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HYPERTENSION
卷 38, 期 6, 页码 1367-1371出版社
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1161/hy1101.096115
关键词
heart failure; endothelium; nitric oxide; rats, spontaneously hypertensive; rats, WKY
资金
- NHLBI NIH HHS [HL-55397] Funding Source: Medline
Endothelial NO synthase, being deficient in arginine and/or tetrahydrobiopterin, produces in addition to NO a significant concentration of superoxide (O-2(-)). We investigated whether such an imbalance between O-2(-) and NO production is present in dysfunctional aortas of Wistar-Kyoto rats (WKY) and spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) with failing hearts after myocardial infarction. Heart failure was induced by permanent occlusion of the left coronary artery, resulting in a large infarction of the free left ventricular wall. Eight weeks after myocardial infarction. when WKY and SHR had compensated heart failure and congestive heart failure, respectively, calcium ionophore-induced NO release (assessed by a NO-sensitive microsensor) from aortic endothelial cells was significantly reduced from 478+/-48 to 216+/-16 nmol/L and 693+/-131 to 257+/-53 nmol/L in WKY and SHR, respectively. Concomitantly, significant increases in calcium ionophore-stimulated O-2(-) production (assessed by an electrochemical sensor) could be observed in aortic endothelial cells from infarcted WKY rats (22+/-3.2 versus sham, 10.1+/-1.2 nmol/L) and SHR (102 8 versus sham. 67+/-5 nmol/L). A dramatic increase in endothelial peroxynitrite concentration (chemiluminescence method) from 35+/-4 to 90+/-3 nmol/L for WKY and from 60+/-5 to 170+/-10 nmol/L for SHR also was detected. Thus, the markedly decreased NO availability probably caused by impaired endothelial NO synthase activity with enhanced O-2(-) and peroxynitrite production appears to be attributable to endothelial dysfunction in normotensive rats with chronic heart failure and especially in hypertensive rats with severe congestive heart failure.
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