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The pathogenic role of angiotensin II (ANG II), dietary sodium chloride, sympathetic activation, obesity and aldosterone in the development of structural vascular changes (SVCs) in hypertension is considered from three perspectives (criteria): their utility in predicting hypertension and its complications (predictability); the effect of their inhibition or removal on the reversal of SVCs (reversibility); and their ability to induce SVCs in experimental animals (reproducibility). Only ANG II meets all three criteria. Importantly, ANG II increases preglomerular vascular resistance by inducing structural changes in renal cortical resistance arteries and arterioles. High salt intake, by dilating and thereby stiffening some arteries, may play a role in the development of systolic hypertension with aging, but does not produce structural changes in renal cortical resistance vessels. While high circulating levels of norepinephrine are associated with SVCs, the experimental evidence for the role of sympathetic nerve stimulation in the development of SVCs is inconclusive. Obesity is associated with hypertension, but is not known to be associated with SVCs. Salt-loading is required for aldosterone to produce SVCs, but vascular pathology in this experimental model differs from that in benign essential hypertension. The findings of this review indicate that SVCs in extra-renal sites by themselves do not lead to hypertension; structural changes in renal cortical arteries and arterioles that increase preglomerular vascular resistance are needed. Progressive trophic stimulation of preglomerular resistance vessels by itself may lead to hypertension. ANG II is prime candidate for such stimulus.
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- Geza Simon
- Department of Medicine, VA Medical Center and University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55417, USA.
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Smith W, Wang JJ, Wong TY, Rochtchina E, Klein R, Leeder SR, Mitchell P. Retinal Arteriolar Narrowing Is Associated With 5-Year Incident Severe Hypertension. Hypertension 2004; 44:442-7. [PMID: 15302843 DOI: 10.1161/01.hyp.0000140772.40322.ec] [Citation(s) in RCA: 144] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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We assessed whether retinal arteriolar narrowing and structural abnormalities independently predicted 5-year incident severe (grade 2 or 3) hypertension in an older population-based cohort. The Blue Mountains Eye Study baseline (1992 to 1994) examined 3654 residents aged 49 and older in 2 postal code areas, west of Sydney. Of the 2335 participants (75.1% of survivors) who returned at the 5-year examinations, 1319 were normotensive or had mild (grade 1) hypertension at baseline. Baseline retinal photographs were graded for focal retinal vessel wall signs and vessel diameters were measured. Participants were classified as having normal, high-normal blood pressure [BP] (systolic BP 121 to 139 mm Hg and/or diastolic BP 81 to 89 mm Hg), mild hypertension (systolic BP 140 to 159 mm Hg and/or diastolic BP 90 to 99 mm Hg), or severe hypertension if they had a previous diagnosis of hypertension and were receiving antihypertensive medications or had systolic BP > or =160 mm Hg and/or diastolic BP > or =100 mm Hg at examination. Incident severe hypertension was defined in persons who were free of severe hypertension at baseline but classified as having severe hypertension at the 5-year examinations. Of the 1319 baseline subjects at risk, 390 (29.6%) developed severe hypertension. After adjusting for age, sex, body mass index, smoking, glucose, and total cholesterol, generalized retinal arteriolar narrowing at baseline was associated with increased risk of incident severe hypertension (odds ratio 2.6; 95% confidence interval, 1.7 to 3.9) when comparing the narrowest versus widest quintile. This association remained significant after further adjustment for baseline mean arterial BP or BP status. Our findings support the hypothesis that small vessel structural changes may precede the development of severe hypertension.
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- Wayne Smith
- Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Newcastle, Australia
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Skov K, Mulvany MJ. Structure of renal afferent arterioles in the pathogenesis of hypertension. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 181:397-405. [PMID: 15283751 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-201x.2004.01311.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Renal vascular resistance is increased in essential hypertension, as in genetic models of hypertension. Here we review the evidence that this is at least in part due to structural changes in the afferent arterioles. Rat studies show that the renal afferent arteriole is structurally narrowed in young and adult spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR). Furthermore, in the second generation of crossbred SHRs/normotensive rats (SHR/WKY F(2)-hybrids), a narrowed afferent arteriole lumen diameter at 7 weeks is a predictor of later development of high blood pressure. The reduced lumen diameter of resistance vessels is accompanied by a decrease in media cross-sectional area in SHR and could therefore be due to inhibited growth. Evidence from a primate model of hypertension has shown a negative correlation between left ventricular hypertrophy and afferent arteriole diameter, but apparently no relation to blood pressure. In SHR, the antihypertensive effect of angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors is mediated through renal vascular mechanisms, while ACE inhibitors (like AT(1) antagonists) have a more persistent effect on blood pressure after treatment withdrawal compared with other antihypertensive drugs. Taken together, the evidence suggests that structural narrowing of the renal afferent arteriole could be an important link in the pathogenesis of primary hypertension, at least in the SHR.
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- K Skov
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
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OBJECTIVE To examine the relation between diameters of the retinal arterioles and 10 year incidence of hypertension. DESIGN Population based prospective cohort study. SETTING Beaver Dam eye study. PARTICIPANTS 2451 normotensive people aged 43 to 84 years. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Diameters of retinal arterioles and venules measured from digitised photographs of the retina taken at baseline. Measurements summarised as the arteriole:venule ratio, with a lower ratio indicating smaller arteriolar diameters. Incident hypertension, defined as systolic blood pressure > or =140 mm Hg, diastolic blood pressure > or =90 mm Hg, or use of antihypertensive drugs during follow up. RESULTS 721 participants developed hypertension over a 10 year period. Those with lower arteriole:venule ratio had a higher cumulative incidence of hypertension (incidences of 17.4%, 24.1%, 31.0%, and 45.1%, respectively, for decreasing quarters of distribution of arteriole:venule ratio). After adjustment for age and sex, participants with arteriole:venule ratios in the lowest quarter had a threefold higher risk of hypertension (odds ratio 2.95, 95% confidence interval 2.77 to 3.88) than those with ratios in the highest quarter. This association remained significant after further adjustment for baseline systolic and diastolic blood pressure and other risk factors (1.82, 1.39 to 2.40, for lowest versus highest ratio quarters). CONCLUSIONS Narrowed retinal arterioles are associated with long term risk of hypertension, suggesting that structural alterations of the microvasculature may be linked to the development of hypertension.
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- Tien Yin Wong
- Centre for Eye Research Australia, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3002, Australia.
