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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-9-3
pubmed:abstractText
Recent evidence supports a prominent role for Rho kinase (ROK)-mediated pulmonary vasoconstriction in the development and maintenance of chronic hypoxia (CH)-induced pulmonary hypertension. Endothelin (ET)-1 contributes to the pulmonary hypertensive response to CH, and recent studies by our laboratory and others indicate that pulmonary vascular reactivity following CH is largely independent of changes in vascular smooth muscle (VSM) intracellular free calcium concentration ([Ca(2+)](i)). In addition, CH increases generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in pulmonary arteries, which may underlie the shift toward ROK-dependent Ca(2+) sensitization. Therefore, we hypothesized that ROS-dependent RhoA/ROK signaling mediates ET-1-induced Ca(2+) sensitization in pulmonary VSM following CH. To test this hypothesis, we determined the effect of pharmacological inhibitors of ROK, myosin light chain kinase (MLCK), tyrosine kinase (TK), and PKC on ET-1-induced vasoconstriction in endothelium-denuded, Ca(2+)-permeabilized small pulmonary arteries from control and CH (4 wk at 0.5 atm) rats. Further experiments examined ET-1-mediated, ROK-dependent phosphorylation of the regulatory subunit of myosin light chain phosphatase (MLCP), MYPT1. Finally, we measured ET-1-induced ROS generation in dihydroethidium-loaded small pulmonary arteries and investigated the role of ROS in mediating ET-1-induced, RhoA/ROK-dependent Ca(2+) sensitization using the superoxide anion scavenger, tiron. We found that CH increases ET-1-induced Ca(2+) sensitization that is sensitive to inhibition of ROK and MLCK, but not PKC or TK, and correlates with ROK-dependent MYPT1(Thr696) phosphorylation. Furthermore, tiron inhibited basal and ET-1-stimulated ROS generation, RhoA activation, and VSM Ca(2+) sensitization following CH. We conclude that CH augments ET-1-induced Ca(2+) sensitization through ROS-dependent activation of RhoA/ROK signaling in pulmonary VSM.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
1040-0605
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
295
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
L515-29
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-5-13
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