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(Hypertension. 1998;31:1350-1356.)
© 1998 American Heart Association, Inc.

Scientific Contributions

Resistance to Endotoxin Shock in Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats

Catherine Bernard; Régine Merval; Bruno Esposito; ; Alain Tedgui

From INSERM U141 and IFR Circulation-Lariboisière, Hôpital Lariboisière, Paris, France.

Abstract—Septic shock involves systemic vasodilation mediated by proinflammatory cytokines. In essential hypertension, vascular and immune dysfunctions are closely associated. The response of hypertensive animals compared with normotensive controls to endotoxin (lipopolysaccharide; LPS) challenge is not known. Age-matched (12 weeks) normotensive Wistar-Kyoto rats (WKY) and spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) were exposed to intravenous injection of 10 mg/kg LPS. Survival rate at 24 hours was markedly higher in SHR than in WKY (12 of 15 and 3 of 15, respectively; P<0.01). Survival of LPS-injected SHR was not related to their hypertension because hydralazine-treated SHR with normalized pressure had similar survival rates, and WKY made hypertensive by clipping of one renal artery showed fatality similar to that of normotensive WKY. Continuous arterial pressure and sequential plasma levels of interleukin-6 (IL-6) and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) were measured in LPS-treated SHR and WKY. Both the duration of the delayed hypotensive phase and the systemic release of IL-6 were much lower in SHR than WKY, whereas both acute hypotension and plasma TNF peak were equivalent. We further explored in vitro the inflammatory response and showed that LPS-activated whole blood from SHR produced less TNF and IL-6 than WKY LPS-activated whole blood. Our results indicate that SHR have a greater ability to resist endotoxic shock than WKY. This is not related to their hypertension but is associated with an attenuated inflammatory response to LPS.

Key Words: rats • hypertension, essential • endotoxins • shock • cytokines • nitric oxide

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