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Moreno-Domínguez A, Colinas O, Arias-Mayenco I, Cabeza JM, López-Ogayar JL, Chandel NS, Weissmann N, Sommer N, Pascual A, López-Barneo J. Hif1α-dependent mitochondrial acute O 2 sensing and signaling to myocyte Ca 2+ channels mediate arterial hypoxic vasodilation. Nat Commun 2024; 15:6649. [PMID: 39103356 PMCID: PMC11300585 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-51023-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2024] [Accepted: 07/23/2024] [Indexed: 08/07/2024] Open
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Vasodilation in response to low oxygen (O2) tension (hypoxic vasodilation) is an essential homeostatic response of systemic arteries that facilitates O2 supply to tissues according to demand. However, how blood vessels react to O2 deficiency is not well understood. A common belief is that arterial myocytes are O2-sensitive. Supporting this concept, it has been shown that the activity of myocyte L-type Ca2+channels, the main ion channels responsible for vascular contractility, is reversibly inhibited by hypoxia, although the underlying molecular mechanisms have remained elusive. Here, we show that genetic or pharmacological disruption of mitochondrial electron transport selectively abolishes O2 modulation of Ca2+ channels and hypoxic vasodilation. Mitochondria function as O2 sensors and effectors that signal myocyte Ca2+ channels due to constitutive Hif1α-mediated expression of specific electron transport subunit isoforms. These findings reveal the acute O2-sensing mechanisms of vascular cells and may guide new developments in vascular pharmacology.
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- Alejandro Moreno-Domínguez
- Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío/CSIC/Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
- Departamento de Fisiología Médica y Biofísica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío/CSIC/Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
- Departamento de Fisiología Médica y Biofísica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío/CSIC/Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
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- Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío/CSIC/Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
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- Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío/CSIC/Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
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- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Excellence Cluster Cardiopulmonary System, University of Giessen and Marburg Lung Centre (UGMLC), German Centre for Lung Research (DZL), Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany
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- Excellence Cluster Cardiopulmonary System, University of Giessen and Marburg Lung Centre (UGMLC), German Centre for Lung Research (DZL), Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany
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- Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío/CSIC/Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío/CSIC/Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain.
- Departamento de Fisiología Médica y Biofísica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain.
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), Madrid, Spain.
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Kowalewska PM, Milkovich SL, Goldman D, Sandow SL, Ellis CG, Welsh DG. Capillary oxygen regulates demand-supply coupling by triggering connexin40-mediated conduction: Rethinking the metabolic hypothesis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2024; 121:e2303119121. [PMID: 38349880 PMCID: PMC10895355 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2303119121] [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: 02/26/2023] [Accepted: 12/21/2023] [Indexed: 02/15/2024] Open
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Coupling red blood cell (RBC) supply to O2 demand is an intricate process requiring O2 sensing, generation of a stimulus, and signal transduction that alters upstream arteriolar tone. Although actively debated, this process has been theorized to be induced by hypoxia and to involve activation of endothelial inwardly rectifying K+ channels (KIR) 2.1 by elevated extracellular K+ to trigger conducted hyperpolarization via connexin40 (Cx40) gap junctions to upstream resistors. This concept was tested in resting healthy skeletal muscle of Cx40-/- and endothelial KIR2.1-/- mice using state-of-the-art live animal imaging where the local tissue O2 environment was manipulated using a custom gas chamber. Second-by-second capillary RBC flow responses were recorded as O2 was altered. A stepwise drop in PO2 at the muscle surface increased RBC supply in capillaries of control animals while elevated O2 elicited the opposite response; capillaries were confirmed to express Cx40. The RBC flow responses were rapid and tightly coupled to O2; computer simulations did not support hypoxia as a driving factor. In contrast, RBC flow responses were significantly diminished in Cx40-/- mice. Endothelial KIR2.1-/- mice, on the other hand, reacted normally to O2 changes, even when the O2 challenge was targeted to a smaller area of tissue with fewer capillaries. Conclusively, microvascular O2 responses depend on coordinated electrical signaling via Cx40 gap junctions, and endothelial KIR2.1 channels do not initiate the event. These findings reconceptualize the paradigm of blood flow regulation in skeletal muscle and how O2 triggers this process in capillaries independent of extracellular K+.
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- Paulina M. Kowalewska
- Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, ONN6A 5B7, Canada
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Western Ontario, London, ONN6A 5B7, Canada
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- Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Western Ontario, London, ONN6A 5B7, Canada
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- School of Health, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore, QLD4556, Australia
- School of Clinical Medicine, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD4072, Australia
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- Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, ONN6A 5B7, Canada
- Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Western Ontario, London, ONN6A 5B7, Canada
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- Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, ONN6A 5B7, Canada
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Western Ontario, London, ONN6A 5B7, Canada
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Halvorson BD, Bao Y, Ward AD, Goldman D, Frisbee JC. Regulation of Skeletal Muscle Resistance Arteriolar Tone: Integration of Multiple Mechanisms. J Vasc Res 2023; 60:245-272. [PMID: 37769627 DOI: 10.1159/000533316] [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: 01/20/2023] [Accepted: 07/27/2023] [Indexed: 10/03/2023] Open
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INTRODUCTION Physiological system complexity represents an imposing challenge to gaining insight into how arteriolar behavior emerges. Further, mechanistic complexity in arteriolar tone regulation requires that a systematic determination of how these processes interact to alter vascular diameter be undertaken. METHODS The present study evaluated the reactivity of ex vivo proximal and in situ distal resistance arterioles in skeletal muscle with challenges across the full range of multiple physiologically relevant stimuli and determined the stability of responses over progressive alterations to each other parameter. The five parameters chosen for examination were (1) metabolism (adenosine concentration), (2) adrenergic activation (norepinephrine concentration), (3) myogenic activation (intravascular pressure), (4) oxygen (superfusate PO2), and (5) wall shear rate (altered intraluminal flow). Vasomotor tone of both arteriole groups following challenge with individual parameters was determined; subsequently, responses were determined following all two- and three-parameter combinations to gain deeper insight into how stimuli integrate to change arteriolar tone. A hierarchical ranking of stimulus significance for establishing arteriolar tone was performed using mathematical and statistical analyses in conjunction with machine learning methods. RESULTS Results were consistent across methods and indicated that metabolic and adrenergic influences were most robust and stable across all conditions. While the other parameters individually impact arteriolar tone, their impact can be readily overridden by the two dominant contributors. CONCLUSION These data suggest that mechanisms regulating arteriolar tone are strongly affected by acute changes to the local environment and that ongoing investigation into how microvessels integrate stimuli regulating tone will provide a more thorough understanding of arteriolar behavior emergence across physiological and pathological states.
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- Brayden D Halvorson
- Department of Medical Biophysics, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Medical Biophysics, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, Ontario, Canada
- Lawson Health Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Medical Biophysics, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Medical Biophysics, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, Ontario, Canada
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Moreno-Domínguez A, Colinas O, Smani T, Ureña J, López-Barneo J. Acute oxygen sensing by vascular smooth muscle cells. Front Physiol 2023; 14:1142354. [PMID: 36935756 PMCID: PMC10020353 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2023.1142354] [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: 01/11/2023] [Accepted: 02/21/2023] [Indexed: 03/06/2023] Open
Abstract
An adequate supply of oxygen (O2) is essential for most life forms on earth, making the delivery of appropriate levels of O2 to tissues a fundamental physiological challenge. When O2 levels in the alveoli and/or blood are low, compensatory adaptive reflexes are produced that increase the uptake of O2 and its distribution to tissues within a few seconds. This paper analyzes the most important acute vasomotor responses to lack of O2 (hypoxia): hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction (HPV) and hypoxic vasodilation (HVD). HPV affects distal pulmonary (resistance) arteries, with its homeostatic role being to divert blood to well ventilated alveoli to thereby optimize the ventilation/perfusion ratio. HVD is produced in most systemic arteries, in particular in the skeletal muscle, coronary, and cerebral circulations, to increase blood supply to poorly oxygenated tissues. Although vasomotor responses to hypoxia are modulated by endothelial factors and autonomic innervation, it is well established that arterial smooth muscle cells contain an acute O2 sensing system capable of detecting changes in O2 tension and to signal membrane ion channels, which in turn regulate cytosolic Ca2+ levels and myocyte contraction. Here, we summarize current knowledge on the nature of O2 sensing and signaling systems underlying acute vasomotor responses to hypoxia. We also discuss similarities and differences existing in O2 sensors and effectors in the various arterial territories.
