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Zanuzzi MG, Jeong J, DaCosta DR, Park J. Sex differences in sympathetic activity and pulse wave velocity in adults with chronic kidney disease. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 2024; 326:F661-F668. [PMID: 38385174 PMCID: PMC11208017 DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.00308.2023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2023] [Revised: 02/14/2024] [Accepted: 02/14/2024] [Indexed: 02/23/2024] Open
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Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is characterized by sympathetic nervous system (SNS) overactivity that contributes to increased vascular stiffness and cardiovascular risk. Although it is well established that SNS activity and vascular stiffness are substantially elevated in CKD, whether sex differences in autonomic and vascular function exist in CKD remains unknown. We tested the hypothesis that compared with females, males with CKD have higher baseline sympathetic activity that is related to increased arterial stiffness. One hundred twenty-nine participants (96 males and 33 females) with CKD stages III and IV were recruited and enrolled. During two separate study visits, vascular stiffness was assessed by measuring carotid-to-femoral pulse wave velocity (cfPWV), and resting muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) was measured by microneurography. Males with CKD had higher resting MSNA compared with females with CKD (68 ± 16 vs. 55 ± 14 bursts/100 heart beats, P = 0.005), whereas there was no difference in cfPWV between the groups (P = 0.248). Resting MSNA was not associated with cfPWV in both males and females. In conclusion, males with CKD have higher resting sympathetic activity compared with females with CKD. However, there was no difference in vascular stiffness between the sexes. There was no correlation between resting MSNA and cfPWV, suggesting that non-neural mechanisms may play a greater role in the progression of vascular stiffness in CKD, particularly in females.NEW & NOTEWORTHY Males with chronic kidney disease (CKD) have higher resting muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) compared with females. There was no correlation between MSNA and carotid-to-femoral pulse wave velocity (cfPWV), suggesting that non-neural mechanisms may play a greater role in the progression of vascular stiffness in CKD. Sex differences in SNS activity may play a mechanistic role in observations from epidemiological studies suggesting greater cardiovascular risk in males compared with females with CKD.
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- Matias G Zanuzzi
- Division of Renal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Research Service Line, Decatur, Georgia, United States
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- Division of Renal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Research Service Line, Decatur, Georgia, United States
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- Division of Renal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Research Service Line, Decatur, Georgia, United States
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- Division of Renal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Research Service Line, Decatur, Georgia, United States
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Leduc L, Leclère M, Gauthier LG, Marcil O, Lavoie J. Severe asthma in horses is associated with increased airway innervation. J Vet Intern Med 2024; 38:485-494. [PMID: 38054207 PMCID: PMC10800206 DOI: 10.1111/jvim.16941] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2023] [Accepted: 11/02/2023] [Indexed: 12/07/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Altered innervation structure and function contribute to airway hyperresponsiveness in human asthma, yet the role of innervation in airflow limitation in asthma in horses remains unknown. HYPOTHESIS To characterize peribronchial innervation in horses with asthma. We hypothesized that airway innervation increases in horses with asthma compared with controls. ANIMALS Formalin-fixed lung samples from 8 horses with severe asthma and 8 healthy horses from the Equine Respiratory Tissue Biobank. Ante-mortem lung function was recorded. METHODS Blinded case-control study. Immunohistochemistry was performed using rabbit anti-s100 antibody as a neuronal marker for myelinating and non-myelinating Schwann cells. The number and cumulative area of nerves in the peribronchial region and associated with airway smooth muscle were recorded using histomorphometry and corrected for airway size. RESULTS Both the number (median [IQR]: 1.87 × 10-5 nerves/μm2 [1.28 × 10-5 ]) and the cumulative nerve area (CNA; 1.03 × 10-3 CNA/μm2 [1.57 × 10-3 ]) were higher in the peribronchial region of horses with asthma compared with controls (5.17 × 10-6 nerves/μm2 [3.76 × 10-6 ], 4.14 × 10-4 CNA/μm2 [2.54 × 10-4 ], Mann-Whitney, P = .01). The number of nerves within or lining airway smooth muscle was significantly higher in horses with asthma (4.47 × 10-6 nerves/μm2 [5.75 × 10-6 ]) compared with controls (2.26 × 10-6 nerves/μm2 [1.16 × 10-6 ], Mann-Whitney, P = .03). CONCLUSIONS AND CLINICAL IMPORTANCE Asthma in horses is associated with greater airway innervation, possibly contributing to airway smooth muscle remodeling and exacerbating severity of the disease.
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- Laurence Leduc
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculté de Médecine VétérinaireUniversité de MontréalSaint‐HyacintheQuebecCanada
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculté de Médecine VétérinaireUniversité de MontréalSaint‐HyacintheQuebecCanada
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculté de Médecine VétérinaireUniversité de MontréalSaint‐HyacintheQuebecCanada
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Silva A, Hatch CJ, Chu MT, Cardinal TR. Collateral Arteriogenesis Involves a Sympathetic Denervation That Is Associated With Abnormal α-Adrenergic Signaling and a Transient Loss of Vascular Tone. Front Cardiovasc Med 2022; 9:805810. [PMID: 35242824 PMCID: PMC8886147 DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2022.805810] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2021] [Accepted: 01/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Stimulating collateral arteriogenesis is an attractive therapeutic target for peripheral artery disease (PAD). However, the potency of arteriogenesis-stimulation in animal models has not been matched with efficacy in clinical trials. This may be because the presence of enlarged collaterals is not sufficient to relieve symptoms of PAD, suggesting that collateral function is also important. Specifically, collaterals are the primary site of vascular resistance following arterial occlusion, and impaired collateral vasodilation could impact downstream tissue perfusion and limb function. Therefore, we evaluated the effects of arteriogenesis on collateral vascular reactivity. Following femoral artery ligation in the mouse hindlimb, collateral functional vasodilation was impaired at day 7 (17 ± 3 vs. 60 ± 8%) but restored by day 28. This impairment was due to a high resting diameter (73 ± 4 μm at rest vs. 84 ± 3 μm dilated), which does not appear to be a beneficial effect of arteriogenesis because increasing tissue metabolic demand through voluntary exercise decreased resting diameter and restored vascular reactivity at day 7. The high diameter in sedentary animals was not due to sustained NO-dependent vasodilation or defective myogenic constriction, as there were no differences between the enlarged and native collaterals in response to eNOS inhibition with L-NAME or L-type calcium channel inhibition with nifedipine, respectively. Surprisingly, in the context of reduced vascular tone, vasoconstriction in response to the α-adrenergic agonist norepinephrine was enhanced in the enlarged collateral (−62 ± 2 vs. −37 ± 2%) while vasodilation in response to the α-adrenergic antagonist prazosin was reduced (6 ± 4% vs. 22 ± 16%), indicating a lack of α-adrenergic receptor activation by endogenous norepinephrine and suggesting a denervation of the neuroeffector junction. Staining for tyrosine hydroxylase demonstrated sympathetic denervation, with neurons occupying less area and located further from the enlarged collateral at day 7. Inversely, MMP2 presence surrounding the enlarged collateral was greater at day 7, suggesting that denervation may be related to extracellular matrix degradation during arteriogenesis. Further investigation on vascular wall maturation and the functionality of enlarged collaterals holds promise for identifying novel therapeutic targets to enhance arteriogenesis in patients with PAD.
