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Xu S, Xu X, Zhang Z, Yan L, Zhang L, Du L. The role of RNA m 6A methylation in the regulation of postnatal hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension. Respir Res 2021; 22:121. [PMID: 33902609 PMCID: PMC8074209 DOI: 10.1186/s12931-021-01728-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2020] [Accepted: 04/19/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a complex pulmonary vascular disease characterized by an imbalance in vasoconstrictor/vasodilator signaling within the pulmonary vasculature. Recent evidence suggests that exposure to hypoxia early in life can cause alterations in the pulmonary vasculature and lead to the development of PH. However, the long-term impact of postnatal hypoxia on lung development and pulmonary function remains unknown. N6-methyladenosine (m6A) regulates gene expression and governs many important biological processes. However, the function of m6A in the development of PH remains poorly characterized. Thus, the purpose of this investigation was to test the two-fold hypothesis that (1) postnatal exposure to hypoxia would alter lung development leading to PH in adult rats, and (2) m6A modification would change in rats exposed to hypoxia, suggesting it plays a role in the development of PH. METHODS Twenty-four male Sprague-Dawley rats were exposed to a hypoxic environment (FiO2: 12%) within 24 h after birth for 2 weeks. PH was defined as an increased right ventricular pressure (RVP) and pathologic changes of pulmonary vasculature measured by α-SMA immunohistochemical staining. Methylated RNA immunoprecipitation sequencing (MeRIP-seq) was performed to analyze m6A modification changes in lung tissue in 2- and 9-week-old rats that were exposed to postnatal hypoxia. RESULTS Mean pulmonary arterial pressure, lung/body weight ratio, and the Fulton index was significantly greater in rats exposed to hypoxia when compared to control and the difference persisted into adulthood. m6A methyltransferase and demethylase proteins were significantly downregulated in postnatal hypoxia-induced PH. Distinct m6A modification peak-related genes differed between the two groups, and these genes were associated with lung development. CONCLUSIONS Our results indicate postnatal hypoxia can cause PH, which can persist into adulthood. The development and persistence of PH may be because of the continuous low expression of methyltransferase like 3 affecting the m6A level of PH-related genes. Our findings provide new insights into the impact of postnatal hypoxia and the role of m6A in the development of pulmonary vascular pathophysiology.
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- Shanshan Xu
- Department of Neonatology, The Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310052, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Rheumatology, The Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310052, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Neonatology, The Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310052, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Neonatology, The Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310052, People's Republic of China
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- Fuzhou Children Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, 350005, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Neonatology, The Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310052, People's Republic of China.
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Sheak JR, Yan S, Weise-Cross L, Ahmadian R, Walker BR, Jernigan NL, Resta TC. PKCβ and reactive oxygen species mediate enhanced pulmonary vasoconstrictor reactivity following chronic hypoxia in neonatal rats. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2020; 318:H470-H483. [PMID: 31922892 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00629.2019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Reactive oxygen species (ROS), mitochondrial dysfunction, and excessive vasoconstriction are important contributors to chronic hypoxia (CH)-induced neonatal pulmonary hypertension. On the basis of evidence that PKCβ and mitochondrial oxidative stress are involved in several cardiovascular and metabolic disorders, we hypothesized that PKCβ and mitochondrial ROS (mitoROS) signaling contribute to enhanced pulmonary vasoconstriction in neonatal rats exposed to CH. To test this hypothesis, we examined effects of the PKCβ inhibitor LY-333,531, the ROS scavenger 1-oxyl-2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-hydroxypiperidine (TEMPOL), and the mitochondrial antioxidants mitoquinone mesylate (MitoQ) and (2-(2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidin-1-oxyl-4-ylamino)-2-oxoethyl)triphenylphosphonium chloride (MitoTEMPO) on vasoconstrictor responses in saline-perfused lungs (in situ) or pressurized pulmonary arteries from 2-wk-old control and CH (12-day exposure, 0.5 atm) rats. Lungs from CH rats exhibited greater basal tone and vasoconstrictor sensitivity to 9,11-dideoxy-9α,11α-methanoepoxy prostaglandin F2α (U-46619). LY-333,531 and TEMPOL attenuated these effects of CH, while having no effect in lungs from control animals. Basal tone was similarly elevated in isolated pulmonary arteries from neonatal CH rats compared with control rats, which was inhibited by both LY-333,531 and mitochondria-targeted antioxidants. Additional experiments assessing mitoROS generation with the mitochondria-targeted ROS indicator MitoSOX revealed that a PKCβ-mitochondrial oxidant signaling pathway can be pharmacologically stimulated by the PKC activator phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate in primary cultures of pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells (PASMCs) from control neonates. Finally, we found that neonatal CH increased mitochondrially localized PKCβ in pulmonary arteries as assessed by Western blotting of subcellular fractions. We conclude that PKCβ activation leads to mitoROS production in PASMCs from neonatal rats. Furthermore, this signaling axis may account for enhanced pulmonary vasoconstrictor sensitivity following CH exposure.NEW & NOTEWORTHY This research demonstrates a novel contribution of PKCβ and mitochondrial reactive oxygen species signaling to increased pulmonary vasoconstrictor reactivity in chronically hypoxic neonates. The results provide a potential mechanism by which chronic hypoxia increases both basal and agonist-induced pulmonary arterial smooth muscle tone, which may contribute to neonatal pulmonary hypertension.