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Oxidative stress implies an increased production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) or a decreased capacity to metabolize them. Superoxide anion (O) can bioinactivate nitric oxide (NO). Therefore, many effects of ROS are manifest as NO deficiency. The afferent arteriole and macula densa cell both contain a full complement of components of nicotine adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) oxidase that generates O. Nitric oxide synthase (NOS) type 1 or neuronal NOS (nNOS) is expressed in the macula densa and NOS type II or endothelial NOS (eNOS) in the afferent arteriole. Whole animal studies in models of hypertension and oxidative stress demonstrate that metabolism of O by a superoxide dismutase (SOD) mimetic can reduce renal vascular resistance. In vivo studies of single nephron function and in vitro studies with the double-perfused juxtaglomerular apparatus preparation have shown extensive interaction between O and NO in macula densa to regulate afferent arteriolar tone mediated by the tubuloglomerular feedback response. In vitro studies of rabbits isolated, perfused afferent arterioles have shown a similar interaction in this vessel. These data indicate important roles for O in the macula densa and afferent arterioles to enhance preglomerular resistance in animal models of oxidative stress. As an increase in afferent arteriolar resistance can precede hypertension, oxidative stress could be important in determining the long-term blood pressure and thereby contribute to hypertension.
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- C S Wilcox
- Division of Nephrology and Hypertension and the Cardiovascular-Kidney Institute, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20007, USA
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Black MJ, Briscoe TA, Constantinou M, Kett MM, Bertram JF. Is there an association between level of adult blood pressure and nephron number or renal filtration surface area? Kidney Int 2004; 65:582-8. [PMID: 14717928 DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1755.2004.00406.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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BACKGROUND Reductions in renal filtration surface area (FSA) have been linked to development of hypertension. This study investigated whether there are direct relationships, in the adult rat, between levels of blood pressure and nephron number or total renal FSA. METHODS F1 and F2 offspring were generated from a spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR)/Wistar Kyoto (WKY) rat cross. Tail-cuff systolic blood pressure was measured twice weekly from 5 to 15 weeks of age and mean arterial blood pressure determined prior to sacrifice. At 15 weeks of age, the rats were perfusion-fixed and glomerular (and thereby nephron) number, glomerular size, total length, and surface area of glomerular capillaries and total renal FSA were determined using unbiased stereologic techniques. RESULTS In F1 offspring, blood pressure levels were midway between the SHR and WKY rats. Nephron number was significantly higher in the WKY rats compared to the SHR and F1 offspring. However, there was no difference in nephron number between the F1 rats and SHR and no difference in renal FSA between the three groups. In the F2 generation, where there is random segregation of the SHR and WKY genes, there was no significant correlation between either nephron number and adult blood pressure (r2= 0.16, P= 0.11) or total renal FSA and adult blood pressure (r2= 0.02, P= 0.58). There was a significant inverse correlation between nephron number and glomerular size (r2= 0.49, P= 0.0043). CONCLUSION There is not a direct corollary between nephron number or renal FSA and level of blood pressure in this rat model.
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- M Jane Black
- Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia.
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Wang D, Chen Y, Chabrashvili T, Aslam S, Borrego Conde LJ, Umans JG, Wilcox CS. Role of Oxidative Stress in Endothelial Dysfunction and Enhanced Responses to Angiotensin II of Afferent Arterioles from Rabbits Infused with Angiotensin II. J Am Soc Nephrol 2003; 14:2783-9. [PMID: 14569088 DOI: 10.1097/01.asn.0000090747.59919.d2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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ABSTRACT. The hypothesis that O2·− enhances angiotensin II (AngII)-induced vasoconstriction and impairs acetylcholine-induced vasodilation of afferent arterioles (Aff) in AngII–induced hypertension was investigated. Rabbits (n = 6 per group) received 12 to 14 d of 0.154 M NaCl (Sham), subpressor AngII (60 ng/kg per min; AngII 60) or slow pressor AngII (200 ng/kg per min; AngII 200). Individual Aff were perfused in vitro at 60 mmHg. AngII 200 increased mean arterial pressure (mean ± SD; 103 ± 9 versus 73 ± 6 mmHg; P < 0.01), plasma lipid peroxides (2.6 ± 0.3 versus 2.0 ± 0.3 nM; P < 0.05), renal cortical NADPH- and NADH-dependent O2·− generation, and Aff mRNA for p22phox 5-fold (P < 0.001) but decreased that for AT1-receptor 2.4-fold (P < 0.01). AngII 60 increased only NADH-dependent O2·− generation by renal cortex. Aff from AngII 200 rabbits had diminished acetylcholine relaxations (+50 ± 4 versus +85 ± 6%; P < 0.001), but these became similar in the presence of nitro-l-arginine (10−4 M). Aff from AngII 60 and AngII 200 rabbits had unchanged norepinephrine contractions (10−7 M) but significantly (P < 0.05) enhanced AngII contractions (10−8 M: Sham −52 ± 5 versus AngII 60 to 77 ± 5 versus AngII 200 to 110 ± 10%). The superoxide dismutase mimetic tempol (10−4 M) moderated the AngII responses of Aff from AngII 200 rabbits to levels of AngII 60 rabbits (−64 ± 7%). The AngII slow pressor response enhances renal cortical O2·− and p22phox expression. Increased O2·− generation in Aff mediates an impaired nitric oxide synthase–dependent endothelium-derived relaxing factor response and paradoxically enhances contractions to AngII despite downregulation of the mRNA for AT1 receptors. A subpressor dose of AngII enhances Aff responses to AngII independent of O2·−. E-mail: wilcoxch@georgetown.edu
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- Dan Wang
- Division of Nephrology and Hypertension and Center for Hypertension and Renal Disease Research, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20007, USA
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Kanellis J, Nakagawa T, Herrera-Acosta J, Schreiner GF, Rodríguez-Iturbe B, Johnson RJ. A single pathway for the development of essential hypertension. Cardiol Rev 2003; 11:180-96. [PMID: 12852795 DOI: 10.1097/01.crd.0000077361.00668.14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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- John Kanellis
- Division Of Nephrology, Baylor College Of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
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Nakamura M, Notoya M, Kohda Y, Yamashita J, Takashita Y, Gemba M. Effects of efonidipine hydrochloride on renal arteriolar diameters in spontaneously hypertensive rats. Hypertens Res 2002; 25:751-5. [PMID: 12452329 DOI: 10.1291/hypres.25.751] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Efonidipine, a calcium antagonist, has been reported to dilate not only afferent but also efferent arterioles, thereby reducing glomerular hydrostatic pressure. We investigated the effect of chronic treatment with efonidipine or lisinopril on the afferent and efferent arteriolar diameters by the vascular cast technique. Four-week-old spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) were divided into three groups: untreated, efonidipine (25 mg/kg/day)-treated, and lisinopril (3 mg/kg/day)-treated. At 22 weeks of age, the renal vasculatures were fixed at the maximally dilated condition. The morphometrical measurements showed that the treatments with efonidipine and lisinopril caused structural alteration of the vasculature, resulting in significantly greater efferent arteriolar diameters than in untreated SHR. In addition, lisinopril-treated rats had wider afferent lumina. The renoprotective effect of efonidipine and lisinopril might be partly due to the structurally larger efferent arteriolar lumen.