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Coutinho e Silva RDS, Wiggenhauser LM, Simas R, Zanoni FL, Medeiros G, da Silva FB, Ogata DC, Breithaupt-Faloppa AC, Krenning G, Moreira LFP. Thoracic bilateral sympathectomy attenuates oxidative stress and prevents ventricular remodelling in experimental pulmonary hypertension. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2021; 61:1337-1345. [DOI: 10.1093/ejcts/ezab549] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2021] [Revised: 10/27/2021] [Accepted: 11/21/2021] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Abstract
OBJECTIVES
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a cardiopulmonary disease that affects the pulmonary vasculature, leading to increased afterload and eventually right ventricular (RV) remodelling and failure. Bilateral sympathectomy (BS) has shown promising results in dampening cardiac remodelling and dysfunction in several heart failure models. In the present study, we investigated whether BS reduces pulmonary arterial remodelling and mitigates RV remodelling and failure.
METHODS
PAH was induced in male Wistar rats by intraperitoneal injection of monocrotaline. Rats were divided into 3 groups, involving untreated PAH (n = 15), BS-treated PAH (n = 13) and non-manipulated control rats (n = 13). Three weeks after PAH induction, the rats were anaesthetized and RV function was assessed via the pressure-volume loop catheter approach. Upon completion of the experiment, the lungs and heart were harvested for further analyses.
RESULTS
BS was found to prevent pulmonary artery remodelling, with a clear reduction in α-smooth muscle actin and endothelin-1 expression. RV end-systolic pressure was reduced in the BS group, and preload recruitable stroke work was preserved. BS, therefore, mitigated RV remodelling and cardiomyocyte hypertrophy and diminished oxidative stress.
CONCLUSIONS
We showed that thoracic BS may be an important treatment option for PAH patients. Blockade of the sympathetic pathway can prevent pulmonary remodelling and protect the RV from oxidative stress, myocardial remodelling and function decay.
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- Raphael dos Santos Coutinho e Silva
- Laboratório Cirúrgico de Pesquisa Cardiovascular (LIM-11), Instituto do Coração (Incor), Hospital das Clínicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Pathology and Medical Biology, Laboratory for Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- The Rolf Luft Research Center for Diabetes and Endocrinology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Laboratório Cirúrgico de Pesquisa Cardiovascular (LIM-11), Instituto do Coração (Incor), Hospital das Clínicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Universidade do Vale do Itajaí, UNIVALI, Santa Catarina, Brazil
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- Laboratório Cirúrgico de Pesquisa Cardiovascular (LIM-11), Instituto do Coração (Incor), Hospital das Clínicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Pathology and Medical Biology, Laboratory for Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Laboratório Cirúrgico de Pesquisa Cardiovascular (LIM-11), Instituto do Coração (Incor), Hospital das Clínicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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Park JY, Suh HP, Kwon JG, Yu J, Lee J, Hwang JH, Hong JP, Kim YK. Epidural Anesthesia and Arterial Maximal Flow Velocity of Free Flap in Patients Having Microvascular Lower Extremity Reconstruction: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Plast Reconstr Surg 2021; 149:496-505. [PMID: 34898523 DOI: 10.1097/prs.0000000000008764] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND One of the critical factors for free flap survival is to maintain adequate perfusion. The authors evaluated the effect of epidural anesthesia on arterial maximal flow velocity of the free flap in microvascular lower extremity reconstruction. METHODS This is a prospective randomized study where patients were allocated to receive either combined general-epidural anesthesia (epidural group, n = 26) or general anesthesia alone (control group, n = 26). After injecting epidural ropivacaine 10 ml in the epidural group, the effect on arterial maximal flow velocity of the free flap was analyzed using ultrasonography. The primary outcome measurement was the arterial maximal flow velocity 30 minutes after establishing the baseline. Intraoperative hemodynamics and postoperative outcomes such as postoperative pain, opioid requirements, surgical complications, intensive care unit admission, and hospital length of stay were also assessed. RESULTS The arterial maximal flow velocity 30 minutes after the baseline measurement was significantly higher in the epidural group (35.3 ± 13.9 cm/second versus 23.5 ± 8.4 cm/second; p = 0.001). The pain score at1 hour postoperatively and opioid requirements at 1 and 6 hours postoperatively were significantly lower in the epidural group [3.0 (interquartile range, 2.0 to 5.0) versus 5.0 (interquartile range, 3.0 to 6.0), p = 0.019; 0.0 μg (interquartile range, 0.0 to 50.0 μg) versus 50.0 μg (interquartile range, 0.0 to 100 μg), p = 0.005; and 46.9 μg (interquartile range, 0.0 to 66.5 μg) versus 96.9 μg (interquartile range, 41.7 to 100.0 μg), p = 0.014, respectively]. There were no significant differences in intraoperative hemodynamics or other postoperative outcomes between the two groups. CONCLUSION Epidural anesthesia increased the arterial maximal flow velocity of the free flap and decreased postoperative pain and opioid requirements in microvascular lower extremity reconstruction. CLINICAL QUESTION/LEVEL OF EVIDENCE Therapeutic, I.
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- Jun-Young Park
- From the Departments of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine and Plastic Surgery, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine
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- From the Departments of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine and Plastic Surgery, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine
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- From the Departments of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine and Plastic Surgery, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine
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- From the Departments of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine and Plastic Surgery, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine
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- From the Departments of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine and Plastic Surgery, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine
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- From the Departments of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine and Plastic Surgery, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine
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- From the Departments of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine and Plastic Surgery, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine
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- From the Departments of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine and Plastic Surgery, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine
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Selivanova EK, Shvetsova AA, Borzykh AA, Gaynullina DK, Kiryukhina OO, Lukoshkova EV, Potekhina VM, Kuzmin VS, Tarasova OS. Intrauterine L-NAME Exposure Weakens the Development of Sympathetic Innervation and Induces the Remodeling of Arterial Vessels in Two-Week-Old Rats. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:ijms222212327. [PMID: 34830206 PMCID: PMC8618620 DOI: 10.3390/ijms222212327] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2021] [Revised: 11/10/2021] [Accepted: 11/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Nitric oxide (NO) has been shown to stimulate differentiation and increase the survival of ganglionic sympathetic neurons. The proportion of neuronal NOS-immunoreactive sympathetic preganglionic neurons is particularly high in newborn rats and decreases with maturation. However, the role of NO in the development of vascular sympathetic innervation has never been studied before. We tested the hypothesis that intrauterine NO deficiency weakened the development of vascular sympathetic innervation and thereby changed the contractility of peripheral arteries and blood pressure level in two-week-old offspring. Pregnant rats consumed NOS inhibitor L-NAME (250 mg/L in drinking water) from gestational day 10 until delivery. Pups in the L-NAME group had a reduced body weight and blood level of NO metabolites at 1–2 postnatal days. Saphenous arteries from two-week-old L-NAME offspring demonstrated a lower density of sympathetic innervation, a smaller inner diameter, reduced maximal active force and decreased α-actin/β-actin mRNA expression ratio compared to the controls. Importantly, pups in the L-NAME group exhibited decreased blood pressure levels before, but not after, ganglionic blockade with chlorisondamine. In conclusion, intrauterine L-NAME exposure is followed by the impaired development of the sympathetic nervous system in early postnatal life, which is accompanied by the structural and functional remodeling of arterial blood vessels.
