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MICROVASCULAR RESEARCH
卷 61, 期 2, 页码 179-186出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1006/mvre.2000.2291
关键词
flow/shear stress; microvessels; endothelial K-Ca channels; mechanotransduction
资金
- NHLBI NIH HHS [P01 HL-43023, HL-46813] Funding Source: Medline
The role of Ca2+-activated potassium channels (K-Ca) in flow-initiated intracellular events in microvessels is not known. We hypothesized that K-Ca channels in the arteriolar endothelium are responsible for the mechanotransduction of flow/shear stress-induced arteriolar dilation in skeletal muscle and mesentery of rats. The active diameter of arterioles isolated from gracilis (80 mm Hg) and cremaster (60 mm Hg) muscles and mesentery (80 mm Hg) at a constant intraluminal pressure was 53 +/- 3, 77 +/- 5, and 72 +/- 6 mum, respectively. Their passive diameter (in Ca2+-free solution) was 113 +/- 3, 152 +/- 12, and 121 +/- 7 mum, respectively. At a constant intraluminal pressure stepwise increases in perfusate flow (25, 40, and 14 muL/min in 5, 10, and 2 muL/min steps) elicited a gradual increase in diameter of all three groups of arterioles up to 93 +/- 5, 137 +/- 11, and 102 +/- 7 mum, respectively. Flow-induced dilations of arterioles were eliminated by intraluminal administration of iberiotoxin (ibTX 10(-9) M), an inhibitor of high conductance K-Ca channels (BKCa). In contrast, arteriolar dilations to acetylcholine and sodium nitroprusside were not altered by this agent, indicating that BKCa channels are not involved in the receptor-mediated endothelial synthesis of nitric oxide (NO) and that the inhibitor did not affect the action of NO on smooth muscle. Abluminal application of ibTX (10(-8) M) did not affect flow-dependent dilation. We conclude that in arterioles of several tissues activation of endothelial BKCa channels is an obligatory step in the transduction of the signal initiated by changes in intraluminal flow/shear stress, leading to the release of endothelial factors evoking dilation. (C) 2001 Academic Press.
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