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- Masuhisa Nakamura
- Division of Pharmacology, Osaka University of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nasahara, Takatsuki, Japan.
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Grisk O, Rose HJ, Lorenz G, Rettig R. Sympathetic-renal interaction in chronic arterial pressure control. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2002; 283:R441-50. [PMID: 12121857 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00669.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The effects of neonatal sympathectomy of donors or recipients on posttransplantation arterial pressure were investigated in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) by renal transplantation experiments. Conscious mean arterial pressure (MAP) and renal vascular resistance were 136 +/- 1 mmHg and 15.5 +/- 1.2 mmHg x ml(-1) x min x g in sympathectomized SHR (n = 8) vs. 158 +/- 4 mmHg (P < 0.001) and 20.8 +/- 1.1 mmHg x ml(-1) x min x g (P < 0.05) in controls (n = 10). Seven weeks after transplantation of a kidney from neonatally sympathectomized SHR donors, MAP in SHR recipients (n = 10) was 20 mmHg lower than in controls transplanted with a kidney from hydralazine-treated SHR (n = 10) (P < 0.05) associated with reduced sodium sensitivity of MAP. Neonatal sympathectomy also lowered MAP in F1-hybrids (F1H; SHR x Wistar-Kyoto rats). Within 6 wk after transplantation, renal grafts from untreated SHR increased MAP by 20 mmHg in sympathectomized F1H (n = 10) and by 35 mmHg in sham-treated F1H (n = 8) (P < 0.05). Neonatal sympathectomy induces chronic changes in SHR kidney function leading to a MAP reduction even when extrarenal sympathetic tone is restored. Generalized reduction in sympathetic tone resets the kidney-fluid system to reduced MAP and blunts the extent of arterial pressure rise induced by an SHR kidney graft.
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- Olaf Grisk
- Department of Physiology, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University, D-17487 Greifswald, Germany.
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Skov K, Julius S, Nesbitt S, Mulvany MJ. Can hypertension be prevented? The Danish Hypertension Prevention Project and the Trial of Prevention of Hypertension studies. Curr Opin Cardiol 2002; 17:380-4. [PMID: 12151873 DOI: 10.1097/00001573-200207000-00010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Essential hypertension, a major health problem worldwide, is a disease generally considered to require life-long treatment. However, evidence suggests that hypertension is caused by specific phenotypic changes caused by the combination of genetic and environmental factors. Thus, in principle, hypertension could be prevented by prevention of these phenotypic changes. Animal data indicate that early treatment that blocks the renin-angiotensin system have long-term effects after treatment withdrawal. Here we report on two human trials that are testing whether early treatment (with the AT1-antagonist, candesartan) is able to have a persistent effect after stopping treatment: the Danish Hypertension Prevention Project and Trial of Prevention of Hypertension.
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- Karin Skov
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
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Johnson RJ, Herrera-Acosta J, Schreiner GF, Rodriguez-Iturbe B. Subtle acquired renal injury as a mechanism of salt-sensitive hypertension. N Engl J Med 2002; 346:913-23. [PMID: 11907292 DOI: 10.1056/nejmra011078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 319] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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- Richard J Johnson
- Division of Nephrology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston 77030, USA.
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Grisk O, Klöting I, Exner J, Spiess S, Schmidt R, Junghans D, Lorenz G, Rettig R. Long-term arterial pressure in spontaneously hypertensive rats is set by the kidney. J Hypertens 2002; 20:131-8. [PMID: 11791036 DOI: 10.1097/00004872-200201000-00019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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OBJECTIVES We investigated whether arterial pressure in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) can be normalized by a kidney graft from normotensive histocompatible donors. In addition, the effect of differential genetic predisposition to hypertension of recipients of an SHR kidney on the development of post-transplantation hypertension was studied. METHODS SHR were transplanted with a kidney from congenic rats (BB.1K) homozygous for a 2 cM segment of SHR chromosome 20, including the major histocompatibility complex class Ia and class II genes. BB.1K and F1 hybrids (F1H, SHR x Wistar-Kyoto rats) were transplanted with an SHR kidney and the development of renal post-transplantation hypertension was monitored. RESULTS Thirty days after renal transplantation, mean arterial pressure (MAP) was 116 +/- 4 mmHg in SHR with a BB.1K kidney (n = 8) versus 168 +/- 2 mmHg in sham-operated SHR (n = 10); P < 0.001. Cumulative renal sodium balance (mmol/100 g body weight) over 21 days after bilateral nephrectomy was 6.8 +/- 0.6 in SHR with a BB.1K kidney versus 10.8 +/- 1.6 in sham-operated SHR (P < 0.05). Within 60 days of transplantation, MAP increased in BB.1K and in F1H transplanted with an SHR kidney (n = 7 per group) by 38 +/- 5 mmHg and 43 +/- 8 mmHg, respectively. CONCLUSIONS In SHR, arterial pressure can be normalized by a kidney graft from normotensive donors. The genetic predisposition of the recipients to hypertension does not modify the rate and the extent of the arterial pressure rise induced by an SHR kidney graft.
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- Olaf Grisk
- Department of Physiology, University of Greifswald, Greifswalder Strasse 11c, D-17495 Karlsburg, Germany.
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Yamamoto T, Tomura Y, Tanaka H, Kajiya F. In vivo visualization of characteristics of renal microcirculation in hypertensive and diabetic rats. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 2001; 281:F571-7. [PMID: 11502605 DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.2001.281.3.f571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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We developed a videomicroscope system with a charge-coupled device camera and evaluated it in the investigation of the glomerular microcirculation in normal [Wistar-Kyoto (WKY)], spontaneously hypertensive (SHR), and streptoyotocin-induced diabetic rats (STZ). In WKY, the diameter of the afferent arterioles (Af) was 11.9 +/- 0.7 microm and that of the efferent arterioles (Ef) was 8.9 +/- 0.7 microm. Af and Ef in each glomerulus could be visualized simultaneously with continuous recording of blood pressure and renal blood flow. In SHR, Af diameter was constricted to approximately 60% of that in WKY. A dose-dependent dilation of Af and Ef was observed after administration of barnidipine (1-10 microg/kg iv), a calcium channel antagonist, in all three groups. No change was seen in the Af-to-Ef diameter ratio (Af/Ef ratio) in WKY. In SHR, the Af/Ef ratio increased significantly because of the marked dilation of Af after barnidipine administration. In contrast, barnidipine dilated Ef in STZ, causing a significant reduction in the Af/Ef ratio. This system can analyze in vivo glomerular microcirculation and systemic macrocirculation simultaneously, allowing more direct investigation of the characteristics of and acute changes in glomerular microcirculation in pathological animals.