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- Alejandro Moreno-Domínguez
- Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío/CSIC/Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
- Departamento de Fisiología Médica y Biofísica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío/CSIC/Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
- Departamento de Fisiología Médica y Biofísica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío/CSIC/Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
- Departamento de Fisiología Médica y Biofísica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
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- Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío/CSIC/Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
- Departamento de Fisiología Médica y Biofísica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
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- Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío/CSIC/Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
- Departamento de Fisiología Médica y Biofísica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), Madrid, Spain
- *Correspondence: José López-Barneo,
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Wang S, Tang C, Liu Y, Border JJ, Roman RJ, Fan F. Impact of impaired cerebral blood flow autoregulation on cognitive impairment. FRONTIERS IN AGING 2022; 3:1077302. [PMID: 36531742 PMCID: PMC9755178 DOI: 10.3389/fragi.2022.1077302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2022] [Accepted: 11/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2023]
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Although the causes of cognitive impairment are multifactorial, emerging evidence indicates that cerebrovascular dysfunction plays an essential role in dementia. One of the most critical aspects of cerebrovascular dysfunction is autoregulation of cerebral blood flow (CBF), mainly mediated by the myogenic response, which is often impaired in dementia individuals with comorbidities, such as diabetes and hypertension. However, many unsolved questions remain. How do cerebrovascular networks coordinately modulate CBF autoregulation in health and disease? Does poor CBF autoregulation have an impact on cognitive impairment, and what are the underlying mechanisms? This review summarizes the cerebral vascular structure and myogenic (a three-phase model), metabolic (O2, CO2, adenosine, and H+), and endothelial (shear stress) factors in the regulation of CBF; and the consequences of CBF dysautoregulation. Other factors contributing to cerebrovascular dysfunction, such as impaired functional hyperemia and capillary abnormalities, are included as well. Moreover, this review highlights recent studies from our lab in terms of novel mechanisms involved in CBF autoregulation and addresses a hypothesis that there is a three-line of defense for CBF autoregulation in the cerebral vasculature.
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- Shaoxun Wang
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, United States
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, United States
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, United States
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, United States
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, United States
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, United States
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Sové RJ, Milkovich S, Nikolov HN, Holdsworth DW, Ellis CG, Fraser GM. Localized Oxygen Exchange Platform for Intravital Video Microscopy Investigations of Microvascular Oxygen Regulation. Front Physiol 2021; 12:654928. [PMID: 34168569 PMCID: PMC8217830 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2021.654928] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2021] [Accepted: 03/23/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Intravital microscopy has proven to be a powerful tool for studying microvascular physiology. In this study, we propose a gas exchange system compatible with intravital microscopy that can be used to impose gas perturbations to small localized regions in skeletal muscles or other tissues that can be imaged using conventional inverted microscopes. We demonstrated the effectiveness of this system by locally manipulating oxygen concentrations in rat extensor digitorum longus muscle and measuring the resulting vascular responses. A computational model of oxygen transport was used to partially validate the localization of oxygen changes in the tissue, and oxygen saturation of red blood cells flowing through capillaries were measured as a surrogate for local tissue oxygenation. Overall, we have demonstrated that this approach can be used to study dynamic and spatial responses to local oxygen challenges to the microenvironment of skeletal muscle.
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- Richard J Sové
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States
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- Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
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- Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
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- Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.,Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
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- Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
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- Division of BioMedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL, Canada
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Junejo RT, Ray CJ, Marshall JM. Prostaglandin contribution to postexercise hyperemia is dependent on tissue oxygenation during rhythmic and isometric contractions. Physiol Rep 2020; 8:e14471. [PMID: 32562377 PMCID: PMC7305242 DOI: 10.14814/phy2.14471] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2020] [Revised: 04/27/2020] [Accepted: 05/10/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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The role of prostaglandins (PGs) in exercise hyperemia is controversial. We tested their contributions in moderate intensity forearm exercise, whether their release is oxygen (O2)‐dependent or affected by aging. A total of 12 young (21 ± 1 years) and 11 older (66 ± 2 years) recreationally active men performed rhythmic and isometric handgrip contractions at 60% maximum voluntary contraction for 3 min during air breathing after placebo, after cyclooxygenase (COX) inhibition with aspirin, while breathing 40% O2 and during their combination (aspirin + 40% O2). Forearm blood flow (FBF) was recorded with venous occlusion plethysmography (forearm vascular conductance (FVC): FBF/mean arterial pressure). Venous efflux of PGI2 and PGE2 were assessed by immunoassay. Postcontraction increases in FVC were similar for rhythmic and isometric contractions in young and older men, and accompanied by similar increases in efflux of PGI2 and PGE2. Aspirin attenuated the efflux of PGI2 by 75%–85%, PGE2 by 50%–70%, (p < .05 within group; p > .05 young versus. older), and postcontraction increases in FVC by 22%–27% and 17%–21% in young and older men, respectively (p < .05 within group and young versus. older). In both age groups, 40% O2 and aspirin + 40% O2 caused similar inhibition of the increases in FVC and efflux of PGs as aspirin alone (p < .05 within group). These results indicate that PGs make substantial contributions to the postcontraction hyperemia of rhythmic and isometric contractions at moderate intensities in recreationally active young and older men. Given PGI2 is mainly released by endothelium and PGE2 by muscle fibers, we propose PG generation is dependent on the contraction‐induced falls in O2 at these sites.
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- Rehan T Junejo
- School of Sport, Exercise & Rehabilitation Sciences, College of Life & Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, UK
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- Institute of Clinical Sciences, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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- Institute of Clinical Sciences, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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Aiku AO, Marshall JM. Contribution of prostaglandins to exercise hyperaemia: workload, ethnicity and sex matter! J Physiol 2019; 597:4887-4900. [PMID: 31399992 DOI: 10.1113/jp278033] [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: 03/20/2019] [Accepted: 06/06/2019] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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The contribution of prostaglandins (PGs) to exercise hyperaemia is controversial. In this review, we argue this is partly explained by differences in exercise intensity between studies. The effects of cyclooxygenase (COX) inhibition and PG assays indicate that PGs contribute more at moderate to heavy than at light workloads and are mainly released by low tissue O2 . But, the release and actions of PGs also depend on other O2 -dependent dilators including ATP, adenosine and NO. K+ may inhibit the action of PGs and other mediators by causing hyperpolarization, but contributes to the hyperaemia. Thus, at lighter loads, the influence of PGs may be blunted by K+ , while COX inhibition leads to compensatory increases in other O2 -dependent dilators. In addition, we show that other sources of variability are sex and ethnicity. Our findings indicate that exercise hyperaemia following rhythmic contractions at 60% maximum voluntary contraction, is smaller in young black African (BA) men and women than in their white European (WE) counterparts, but larger in men than in women of both ethnicities. We propose the larger absolute force in men causes greater vascular occlusion and accumulation of dilators, while blunted hyperaemia in BAs may reflect lower oxidative capacity and O2 requirement. Nevertheless, COX inhibition attenuated peak hyperaemia by ∼30% in WE, BA men and WE women, indicating PGs make a substantial contribution in all three groups. There was no effect in BA women. Lack of PG involvement may provide early evidence of endothelial dysfunction, consistent in BA women with their greater risk of cardiovascular disease.
