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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-HEART AND CIRCULATORY PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 283, Issue 5, Pages H2110-H2118Publisher
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00454.2002
Keywords
nitric oxide; endothelial-dependent hyperpolarizing factor; phenylephrine
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The involvement of nitric oxide (NO), prostaglandins, and calcium-dependent potassium channel (K-Ca) activators on the negative modulation of phenylephrine-induced contractions was evaluated on the isolated aorta and caudal (CAU) artery obtained from rats treated with ouabain for 5 wk to induce hypertension. In ouabain-treated rats, the reactivity to phenylephrine was reduced in the endothelium-intact aorta but not the CAU segments. Endothelial modulation of phenylephrine contraction, as demonstrated by endothelium removal, NO synthase (NOS) inhibition with N-omega-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester and aminoguanidine, as well as K-Ca inhibition with tetraethylammonium, was more pronounced in segments from ouabain-treated animals, and here greater effects were seen in the aorta than in CAU. An increased expression of endothelial NOS and neuronal NOS was seen in the aorta after ouabain treatment. In CAU, only endothelial NOS was detected and ouabain treatment did not alter its expression. These results suggest that ouabain-induced hypertension is accompanied by increased NO release derived from endothelial NOS and neuronal NOS and increased release of an endothelial hyperpolarizing factor that presumably opens K-Ca, all of which contribute to the increased negative modulation of the phenylephrine contraction.
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