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- T Yamamoto
- Department of Urology, Kawasaki Medical School, 577 Matsushima, Kurashiki, Okayama 701-0192, Japan
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Levy BI, Ambrosio G, Pries AR, Struijker-Boudier HA. Microcirculation in hypertension: a new target for treatment? Circulation 2001; 104:735-40. [PMID: 11489784 DOI: 10.1161/hc3101.091158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 418] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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- B I Levy
- INSERM Unit 141, IFR Circulation, Hôpital Lariboisière, Paris, France
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Salomonsson M, Arendshorst WJ. Norepinephrine-induced calcium signaling pathways in afferent arterioles of genetically hypertensive rats. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 2001; 281:F264-72. [PMID: 11457717 DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.2001.281.2.f264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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This study provides new information about the relative importance of calcium mobilization and entry in the renal vascular response to adrenoceptor activation in afferent arterioles isolated from 7- to 8-wk-old Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) and spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR). Intracellular free calcium concentration ([Ca(2+)](i)) was measured in microdissected arterioles utilizing ratiometric photometry of fura 2 fluorescence. There was no significant strain difference in baseline [Ca(2+)](i). Norepinephrine (NE; 10(-6) and 10(-7) M) elicited immediate, sustained increases in [Ca(2+)](i). The general temporal pattern of response to 10(-6) M NE consisted of an initial peak and a maintained plateau phase. The response to NE was partially blocked by nifedipine (10(-6) M) or 8-(N,N-diethylamino) octyl-3,4,5-trimetoxybenzoate (TMB-8; 10(-5) M). A calcium-free external solution abolished the sustained [Ca(2+)](i) plateau response to NE, with less influence on the peak response. In the absence of calcium entry, TMB-8 (10(-5) M) completely blocked the calcium response to NE in WKY but not SHR, suggesting strain differences in mobilization. A higher concentration of TMB-8 (10(-4) M), however, blocked all discernible mobilization in both strains. We conclude that there are differences in Ca(2+) handling in renal resistance vessels between young WKY and SHR with respect to mobilization stimulated by alpha-adrenoceptors. Afferent arterioles of young SHR appear to have a larger inositol-1,4,5-trisphosphate-sensitive pool or release from a site less accessible to TMB-8.
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- M Salomonsson
- Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-7545, USA
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Anderson WP, Kett MM, Stevenson KM, Edgley AJ, Denton KM, Fitzgerald SM. Renovascular hypertension: structural changes in the renal vasculature. Hypertension 2000; 36:648-52. [PMID: 11040252 DOI: 10.1161/01.hyp.36.4.648] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Experimental narrowing of the main renal artery to produce hypertension increases the aorta-glomerular capillary pressure difference and vascular resistance. This article examines the hypothesis that hypertension also may be caused by structural changes that narrow intrarenal blood vessels, similarly increasing preglomerular vascular resistance and the aortic-glomerular capillary pressure gradient. There is evidence of both wall hypertrophy and lumen narrowing of the preglomerular arteries in spontaneously hypertensive rats, with increased preglomerular resistance and aortic-glomerular capillary pressure difference. We have also attempted to induce structural changes in renal-preglomerular vessels experimentally by infusing angiotensin II at low doses (0.5 to 4.5 ng/kg per minute) into the renal artery of Sprague-Dawley rats and greyhound dogs for up to 4 weeks. This angiotensin II infusion produced apparent dose-related effects on preglomerular vessel structure and hypertension. The possibility that hypertension may be induced by structural changes in preglomerular resistance vessel walls, by simulation of the hemodynamic effects of main renal artery stenosis, deserves further investigation.
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- W P Anderson
- Department of Physiology, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
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Kost CK, Rominski BR, Herzer WA, Jackson EK, Tofovic SP. Persistent improvement of cardiovascular risk factors in spontaneously hypertensive rats following early short-term captopril treatment. Clin Exp Hypertens 2000; 22:127-43. [PMID: 10744354 DOI: 10.1081/ceh-100100067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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This study was designed to determine whether an improvement in cardiovascular risk factors persists in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) following withdrawal of angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor (ACE-I) treatment. SHR were given deionized drinking water or captopril solution from four to sixteen weeks of age. At twelve weeks of age, rats from each group were instrumented with radiotelemetry devices for continuous monitoring of blood pressure. Mean arterial blood pressure was significantly lower in captopril-treated SHR during treatment (92+/-2 vs 147+/-1 mm Hg), and at twelve weeks after treatment withdrawal (131+/-2 vs 158+/-2 mm Hg). In addition, proteinuria, renal vascular resistance, plasma triglyceride levels, fasting glucose levels, post-prandial insulin levels, and heart weights were significantly reduced in the treated SHR compared to control SHR, at time-points between three to seven months after captopril withdrawal. Our findings indicate that short-term administration of an ACE-I during the developmental phase of hypertension in the SHR results in a long-term overall improvement of cardiovascular risk factors.
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- C K Kost
- Center for Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, PA 15213-2582, USA.
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Skov K, Mulvany MI. Remodeling of the renal resistance vessels in hypertension. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2000. [DOI: 10.1016/s1569-2590(00)09073-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/18/2023]
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Iwai N, Kinoshita M, Shimoike H. Chromosomal mapping of quantitative trait loci that influence renal hemodynamic functions. Circulation 1999; 100:1923-9. [PMID: 10545438 DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.100.18.1923] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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BACKGROUND Impaired renal hemodynamic function has been suspected to be responsible for hypertension in the spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR). METHODS AND RESULTS We measured renal hemodynamic functions, including the glomerular filtration rate, renal plasma flow, and renal vascular resistance, in an F2 rat population derived from spontaneously hypertensive and Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rats and performed a genome-wide screening to map quantitative trait loci that influence these functions to gain insight into the relationship between renal hemodynamic functions and blood pressure control. The D1 Mit7 locus was identified as a major locus that influenced renal hemodynamic functions, and we transferred the SHR chromosomal segment around the D1 Mit7 locus into the WKY strain. The congenic rats exhibited impaired renal hemodynamic functions. The systolic blood pressure of the congenic rats was significantly higher than that of age-matched WKY rats, but only at nighttime. No significant differences in systolic blood pressure during daytime or diastolic blood pressure were observed between the 2 strains. CONCLUSIONS We have identified a chromosome segment that influences renal hemodynamic function. The SHR chromosome segment around the D1 Mit7 locus had significant, but not dramatic, effects in increasing blood pressure in the WKY genetic background. However, further studies will be necessary to determine the significance of this locus in SHR hypertension.
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- N Iwai
- Research Institute, National Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan.