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- Ekaterina K. Selivanova
- Department of Human and Animal Physiology, Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119234 Moscow, Russia; (E.K.S.); (A.A.S.); (D.K.G.); (V.M.P.); (V.S.K.)
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- Department of Human and Animal Physiology, Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119234 Moscow, Russia; (E.K.S.); (A.A.S.); (D.K.G.); (V.M.P.); (V.S.K.)
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- Laboratory of Exercise Physiology, State Research Center of the Russian Federation, Institute for Biomedical Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, 123007 Moscow, Russia;
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- Department of Human and Animal Physiology, Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119234 Moscow, Russia; (E.K.S.); (A.A.S.); (D.K.G.); (V.M.P.); (V.S.K.)
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- Laboratory for the Study of Information Processes at the Cellular and Molecular Levels, Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119333 Moscow, Russia;
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- Laboratory of Experimental Pathology of the Heart, National Medical Research Center of Cardiology, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, 121552 Moscow, Russia;
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- Department of Human and Animal Physiology, Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119234 Moscow, Russia; (E.K.S.); (A.A.S.); (D.K.G.); (V.M.P.); (V.S.K.)
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- Department of Human and Animal Physiology, Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119234 Moscow, Russia; (E.K.S.); (A.A.S.); (D.K.G.); (V.M.P.); (V.S.K.)
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- Department of Human and Animal Physiology, Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119234 Moscow, Russia; (E.K.S.); (A.A.S.); (D.K.G.); (V.M.P.); (V.S.K.)
- Laboratory of Exercise Physiology, State Research Center of the Russian Federation, Institute for Biomedical Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, 123007 Moscow, Russia;
- Correspondence:
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Aalkjær C, Nilsson H, De Mey JGR. Sympathetic and Sensory-Motor Nerves in Peripheral Small Arteries. Physiol Rev 2020; 101:495-544. [PMID: 33270533 DOI: 10.1152/physrev.00007.2020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Small arteries, which play important roles in controlling blood flow, blood pressure, and capillary pressure, are under nervous influence. Their innervation is predominantly sympathetic and sensory motor in nature, and while some arteries are densely innervated, others are only sparsely so. Innervation of small arteries is a key mechanism in regulating vascular resistance. In the second half of the previous century, the physiology and pharmacology of this innervation were very actively investigated. In the past 10-20 yr, the activity in this field was more limited. With this review we highlight what has been learned during recent years with respect to development of small arteries and their innervation, some aspects of excitation-release coupling, interaction between sympathetic and sensory-motor nerves, cross talk between endothelium and vascular nerves, and some aspects of their role in vascular inflammation and hypertension. We also highlight what remains to be investigated to further increase our understanding of this fundamental aspect of vascular physiology.
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- Department Physiology, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Deptartment Pharmacology and Personalized Medicine, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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Nardone M, Floras JS, Millar PJ. Sympathetic neural modulation of arterial stiffness in humans. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2020; 319:H1338-H1346. [PMID: 33035441 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00734.2020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Elevated large-artery stiffness is recognized as an independent predictor of cardiovascular and all-cause mortality. The mechanisms responsible for such stiffening are incompletely understood. Several recent cross-sectional and acute experimental studies have examined whether sympathetic outflow, quantified by microneurographic measures of muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA), can modulate large-artery stiffness in humans. A major methodological challenge of this research has been the capacity to evaluate the independent neural contribution without influencing the dynamic blood pressure dependence of arterial stiffness. The focus of this review is to summarize the evidence examining 1) the relationship between resting MSNA and large-artery stiffness, as determined by carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity or pulse wave reflection characteristics (i.e., augmentation index) in men and women; 2) the effects of acute sympathoexcitatory or sympathoinhibitory maneuvers on carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity and augmentation index; and 3) the influence of sustained increases or decreases in sympathetic neurotransmitter release or circulating catecholamines on large-artery stiffness. The present results highlight the growing evidence that the sympathetic nervous system is capable of modulating arterial stiffness independent of prevailing hemodynamics and vasomotor tone.
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- Massimo Nardone
- Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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- University Health Network and Mount Sinai Hospital, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.,Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Tanriverdi A, Kahraman BO, Ozsoy I, Ozpelit E, Savci S. Acute effects of inspiratory muscle training at different intensities in healthy young people. Ir J Med Sci 2020; 190:577-585. [PMID: 32851483 DOI: 10.1007/s11845-020-02353-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2020] [Accepted: 08/22/2020] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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BACKGROUND Understanding the acute effects of inspiratory muscle training (IMT) at different intensities on the autonomic nervous system, arterial stiffness, and blood pressure in healthy young people will be important in the constitution of appropriate IMT prescriptions. AIMS To investigate the acute effects of IMT at different intensities on autonomic function, arterial stiffness, and blood pressure in healthy young people METHODS: Thirty-six healthy participants were enrolled in this crossover study. All participants randomly performed IMT sessions, which consisted of diaphragmatic breathing exercise (DBE), 10%, 30%, and 60% of maximal inspiratory pressure (MIP) on consecutive days. Autonomic function and arterial stiffness were assessed by measuring heart rate variability (HRV) and aortic pulse wave velocity (AoPWV), respectively. HRV, AoPWV, and blood pressure were recorded before and immediately after each IMT session. RESULTS There was no significant difference in the baseline measurements between IMT sessions (p > 0.05). Heart rate (HR) significantly decreased after DBE and IMT at 10% of MIP (p < 0.05). All time domain parameters of HRV significantly improved after DBE compared with the baseline (p < 0.05). There was no difference in the frequency domain of HRV after the IMT sessions (p > 0.05). AoPWV significantly increased after IMT at 60% of MIP (p < 0.05). Mean arterial pressure significantly changed after DBE and IMT at 60% of MIP (p < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS A single session of DBE positively affects autonomic function and blood pressure, while IMT at 60% of MIP increases arterial stiffness. The different intensities of IMT have various impacts on autonomic function, arterial stiffness, and blood pressure. TRIAL REGISTRATION NCT03788356.
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- Aylin Tanriverdi
- Graduate School of Health Sciences, Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, Turkey. .,School of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation, Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, Turkey.