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- Abimbola O Aiku
- Institute of Clinical Sciences, College of Medical & Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
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- Institute of Clinical Sciences, College of Medical & Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
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Smit B, Smulders YM, Eringa EC, Oudemans - van Straaten HM, Girbes ARJ, Wever KE, Hooijmans CR, Spoelstra - de Man AME. Effects of hyperoxia on vascular tone in animal models: systematic review and meta-analysis. Crit Care 2018; 22:189. [PMID: 30075723 PMCID: PMC6091089 DOI: 10.1186/s13054-018-2123-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2018] [Accepted: 07/09/2018] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Arterial hyperoxia may induce vasoconstriction and reduce cardiac output, which is particularly undesirable in patients who already have compromised perfusion of vital organs. Due to the inaccessibility of vital organs in humans, vasoconstrictive effects of hyperoxia have primarily been studied in animal models. However, the results of these studies vary substantially. Here, we investigate the variation in magnitude of the hyperoxia effect among studies and explore possible sources of heterogeneity, such as vascular region and animal species. METHOD Pubmed and Embase were searched for eligible studies up to November 2017. In vivo and ex vivo animal studies reporting on vascular tone changes induced by local or systemic normobaric hyperoxia were included. Experiments with co-interventions (e.g. disease or endothelium removal) or studies focusing on lung, brain or fetal vasculature or the ductus arteriosus were not included. We extracted data pertaining to species, vascular region, blood vessel characteristics and method of hyperoxia induction. Overall effect sizes were estimated with a standardized mean difference (SMD) random effects model. RESULTS We identified a total of 60 studies, which reported data on 67 in vivo and 18 ex vivo experiments. In the in vivo studies, hyperoxia caused vasoconstriction with an SMD of - 1.42 (95% CI - 1.65 to - 1.19). Ex vivo, the overall effect size was SMD - 0.56 (95% CI - 1.09 to - 0.03). Between-study heterogeneity (I2) was high for in vivo (72%, 95% CI 62 to 85%) and ex vivo studies (86%, 95% CI 78 to 98%). In vivo, in comparison to the overall effect size, hyperoxic vasoconstriction was less pronounced in the intestines and skin (P = 0.03) but enhanced in the cremaster muscle region (P < 0.001). Increased constriction was seen in vessels 15-25 μm in diameter. Hyperoxic constriction appeared to be directly proportional to oxygen concentration. For ex vivo studies, heterogeneity could not be explained with subgroup analysis. CONCLUSION The effect of hyperoxia on vascular tone is substantially higher in vivo than ex vivo. The magnitude of the constriction is most pronounced in vessels ~ 15-25 μm in diameter and is proportional to the level of hyperoxia. Relatively increased constriction was seen in muscle vasculature, while reduced constriction was seen in the skin and intestines.
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- Bob Smit
- Department of Intensive Care, VU University Medical Center, De Boelelaan 1117, 1007 MB Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Internal Medicine, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Physiology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Intensive Care, VU University Medical Center, De Boelelaan 1117, 1007 MB Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- SYstematic Review Centre for Laboratory animal Experimentation (SYRCLE), Department for Health Evidence, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- SYstematic Review Centre for Laboratory animal Experimentation (SYRCLE), Department for Health Evidence, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Racine ML, Crecelius AR, Luckasen GJ, Larson DG, Dinenno FA. Inhibition of Na + /K + -ATPase and K IR channels abolishes hypoxic hyperaemia in resting but not contracting skeletal muscle of humans. J Physiol 2018; 596:3371-3389. [PMID: 29603743 DOI: 10.1113/jp275913] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2018] [Accepted: 03/27/2018] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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KEY POINTS Increasing blood flow (hyperaemia) to exercising muscle helps match oxygen delivery and metabolic demand. During exercise in hypoxia, there is a compensatory increase in muscle hyperaemia that maintains oxygen delivery and tissue oxygen consumption. Nitric oxide (NO) and prostaglandins (PGs) contribute to around half of the augmented hyperaemia during hypoxic exercise, although the contributors to the remaining response are unknown. In the present study, inhibiting NO, PGs, Na+ /K+ -ATPase and inwardly rectifying potassium (KIR ) channels did not blunt augmented hyperaemia during hypoxic exercise beyond previous observations with NO/PG block alone. Furthermore, although inhibition of only Na+ /K+ -ATPase and KIR channels abolished hyperaemia during hypoxia at rest, it had no effect on augmented hyperaemia during hypoxic exercise. This is the first study in humans to demonstrate that Na+ /K+ -ATPase and KIR channel activation is required for augmented muscle hyperaemia during hypoxia at rest but not during hypoxic exercise, thus providing new insight into vascular control. ABSTRACT Exercise hyperaemia in hypoxia is augmented relative to the same exercise intensity in normoxia. During moderate-intensity handgrip exercise, endothelium-derived nitric oxide (NO) and vasodilating prostaglandins (PGs) contribute to ∼50% of the augmented forearm blood flow (FBF) response to hypoxic exercise (HypEx), although the mechanism(s) underlying the remaining response are unclear. We hypothesized that combined inhibition of NO, PGs, Na+ /K+ -ATPase and inwardly rectifying potassium (KIR ) channels would abolish the augmented hyperaemic response in HypEx. In healthy young adults, FBF responses were measured (Doppler ultrasound) and forearm vascular conductance was calculated during 5 min of rhythmic handgrip exercise at 20% maximum voluntary contraction under regional sympathoadrenal inhibition in normoxia and isocapnic HypEx (O2 saturation ∼80%). Compared to control, combined inhibition of NO, PGs, Na+ /K+ -ATPase and KIR channels (l-NMMA + ketorolac + ouabain + BaCl2; Protocol 1; n = 10) blunted the compensatory increase in FBF during HypEx by ∼50% (29 ± 6 mL min-1 vs. 62 ± 8 mL min-1 , respectively, P < 0.05). By contrast, ouabain + BaCl2 alone (Protocol 2; n = 10) did not affect this augmented hyperaemic response (50 ± 11 mL min-1 vs. 60 ± 13 mL min-1 , respectively, P > 0.05). However, the blocked condition in both protocols abolished the hyperaemic response to hypoxia at rest (P < 0.05). We conclude that activation of Na+ /K+ -ATPase and KIR channels is involved in the hyperaemic response to hypoxia at rest, although it does not contribute to the augmented exercise hyperaemia during hypoxia in humans.
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- Matthew L Racine
- Human Cardiovascular Physiology Laboratory, Department of Health and Exercise Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Human Cardiovascular Physiology Laboratory, Department of Health and Exercise Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Cardiovascular Research Center, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.,Medical Center of the Rockies Foundation, University of Colorado Health System, Loveland, CO, USA
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- Medical Center of the Rockies Foundation, University of Colorado Health System, Loveland, CO, USA
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- Human Cardiovascular Physiology Laboratory, Department of Health and Exercise Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.,Cardiovascular Research Center, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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Lukaszewicz KM, Durand MJ, Priestley JRC, Schmidt JR, Allen LA, Geurts AM, Lombard JH. Evaluation of Vascular Control Mechanisms Utilizing Video Microscopy of Isolated Resistance Arteries of Rats. J Vis Exp 2017. [PMID: 29286398 DOI: 10.3791/56133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022] Open
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This protocol describes the use of in vitro television microscopy to evaluate vascular function in isolated cerebral resistance arteries (and other vessels), and describes techniques for evaluating tissue perfusion using Laser Doppler Flowmetry (LDF) and microvessel density utilizing fluorescently labeled Griffonia simplicifolia (GS1) lectin. Current methods for studying isolated resistance arteries at transmural pressures encountered in vivo and in the absence of parenchymal cell influences provide a critical link between in vivo studies and information gained from molecular reductionist approaches that provide limited insight into integrative responses at the whole animal level. LDF and techniques to selectively identify arterioles and capillaries with fluorescently-labeled GS1 lectin provide practical solutions to enable investigators to extend the knowledge gained from studies of isolated resistance arteries. This paper describes the application of these techniques to gain fundamental knowledge of vascular physiology and pathology in the rat as a general experimental model, and in a variety of specialized genetically engineered "designer" rat strains that can provide important insight into the influence of specific genes on important vascular phenotypes. Utilizing these valuable experimental approaches in rat strains developed by selective breeding strategies and new technologies for producing gene knockout models in the rat, will expand the rigor of scientific premises developed in knockout mouse models and extend that knowledge to a more relevant animal model, with a well understood physiological background and suitability for physiological studies because of its larger size.