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In this review, we attempt to outline the age-dependent interactions of principal systems controlling the structure and function of the cardiovascular system in immature rats developing hypertension. We focus our attention on the cardiovascular effects of various pharmacological, nutritional, and behavioral interventions applied at different stages of ontogeny. Several distinct critical periods (developmental windows), in which particular stimuli affect the further development of the cardiovascular phenotype, are specified in the rat. It is evident that short-term transient treatment of genetically hypertensive rats with certain antihypertensive drugs in prepuberty and puberty (at the age of 4-10 wk) has long-term beneficial effects on further development of their cardiovascular apparatus. This juvenile critical period coincides with the period of high susceptibility to the hypertensive effects of increased salt intake. If the hypertensive process develops after this critical period (due to early antihypertensive treatment or late administration of certain hypertensive stimuli, e.g., high salt intake), blood pressure elevation, cardiovascular hypertrophy, connective tissue accumulation, and end-organ damage are considerably attenuated compared with rats developing hypertension during the juvenile critical period. As far as the role of various electrolytes in blood pressure modulation is concerned, prohypertensive effects of dietary Na+ and antihypertensive effects of dietary Ca2+ are enhanced in immature animals, whereas vascular protective and antihypertensive effects of dietary K+ are almost independent of age. At a given level of dietary electrolyte intake, the balance between dietary carbohydrate and fat intake can modify blood pressure even in rats with established hypertension, but dietary protein intake affects the blood pressure development in immature animals only. Dietary protein restriction during gestation, as well as altered mother-offspring interactions in the suckling period, might have important long-term hypertensive consequences. The critical periods (developmental windows) should be respected in the future pharmacological or gene therapy of human hypertension.
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- J Zicha
- Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic.
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Hansen PB, Jensen BL, Skott O. Chloride regulates afferent arteriolar contraction in response to depolarization. Hypertension 1998; 32:1066-70. [PMID: 9856975 DOI: 10.1161/01.hyp.32.6.1066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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-Renal vascular reactivity is influenced by the level of dietary salt intake. Recent in vitro data suggest that afferent arteriolar contractility is modulated by extracellular chloride. In the present study, we assessed the influence of chloride on K+-induced contraction in isolated perfused rabbit afferent arterioles. In 70% of vessels examined, K+-induced contraction was abolished by acute substitution of bath chloride. Consecutive addition of Cl- (30, 60, 80, 100, 110, and 117 mmol/L) restored the sensitivity to K+, and half-maximal response was observed at 82 mmol/L chloride. The calcium channel antagonist diltiazem (10(-6) mol/L) abolished K+-induced contractions. Bicarbonate did not modify the sensitivity to chloride. Norepinephrine (10(-6) mol/L) induced full contraction in depolarized vessels even in the absence of chloride. Iodide and nitrate were substituted for chloride with no inhibitory effect on K+-induced contraction. Approximately 30% of the vessels constricted in response to K+ in the absence of chloride. This response was reversibly blocked by the alpha1-blocker phentolamine (PA) (10(-5) mol/L) and, with PA present, the dependence on chloride was similar to the above series. The results show that K+-induced contraction of smooth muscle cells in the afferent arteriole is highly sensitive to chloride, whereas neurotransmitter release and ensuing contraction is not dependent on chloride. Thus, there are different activation pathways for depolarizing vasoconstrictors and for the sympathetic nervous system in renal afferent arterioles. This could be of physiological relevance for the resetting of afferent arteriolar sensitivity during changes in salt intake.
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- P B Hansen
- Department of Physiology, Odense University, Odense, Denmark
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Ledingham JM, Laverty R. Renal afferent arteriolar structure in the genetically hypertensive (GH) rat and the ability of losartan and enalapril to cause structural remodelling. J Hypertens 1998; 16:1945-52. [PMID: 9886881 DOI: 10.1097/00004872-199816121-00014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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OBJECTIVE This study aimed to compare the structure of renal afferent arterioles in the genetically hypertensive (GH) rat strain with the normotensive (N) control strain in relation to pathogenesis, and to quantify structural remodelling in GH rats after treatment with losartan and enalapril and to relate this to blood pressure (BP) and left ventricular (LV) mass. METHODS GH rats were given losartan 15 mg/kg/day, enalapril 10 mg/kg/day (enalapril 10) or 3 mg/kg/day (enalapril 3) from the age of 4 to 10 weeks. Untreated GH and N groups served as controls. Tail-cuff systolic BP was measured weekly from 4 weeks. At the age of 10 weeks, kidneys were perfused with microspheres to identify afferent arterioles, kidney pieces were fixed, embedded in Technovit and stained sections analysed. Lumen and media plus lumen diameters were measured; media width, media cross-sectional area (CSA) and media/lumen (M/L) ratio were derived. RESULTS BP and LV mass were elevated in GH compared with N rats, and reduced by losartan and enalapril 10 and to a lesser degree by enalapril 3. In afferent arterioles, lumen diameter, media width and CSA were smaller in GH than N and M/L ratio was larger. Losartan and enalapril 10 reduced media width and increased lumen diameter, while enalapril 3 increased CSA (in distal arterioles) and lumen diameter. M/L ratio was reduced by losartan and enalapril. CONCLUSION Abnormal structure of the afferent arteriole, resulting in an increased M/L ratio, could explain abnormalities of renal blood flow and vascular resistance in GH and contribute to the hypertension. In GH, losartan and enalapril reduce BP and LV mass, cause remodelling of afferent arterioles, and lower the M/L ratio to below N levels.
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- J M Ledingham
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Otago School of Medical Sciences, Dunedin, New Zealand
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BACKGROUND The formation of new blood vessels is an important process in embryonic development and in physiological repair processes. Abnormalities in blood vessel growth have been associated with various pathologies. HYPERTENSION AND IMPAIRED VASCULAR GROWTH The basic observation underlying the hypothesis that essential hypertension is based on an impaired capacity for vascular growth is the nature of the structural alterations of microvascular beds in essential hypertension. Recent advances in understanding the molecular and cellular mechanisms of vascular growth suggest that the remodeling of individual vessels and vascular networks in hypertension may be a pathological variant of the formation of mature networks. PATHOGENESIS OF IMPAIRED VASCULAR GROWTH Genetic and fetal influences appear to have significant effects in determining impaired vascular development as an early cause of essential hypertension.
