期刊
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-HEART AND CIRCULATORY PHYSIOLOGY
卷 310, 期 9, 页码 H1233-H1241出版社
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00974.2015
关键词
thin-fiber muscle afferents; sympathetic nerve activity; Piezo channels; mechanoreceptors
资金
- National Institutes of Health [HL-096570, AR-059397]
Mechanical and metabolic stimuli arising from contracting muscles evoke the exercise pressor reflex. This reflex is greater in a rat model of simulated peripheral arterial disease in which a femoral artery is chronically ligated than it is in rats with freely perfused femoral arteries. The role played by the mechanically sensitive component of the exaggerated exercise pressor reflex in ligated rats is unknown. We tested the hypothesis that the mechano-gated channel inhibitor GsMTx4, a relatively selective inhibitor of mechano-gated Piezo channels, reduces the exercise pressor reflex in decerebrate rats with ligated femoral arteries. Injection of 10 mu g of GsMTx4 into the arterial supply of the hindlimb reduced the pressor response to Achilles tendon stretch (a purely mechanical stimulus) but had no effect on the pressor responses to intra-arterial injection of alpha,beta-methylene ATP or lactic acid (purely metabolic stimuli). Moreover, injection of 10 mu g of GsMTx4 into the arterial supply of the hindlimb reduced both the integrated pressor area (control 535 +/- 21, GsMTx4 218 +/- 24 mmHg.s; P < 0.01), peak pressor (control 29 +/- 2, GsMTx4 14 +/- 3 mmHg; P < 0.01), and renal sympathetic nerve responses to electrically induced intermittent hindlimb muscle contraction (a mixed mechanical and metabolic stimulus). The reduction of the integrated pressor area during contraction caused by GsMTx4 was greater in rats with ligated femoral arteries than it was in rats with freely perfused femoral arteries. We conclude that the mechanically sensitive component of the reflex contributes to the exaggerated exercise pressor reflex during intermittent hindlimb muscle contractions in rats with ligated femoral arteries.
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