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- Graduate Programs of Nurse Anesthesia, Texas Wesleyan University
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- Department of Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin
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Jackson WF. Arteriolar oxygen reactivity: where is the sensor and what is the mechanism of action? J Physiol 2016; 594:5055-77. [PMID: 27324312 PMCID: PMC5023707 DOI: 10.1113/jp270192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2015] [Accepted: 06/13/2016] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Arterioles in the peripheral microcirculation are exquisitely sensitive to changes in PO2 in their environment: increases in PO2 cause vasoconstriction while decreases in PO2 result in vasodilatation. However, the cell type that senses O2 (the O2 sensor) and the signalling pathway that couples changes in PO2 to changes in arteriolar tone (the mechanism of action) remain unclear. Many (but not all) ex vivo studies of isolated cannulated resistance arteries and large, first-order arterioles support the hypothesis that these vessels are intrinsically sensitive to PO2 with the smooth muscle, endothelial cells, or red blood cells serving as the O2 sensor. However, in situ studies testing these hypotheses in downstream arterioles have failed to find evidence of intrinsic O2 sensitivity, and instead have supported the idea that extravascular cells sense O2 . Similarly, ex vivo studies of isolated, cannulated resistance arteries and large first-order arterioles support the hypotheses that O2 -dependent inhibition of production of vasodilator cyclooxygenase products or O2 -dependent destruction of nitric oxide mediates O2 reactivity of these upstream vessels. In contrast, most in vivo studies of downstream arterioles have disproved these hypotheses and instead have provided evidence supporting the idea that O2 -dependent production of vasoconstrictors mediates arteriolar O2 reactivity, with significant regional heterogeneity in the specific vasoconstrictor involved. Oxygen-induced vasoconstriction may serve as a protective mechanism to reduce the oxidative burden to which a tissue is exposed, a process that is superimposed on top of the local mechanisms which regulate tissue blood flow to meet a tissue's metabolic demand.
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- William F Jackson
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA.
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Marshall JM. Interactions between local dilator and sympathetic vasoconstrictor influences in skeletal muscle in acute and chronic hypoxia. Exp Physiol 2015; 100:1400-11. [DOI: 10.1113/ep085139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2015] [Revised: 06/18/2015] [Accepted: 06/19/2015] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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- Janice M. Marshall
- School of Clinical & Experimental Medicine; Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Birmingham; B15 2TT UK
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Effects of modest hyperoxia and oral vitamin C on exercise hyperaemia and reactive hyperaemia in healthy young men. Eur J Appl Physiol 2015; 115:1995-2006. [PMID: 25963380 DOI: 10.1007/s00421-015-3182-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2014] [Accepted: 05/02/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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PURPOSE We have argued that breathing 40 % O2 attenuates exercise hyperaemia by decreasing production of O2-dependent vasodilators. However, breathing 100 % O2 attenuated endothelium-dependent vasodilatation evoked by acetylcholine and this effect was prevented by vitamin C, implicating reactive oxygen species (ROS). We have therefore used vitamin C to test the hypothesis that 40 % O2 modulates exercise hyperaemia and reactive hyperaemia independently of ROS. METHOD In a cross-over study on 10 male subjects (21.1 ± 0.84 years), we measured forearm blood flow (venous occlusion plethysmography) and calculated forearm vascular conductance (FVC) at rest and following static handgrip at 60 % maximum voluntary contraction for 2 min and following arterial occlusion for 2 min, after placebo or oral vitamin C (2000 mg), and when breathing air or 40 % O2. RESULT During air breathing, vitamin C augmented the peak increase in FVC following static contraction, or release of arterial occlusion, by ~50 or 60 %, respectively (P < 0.05). Breathing 40 % O2 in the presence of placebo attenuated post-contraction hyperaemia by ~25 % (P < 0.05), but had no effect on reactive hyperaemia. By contrast, in the presence of vitamin C, 40 % O2 attenuated the peak increase in FVC following static contraction, or release of arterial occlusion by ~25 and 50 %, respectively (P < 0.05). CONCLUSION These results indicate that in young men, exercise hyperaemia following strenuous muscle contraction and reactive hyperaemia are blunted by ROS. However, they are also consistent with the view that modest hyperoxia induced by breathing 40 % O2 acts independently of ROS to attenuate not only post-contraction hyperaemia, but also reactive hyperaemia, by decreasing release of O2-dependent vasodilators.
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Butcher JT, Goodwill AG, Stanley SC, Frisbee JC. Differential impact of dilator stimuli on increased myogenic activation of cerebral and skeletal muscle resistance arterioles in obese zucker rats. Microcirculation 2014; 20:579-89. [PMID: 23510266 DOI: 10.1111/micc.12056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2012] [Accepted: 03/15/2013] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To use the OZR model of the metabolic syndrome to determine the impact of dilator stimuli on MA of GA and MCA. We tested the hypothesis that increased oxidant stress and TxA2 exacerbate MA, and prevent its blunting with dilator stimuli, in OZR. METHODS GA/MCA from OZR and LZR was pressurized ex vivo. MA was determined under control conditions and following challenge with acetylcholine, hypoxia, and adenosine. Responses were also evaluated after pre-treatment with TEMPOL (antioxidant) and SQ-29548 (PGH2 /TxA2 receptor antagonist). RESULTS MA was increased (and dilator responses decreased) in GA/MCA from OZR, dependent on the endothelium and ROS. In GA, the impact of ROS on MA and dilator effects was largely via TxA2 , while in MCA, this appeared was more dependent on NO bioavailability. Intrinsic responses of GA/MCA to carbacyclin, U46619, and NO donors were similar between strains. CONCLUSIONS A developing ROS-based endothelial dysfunction in MCA and GA of OZR contributes to an enhanced MA of these vessels. Although treatment of GA/MCA with TEMPOL attenuates MA in OZR, the mechanistic contributors to altered MA, distal to ROS, differ between the two resistance vessels.
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- Joshua T Butcher
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA; Center for Cardiovascular and Respiratory Sciences, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
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Barvitenko NN, Aslam M, Filosa J, Matteucci E, Nikinmaa M, Pantaleo A, Saldanha C, Baskurt OK. Tissue oxygen demand in regulation of the behavior of the cells in the vasculature. Microcirculation 2014; 20:484-501. [PMID: 23441854 DOI: 10.1111/micc.12052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2012] [Accepted: 02/19/2013] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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The control of arteriolar diameters in microvasculature has been in the focus of studies on mechanisms matching oxygen demand and supply at the tissue level. Functionally, important vascular elements include EC, VSMC, and RBC. Integration of these different cell types into functional units aimed at matching tissue oxygen supply with tissue oxygen demand is only achieved when all these cells can respond to the signals of tissue oxygen demand. Many vasoactive agents that serve as signals of tissue oxygen demand have their receptors on all these types of cells (VSMC, EC, and RBC) implying that there can be a coordinated regulation of their behavior by the tissue oxygen demand. Such functions of RBC as oxygen carrying by Hb, rheology, and release of vasoactive agents are considered. Several common extra- and intracellular signaling pathways that link tissue oxygen demand with control of VSMC contractility, EC permeability, and RBC functioning are discussed.
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Marshall JM, Ray CJ. Contribution of non-endothelium-dependent substances to exercise hyperaemia: are they O(2) dependent? J Physiol 2012; 590:6307-20. [PMID: 23045341 PMCID: PMC3533193 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2012.240721] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2012] [Accepted: 10/01/2012] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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This review considers the contributions to exercise hyperaemia of substances released into the interstitial fluid, with emphasis on whether they are endothelium dependent or O(2) dependent. The early phase of exercise hyperaemia is attributable to K(+) released from contracting muscle fibres and acting extraluminally on arterioles. Hyperpolarization of vascular smooth muscle and endothelial cells induced by K(+) may also facilitate the maintained phase, for example by facilitating conduction of dilator signals upstream. ATP is released into the interstitium from muscle fibres, at least in part through cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator-associated channels, following the fall in intracellular H(+). ATP is metabolized by ectonucleotidases to adenosine, which dilates arterioles via A(2A) receptors, in a nitric oxide-independent manner. Evidence is presented that the rise in arterial achieved by breathing 40% O(2) attenuates efflux of H(+) and lactate, thereby decreasing the contribution that adenosine makes to exercise hyperaemia; efflux of inorganic phosphate and its contribution may likewise be attenuated. Prostaglandins (PGs), PGE(2) and PGI(2), also accumulate in the interstitium during exercise, and breathing 40% O(2) abolished the contribution of PGs to exercise hyperaemia. This suggests that PGE(2) released from muscle fibres and PGI(2) released from capillaries and venular endothelium by a fall in their local act extraluminally to dilate arterioles. Although modest hyperoxia attenuates exercise hyperaemia by improving O(2) supply, limiting the release of O(2)-dependent adenosine and PGs, higher O(2) concentrations may have adverse effects. Evidence is presented that breathing 100% O(2) limits exercise hyperaemia by generating O(2)(-), which inactivates nitric oxide and decreases PG synthesis.
