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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-HEART AND CIRCULATORY PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 278, Issue 2, Pages H339-H344Publisher
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.2000.278.2.H339
Keywords
5 '-N-ethylcarboxamido-adenosine; N-omega-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester; alloxazine; nitrite/nitrate
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This study was aimed to investigate the underlying mechanism of vasodilation induced by the activation of A(2B) adenosine receptors in relation to cerebral blood flow (CBF) autoregulation. Changes in pial arterial diameters were observed directly through a closed cranial window. N-omega-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME, nitric oxide synthase inhibitor) significantly suppressed the concentration-dependent vasodilations induced by adenosine and 5'-N-ethylcarboxamido-adenosine (NECA) but not the vasodilation by CGS-21680 (A(2A)-receptor agonist). Moreover, NECA-induced vasodilation was suppressed by alloxazine (1 mu mol/l) but not by ZM-241385 (1 mu mol/l, A(2A) antagonist), which suggests mediation by A(2B)-receptor activation. Otherwise, the level of nitrite/nitrate was concentration dependently increased in the artificial cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) when adenosine and NECA were suffused over the cortical surface. L-NAME and alloxazine, but not ZM-241385, largely inhibited their releases. The lower limit of CBF autoregulation was little affected following pretreatment with L-NAME or alloxazine. Thus it is suggested that adenosine-induced vasodilation via activation of A(2B)-adenosine receptors of the rat pial artery is coupled to the production of nitric oxide, which contributes little to CBF autoregulation.
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