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- School of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation, Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, Turkey
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- School of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation, Selcuk University, Konya, Turkey
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- Department of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, Turkey
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- School of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation, Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, Turkey
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Kostyunina DS, Gaynullina DK, Matchkov VV, Tarasova OS. Pro-contractile role of chloride in arterial smooth muscle: Postnatal decline potentially governed by sympathetic nerves. Exp Physiol 2019; 104:1018-1022. [PMID: 30689263 DOI: 10.1113/ep087426] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2018] [Accepted: 01/25/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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NEW FINDINGS What is the topic of this review? This symposium report discusses the previously unrecognized pro-contractile role of chloride ions in rat arteries at early stages of postnatal development. What advances does it highlight? It highlights the postnatal decline in the contribution of chloride ions to regulation of arterial contractile responses and potential trophic role of sympathetic nerves in these developmental alterations. ABSTRACT Chloride ions are important for smooth muscle contraction in adult vasculature. Arterial smooth muscle undergoes structural and functional remodelling during early postnatal development, including changes in K+ currents, Ca2+ handling and sensitivity. However, developmental change in the contribution of Cl- to regulation of arterial contraction has not yet been explored. Here, we provide the first evidence that the role of Cl- in α1 -adrenergic arterial contraction prominently decreases during early postnatal ontogenesis. The trophic influence of sympathetic nerves is a potential mechanism for postnatal decline of the contribution of Cl- to the vascular contraction.
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- Daria S Kostyunina
- Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.,State Research Center of the Russian Federation - Institute for Biomedical Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.,Department of Physiology, Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, Russia
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- Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.,State Research Center of the Russian Federation - Institute for Biomedical Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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Lampropoulos KM, Sokolis DP. Large artery biomechanical, geometrical, and structural remodeling elicited by long-term propranolol administration in an animal model. Biorheology 2016; 53:151-170. [DOI: 10.3233/bir-16090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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- Laboratory of Biomechanics, Center of Clinical, Experimental Surgery, and Translational Research, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece
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Zou C, Hao L, Tian H, Song C, Zhang Y, Zhou H, Liu L. The Effect of Sympathetic Denervation on Cerebral Arteriogenesis After Chronic Cerebral Hypoperfusion. Am J Med Sci 2016; 351:616-22. [PMID: 27238926 DOI: 10.1016/j.amjms.2016.02.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2015] [Accepted: 02/01/2016] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To explore the effect of perivascular sympathetic nerve on cerebral collateral arteriogenesis in chronic cerebral hypoperfusion models of rats. MATERIALS AND METHODS Chronic cerebral hypoperfusion model was established by right common carotid artery ligation for 8 weeks, while sympathetic denervation was performed by superior cervical ganglionectomy. The male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly divided into 4 groups including sham group (n = 21), denervation group (n = 21), artery ligation group (n = 21) and combined group with both artery ligation and denervation (n = 21). After 8 weeks of surgery, the rats in each group were randomly divided into 3 subgroups including subgroup A (n = 7), subgroup B (n = 7) and subgroup C (n = 7). The 3 subgroups were subjected to latex perfusion, permanent right middle cerebral artery occlusion and immunohistochemical staining, respectively. RESULTS The diameters of right leptomeningeal anastomoses in artery ligation group significantly enlarged compared with sham group. When sympathetic denervation was performed in the presence of artery ligation, diameter of collateral vessel decreased, although larger than in sham group. After 8 weeks of permanent right middle cerebral artery occlusion, the cerebral perfusion over the right middle cerebral artery area in combined group was significantly lower than in artery ligation group, although both were higher than in denervation group and sham group. Triphenyltetrazolium chloride staining showed that cerebral infarct volume in combined group was significantly larger than in artery ligation group, and smaller than in denervation group and sham group. Neurologic functional scoring showed that scores in combined group were significantly higher than in artery ligation group, and lower than in denervation group and sham group. Immunohistochemical staining for α-smooth muscle actin showed that compared with sham group, tunica media thickness of right leptomeningeal anastomoses in artery ligation group increased significantly. Thickness in combined group was thinner than in artery ligation group, although thicker than in sham group. CONCLUSIONS Perivascular sympathetic denervation can impair the cerebral collateral arteriogenesis under condition of chronic cerebral hypoperfusion.
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- Can Zou
- Department of Neurology, No.324 Hospital of PLA, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Neurology, No.324 Hospital of PLA, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Neurology, No.324 Hospital of PLA, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Neurology, No.324 Hospital of PLA, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Neurology, No.324 Hospital of PLA, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Neurology, No.324 Hospital of PLA, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Neurology, No.324 Hospital of PLA, Chongqing, China.
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Liang Y, Yao S. Potential role of estrogen in maintaining the imbalanced sympathetic and sensory innervation in endometriosis. Mol Cell Endocrinol 2016; 424:42-9. [PMID: 26777300 DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2016.01.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2015] [Revised: 11/02/2015] [Accepted: 01/13/2016] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Endometriosis, one of the most common benign gynecological diseases, affects millions of women of childbearing age. Endometriosis-associated pain is a major cause of disability and compromised quality of life in women. Neuropathic mechanisms are believed to play an important role. An imbalanced sympathetic and sensory innervation (reduced sympathetic innervation, with unchanged or increased sensory innervation in endometriotic lesions) has been demonstrated in endometriosis in recent studies. And it is believed to contribute to the pathogenesis of endometriosis-associated pain. It is primarily considered to be a natural adaptive program to endometriosis-associated inflammation. However, it is important to further clarify whether other potential modulating factors are involved in this dysregulation. It is generally accepted that endometriosis is an estrogen dependent disease. Higher estrogen biosynthesis and lower estrogen inactivation in endometriosis can lead to an excess of local estrogen in endometriotic lesions. In addition to its proliferative and anti-inflammatory actions, local estrogen in endometriosis also exerts potential neuromodulatory effects on the innervation in endometriosis. The aim of this review is to highlight the role of estrogen in mediating this imbalanced sympathetic and sensory innervation in endometriosis, through direct and indirect mechanisms on sympathetic and sensory nerves. Theoretical elaboration of the underlying mechanisms provides new insights in supporting the therapeutic role of estrogen in endometriosis-associated pain.
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- Yanchun Liang
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
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Putting together the clues of the everlasting neuro-cardiac liaison. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH 2016; 1863:1904-15. [PMID: 26778332 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2016.01.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2015] [Revised: 12/22/2015] [Accepted: 01/04/2016] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Starting from the late embryonic development, the sympathetic nervous system extensively innervates the heart and modulates its activity during the entire lifespan. The distribution of myocardial sympathetic processes is finely regulated by the secretion of limiting amounts of pro-survival neurotrophic factors by cardiac cells. Norepinephrine release by the neurons rapidly modulates myocardial electrophysiology, and increases the rate and force of cardiomyocyte contractions. Sympathetic processes establish direct interaction with cardiomyocytes, characterized by the presence of neurotransmitter vesicles and reduced cell-cell distance. Whether such contacts have a functional role in both neurotrophin- and catecholamine-dependent communication between the two cell types, is poorly understood. In this review we will address the effects of the sympathetic neuron activity on the myocardium and the hypothesis that the direct neuro-cardiac contact might have a key role both in norepinephrine and neurotrophin mediated signaling. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Cardiomyocyte Biology: Integration of Developmental and Environmental Cues in the Heart edited by Marcus Schaub and Hughes Abriel.