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- F A le Noble
- Department of Pharmacology, Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht, Universiteit Maastricht, The Netherlands
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Dzau VJ, Horiuchi M. Vascular remodeling--the emerging paradigm of programmed cell death (apoptosis): the Francis B. Parker lectureship. Chest 1998; 114:91S-99S. [PMID: 9676650 DOI: 10.1378/chest.114.1_supplement.91s-a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/01/2022] Open
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- V J Dzau
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, USA
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Hamet P, Pausova Z, Dumas P, Sun YL, Tremblay J, Pravenec M, Kunes J, Krenova D, Kren V. Newborn and adult recombinant inbred strains: a tool to search for genetic determinants of target organ damage in hypertension. Kidney Int 1998; 53:1488-92. [PMID: 9607180 DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1755.1998.00938.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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It has been proposed that one of the primary events in the development of essential hypertension is a growth-related process initiated as early as during fetal development. Differences in kidney size have been observed between most rat models of hypertension and their respective controls. In this study, we analyzed relative kidney size (kidney weight/body wt) in a set of rat recombinant inbred strains (RIS) (N = 27) and their progenitors, the spontaneously hypertensive rat strain (SHR/Ola) and Brown Norway congenic strain (BN.1x), at two different ages, at birth and at 15 weeks. In the progenitors, the relative kidney weight was higher in the hypertensive than in the normotensive strain of both the newborn (P < 0.001) and adult (P < 0.001) animals. In the RIS, a significant correlation was found between the newborn and adult relative kidney weight (r = 0.49, P = 0.01), indicating that the two phenotypes share some of their genetic determinants. A total genome search of newborn and adult relative kidney weight was performed with a total of 453 genetic markers. These analyses revealed several suggestive quantitative trait loci (QTL), some of which were, indeed, significant for both newborn and adult relative kidney weight (such as, D3Mit9 on rat chromosome 3; r = -0.50, P < 0.01; r = -0.47, P < 0.01; respectively). Others, such as the locus on rat chromosome 1 (Rt6; r = -0.43, P < 0.05), were significant only for the adult relative kidney size. This QTL was found in close proximity to a region previously related to susceptibility to hypertensive renal disease in the fawn-hooded rat and, similarly to that study, its effect was found to be independent of blood pressure. Furthermore, a growth pattern of the kidneys after birth, evaluated as the difference between the newborn and adult relative kidney weight, was also subjected to total genome scan. Several suggestive QTL were identified. One of the most significant loci was found at the D1a marker on rat chromosome 17 (r = -0.51, P < 0.01), which was previously related to the determination of adult heart weight in the RIS. In conclusion, the current study demonstrates the usefulness of RIS in studies of hypertension-related phenotypes, some of which are abnormal before the development of high blood pressure. To better understand their role in the pathogenesis of hypertension, studies at different ages are needed, which are uniquely feasible in RIS.
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- P Hamet
- Centre de Recherche du C.H.U.M, Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada.
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van Suylen RJ, Smits JF, Daemen MJ. Pulmonary artery remodeling differs in hypoxia- and monocrotaline-induced pulmonary hypertension. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1998; 157:1423-8. [PMID: 9603118 DOI: 10.1164/ajrccm.157.5.9709050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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In the present study we analyzed structural characteristics of muscular pulmonary arteries and arterioles in two classic models of pulmonary hypertension, the rat hypoxia and monocrotaline models. We hypothesized that an increase in medial cross-sectional area would result in reduction of the lumen area and that these parameters would correlate with the increase in pulmonary artery pressure (PAP). Four weeks after a single injection of monocrotaline (MCT) or after 4 wk of hypoxic exposure the rats were killed. Both MCT and chronic hypoxia induced right ventricular hypertrophy. In separate groups of rats both MCT and chronic hypoxia increased PAP. MCT increased the media cross-sectional area of pulmonary arteries with an external diameter between 30-100 microm and 101-200 microm and reduced the lumen area of pulmonary arteries with an external diameter between 101-200 microm. Chronic hypoxia only slightly increased the media cross-sectional area without a change of the lumen area. Both MCT and hypoxia increased the percentage of partly muscularized and muscularized arterioles. The angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor captopril (0.5 mg/kg/h) had no effect on MCT-induced pulmonary hypertension, right ventricular hypertrophy, and pulmonary artery remodeling. In chronic hypoxic rats it prevented an increase in medial cross-sectional area of pulmonary arteries with an external diameter between 30-100 microm and attenuated the increase in the percentage of muscularized arterioles, without any effect on the PAP. We conclude that MCT, in contrast to chronic hypoxia, induces structural changes of muscular pulmonary arteries with an external diameter between 101-200 microm which may contribute to an increased PAP and right ventricular hypertrophy. These data also suggest that angiotensin II plays a pivotal role in remodeling of pulmonary arteries in hypoxia but not in MCT-induced pulmonary hypertension.
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- R J van Suylen
- Department of Pathology, Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
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Franco M, Paniagua R, Herrera-Acosta J. Renal effects of renin-angiotensin system blockade. Curr Opin Nephrol Hypertens 1998; 7:153-8. [PMID: 9529617 DOI: 10.1097/00041552-199803000-00003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Pharmacological interruption of the renin-angiotensin system at different pathway levels has extended our knowledge on the distribution of angiotensin receptors in different nephron segments, its regulation and tubular cell responses. Novel beneficial effects obtained with blockade of this peptide on cellular proliferation and its interaction with other vasoactive systems are particularly important for preventing renal damage.
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- M Franco
- Department of Nephrology, Instituto Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chávez, Mexico City, Mexico
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Chronic sustained hypertension leads to structural changes of the small and large arteries. These alterations consist of smooth-muscle hypertrophy, increased deposition of collagen, and "dilution" or destruction of elastin fibers. In addition, there may be no growth at all, but a "rearrangement" of vascular wall material termed "remodeling." These changes serve to increase wall thickness and the media-to-lumen ratio and to decrease the external and internal diameter of the vessel--all of which contribute to increased systemic vascular resistance by the small arteries and increased impedance by the larger arteries. It has been suggested that these structural changes are an adaptive effort by the vessel to maintain a constancy of wall tension, but the end result is detrimental in that the effect is a further increase in systemic vascular resistance and blood-flow impedance, which lead to left ventricular hypertrophy and its consequences. The stimuli for these changes are stretch stimuli, mediated through stretch receptors on the arterial wall, and trophic stimuli mediated at the tissue level through the action of angiotensin II, aldosterone, and catecholamines. Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, especially those with effective tissue penetration, are ideal drugs to reverse these structural changes ("reverse remodeling"), decrease the systemic vascular resistance, and increase the vascular compliance. These agents exert their effects through suppression, at the tissue level, of angiotensin II, aldosterone, catecholamines, endothelins (ET1, ET3), and transforming growth factor-beta1 (TGF-beta1) and through an increase in local levels of kinins, prostaglandins, and nitric oxide, which have antigrowth effects. Although this is a class effect, it appears to be stronger with those angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors providing the greatest tissue penetration.
