(Hypertension. 2000;36:957.)
© 2000 American Heart Association, Inc.
Scientific Contributions |
Effect of Antioxidant Therapy on Blood Pressure and NO Synthase Expression in Hypertensive Rats
From the Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine.
Abstract—Earlier studies have demonstrated evidence for increased reactive oxygen species, enhanced NO synthase (NOS) expression, and elevated NO production in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR). Given the negative-feedback regulation of NOS by NO, we hypothesized that enhanced NO inactivation by ROS may contribute to compensatory upregulation of NOS in SHR. The present study was designed to test this hypothesis. Eight-week-old male SHR and Wistar-Kyoto rats were treated for 3 weeks with either a placebo or the potent antioxidant, lazaroid (desmethyltirilazad, 10 mg · kg-1 · d-1, by gastric gavage). Tail arterial blood pressure, urinary excretion of NO metabolites (ie, nitrate and nitrite), and immunodetectable NOS isotype proteins in the vascular, renal, cardiac, and cerebral tissues were measured. The placebo-treated SHR group showed a marked elevation of blood pressure and a significant upregulation of aorta, kidney, and cardiac tissue endothelial and inducible NOS (eNOS and iNOS, respectively) proteins and of brain and renal tissue neuronal NOS. Lazaroid therapy ameliorated hypertension and mitigated the upregulation of eNOS and iNOS in vascular, renal, and cardiac tissues but had limited effect on the expression of renal and brain neuronal NOS. In contrast, lazaroid therapy had no effect on blood pressure, urinary nitrate and nitrite excretion, or tissue NOS isotype expressions in the Wistar-Kyoto group. These findings support the role of oxidative stress in the genesis and/or maintenance of hypertension and compensatory upregulation of the expression of eNOS and iNOS in SHR.
Key Words: stress • free radicals • hypertension, experimental • antioxidants • nitric oxide • nitric oxide synthase
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