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Reho JJ, Fisher SA. The stress of maternal separation causes misprogramming in the postnatal maturation of rat resistance arteries. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2015; 309:H1468-78. [PMID: 26371173 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00567.2015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2015] [Accepted: 09/03/2015] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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We examined the effect of stress in the first 2 wk of life induced by brief periods of daily maternal separation on developmental programming of rat small resistance mesenteric arteries (MAs). In MAs of littermate controls, mRNAs encoding mediators of vasoconstriction, including the α1a-adrenergic receptor, smooth muscle myosin heavy chain, and CPI-17, the inhibitory subunit of myosin phosphatase, increased from after birth through sexual [postnatal day (PND) 35] and full maturity, up to ∼80-fold, as measured by quantitative PCR. This was commensurate with two- to fivefold increases in maximum force production to KCl depolarization, calcium, and the α-adrenergic agonist phenylephrine, and increasing systolic blood pressure. Rats exposed to maternal separation stress as neonates had markedly accelerated trajectories of maturation of arterial contractile gene expression and function measured at PND14 or PND21 (weaning), 1 wk after the end of the stress protocol. This was suppressed by the α-adrenergic receptor blocker terazosin (0.5 mg·kg ip(-1)·day(-1)), indicating dependence on stress activation of sympathetic signaling. Due to the continued maturation of MAs in control rats, by sexual maturity (PND35) and into adulthood, no differences were observed in arterial function or response to a second stressor in rats stressed as neonates. Thus early life stress misprograms resistance artery smooth muscle, increasing vasoconstrictor function and blood pressure. This effect wanes in later stages, suggesting plasticity during arterial maturation. Further studies are indicated to determine whether stress in different periods of arterial maturation may cause misprogramming persisting through maturity and the potential salutary effect of α-adrenergic blockade in suppression of this response.
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- John J Reho
- Departments of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) and Physiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Departments of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) and Physiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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Reho JJ, Zheng X, Benjamin JE, Fisher SA. Neural programming of mesenteric and renal arteries. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2015; 307:H563-73. [PMID: 24929853 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00250.2014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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There is evidence for developmental origins of vascular dysfunction yet little understanding of maturation of vascular smooth muscle (VSM) of regional circulations. We measured maturational changes in expression of myosin phosphatase (MP) and the broader VSM gene program in relation to mesenteric small resistance artery (SRA) function. We then tested the role of the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) in programming of SRAs and used genetically engineered mice to define the role of MP isoforms in the functional maturation of the mesenteric circulation. Maturation of rat mesenteric SRAs as measured by qPCR and immunoblotting begins after the second postnatal week and is not complete until maturity. It is characterized by induction of markers of VSM differentiation (smMHC, γ-, α-actin), CPI-17, an inhibitory subunit of MP and a key target of α-adrenergic vasoconstriction, α1-adrenergic, purinergic X1, and neuropeptide Y1 receptors of sympathetic signaling. Functional correlates include maturational increases in α-adrenergic-mediated force and calcium sensitization of force production (MP inhibition) measured in first-order mesenteric arteries ex vivo. The MP regulatory subunit Mypt1 E24+/LZ- isoform is specifically upregulated in SRAs during maturation. Conditional deletion of mouse Mypt1 E24 demonstrates that splicing of E24 causes the maturational reduction in sensitivity to cGMP-mediated vasorelaxation (MP activation). Neonatal chemical sympathectomy (6-hydroxydopamine) suppresses maturation of SRAs with minimal effect on a conduit artery. Mechanical denervation of the mature rat renal artery causes a reversion to the immature gene program. We conclude that the SNS captures control of the mesenteric circulation by programming maturation of the SRA smooth muscle.
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Adeoye OO, Silpanisong J, Williams JM, Pearce WJ. Role of the sympathetic autonomic nervous system in hypoxic remodeling of the fetal cerebral vasculature. J Cardiovasc Pharmacol 2015; 65:308-16. [PMID: 25853949 PMCID: PMC4391294 DOI: 10.1097/fjc.0000000000000192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Fetal hypoxia triggers compensatory angiogenesis and remodeling through mechanisms not fully elucidated. In response to hypoxia, hypoxia-inducible factor drives expression of cytokines that exert multiple effects on cerebral structures. Among these, the artery wall is composed of a heterogeneous cell mix and exhibits distinct patterns of cellular differentiation and reactivity. Governing these patterns are the vascular endothelium, smooth muscle (SM), adventitia, sympathetic perivascular nerves (SPN), and the parenchyma. Although an extensive literature details effects of nonneuronal factors on cerebral arteries, the trophic role of perivascular nerves remains unclear. Hypoxia increases sympathetic innervation with subsequent release of norepinephrine (NE), neuropeptide-Y (NPY), and adenosine triphosphate, which exert motor and trophic effects on cerebral arteries and influence dynamic transitions among SM phenotypes. Our data also suggest that the cerebrovasculature reacts very differently to hypoxia in fetuses and adults, and we hypothesize that these differences arise from age-related differences in arterial SM phenotype reactivity and proximity to trophic factors, particularly of neural origin. We provide an integration of recent literature focused on mechanisms by which SPN mediate hypoxic remodeling. Our recent findings suggest that trophic effects of SPN on cerebral arteries accelerate functional maturation through shifts in SM phenotype in an age-dependent manner.
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MESH Headings
- Adenosine Triphosphate/metabolism
- Adult
- Age Factors
- Animals
- Cerebrovascular Circulation
- Fetal Hypoxia/complications
- Fetal Hypoxia/metabolism
- Fetal Hypoxia/physiopathology
- Humans
- Hypoxia, Brain/complications
- Hypoxia, Brain/metabolism
- Hypoxia, Brain/physiopathology
- Muscle, Smooth, Vascular/innervation
- Muscle, Smooth, Vascular/metabolism
- Muscle, Smooth, Vascular/pathology
- Muscle, Smooth, Vascular/physiopathology
- Neovascularization, Pathologic/etiology
- Neovascularization, Pathologic/metabolism
- Neovascularization, Pathologic/physiopathology
- Neuropeptide Y/metabolism
- Norepinephrine/metabolism
- Sympathetic Nervous System/metabolism
- Sympathetic Nervous System/physiopathology
- Vascular Remodeling
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- Olayemi O Adeoye
- Divisions of Physiology, Pharmacology, and Biochemistry, Center for Perinatal Biology, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Loma Linda, CA
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Hao L, Zou Z, Tian H, Zhang Y, Song C, Zhou H, Liu L. Novel roles of perivascular nerves on neovascularization. Neurol Sci 2014; 36:353-60. [DOI: 10.1007/s10072-014-2016-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2014] [Accepted: 11/18/2014] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Increased stiffness and cell-matrix interactions of abdominal aorta in two experimental nonhypertensive models: long-term chemically sympathectomized and sinoaortic denervated rats. J Hypertens 2014; 32:652-8. [PMID: 24356541 DOI: 10.1097/hjh.0000000000000073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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RATIONALE Sinoaortic denervated (SAD) and chemically sympathectomized (SNX) rats are characterized by a decrease in arterial distensibility without hypertension and would, thus, be relevant for analyzing arterial wall stiffening independently of blood pressure level. The fibronectin network, which plays a pivotal role in cell-matrix interactions, is a major determinant of arterial stiffness. We hypothesized that in SAD and SNX rats, arterial stiffness is increased, due to alterations of cell-matrix anchoring leading to spatial reorganization of the extracellular matrix. METHODS The intrinsic elastic properties of the arterial wall were evaluated in vivo by the relationship between incremental elastic modulus determined by echotracking and circumferential wall stress. The changes of cell-extracellular matrix links in the abdominal aorta were evaluated by studying fibronectin, vascular integrin receptors, and ultrastructural features of the aorta by immunochemistry. RESULTS In both experimental conditions, wall stiffness increased, associated with different modifications of cell-extracellular matrix adhesion. In SAD rats, increased media cross-sectional area was coupled with an increase of muscle cell attachments to its extracellular matrix via fibronectin and its α5-β1 integrin. In SNX rats, reduced media cross-sectional area was associated with upregulation of αv-β3 integrin and more extensive connections between dense bands and elastic fibers despite the disruption of the elastic lamellae. CONCLUSION In aorta of SNX and SAD rats, a similar arterial stiffness is associated to different structural alterations. An increase in αvβ3 or α5β1 integrins together with the already reported increase in the proportion of less distensible (collagen) to more distensible (elastin) components in both models contributes to remodeling and stiffening of the abdominal aorta.