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- Janice M Marshall
- School of Clinical & Experimental Medicine, College of Medical & Dental Sciences, The Medical School, Vincent Drive, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK.
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Nazaré Nunes Alves MJ, Alves MJNN, dos Santos MR, Nobre TS, Martinez DG, Martinez DG, Pereira Barretto AC, Brum PC, Rondon MUPB, Middlekauff HR, Negrão CE. Mechanisms of blunted muscle vasodilation during peripheral chemoreceptor stimulation in heart failure patients. Hypertension 2012; 60:669-76. [PMID: 22802226 DOI: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.112.195776] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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We described recently that systemic hypoxia provokes vasoconstriction in heart failure (HF) patients. We hypothesized that either the exaggerated muscle sympathetic nerve activity and/or endothelial dysfunction mediate the blunted vasodilatation during hypoxia in HF patients. Twenty-seven HF patients and 23 age-matched controls were studied. Muscle sympathetic nerve activity was assessed by microneurography and forearm blood flow (FBF) by venous occlusion plethysmography. Peripheral chemoreflex control was evaluated through the inhaling of a hypoxic gas mixture (10% O(2) and 90% N(2)). Basal muscle sympathetic nerve activity was greater and basal FBF was lower in HF patients versus controls. During hypoxia, muscle sympathetic nerve activity responses were greater in HF patients, and forearm vasodilatation in HF was blunted versus controls. Phentolamine increased FBF responses in both groups, but the increase was lower in HF patients. Phentolamine and N(G)-monomethyl-l-arginine infusion did not change FBF responses in HF but markedly blunted the vasodilatation in controls. FBF responses to hypoxia in the presence of vitamin C were unchanged and remained lower in HF patients versus controls. In conclusion, muscle vasoconstriction in response to hypoxia in HF patients is attributed to exaggerated reflex sympathetic nerve activation and blunted endothelial function (NO activity). We were unable to identify a role for oxidative stress in these studies.
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Fordy GR, Marshall JM. Breathing 40% O2can attenuate postcontraction hyperaemia or muscle fatigue caused by static forearm contraction, depending on timing. Exp Physiol 2012; 97:362-74. [DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2011.060632] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Raffai G, Wang J, Roman RJ, Anjaiah S, Weinberg B, Falck JR, Lombard JH. Modulation by cytochrome P450-4A ω-hydroxylase enzymes of adrenergic vasoconstriction and response to reduced PO₂ in mesenteric resistance arteries of Dahl salt-sensitive rats. Microcirculation 2011; 17:525-35. [PMID: 21040118 DOI: 10.1111/j.1549-8719.2010.00053.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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OBJECTIVE This study evaluated the contribution of the 20-HETE/cytochrome P450-4A ω-hydroxylase (CYP4A) system to the early development of salt-induced vascular changes in Dahl salt-sensitive (SS) rats. METHODS CYP4A expression and 20-HETE production were evaluated and responses to norepinephrine, endothelin, and reduced PO₂ were determined by video microscopy in isolated mesenteric resistance arteries from SS rats fed high salt (HS; 4% NaCl) diet for three days vs. low salt (LS; 0.4% NaCl) controls. RESULTS CYP4A enzyme inhibition with dibromododecenyl methylsulfimide (DDMS) selectively reduced norepinephrine sensitivity and restored impaired vasodilation in response to reduced PO₂ in SS rats fed HS diet. In the presence of DDMS, vasodilatation to reduced PO₂ was eliminated by indomethacin and unaffected by l-NAME in rats fed LS diet, and eliminated by l-NAME and unaffected by indomethacin in rats fed HS diet. The 20-HETE agonist WIT003 restored norepinephrine sensitivity in DDMS-treated arteries of HS-fed rats. HS diet increased vascular 20-HETE production and CYP4A protein levels by ∼24% and ∼31%, respectively, although these differences were not significant. CONCLUSIONS These findings support the hypothesis that the 20-HETE/CYP4A system modulates vessel responses to norepinephrine and vascular relaxation to reduced PO₂ in mesenteric resistance arteries of SS rats fed HS diet.
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- Gábor Raffai
- Department of Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226, USA
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Coney AM, Marshall JM. Effects of maternal hypoxia on muscle vasodilatation evoked by acute systemic hypoxia in adult rat offspring: changed roles of adenosine and A1 receptors. J Physiol 2010; 588:5115-25. [PMID: 20962006 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2010.198275] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Suboptimal conditions in utero can have long-lasting effects including increased risk of cardiovascular disease in adult life. Such programming effects may be induced by chronic systemic hypoxia in utero (CHU). We have investigated how CHU affects cardiovascular responses evoked by acute systemic hypoxia in adult male offspring, recognising that adenosine contributes to hypoxia-induced muscle vasodilatation and bradycardia by acting on A(1) receptors in normal (N) rats. In the present study, dams were housed in a hypoxic chamber at 12% O(2) for the second half of gestation; offspring were born and reared in air until 9-10 weeks of age. Under anaesthesia, acute systemic hypoxia (breathing 8% O(2) for 5 min) evoked similar biphasic tachycardia/bradycardia, fall in arterial pressure and increase in femoral vascular conductance (FVC) in N and CHU rats (+2.0 vs. +2.7 conductance units respectively). However, in CHU rats, neither the non-selective adenosine receptor antagonist 8-sulphophenyltheopylline (8-SPT), nor the A(1) receptor antagonist 8-cyclopentyl-1,3-dipropylxanthine (DPCPX) affected the increase in FVC, but DPCPX attenuated the hypoxia-induced bradycardia. Further, in N and CHU rats, 5 min infusion of adenosine induced similar increases in FVC; in CHU rats, DPCPX reduced the adenosine-induced increase in FVC (by >50%) and accentuated the concomitant tachycardia. These results suggest that CHU rats have functional A(1) receptors in heart and vasculature, but the release and/or vasodilator influence of adenosine on the endothelium in acute hypoxia is attenuated and replaced by other dilator factors. Such changes from normal endothelial function may have implications for general cardiovascular regulation.
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- Andrew M Coney
- University of Birmingham, Physiology, The Medical School, Vincent Drive, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK.
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Kunert MP, Friesma J, Falck JR, Lombard JH. CYP450 4A inhibition attenuates O2 induced arteriolar constriction in chronic but not acute Goldblatt hypertension. Microvasc Res 2009; 78:442-6. [PMID: 19761780 DOI: 10.1016/j.mvr.2009.09.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2009] [Revised: 08/13/2009] [Accepted: 09/08/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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We explored the role of 20-hydroxy-5Z, 8Z, 11Z, 14Z-eicosatetraenoic acid (20-HETE) in oxygen-induced vasoconstriction in a normal renin form of hypertension [the 1 kidney-1 clip Goldblatt hypertensive rat (1K1C)] and a high renin form of hypertension [the 2 kidney-1 clip Goldblatt hypertensive rat (2K1C)]. A silver clip was placed around the left renal artery of adult Sprague-Dawley males. The right kidney was removed in the 1K1C group and left intact in the 2K1C group. Arteriolar responses to elevation of O(2) concentration in the superfusion solution from 0% O(2) to 21% O(2) were determined in the in situ cremaster muscle before and after inhibition of cytochrome P450 4A omega-hydroxylase (CYP450 4A) with N-methyl-sulfonyl-12, 12-dibromododec-11-enamide (DDMS). Arteriolar constriction to elevated PO(2) was enhanced in the chronic 1K1C but not the acute 1K1C or 2K1C. DDMS eliminated O(2)-induced arteriolar constriction in the 9-week 1K1C, but had no effect in the 2-week 1K1C, and only partially inhibited O(2)-induced constriction of arterioles in the 4-week 2K1C rat. These findings indicate that although the CYP4A/20-HETE system contributes to arteriolar constriction in response to elevated PO(2) in the established stage of 1K1C renovascular hypertension, physiological alterations in other mechanisms are the primary determinants of O(2)-induced constriction of arterioles in the early and developing stages of 1K1C and 2K1C hypertension.
