Journal
MICROCIRCULATION
Volume 8, Issue 2, Pages 115-127Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1080/713774023
Keywords
arachidonic acid epoxidation; arachidonic acid omega-hydroxylation; cytochrome P430 4A enzymes; 20-HETE; hypoxia; indomethaein; L-NAME; MS-PPOH; 17-ODYA; vascular reactivity; vascular smooth muscle
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- NHLBI NIH HHS [HL65289, R37 HL036279, HL29587, HL37374] Funding Source: Medline
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Objective: To determine mechanisms underlying hypoxic dilation of skeletal muscle resistance arteries from normotensive (NT) and hypertensive (HT) Dahl salt-sensitive (SS) rats. Methods: Isolateral graeilis arteries (GA) from both rat groups were viewed via television microscopy and vascular responses to a reduction in PO2 from 145 mm Hg to 40 mm Hg were measured with a video micrometer. Responses were determined following endothelium removal and following inhibition of specific biochemical pathways regulating vascular tone. Results: Hypoxic dilation was impaired in HT rats versus NT controls. Endothelium removal abolished hypoxic dilation in NT rats, although a significant dilation to hypoxia remained in vessels from HT animals. Inhibition of cytochrome P450 (CP450) 4A enzymes blunted hypoxic dilation in both groups, while inhibition of epoxyeicosatrienoic acid (EET) production impaired responses in NT rats only. Inhibition of 20-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid (20-HETE) production or blockade of membrane receptors for 20-HETE reduced hypoxic dilation in HT rats, with minimal effects in NT animals. Nitric oxide synthase inhibition had no effect on hypoxic dilation in either group, while cycloxygenase inhibition significantly reduced this response in both groups. Conclusions: These results suggest that the mechanisms of hypoxic dilation in GA from NT Dahl-SS rats are altered with HT, impairing the response to reduced PO2. While hypoxia induced substantial prostanoid release in both groups, the role of CP450 4A enzymes is shifted from EET production in NT rats toward inhibition of 20-HETE, production in HT rats.
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