期刊
CIRCULATION RESEARCH
卷 105, 期 10, 页码 1031-U215出版社
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.109.207019
关键词
nitric oxide; nitrite; nitroso compounds; UVA; decomposition; photolysis; human skin
资金
- Federal Ministry of Education and Research
- Faculty of Medicine of the Heinrich-Heine-University Dusseldorf (Forschungskommission
- RWTH Aachen University
- Interdisciplinary Centre for Clinical Research BIOMAT
Rationale: Human skin contains photolabile nitric oxide derivates like nitrite and S-nitroso thiols, which after UVA irradiation, decompose and lead to the formation of vasoactive NO. Objective: Here, we investigated whether whole body UVA irradiation influences the blood pressure of healthy volunteers because of cutaneous nonenzymatic NO formation. Methods and Results: As detected by chemoluminescence detection or by electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy in vitro with human skin specimens, UVA illumination ( 25 J/cm(2)) significantly increased the intradermal levels of free NO. In addition, UVA enhanced dermal S-nitrosothiols 2.3-fold, and the subfraction of dermal S-nitrosoalbumin 2.9-fold. In vivo, in healthy volunteers creamed with a skin cream containing isotopically labeled N-15-nitrite, whole body UVA irradiation ( 20 J/cm2) induced significant levels of N-15-labeled S-nitrosothiols in the blood plasma of light exposed subjects, as detected by cavity leak out spectroscopy. Furthermore, whole body UVA irradiation caused a rapid, significant decrease, lasting up to 60 minutes, in systolic and diastolic blood pressure of healthy volunteers by 11 +/- 2% at 30 minutes after UVA exposure. The decrease in blood pressure strongly correlated (R-2=0.74) with enhanced plasma concentration of nitrosated species, as detected by a chemiluminescence assay, with increased forearm blood flow (+26 +/- 7%), with increased flow mediated vasodilation of the brachial artery (+68 +/- 22%), and with decreased forearm vascular resistance (-28 +/- 7%). Conclusions: UVA irradiation of human skin caused a significant drop in blood pressure even at moderate UVA doses. The effects were attributed to UVA induced release of NO from cutaneous photolabile NO derivates. ( Circ Res. 2009;105:1031-1040.)
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