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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3 Pt 2
pubmed:dateCreated
1997-10-23
pubmed:abstractText
The goal of this study was to test the hypothesis that chronic myocardial infarction potentiates agonist-induced constrictor responses of rat skeletal muscle arterioles in vivo. Eight weeks after we performed coronary artery ligation or sham (control) surgery, the spinotrapezius muscle was prepared for direct visualization of the microcirculation. Diameter of third-order arterioles (40.7 +/- 0.5 microns) to topical suffusion of angiotensin II (ANG II; 0.1-10 nM), arginine vasopressin (AVP; 0.1-10 nM), endothelin-1 (ET-1; 1.0-100 pM), and the thromboxane analog U-46619 (1.0-100 nM) was measured in both groups. Myocardial-infarcted rats exhibited enhanced arteriolar constrictor responses to ANG II and AVP compared with the responses in controls. In contrast, ET-1- and U-46619-induced constrictor responses were similar in control and myocardial-infarcted rats. Additional experiments explored the impact of NG-monomethyl-L-arginine (L-NMMA; 0.1 mM) on arteriolar reactivity. In control animals, L-NMMA potentiated ANG II- and AVP-induced vasoconstriction, achieving values similar to those observed in myocardial-infarcted rats. L-NMMA did not alter vasoconstrictor responses in rats with chronic myocardial infarction. These observations suggest that enhanced agonist-induced vasoconstriction during heart failure may reflect a loss of nitric oxide-mediated modulation of arteriolar tone.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0002-9513
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
273
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
H1502-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:9321843-15-Hydroxy-11 alpha,9..., pubmed-meshheading:9321843-Angiotensin II, pubmed-meshheading:9321843-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:9321843-Arginine Vasopressin, pubmed-meshheading:9321843-Arterioles, pubmed-meshheading:9321843-Coronary Vessels, pubmed-meshheading:9321843-Endothelin-1, pubmed-meshheading:9321843-Hemodynamics, pubmed-meshheading:9321843-Male, pubmed-meshheading:9321843-Muscle, Skeletal, pubmed-meshheading:9321843-Muscle, Smooth, Vascular, pubmed-meshheading:9321843-Myocardial Infarction, pubmed-meshheading:9321843-Prostaglandin Endoperoxides, Synthetic, pubmed-meshheading:9321843-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:9321843-Rats, Sprague-Dawley, pubmed-meshheading:9321843-Reference Values, pubmed-meshheading:9321843-Thromboxane A2, pubmed-meshheading:9321843-Time Factors, pubmed-meshheading:9321843-Vasoconstriction, pubmed-meshheading:9321843-Vasoconstrictor Agents, pubmed-meshheading:9321843-omega-N-Methylarginine
pubmed:year
1997
pubmed:articleTitle
Enhanced constrictor responses of skeletal muscle arterioles during chronic myocardial infarction.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha 68198-4575, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't