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Reichmuth KJ, Dopp JM, Barczi SR, Skatrud JB, Wojdyla P, Hayes D, Morgan BJ. Impaired vascular regulation in patients with obstructive sleep apnea: effects of continuous positive airway pressure treatment. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2009; 180:1143-50. [PMID: 19745203 DOI: 10.1164/rccm.200903-0393oc] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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RATIONALE Impaired endothelium-dependent vasodilation has been documented in patients with sleep apnea. This impairment may result in blood flow dysregulation during apnea-induced fluctuations in arterial blood gases. OBJECTIVES To test the hypothesis that hypoxic and hypercapnic vasodilation in the forearm and cerebral circulation are impaired in patients with sleep apnea. METHODS We exposed 20 patients with moderate to severe sleep apnea and 20 control subjects, to isocapnic hypoxia and hyperoxic hypercapnia. A subset of 14 patients was restudied after treatment with continuous positive airway pressure. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS Cerebral flow velocity (transcranial Doppler), forearm blood flow (venous occlusion plethysmography), arterial pressure (automated sphygmomanometry), oxygen saturation (pulse oximetry), ventilation (pneumotachograph), and end-tidal oxygen and carbon dioxide tensions (expired gas analysis) were measured during three levels of hypoxia and two levels of hypercapnia. Cerebral vasodilator responses to hypoxia (-0.65 +/- 0.44 vs. -1.02 +/- 0.72 [mean +/- SD] units/% saturation; P = 0.03) and hypercapnia (2.01 +/- 0.88 vs. 2.57 +/- 0.89 units/mm Hg; P = 0.03) were smaller in patients versus control subjects. Hypoxic vasodilation in the forearm was also attenuated (-0.05 +/- 0.09 vs. -0.10 +/- 0.09 unit/% saturation; P = 0.04). Hypercapnia did not elicit forearm vasodilation in either group. Twelve weeks of continuous positive airway pressure treatment enhanced hypoxic vasodilation in the cerebral circulation (-0.83 +/- 0.32 vs. -0.46 +/- 0.29 units/% saturation; P = 0.01) and forearm (-0.19 +/- 0.15 vs. -0.02 +/- 0.08 units/% saturation; P = 0.003), and hypercapnic vasodilation in the brain showed a trend toward improvement (2.24 +/- 0.78 vs. 1.76 +/- 0.64 units/mm Hg; P = 0.06). CONCLUSIONS Vasodilator responses to chemical stimuli in the cerebral circulation and the forearm are impaired in many patients with obstructive sleep apnea. Some of these impairments can be improved with continuous positive airway pressure.
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- Kevin J Reichmuth
- Departments of Medicine, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Middleton Veterans Administration Hospital, Madison, WI, USA
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Sprague RS, Hanson MS, Achilleus D, Bowles EA, Stephenson AH, Sridharan M, Adderley S, Procknow J, Ellsworth ML. Rabbit erythrocytes release ATP and dilate skeletal muscle arterioles in the presence of reduced oxygen tension. Pharmacol Rep 2009; 61:183-90. [PMID: 19307706 DOI: 10.1016/s1734-1140(09)70020-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2008] [Revised: 01/22/2009] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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In skeletal muscle, oxygen (O(2)) delivery to appropriately meet metabolic need requires mechanisms for detection of the magnitude of O(2) demand and the regulation of O(2) delivery. Erythrocytes, when exposed to a decrease in O(2) tension, release both O(2) and the vasodilator adenosine triphosphate (ATP). The aims of this study were to establish that erythrocytes release ATP in response to reduced O(2) tension and determine if erythrocytes are necessary for the dilation of isolated skeletal muscle arterioles exposed to reduced extraluminal O(2) tension. Rabbit erythrocytes exposed to reduced O(2) tension in a tonometer (n = 5, pO(2) = 27 +/- 3, p < 0.01) released ATP in response to reduced O(2) tension. ATP release increased in proportion to the decrease in O(2) tension. The contribution of erythrocytes to the response of skeletal muscle arterioles to reduced extraluminal O(2) tension was determined using isolated hamster cheek pouch retractor muscle arterioles perfused with buffer (n = 11, mean diameter 52 +/- 3 mum) in the absence and presence of rabbit erythrocytes. Without erythrocytes, arterioles did not dilate when exposed to reduced extraluminal O(2) tension (pO(2) = 32 +/- 4 mmHg). In contrast, when rabbit erythrocytes were present in the perfusate (hematocrit 15%), the same decrease in O(2) tension resulted in a 20 +/- 4% dilation (p < 0.01). These results provide support for the hypothesis that erythrocytes, via their ability to release O(2) along with ATP in response to exposure to reduced O(2) tension, can participate in the matching of O(2) delivery with metabolic need in skeletal muscle.
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- Randy S Sprague
- Saint Louis University, School of Medicine, Department of Pharmacological & Physiological Science, Saint Louis, MO, USA.
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Frisbee JC, Hollander JM, Brock RW, Yu HG, Boegehold MA. Integration of skeletal muscle resistance arteriolar reactivity for perfusion responses in the metabolic syndrome. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2009; 296:R1771-82. [PMID: 19386988 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00096.2009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Previous study suggests that with evolution of the metabolic syndrome, patterns of arteriolar reactivity are profoundly altered and may constrain functional hyperemia. This study investigated interactions between parameters of vascular reactivity at two levels of resistance arterioles in obese Zucker rats (OZR), translating these observations into perfusion regulation for in situ skeletal muscle. Dilation of isolated and in situ resistance arterioles from OZR to acetylcholine, arachidonic acid (AA), and hypoxia (isolated arterioles only) were blunted vs. lean Zucker rats (LZR), although dilation to adenosine was intact. Increased adrenergic tone (phenylephrine) or intralumenal pressure (ILP) impaired dilation in both strains (OZR>LZR). Treatment of OZR arterioles with Tempol (superoxide dismutase mimetic) or SQ-29548 (prostaglandin H2/thromboxane A2 receptor antagonist) improved dilator reactivity under control conditions and with increased ILP, but had minimal effect with increased adrenergic tone. Arteriolar dilation to adenosine was well maintained in both strains under all conditions. For in situ cremasteric arterioles, muscle contraction-induced elevations in metabolic demand elicited arteriolar dilations and hyperemic responses that were blunted in OZR vs. LZR, although distal parallel arterioles were characterized by heterogeneous dilator and perfusion responses. alpha-Adrenoreceptor blockade improved outcomes at rest but had minimal effect with elevated metabolic demand. Treatment with Tempol or SQ-29548 had minimal impact at rest, but lessened distal arteriolar perfusion heterogeneity with increased metabolic demand. In blood-perfused gastrocnemius of OZR, perfusion was constrained primarily by adrenergic tone, while myogenic activation and endothelium-dependent dilation did not appear to contribute significantly to ischemia. These results of this novel, integrated approach suggest that adrenergic tone and metabolic dilation are robust determinants of bulk perfusion to skeletal muscle of OZR, while endothelial dysfunction may more strongly regulate perfusion distribution homogeneity via the impact of oxidant stress and AA metabolism.
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- Jefferson C Frisbee
- Center for Cardiovascular and Respiratory Sciences, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, PO Box 9105, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV 26505, USA.
