期刊
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LUNG CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY
卷 287, 期 6, 页码 L1220-L1229出版社
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.00196.2004
关键词
nitric oxide; pulmonary hypertension; uridine triphosphate; phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate; sphingosylphosphorylcholine; protein kinase C
资金
- NCRR NIH HHS [RR-16480] Funding Source: Medline
- NHLBI NIH HHS [HL-63207, HL-58124, HL-77876] Funding Source: Medline
Pulmonary vascular smooth muscle (VSM) sensitivity to nitric oxide (NO) is enhanced in pulmonary arteries from rats exposed to chronic hypoxia (CH) compared with controls. Furthermore, in contrast to control arteries, relaxation to NO following CH is not reliant on a decrease in VSM intracellular free calcium ([Ca2+](i)). We hypothesized that enhanced NO-dependent pulmonary vasodilation following CH is a function of VSM myofilament Ca2+ desensitization via inhibition of the RhoA/Rho kinase (ROK) pathway. To test this hypothesis, we compared the ability of the NO donor, spermine NONOate, to reverse VSM tone generated by UTP, the ROK agonist sphingosylphosphorylcholine, or the protein kinase C (PKC) activator phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate in Ca2+-permeabilized, endothelium-denuded pulmonary arteries (150- to 300-mum inner diameter) from control and CH (4 wk at 0.5 atm) rats. Arteries were loaded with fura-2 AM to continuously monitor VSM [Ca2+](i). We further examined effects of NO on levels of GTP-bound RhoA and ROK membrane translocation as indexes of enzyme activity in arteries from each group. We found that spermine NONOate reversed Y-27632-sensitive Ca2+ sensitization and inhibited both RhoA and ROK activity in vessels from CH rats but not control animals. In contrast, spermine NONOate was without effect on PKC-mediated vasoconstriction in either group. We conclude that CH mediates a shift in NO signaling to promote pulmonary VSM Ca2+ desensitization through inhibition of RhoA/ROK.
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