase; nitrovasodilator
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- NHLBI NIH HHS [HL-66331, HL-43023, HL-31069] Funding Source: Medline
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Nitric oxide (NO) donors generally relax vascular preparations through cGMP-mediated mechanisms. Relaxation of endothelium-denuded bovine pulmonary arteries (BPA) and coronary arteries to the NO donor S-nitroso-N-acetyl-penicillamine (SNAP) is almost eliminated by inhibition of soluble guanylate cyclase activation with 10 muM 1H-[1,2,4]oxadiazolo-[4,3-a]quinoxalin-1-one (ODQ), whereas only a modest inhibition of relaxation is observed under hypoxia (PO2 = 8-10 Torr). This effect of hypoxia is independent of the contractile agent used and is also observed with NO gas. ODQ eliminated SNAP-induced increases in cGMP under hypoxia in BPA. cGMP-independent relaxation of BPA to SNAP was not attenuated by inhibition of K+ channels (10 mM tetraethylammonium), myosin light chain phosphatase (0.5 muM microcystin-LR), or adenylate cyclase (4 muM 2',5'-dideoxyadenosine). SNAP relaxed BPA contracted with serotonin under Ca2+-free conditions in the presence of hypoxia and ODQ, and contraction to Ca2+ readdition was also attenuated. The sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-reuptake inhibitor cyclopiazonic acid (0.2 mM) attenuated SNAP-mediated relaxation of BPA in the presence of ODQ. Thus hypoxic conditions appear to promote a cGMP-independent relaxation of BPA to NO by enhancing sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ reuptake.
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