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- S G Chrysant
- Oklahoma Cardiovascular and Hypertension Center and The University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City 73132-4904, USA
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Harrap SB, Jones EF. Cardiovascular hypertrophy does not predispose to genetic hypertension. Clin Exp Hypertens 1997; 19:531-41. [PMID: 9247736 DOI: 10.3109/10641969709083167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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It has been proposed that cardiovascular hypertrophy precedes and contributes to the development of genetic hypertension. In a genetically segregating population we determined whether susceptibility to high blood pressure was associated with cardiovascular structural abnormalities in youth. In 9-week old male F2 rats derived from a cross of spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and inbred normotensive Donryu (DRY) rats we determined left ventricular mass (LVM) by echocardiography and the media-lumen ratio (MLR) of mesenteric resistance vessels by biopsy. Direct mean arterial pressure was measured in the same rats at 20 weeks of age. The ranges of LVM and MLR in young F2 rats encompassed values seen SHR and DRY at this age. However, no correlation was observed between LVM or MLR and subsequent blood pressures at 20 weeks of age. The blood pressure of F2 rats with cardiovascular structural phenotypes within the SHR range was no higher than the remainder of the F2 population. These studies do not support the hypothesis that hypertrophy of the heart or mesenteric resistance vessels confer susceptibility to the development of genetic hypertension.
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- S B Harrap
- Department of Physiology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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The kidney plays an important role in the pathophysiology of hypertension. Recent studies suggest that glomerular hemodynamics may be critically involved not only in the pathogenesis of hypertension but also in the mode of progression of renal dysfunction. The juxtaglomerular apparatus (JGA), consisting of the glomerular afferent and efferent arterioles and the specialized tubular epithelial cells called the macula densa, plays a central role in the regulation of glomerular hemodynamics and renin release. This article reviews the mechanism by which the JGA controls renin release and glomerular hemodynamics as well as its relevance in the pathogenesis, pathophysiology and treatment of hypertension.
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- S Ito
- Second Department of Internal Medicine, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai
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Skov K, Fenger-Grøn J, Mulvany MJ. Effects of an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor, a calcium antagonist, and an endothelin receptor antagonist on renal afferent arteriolar structure. Hypertension 1996; 28:464-71. [PMID: 8794834 DOI: 10.1161/01.hyp.28.3.464] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Narrowed afferent arteriolar diameter in young, spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) may be a contributor to later development of high blood pressure. Thus, treatment that causes dilation of the afferent arterioles in SHR may inhibit the redevelopment of high blood pressure when treatment is withdrawn. We treated SHR with an ACE inhibitor (cilazapril, 5 to 10 mg/kg per day, high; 1 mg/kg per day, low), a calcium antagonist (mibefradil, 20 to 30 mg/kg per day), and an endothelin receptor antagonist (bosentan, 100 mg/kg per day) from age 4 to 20 weeks. Untreated SHR and Wistar-Kyoto rats were also investigated. At 20 weeks, the rats were killed, and morphology of the afferent arterioles was studied. Other SHR (untreated, high cilazapril, low cilazapril, mibefradil) were treated in exactly the same way and then followed to 32 weeks without treatment. The morphometric studies showed that cilazapril increased the lumen diameter in the afferent arterioles and decreased the media-lumen ratio in a dose-dependent manner. On withdrawal of cilazapril treatment, the reduction in blood pressure persisted. Mibefradil tended to increase afferent arteriolar diameter, whereas it did not alter media-lumen ratio. The persistent effect on blood pressure was only moderate after withdrawal of mibefradil. Bosentan had no effect on renal afferent arteriolar structure or blood pressure. In conclusion, cilazapril was more effective than mibefradil in altering afferent arteriolar structure and caused the most persistent effect on blood pressure after treatment withdrawal. The association of increased afferent arteriolar diameter and lower blood pressure level after withdrawal of treatment may suggest a pathogenic role for afferent arteriolar diameter in the development of high blood pressure in SHR.
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- K Skov
- Department of Pathology, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark.
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- R G Woolfson
- Department of Nephrology, Middlesex Hospital, London, England, United Kingdom
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Tamura K, Umemura S, Nyui N, Yamakawa T, Yamaguchi S, Ishigami T, Tanaka S, Tanimoto K, Takagi N, Sekihara H, Murakami K, Ishii M. Tissue-specific regulation of angiotensinogen gene expression in spontaneously hypertensive rats. Hypertension 1996; 27:1216-23. [PMID: 8641727 DOI: 10.1161/01.hyp.27.6.1216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Angiotensinogen is expressed in many tissues besides the liver. Recent studies have suggested that abnormalities in the regulation of angiotensinogen gene expression may be involved in the development of hypertension. However, little information is available concerning the functional significance of tissue angiotensinogen. In this study, we measured plasma angiotensinogen concentration by radioimmunoassay and examined the expression of tissue angiotensinogen by Northern blot analysis in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and Wistar-Kyoto rats (WKY). Although plasma angiotensinogen concentration in SHR was comparable to that in WKY at 6 weeks of age, it was increased significantly at 14 weeks of age in SHR and became higher than that in WKY. The levels of hepatic angiotensinogen mRNA were similar in SHR and WKY, and the levels of aortic, adrenal, and renal angiotensinogen mRNAs were lower in SHR than in WKY at both 6 and 14 weeks of age. Brain angiotensinogen expression in SHR was higher than in WKY at 6 weeks of age and was comparable to that in WKY at 14 weeks of age. On the other hand, cardiac and fat angiotensinogen mRNA levels were significantly increased at 14 weeks of age in SHR. These results demonstrate that the expression of tissue angiotensinogen is regulated differently in SHR and WKY and indicate that the development of hypertension is accompanied at least temporally with increases in plasma angiotensinogen concentration as well as cardiac and adipogenic angiotensinogen mRNA in SHR.
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- K Tamura
- Second Department of Internal Medicine, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Japan
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DiBona GF, Jones SY, Sawin LL. Renal sympathetic neural mechanisms as intermediate phenotype in spontaneously hypertensive rats. Hypertension 1996; 27:626-30. [PMID: 8613214 DOI: 10.1161/01.hyp.27.3.626] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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The borderline hypertensive rat, the F1 of a cross between a hypertensive spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) and a normotensive Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rat, is a NaCl-sensitive model of genetic hypertension. In addition to hypertension, borderline hypertensive rats fed 8% NaCl develop characteristic alterations in the regulation of efferent renal sympathetic nerve activity and the neural control of renal function that are similar to those observed in the SHR parent. Like the normotensive WKY rat parent, borderline hypertensive rats fed 1% NaCl remain normotensive and do not exhibit these alterations in renal sympathetic neural mechanisms. These renal sympathetic neural mechanisms constitute a complex quantitative trait that may represent an intermediate phenotype. They have a plausible pathogenetic role in hypertension and are different between SHR and WKY rats. This study evaluated two aspects of this complex quantitative trait, enhanced renal sympathoexcitation with air-jet stress and enhanced renal sympathoinhibition with guanabenz, as a candidate intermediate phenotype. As neither of these aspects was observed in two-kidney, one clip Goldblatt-hypertensive rats, this suggests that the trait is not secondary to hypertension from an acquired cause. In a backcross population (F1 x WKY) fed 8% NaCl for 12 weeks, both enhanced renal sympathoexcitation with air-jet stress and enhanced renal sympathoinhibition with guanabenz cosegregated with the hypertension. These results support renal sympathetic neural mechanisms as an intermediate phenotype in SHR.
