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HYPERTENSION
Volume 39, Issue 2, Pages 264-268Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1161/hy0202.102701
Keywords
genes; nitric oxide; cardiovascular diseases; brain; sympathetic nervous system
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We have previously demonstrated that the overexpression of endothelial NO synthase (eNOS) in the rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM) decreases blood pressure, heart rate, and sympathetic nerve activity via an increase in gamma-amino butyric acid release in normotensive Wistar-Kyoto rats (WKY). Stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRSP) appear to have reductions of NO production and GABA release in the RVLM. The aim of this study was to determine whether the effects of the increase in NO production in the RVLM in SHRSP tine different from those in WKY. We transfected adenovirus vectors encoding either eNOS (AdeNOS) or beta-galactosidase (Adbetagal) into the RVLM of both strains. In the AdeNOS-treated group, mean arterial blood pressure and heart rate in the conscious state were significantly decreased at day 7 after the gene transfer in both strains. The decreases in mean arterial blood pressure and heart rate were significantly greater in SHRSP than in WKY. Urinary norepinephrine excretion was also decreased to a greater degree in SHRSP than in WKY after the gene transfer. The pressor response evoked by bicuculline into the RVLM of WKY was greater than that of SHRSP in the nontransfected group. However, in the AdeNOS-treated group, the pressor response did not differ between SHRSP and WKY after the gene transfer. These results indicate that the increase in NO production evoked by the overexpression of eNOS in the RVLM causes greater depressor and sympathoinhibitory responses in SHRSP than in WKY by improving an inhibitory action, of GABA on the RVLM neurons.
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