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Goodwill AG, Stapleton PA, James ME, D'Audiffret AC, Frisbee JC. Increased arachidonic acid-induced thromboxane generation impairs skeletal muscle arteriolar dilation with genetic dyslipidemia. Microcirculation 2009; 15:621-31. [PMID: 18720229 DOI: 10.1080/10739680802308334] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [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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OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to determine if arachidonic acid (AA)-induced skeletal muscle arteriolar dilation is altered with hypercholesterolemia in ApoE and low-density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) gene deletion mice fed a normal diet. This study also determined contributors to altered AA-induced dilation between dyslipidemic mice and controls, C57/Bl/6J (C57). METHODS Gracilis muscle arterioles were isolated, with mechanical responses assessed following a challenge with AA under control conditions and after elements of AA metabolism pathways were inhibited. Conduit arteries from each strain were used to assess AA-induced production of PGI(2) and TxA(2). RESULTS Arterioles from ApoE and LDLR exhibited a blunted dilation to AA versus C57. While responses were cyclo-oxygenase-dependent in all strains, inhibition of thromboxane synthase or blockade of PGH(2)/TxA(2) receptors improved dilation in ApoE and LDLR only. AA-induced generation of PGI(2) was comparable across strains, although TxA(2) generation was increased in ApoE and LDLR. Arteriolar reactivity to PGI(2) and TxA(2) was comparable across strains. Treatment with TEMPOL improved dilation and reduced TxA(2) production with AA in ApoE and LDLR. CONCLUSIONS These results suggest that AA-induced arteriolar dilation is constrained in ApoE and LDLR via an increased production of TxA(2). While partially due to elevated oxidant stress, additional mechanisms contribute that are independent of acute alterations in oxidant tone.
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- Adam G Goodwill
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Division of Exercise Physiology, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia 26505, USA
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Wang J, Schmidt JR, Roman RJ, Anjaiah S, Falck JR, Lombard JH. Modulation of vascular O2 responses by cytochrome 450-4A omega-hydroxylase metabolites in Dahl salt-sensitive rats. Microcirculation 2009; 16:345-54. [PMID: 19225982 DOI: 10.1080/10739680802698007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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OBJECTIVE This study evaluated the role of the 20-HETE/cytochrome P450-4A omega-hydroxylase (CYP450-4A) system in microvascular regulation in the skeletal muscle circulation following short-term (three-day) exposure to a high-salt (HS) diet in Dahl salt-sensitive (SS) rats. METHODS The effects of inhibiting CYP450-4A on resting diameter, O(2)-induced constriction, and vasodilator responses to acetylcholine (ACh) and the nitric oxide (NO) donor, sodium nitroprusside (SNP), were evaluated in cremasteric arterioles of SS rats fed a low- (LS; 0.4% NaCl) or high-salt (HS; 4% NaCl) diet for three days. RESULTS The HS diet upregulated CYP450-4A mRNA expression and led to an enhanced constriction of arterioles in response to elevated PO(2) in SS rats, which could be blocked by inhibiting CYP450-4A enzymes with dibromododecenyl methylsulfimide (DDMS). DDMS also inhibited resting tone significantly in SS rats fed the HS, but not the LS, diet, despite similar resting diameters and active tone in the two groups. Arteriolar dilations in response to ACh and SNP were similar in SS rats fed the LS vs. the HS diet and were unaffected by DDMS. CONCLUSIONS These findings suggest that CYP450-4A enzymes contribute to resting tone and to an enhanced response to elevated PO(2) in arterioles of Dahl-SS rats fed the HS diet.
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- Jingli Wang
- Department of Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226 USA
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Leuenberger UA, Johnson D, Loomis J, Gray KS, MacLean DA. Venous but not skeletal muscle interstitial nitric oxide is increased during hypobaric hypoxia. Eur J Appl Physiol 2007; 102:457-61. [PMID: 17985154 DOI: 10.1007/s00421-007-0601-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/17/2007] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Systemic hypoxia leads to peripheral vasodilation that serves to counteract the decrease in peripheral oxygen (O(2)) delivery. Skeletal muscle vasodilation associated with hypoxia is due to release of vasodilator substances such as adenosine and/or nitric oxide (NO). We hypothesized that skeletal muscle may act as a source of NO during exposure to hypoxia. Therefore, we measured NO in forearm venous plasma and in skeletal muscle interstitial dialysate in seven healthy young men during exposure to simulated altitude of 2,438 and 4,877 m (20 min at each level) in a hypobaric chamber. O(2) saturation (mean +/- SEM) fell from 98.0 +/- 0.2% at ambient conditions to 91.0 +/- 0.4% at 2,438 m and to 73.2 +/- 4.4% at 4,877 m (P < 0.05). While blood pressure remained unchanged, heart rate increased in a graded fashion (P < 0.05). Plasma NO (chemiluminescence method) rose from 11.6 +/- 1.3 to 16.9 +/- 2.9 microM at 2,438 m (P < 0.05) but remained similar at 16.4 +/- 2.3 microM at 4,877 m (NS). In contrast, skeletal muscle microdialysate NO levels were lower than plasma NO (P < 0.01) and did not change during simulated altitude. Thus, hypoxia produced by simulated high altitude exposure leads to an increase in plasma but not skeletal muscle interstitial NO. These data support an important role of NO in the peripheral vascular responses to hypoxia. The differential responses of plasma vs. interstitial NO during hypoxia suggest an endothelial or intravascular source of NO.
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- Urs A Leuenberger
- Penn State Heart and Vascular Institute, H047, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, 500 University Drive, P.O. Box 850, Hershey, PA, 17033, USA.
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Zhao G, Adebiyi A, Xi Q, Jaggar JH. Hypoxia reduces KCa channel activity by inducing Ca2+ spark uncoupling in cerebral artery smooth muscle cells. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 2007; 292:C2122-8. [PMID: 17314264 PMCID: PMC2241735 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00629.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Arterial smooth muscle cell large-conductance Ca(2+)-activated potassium (K(Ca)) channels have been implicated in modulating hypoxic dilation of systemic arteries, although this is controversial. K(Ca) channel activity in arterial smooth muscle cells is controlled by localized intracellular Ca(2+) transients, termed Ca(2+) sparks, but hypoxic regulation of Ca(2+) sparks and K(Ca) channel activation by Ca(2+) sparks has not been investigated. We report here that in voltage-clamped (-40 mV) cerebral artery smooth muscle cells, a reduction in dissolved O(2) partial pressure from 150 to 15 mmHg reversibly decreased Ca(2+) spark-induced transient K(Ca) current frequency and amplitude to 61% and 76% of control, respectively. In contrast, hypoxia did not alter Ca(2+) spark frequency, amplitude, global intracellular Ca(2+) concentration, or sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+) load. Hypoxia reduced transient K(Ca) current frequency by decreasing the percentage of Ca(2+) sparks that activated a transient K(Ca) current from 89% to 63%. Hypoxia reduced transient K(Ca) current amplitude by attenuating the amplitude relationship between Ca(2+) sparks that remained coupled and the evoked transient K(Ca) currents. Consistent with these data, in inside-out patches at -40 mV hypoxia reduced K(Ca) channel apparent Ca(2+) sensitivity and increased the K(d) for Ca(2+) from approximately 17 to 32 microM, but did not alter single-channel amplitude. In summary, data indicate that hypoxia reduces K(Ca) channel apparent Ca(2+) sensitivity via a mechanism that is independent of cytosolic signaling messengers, and this leads to uncoupling of K(Ca) channels from Ca(2+) sparks. Transient K(Ca) current inhibition due to uncoupling would oppose hypoxic cerebrovascular dilation.