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Silpanisong J, Pearce WJ. Vasotrophic regulation of age-dependent hypoxic cerebrovascular remodeling. Curr Vasc Pharmacol 2014; 11:544-63. [PMID: 24063376 DOI: 10.2174/1570161111311050002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/29/2012] [Revised: 06/08/2012] [Accepted: 07/12/2012] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Hypoxia can induce functional and structural vascular remodeling by changing the expression of trophic factors to promote homeostasis. While most experimental approaches have been focused on functional remodeling, structural remodeling can reflect changes in the abundance and organization of vascular proteins that determine functional remodeling. Better understanding of age-dependent hypoxic macrovascular remodeling processes of the cerebral vasculature and its clinical implications require knowledge of the vasotrophic factors that influence arterial structure and function. Hypoxia can affect the expression of transcription factors, classical receptor tyrosine kinase factors, non-classical G-protein coupled factors, catecholamines, and purines. Hypoxia's remodeling effects can be mediated by Hypoxia Inducible Factor (HIF) upregulation in most vascular beds, but alterations in the expression of growth factors can also be independent of HIF. PPARγ is another transcription factor involved in hypoxic remodeling. Expression of classical receptor tyrosine kinase ligands, including vascular endothelial growth factor, platelet derived growth factor, fibroblast growth factor and angiopoietins, can be altered by hypoxia which can act simultaneously to affect remodeling. Tyrosine kinase-independent factors, such as transforming growth factor, nitric oxide, endothelin, angiotensin II, catecholamines, and purines also participate in the remodeling process. This adaptation to hypoxic stress can fundamentally change with age, resulting in different responses between fetuses and adults. Overall, these mechanisms integrate to assure that blood flow and metabolic demand are closely matched in all vascular beds and emphasize the view that the vascular wall is a highly dynamic and heterogeneous tissue with multiple cell types undergoing regular phenotypic transformation.
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- Jinjutha Silpanisong
- Center for Perinatal Biology, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Loma Linda, CA 92350, USA.
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Angouras DC, Dosios TJ, Dimitriou CA, Chamogeorgakis TP, Rokkas CK, Manos TA, Sokolis DP. Surgical Thoracic Sympathectomy Induces Structural and Biomechanical Remodeling of the Thoracic Aorta in a Porcine Model. J Surg Res 2012; 172:68-76. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2010.07.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2010] [Revised: 06/20/2010] [Accepted: 07/16/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Proper vascular regulation is of paramount importance for the control of blood flow to tissues. In particular, the regulation of peripheral resistance arteries is essential for several physiological processes, including control of blood pressure, thermoregulation and increase of blood flow to central nervous system and heart under stress conditions such as hypoxia. Arterial tone is regulated by the periarterial autonomic nervous plexus, as well as by endothelium-dependent, myogenic and humoral mechanisms. Underscoring the importance of proper vascular regulation, defects in these processes can lead to diseases such as hypertension, orthostatic hypotension, Raynaud's phenomenon, defective thermoregulation, hand-foot syndrome, migraine and congestive heart failure. Here, we review the molecular mechanisms controlling the development of the periarterial nerve plexus, retrograde and localized signalling at neuro-effector junctions, the molecular and cellular mechanisms of vascular regulation and adult plasticity and maintenance of periarterial innervation. We particularly highlight a newly discovered role for vascular endothelial growth factor in the structural and functional maintenance of arterial neuro-effector junctions. Finally, we discuss how defects in neuronal vascular regulation can lead to disease.
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- E Storkebaum
- Molecular Neurogenetics Laboratory, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Muenster, Germany.
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Zhou X, Yun JL, Han ZQ, Gao F, Li H, Jiang TM, Li YM. Postinfarction healing dynamics in the mechanically unloaded rat left ventricle. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2011; 300:H1863-74. [PMID: 21398590 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00830.2010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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The healing process is a key determinant for postinfarction left ventricular (LV) remodeling and the development of heart failure, which could be influenced by mechanical (pressure and/or volume) load. So far, limited information exists regarding an indepth characterization of the postinfarct healing process in the mechanically unloaded state. In the present work, we performed isogenic Lewis-to-Lewis rat abdominal heterotopic heart transplantation, which is characterized by hemodynamic unloading in the left ventricle, and simultaneously ligated the left anterior descending coronary artery (T-infarct group). Pathological evolution was dynamically compared with that of in situ infarcted Lewis hearts (I-infarct group) on days 3, 7, 14, and 35. There was a remarkable myocardial salvage in the unloaded heart, as shown by the improvement in infarct size (T-infarct group: 25.47% ± 4.31% vs. I-infarct group: 38.46% ± 4.82%, P < 0.01) and the smaller fraction of fibrosis in infarct segments (T-infarct group: 42.12% ± 8.40% vs. I-infarct group: 75.65% ± 10.51%, P < 0.01). In addition, there was a progressive disorganization of the two-dimensional collagen fiber alignment as well as retarded collagen fiber maturation in the T-infarct group. We also observed enhanced angiogenesis, lymphangiogenesis, and inflammatory cell retention in the infarct region during mechanical unloading. Moreover, capillary density and collagen deposition were significantly increased in the noninfarcted area of the unloaded heart compared with the same region in the in situ infarcted heart. In conclusion, ischemic insult in the mechanically unloaded heart elicits an altered inflammatory and healing response, which is characterized by myocardial salvage, delayed resolution of inflammation, and disorganization of the collagen orientation in the infarcted region. These findings could provide novel insights into the contribution of hemodynamic load in the postinfarction healing process. Further studies are warranted to elucidate its potential mechanism.
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- Xin Zhou
- Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases and Division of Cardiology, Pingjin Hospital, Medical College of Chinese People's Armed Police Forces, Tianjin 300162, China.