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- G F DiBona
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, 52242, USA
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We investigated the effect of long-term administration of the angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor lisinopril on renal arterioles in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and Wistar-Kyoto rats (WKY) using a morphometric method and vascular cast technique. Rats were treated with lisinopril beginning at 4 weeks of age. At 15 weeks of age, the kidney vessels were fixed when maximally relaxed. Resin was perfused into the right kidney to make a cast of the renal vasculature. The opposite kidney was used for the morphometric study to evaluate structural changes of the vascular wall. The vascular cast study demonstrated a significant reduction in the lumen diameter of the afferent but not the efferent arterioles in SHR compared with those in WKY. In lisinopril-treated rats, the afferent arteriolar lumen diameters were significantly larger than those of the respective control groups in both strains. However, treatment did not affect the lumen diameter of efferent arterioles in either strain. The morphometric study revealed that the cross-sectional area of afferent arteriolar media was significantly smaller in SHR than WKY, suggesting that the impaired growth of the afferent arteriolar media was involved in the narrowed afferent arteriolar lumen in SHR. The presence of significantly smaller media-lumen ratio, greater media cross-sectional area, and larger internal as well as external diameters of the afferent arterioles in treated SHR than in untreated rats suggested that lisinopril treatment normalizes the structure of the afferent arterioles in SHR by vascular reverse remodeling and by inducing media growth.
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- M Notoya
- Developmental Research Laboratories, Shionogi & Co, Ltd, Osaka, Japan
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Yao A, Wang DH. Heterogeneity of adenovirus-mediated gene transfer in cultured thoracic aorta and renal artery of rats. Hypertension 1995; 26:1046-50. [PMID: 7498965 DOI: 10.1161/01.hyp.26.6.1046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Replication-deficient recombinant adenovirus vectors have been used to transfer foreign genes effectively to a wide variety of cell types in vivo and in vitro. We have now used adenovirus containing either the Escherichia coli beta-galactosidase (beta-gal) gene (AdHCMVsp1LacZ) or the firefly luciferase gene (Ad5-luc3) to test the hypothesis that efficiencies of adenovirus-mediated gene delivery into organ cultures of smooth muscle differ according to the anatomic origin of the muscle. Thoracic aorta and renal artery were isolated from 9-week-old male Sprague-Dawley rats and exposed to adenovirus after 16 hours of incubation with serum-free medium (Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium). With the use of histochemical methods, beta-gal staining was noted in both endothelial and adventitial cells but not in the muscular media of thoracic aorta and renal artery exposed to AdHCMVsp1LacZ. The efficiency of the transfection, assessed either by counting of beta-gal-stained cells in intact vessels or by measurement of beta-gal activity in tissue extracts, was higher in renal artery than thoracic aorta (P < .05). Consistent with this result, luciferase activity in renal artery exposed to Ad5-luc3 (15.9 +/- 2.1 x 10(6) relative light units per milligram protein) was higher than that in thoracic aorta (8.3 +/- 2.0 x 10(6), P < .05). To determine whether increased efficiency of adenovirus-mediated gene transfer into renal artery is a function of the replication status of vessels, we assessed [3H]thymidine incorporation. [3H]Thymidine uptake by thoracic aorta was only 63% of that in renal artery (P < .05), indicating that more proliferating cells are present in renal artery. We conclude that the efficiency of adenovirus-mediated gene transfer into cultured renal artery is enhanced compared with that into thoracic aorta and propose that the increase in efficiency is related to the higher proliferative activity of renal artery.
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MESH Headings
- Adenoviridae/genetics
- Animals
- Aorta, Thoracic/enzymology
- Aorta, Thoracic/metabolism
- Cell Count
- Coleoptera/enzymology
- Coleoptera/genetics
- Coloring Agents
- Culture Media
- DNA/biosynthesis
- Data Interpretation, Statistical
- Dependovirus/genetics
- Endothelium, Vascular/enzymology
- Endothelium, Vascular/metabolism
- Escherichia coli/enzymology
- Escherichia coli/genetics
- Gene Transfer Techniques
- Genetic Heterogeneity
- Luciferases/genetics
- Luciferases/metabolism
- Male
- Muscle, Smooth, Vascular/enzymology
- Muscle, Smooth, Vascular/metabolism
- Organ Culture Techniques
- Photomicrography
- Rats
- Rats, Sprague-Dawley
- Renal Artery/enzymology
- Renal Artery/metabolism
- Spectrometry, Fluorescence
- Thymidine/metabolism
- Time Factors
- beta-Galactosidase/genetics
- beta-Galactosidase/metabolism
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Affiliation(s)
- A Yao
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston 77555-1065, USA
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Campbell DJ, Duncan AM, Kladis A, Harrap SB. Angiotensin peptides in spontaneously hypertensive and normotensive Donryu rats. Hypertension 1995; 25:928-34. [PMID: 7737729 DOI: 10.1161/01.hyp.25.5.928] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
Abstract
The renin-angiotensin system has been implicated in the pathogenesis of hypertension in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR). Given that SHR may have normal or suppressed plasma levels of renin and angiotensin peptides, we examined whether the tissue levels of angiotensin peptides are elevated in these rats. We measured angiotensin-(1-7) [Ang-(1-7)], Ang II, and Ang I in plasma, kidney, adrenal, heart, aorta, brown adipose tissue, lung, and brain of male SHR and normotensive Donryu rats at 6, 10, and 20 weeks of age. SHR had higher blood pressures and ratios of heart weight to body weight at all ages. Plasma renin levels of SHR were 13% to 32% of the levels of Donryu rats. Although plasma angiotensin-converting enzyme activity was lower in SHR than in Donryu rats, lung was the only SHR tissue with a reduced Ang II-Ang I ratio. Ang II levels in SHR adrenal were 24% to 42% of the levels of Donryu adrenal, and for SHR plasma, aorta, brown adipose tissue, and lung, Ang II levels were 38% to 93% of the levels of Donryu rats. For kidney and heart, Ang II levels were similar in SHR and Donryu rats at 6 weeks of age although suppressed in SHR at 10 and 20 weeks. Moreover, brain Ang II levels were higher in SHR than Donryu rats at 6 weeks of age and similar at 10 and 20 weeks of age.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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Affiliation(s)
- D J Campbell
- St Vincent's Institute of Medical Research, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
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