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- Guiling Zhao
- Dept. of Physiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163, USA
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Vascular Consequences of Intermittent Hypoxia. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2007; 618:69-84. [DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-75434-5_6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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Phillips SA, Lombard JH. Chronic At1 Receptor Blockade Alters the Mechanisms Mediating Hypoxic Dilation in Middle Cerebral Arteries. J Cardiovasc Pharmacol 2005; 46:706-12. [PMID: 16220079 DOI: 10.1097/01.fjc.0000184118.76188.8c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The purpose of this study was to determine whether chronic blockade of the angiotensin II (ANG II) AT1 receptor under normal physiological conditions impairs vascular relaxation mechanisms in isolated middle cerebral arteries (MCA). Male Sprague-Dawley rats on a standard diet were given losartan (1 mg/mL) in the drinking water or normal water ad libitum for 7 days. Vessel diameters were measured by television microscopy before and during exposure to various vasodilator agonists and reductions in PO2 from 140 mm Hg to 35-45 mm Hg. Dilations to acetylcholine (1 microM), the stable prostacyclin analogue iloprost (10 pg/mL), and the Gs protein activator cholera toxin (1 ng/mL) were completely eliminated in vessels from losartan-treated animals. However, middle cerebral arteries from control and losartan-treated rats still demonstrated significant dilations in response to reduced PO2. Hypoxic dilation of middle cerebral arteries from control rats was eliminated by indomethacin (1 microM) and unaffected by the NOS inhibitor L-NAME (100 microM) whereas dilation in response to reduced PO2 in middle cerebral arteries from losartan-treated rats was eliminated by L-NAME and unaffected by indomethacin. Middle cerebral arteries from control and losartan-treated animals exhibited similar dilations in response to the NO-donor sodium nitroprusside (1 microM). These data suggest that AT1 receptor activation is important in maintaining normal vascular relaxation mechanisms in cerebral resistance arteries during normal physiological conditions, and that AT1 receptor blockade causes a shift in the mechanisms of hypoxic dilation of middle cerebral arteries from cyclooxygenase metabolites to NO.
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- Shane A Phillips
- Department of Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
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Ray CJ, Marshall JM. Measurement of nitric oxide release evoked by systemic hypoxia and adenosine from rat skeletal muscle in vivo. J Physiol 2005; 568:967-78. [PMID: 16123106 PMCID: PMC1464173 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2005.094854] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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It is accepted that NO plays a role in hypoxic vasodilatation in several tissues. For rat hindlimb muscle there is evidence that during systemic hypoxia endogenously released adenosine acts on endothelial A1 receptors to evoke dilatation in a NO-dependent fashion, implying requirement for, or mediation by, NO. We tested in vivo whether systemic hypoxia and adenosine release NO from muscle. In anaesthetized rats, arterial blood pressure (ABP) and femoral blood flow (FBF) were recorded allowing computation of femoral vascular conductance (FVC). Blood samples taken from femoral artery and vein allowed electrochemical measurement of plasma [NO] after reduction of NO3- and NO2-. Systemic hypoxia and adenosine infusion for 5 min each, evoked an increase in FVC that was attenuated by the NO synthase (NOS) inhibitor l-NAME (Group 1, n = 8) and adenosine A1 receptor antagonist 8-cyclopentyl-1,3-dipropylxanthine (DPCPX, Group 2, n = 6). Concomitant systemic hypoxia and adenosine infusion evoked increases in venous-arterial [NO] difference ([NO](v-a)) from -1.4 +/- 0.85 to 6.6 +/- 1.6 and 2.3 +/- 0.78 to 8.4 +/- 1.8 nmol l(-1), respectively (mean +/- s.e.m), which were abolished by l-NAME (-0.72 +/- 0.90 to -0.87 +/- 0.74 and 0.72 +/- 0.85 to -0.97 +/- 1.1 nmol l(-1), respectively). DPCPX also abolished the hypoxia-evoked increase in [NO](v-a) (control -4.2 +/- 1.8 to 12.5 +/- 3.7 nmol l(-1), with DPCPX -0.63 +/- 2.6 to 3.3 +/- 2.9 nmol l(-1)) and decreased the adenosine-evoked increase in [NO](v-a) (control 1.1 +/- 1.5 to 24 +/- 14, with DPCPX -0.43 +/- 2.9 to 12 +/- 5.9 nmol l(-1)). These results allow the novel conclusion that the muscle vasodilatation of systemic hypoxia is partly mediated by adenosine acting at endothelial A1 receptors to stimulate synthesis and release of NO, which then induces dilatation.
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- Clare J Ray
- Department of Physiology, The Medical School, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK.
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Foster GE, McKenzie DC, Milsom WK, Sheel AW. Effects of two protocols of intermittent hypoxia on human ventilatory, cardiovascular and cerebral responses to hypoxia. J Physiol 2005; 567:689-99. [PMID: 15975977 PMCID: PMC1474187 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2005.091462] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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We determined the ventilatory, cardiovascular and cerebral tissue oxygen response to two protocols of normobaric, isocapnic, intermittent hypoxia. Subjects (n = 18, male) were randomly assigned to short-duration intermittent hypoxia (SDIH, 12% O2 separated by 5 min of normoxia for 1 h) or long-duration intermittent hypoxia (LDIH, 30 min of 12% O2). Both groups had 10 exposures over a 12 day period. The hypoxic ventilatory response (HVR) was measured before each daily intermittent hypoxia exposure on days 1, 3, 5, 8, 10 and 12. The HVR was measured again 3 and 5 days after the end of intermittent hypoxia. During all procedures, ventilation, blood pressure, heart rate, arterial oxyhaemoglobin saturation and cerebral tissue oxygen saturation were measured. The HVR increased throughout intermittent hypoxia exposure regardless of protocol, and returned to baseline by day 17 (day 1, 0.84 +/- 0.50; day 12, 1.20 +/- 1.01; day 17, 0.95 +/- 0.58 l min(-1) %S(aO2)(-1); P < 0.01). The change in systolic blood pressure sensitivity (r = +0.68; P < 0.05) and the change in diastolic blood pressure sensitivity (r = +0.73; P < 0.05) were related to the change in HVR, while the change in heart rate sensitivity was not (r = +0.32; NS). The change in cerebral tissue oxygen saturation sensitivity to hypoxia was less on day 12, and returned to baseline by day 17 (day 1, -0.51 +/- 0.13; day 12, -0.64 +/- 0.18; day 17, -0.51 +/- 0.13; P < 0.001). Acute exposure to SDIH increased mean arterial pressure (+5 mmHg; P < 0.01), but LDIH did not (P > 0.05). SDIH and LDIH had similar effects on the ventilatory and cardiovascular response to acute progressive hypoxia and hindered cerebral oxygenation. Our findings indicate that the vascular processes required to control blood flow and oxygen supply to cerebral tissue in a healthy human are hindered following exposure to 12 days of isocapnic intermittent hypoxia.
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- Glen E Foster
- School of Human Kinetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Earley S, Walker BR. Increased nitric oxide production following chronic hypoxia contributes to attenuated systemic vasoconstriction. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2003; 284:H1655-61. [PMID: 12511430 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00964.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Attenuated vasoconstrictor reactivity following chronic hypoxia (CH) is associated with endothelium-dependent vascular smooth muscle (VSM) cell hyperpolarization and diminished intracellular [Ca(2+)]. We tested the hypothesis that increased production of nitric oxide (NO) after CH contributes to blunted vasoconstrictor responsiveness. We found that basal NO production of mesenteric arteries from CH rats (barometric pressure = 380 Torr; 48 h) was greater than that of controls (barometric pressure = 630 Torr). In addition, studies employing pressurized mesenteric arteries (100-200 microM ID) abluminally loaded with the Ca(2+) indicator fura 2-AM demonstrated that although NO synthase (NOS) inhibition normalized agonist-induced vasoconstrictor responses between groups, VSM cell [Ca(2+)] in vessels from CH rats remained diminished compared with controls. To determine whether elevated NO production following CH results from increased NOS protein levels, we performed Western blots for NOS isoforms by using mesenteric arteries from control and CH rats. Endothelial NOS levels did not differ between groups, and other NOS isoforms were not detected in these samples. Selective endothelial loading of fura 2-AM was employed to test the hypothesis that elevated endothelial cell [Ca(2+)] following CH accounts for enhanced NOS activity. These experiments demonstrated greater endothelial cell [Ca(2+)] in mesenteric arteries isolated from CH rats compared with controls. We conclude that enhanced production of NO resulting from elevated endothelial cell [Ca(2+)] contributes to attenuated reactivity following CH by decreasing VSM cell Ca(2+) sensitivity.
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- Scott Earley
- Vascular Physiology Group, Department of Cell Biology & Physiology, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA.
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