Journal
CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL HYPERTENSION
Volume 26, Issue 1, Pages 1-12Publisher
MARCEL DEKKER INC
DOI: 10.1081/CEH-120027327
Keywords
DOCA-salt hypertension; aorta; arginase; polyamine; endothelium-dependent relaxation; NO
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This study was to examine whether the increase in aortic arginase activity observed in DOCA-salt hypertensive rats is involved in the mechanism of physiological hypertension by participating to vessel hypertrophy and/or to the impairment of endothelium-dependent relaxation to acethylcholine. We measured polyamine content and relaxation-response to acethylcholine in aortic rings isolated from control and DOCA-salt treated Sprague-Dawley rats after in vitro modification of arginase activity. Polyamine content was significantly increased in aorta from DOCA-salt hypertensive rats compared with controls. In the normotensive rats, the addition of L-valine (an inhibitor of arginase) decreased the relaxation response to acethylcholine whereas the addition of arginase increased the relaxation dependent response. On the contrary, in DOCA-salt hypertensive rats, the addition of L-valine or of arginase did not change the endothelium dependent relaxation. The results obtained suggest that the increase in aortic arginase activity in DOCA-salt hypertension could contribute to vascular hypertrophy but not to the impairment of endothelium-dependent relaxation.
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