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The control of force production in vascular smooth muscle is critical to the normal regulation of blood flow and pressure, and altered regulation is common to diseases such as hypertension, heart failure, and ischemia. A great deal has been learned about imbalances in vasoconstrictor and vasodilator signals, e.g., angiotensin, endothelin, norepinephrine, and nitric oxide, that regulate vascular tone in normal and disease contexts. In contrast there has been limited study of how the phenotypic state of the vascular smooth muscle cell may influence the contractile response to these signaling pathways dependent upon the developmental, tissue-specific (vascular bed) or disease context. Smooth, skeletal, and cardiac muscle lineages are traditionally classified into fast or slow sublineages based on rates of contraction and relaxation, recognizing that this simple dichotomy vastly underrepresents muscle phenotypic diversity. A great deal has been learned about developmental specification of the striated muscle sublineages and their phenotypic interconversions in the mature animal under the control of mechanical load, neural input, and hormones. In contrast there has been relatively limited study of smooth muscle contractile phenotypic diversity. This is surprising given the number of diseases in which smooth muscle contractile dysfunction plays a key role. This review focuses on smooth muscle contractile phenotypic diversity in the vascular system, how it is generated, and how it may determine vascular function in developmental and disease contexts.
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- Steven A Fisher
- Department of Medicine, and Cardiovascular Research Institute, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7290, USA.
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Wu FTH, Stefanini MO, Mac Gabhann F, Kontos CD, Annex BH, Popel AS. VEGF and soluble VEGF receptor-1 (sFlt-1) distributions in peripheral arterial disease: an in silico model. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2010; 298:H2174-91. [PMID: 20382861 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00365.2009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a key regulator of angiogenesis, the growth of new capillaries from existing microvasculature. In peripheral arterial disease (PAD), lower extremity muscle ischemia develops downstream of atherosclerotic obstruction. A working hypothesis proposed that the maladaptive overexpression of soluble VEGF receptor 1 (sVEGFR1) in ischemic muscle tissues, and its subsequent antagonism of VEGF bioactivity, may contribute to the deficient angiogenic response in PAD, as well as the limited success of therapeutic angiogenesis strategies where exogenous VEGF genes/proteins are delivered. The objectives of this study were to develop a computational framework for simulating the systemic distributions of VEGF and sVEGFR1 (e.g., intramuscular vs. circulating, free vs. complexed) as observed in human PAD patients and to serve as a platform for the systematic optimization of diagnostic tools and therapeutic strategies. A three-compartment model was constructed, dividing the human body into the ischemic calf muscle, blood, and the rest of the body, connected through macromolecular biotransport processes. Detailed molecular interactions between VEGF, sVEGFR1, endothelial surface receptors (VEGFR1, VEGFR2, NRP1), and interstitial matrix sites were modeled. Our simulation results did not support a simultaneous decrease in plasma sVEGFR1 during PAD-associated elevations in plasma VEGF reported in literature. Furthermore, despite the overexpression in sVEGFR1, our PAD control demonstrated increased proangiogenic signaling complex formation, relative to our previous healthy control, due to sizeable upregulations in VEGFR2 and VEGF expression, thus leaving open the possibility that impaired angiogenesis in PAD may be rooted in signaling pathway disruptions downstream of ligand-receptor binding.
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- Florence T H Wu
- Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins Univ. School of Medicine, 720 Rutland Ave., 613 Traylor Research Bldg., Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
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Smooth muscle cell differentiation in the processus vaginalis of children with hernia or hydrocele. Hernia 2009; 14:187-91. [DOI: 10.1007/s10029-009-0588-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2009] [Accepted: 11/06/2009] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Long JB, Segal SS. Quantifying perivascular sympathetic innervation: regional differences in male C57BL/6 mice at 3 and 20 months. J Neurosci Methods 2009; 184:124-8. [PMID: 19651158 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2009.07.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2009] [Revised: 07/09/2009] [Accepted: 07/23/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Perivascular sympathetic innervation density (PSID) is a key determinant of vasomotor responses to sympathetic nerve activity. However, total axonal length (for en passant neurotransmission) per vessel surface area has not been well defined, particularly while preserving 3-dimensional vascular structure. We developed a novel method for quantifying PSID using 3-dimensional anatomical reconstruction and compare a variety of blood vessels in Young (3 months) and Old (20 months) male C57BL/6 mice. Individual vessels were dissected and immunolabeled for tyrosine hydroxylase. The total length of fluorescent axons in defined vessel surface areas was quantified by mapping Z-stack images (magnification=760x). For Young mice, innervation densities (mum axon length/mum(2) vessel surface area) in mesenteric (0.075+/-0.002) and femoral (0.080+/-0.003) arteries were greater (P<0.05) than mesenteric veins (0.052+/-0.002) and gracilis muscle feed arteries (0.040+/-0.002). Carotid arteries and gracilis muscle veins were not immunoreactive nor were there significant differences in PSID between Young and Old animals. We demonstrate a novel approach to quantify sympathetic innervation of the vasculature while preserving its 3-dimensional structure and document regional variation in PSID that persists with aging in mice. This analytical approach may be used for quantifying PSID in other tissues that have superficial vessels which can be studied in situ or from which embedded vessels can be excised. With appropriate visualization of neuronal projections, it may also be applied to tissues that have other sources of superficial innervation.
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Adventitia: the vital wall of conduit arteries. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2009; 3:166-83. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jash.2009.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2008] [Revised: 03/05/2009] [Accepted: 03/06/2009] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Damon DH. TH and NPY in sympathetic neurovascular cultures: role of LIF and NT-3. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 2007; 294:C306-12. [PMID: 18032527 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00214.2007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The sympathetic nervous system is an important determinant of vascular function. The effects of the sympathetic nervous system are mediated via release of neurotransmitters and neuropeptides from postganglionic sympathetic neurons. The present study tests the hypothesis that vascular smooth muscle cells (VSM) maintain adrenergic neurotransmitter/neuropeptide expression in the postganglionic sympathetic neurons that innervate them. The effects of rat aortic and tail artery VSM (AVSM and TAVSM, respectively) on neuropeptide Y (NPY) and tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) were assessed in cultures of dissociated sympathetic neurons. AVSM decreased TH (39 +/- 12% of control) but did not affect NPY. TAVSM decreased TH (76 +/- 10% of control) but increased NPY (153 +/- 20% of control). VSM expressed leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) and neurotrophin-3 (NT-3), which are known to modulate NPY and TH expression. Sympathetic neurons innervating blood vessels expressed LIF and NT-3 receptors. Inhibition of LIF inhibited the effect of AVSM on TH. Inhibition of neurotrophin-3 (NT-3) decreased TH and NPY in neurons grown in the presence of TAVSM. These data suggest that vascular-derived LIF decreases TH and vascular-derived NT-3 increases or maintains NPY and TH expression in postganglionic sympathetic neurons. NPY and TH in vascular sympathetic nerves are likely to modulate NPY and/or norepinephrine release from these nerves and are thus likely to affect blood flow and blood pressure. The present studies suggest a novel mechanism whereby VSM would modulate sympathetic control of vascular function.
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- Deborah H Damon
- Dept. of Pharmacology, Univ. of Vermont, 89 Beaumont Ave., Given Bldg., Burlington, VT 05405, USA.
