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Hypertension, Vol 22, 913-921, Copyright © 1993 by American Heart Association

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Endothelial dysfunction augments myogenic arteriolar constriction in hypertension

A Huang, D Sun and A Koller
Department of Physiology, New York Medical College, Valhalla 10595.

To elucidate the underlying reason or reasons for the increased peripheral resistance in hypertension, we investigated the pressure- diameter relation--the myogenic response--of isolated, cannulated arterioles (approximately 50 microns) of cremaster muscle of 12-week- old Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rats, spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR), and normal Wistar (NW) rats. All arterioles constricted in response to step increases in perfusion pressure from 20 to 160 mm Hg. This constriction was, however, significantly enhanced from 60 to 160 mm Hg in arterioles of SHR compared with NW or WKY rats. For example, at 80 and 140 mm Hg, respectively, the normalized diameter (expressed as a percentage of the corresponding passive diameter of arterioles of SHR) was 11.8% and 27.6% (P < .05) less compared with those of WKY rats. Endothelium removal eliminated the enhanced pressure-induced tone in SHR. Similarly, indomethacin (10(-5) mol/L, sufficient to block prostaglandin synthesis) or SQ 29,548 (10(-6) mol/L), a thromboxane A2- prostaglandin H2 receptor blocker that inhibited vasoconstriction to the thromboxane agonist U46619, attenuated the enhanced pressure- diameter curve and reversed the blunted dilation to arachidonic acid in SHR. In contrast, the thromboxane A2 synthesis inhibitor CGS 13,080 (5 x 10(-6) mol/L) did not affect the increased pressure-induced tone or the reduced dilation to arachidonic acid in SHR. Thus, the present findings suggest that in early hypertension pressure-induced arteriolar constriction is increased. This seems to be due to an enhanced production of endothelium-derived constrictor factors, primarily prostaglandin H2.

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