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CLINICAL SCIENCE
Volume 103, Issue -, Pages 13S-15SPublisher
PORTLAND PRESS
DOI: 10.1042/CS103S013S
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aorta; carotid artery; endothelium; high-fat diet; prostanoid; risk factors; thromboxane; vascular; vasoconstriction
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This study investigated vascular reactivity in response to acetylcholine, in the presence of acute inhibition of nitric oxide synthase, in the carotid artery and aorta of obese C57B16/J mice fed on a high-fat diet for 30 weeks, and of control mice. A subgroup of obese animals was also treated with the ETA receptor antagonist darusentan (50 mg . kg(-1) . day(-1)). In vascular rings from control animals, acetylcholine caused endothelium-dependent contractions in the carotid artery, but not in the aorta. In vascular rings from obese mice, contractility to acetylcholine was also evident in the aorta, and that in the carotid artery was increased compared with control mice. ETA receptor blockade by darusentan treatment of the obese mice prevented enhanced vasoconstriction to acetylcholine, resulting in mild vasodilatation. Thus obesity increases endothelium-dependent vasoconstriction in the absence of endothelial nitric oxide. This effect can be completely prevented by chronic ETA receptor blockade, suggesting that endothelin modulates increased endothelium-dependent vasoconstriction in obesity.
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