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Shoja MM, Tubbs RS, Ansarin K. The role of myoendothelial gap junctions in the formation of arterial aneurysms: the hypothesis of "connexin 43:40 stoichiometry". Med Hypotheses 2007; 69:575-9. [PMID: 17374558 DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2007.01.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2007] [Accepted: 01/17/2007] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Heterocellular myoendothelial gap junctions (MEGJs) are essential in coordinating and regulating vasomotion. Little is known about their potential role in disease states. We discuss how alteration in the Cx 43:40 expression ratio at the level of MEGJs may begin a chain of reactions in the arterial wall resulting in an aneurysm formation. In this model, we assumed that aneurysm is a chronic arterial disease associated with medial degeneration and intimal hyperplasia. It also was assumed that MEGJs are composed of Cx43 and Cx40 in different stoichiometry and that the characteristic of a given junction is in the favor of its most abundantly expressed constituent. The hypothesis of Cx 43:40 stoichiometry indicates that impaired MEGJs may play a role in the pathogenesis of arterial aneurysms. Cx43 upregulation and Cx40 downregulation (increased Cx 43:40 stoichiometry) may induce a cascade of inflammatory, electrical, metabolic and proliferative derangements in the arterial wall, which finally lead to the matrix degradation, intimal hyperplasia, endothelial-medial dissociation and loss of endothelium-dependent hyperpolarizing currents, irregular vasomotion, impaired growth factor activation, and arterial sympathetic deprivation. The final consequence of these alterations is aneurysm formation.
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- Mohammadali M Shoja
- Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases Research Center, Tabriz Medical University, Tabriz, Iran.
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Damon DH, Teriele JA, Marko SB. Vascular-derived artemin: a determinant of vascular sympathetic innervation? Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2007; 293:H266-73. [PMID: 17337595 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00859.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Vascular sympathetic innervation is an important determinant of blood pressure and blood flow. The mechanisms that determine vascular sympathetic innervation are not well understood. The present study tests the hypothesis that vascular-derived artemin promotes the development of sympathetic innervation to blood vessels by promoting sympathetic axon growth. RT-PCR and Western analyses indicate that artemin is expressed by cultured vascular smooth muscle and arteries, and artemin coreceptors, glial cell-derived neurotrophic factor family receptor alpha3 and ret, are expressed by postganglionic sympathetic neurons. The effects of artemin on axon growth were assessed on explants of neonatal rat sympathetic ganglia. In the presence, but not in the absence, of nerve growth factor, exogenous artemin stimulated neurite growth. Femoral arteries (FA) from adult rats contain artemin, and these arteries stimulated sympathetic neurite growth. Growth in the presence of FA was 92.2 +/- 11.9 mm, and that in the absence of FA was 26.3 +/- 5.4 mm (P < 0.05). FA stimulation of axon growth was reduced by an antibody that neutralized the activity of artemin (P < 0.05). These data indicate that artemin is expressed in arteries, and its receptors are expressed and functional in the postganglionic sympathetic neurons that innervate them. This suggests that artemin may be a determinant of vascular sympathetic innervation.
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- Deborah H Damon
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Vermont, 89 Beaumont Avenue, Burlington, VT 05405, USA.
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Mueller PJ. Exercise training attenuates increases in lumbar sympathetic nerve activity produced by stimulation of the rostral ventrolateral medulla. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2006; 102:803-13. [PMID: 17053106 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00498.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Exercise training (ExTr) has been associated with blunted activation of the sympathetic nervous system in several animal models and in some human studies. Although these data are consistent with the hypothesis that ExTr reduces the incidence of cardiovascular diseases via reduced sympathoexcitation, the mechanisms are unknown. The rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM) is important in control of sympathetic nervous system activity in both physiological and pathophysiological states. The purpose of the present study was to test the hypothesis that ExTr results in reduced sympathoexcitation mediated at the level of the RVLM. Male Sprague-Dawley rats were treadmill trained or remained sedentary for 8-10 wk. RVLM microinjections were performed under Inactin anesthesia while mean arterial pressure, heart rate, and lumbar sympathetic nerve activity (LSNA) were recorded. Bilateral microinjections of the GABA(A) antagonist bicuculline (5 mM, 90 nl) into the RVLM increased LSNA in sedentary animals (169 +/- 33%), which was blunted in ExTr animals (100 +/- 22%, P < 0.05). Activation of the RVLM with unilateral microinjections of glutamate (10 mM, 30 nl) increased LSNA in sedentary animals (76 +/- 13%), which was also attenuated by training (26 +/- 2%, P < 0.05). Bilateral microinjections of the ionotropic glutamate receptor antagonist kynurenate (40 mM, 90 nl) produced small increases in mean arterial pressure and LSNA that were similar between groups. Results suggest that ExTr may reduce increases in LSNA due to reduced activation of the RVLM. Conversely, we speculate that the relatively enhanced activation of LSNA in sedentary animals may be related to the increased incidence of cardiovascular disease associated with a sedentary lifestyle.
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- Patrick J Mueller
- Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center and Dept. of Biomedical Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia, 65211-3300, USA.
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Schlüter T, Grimm R, Steinbach A, Lorenz G, Rettig R, Grisk O. Neonatal sympathectomy reduces NADPH oxidase activity and vascular resistance in spontaneously hypertensive rat kidneys. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2006; 291:R391-9. [PMID: 16914424 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00029.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Neonatal sympathectomy reduces arterial pressure in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR). In SHR transplanted with a kidney from sympathectomized SHR, arterial pressure was lower and less Na+ sensitive than in SHR transplanted with a kidney from hydralazine-treated SHR. This study was performed to identify underlying renal mechanisms. Tests for differential renal mRNA expression of nine a priori selected genes revealed robust differences for renal medullary expression of the NADPH oxidase subunit p47phox. Therefore, we investigated the effects of neonatal sympathectomy on renal mRNA expression of NADPH oxidase subunits, NADPH oxidase activity, and renal function. In 10-wk-old sympathectomized SHR fed a 0.6% NaCl diet, medullary p47phox and gp91phox expression was 40% less than in hydralazine-treated SHR. Also, after a 1.8% NaCl diet, medullary p47phox mRNA expression was lower in sympathectomized than in hydralazine-treated SHR. We found lower cortical (-30%, P<0.01) and medullary (-30%, P<0.05) NADPH oxidase activities in sympathectomized than in hydralazine-treated or untreated SHR. Glomerular filtration rate, renal blood flow, medullary blood flow, and fractional Na+ excretion in kidney grafts from sympathectomized and hydralazine-treated donors (n=8 per group) were similar at baseline and in response to a 20-mmHg rise in renal perfusion pressure. Renal vascular resistance was lower in kidneys from sympathectomized than hydralazine-treated donors (25+/-2 vs. 32+/-4 mmHg.min.ml-1, P<0.05). The results indicate that the sympathetic nervous system contributes to the level of renal NADPH oxidase activity and to perinatal programming of alterations in renal vascular function that lead to elevated renal vascular resistance in SHR.
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- Torsten Schlüter
- Institute of Physiology, University of Greifswald, Greifswalder Strasse 11c, D17495 Karlsburg, Germany
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