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- Joshua R Sheak
- Vascular Physiology Group, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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- Vascular Physiology Group, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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- Vascular Physiology Group, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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- Vascular Physiology Group, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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- Vascular Physiology Group, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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- Vascular Physiology Group, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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- Vascular Physiology Group, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Sheak JR, Weise-Cross L, deKay RJ, Walker BR, Jernigan NL, Resta TC. Enhanced NO-dependent pulmonary vasodilation limits increased vasoconstrictor sensitivity in neonatal chronic hypoxia. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2017; 313:H828-H838. [PMID: 28733445 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00123.2017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2017] [Revised: 07/17/2017] [Accepted: 07/17/2017] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Augmented vasoconstrictor reactivity is thought to play an important role in the development of chronic hypoxia (CH)-induced neonatal pulmonary hypertension. However, whether this response to CH results from pulmonary endothelial dysfunction and reduced nitric oxide (NO)-mediated vasodilation is not well understood. We hypothesized that neonatal CH enhances basal tone and pulmonary vasoconstrictor sensitivity by limiting NO-dependent pulmonary vasodilation. To test this hypothesis, we assessed the effects of the NO synthase (NOS) inhibitor Nω-nitro-l-arginine (l-NNA) on baseline pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) and vasoconstrictor sensitivity to the thromboxane mimetic U-46619 in saline-perfused lungs (in situ) from 2-wk-old control and CH (12-day exposure, 0.5 atm) Sprague-Dawley rats. Basal tone was defined as that reversed by exogenous NO (spermine NONOate). CH neonates displayed elevated right ventricular systolic pressure (in vivo) and right ventricular hypertrophy, indicative of pulmonary hypertension. Perfused lungs from CH rats demonstrated greater baseline PVR, basal tone, and U-46619-mediated vasoconstriction compared with control rats in the absence of l-NNA. l-NNA markedly increased baseline PVR and reactivity to U-46619 in lungs from CH neonates, further augmenting vasoconstrictor sensitivity compared with control lungs. Exposure to CH also enhanced NO-dependent vasodilation to arginine vasopressin, pulmonary expression of NOS III [endothelial NOS (eNOS)], and eNOS phosphorylation at activation residue Ser1177 However, CH did not alter lung nitrotyrosine levels, a posttranslational modification reflecting [Formula: see text] scavenging of NO. We conclude that, in contrast to our hypothesis, enhanced basal tone and agonist-induced vasoconstriction after neonatal CH is limited by increased NO-dependent pulmonary vasodilation resulting from greater eNOS expression and phosphorylation at activation residue Ser1177NEW & NOTEWORTHY This research is the first to demonstrate enhanced nitric oxide-dependent vasodilation that limits increased vasoconstrictor reactivity in neonatal pulmonary hypertension. These results suggest that augmented vasoconstriction in this setting reflects changes in smooth muscle reactivity rather than a reduction in nitric oxide-dependent pulmonary vasodilation.
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- Joshua R Sheak
- Vascular Physiology Group, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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- Vascular Physiology Group, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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- Vascular Physiology Group, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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- Vascular Physiology Group, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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- Vascular Physiology Group, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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- Vascular Physiology Group, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Hypoxic pulmonary hypertension of the newborn is characterized by elevated pulmonary vascular resistance and pressure due to vascular remodeling and increased vessel tension secondary to chronic hypoxia during the fetal and newborn period. In comparison to the adult, the pulmonary vasculature of the fetus and the newborn undergoes tremendous developmental changes that increase susceptibility to a hypoxic insult. Substantial evidence indicates that chronic hypoxia alters the production and responsiveness of various vasoactive agents such as endothelium-derived nitric oxide, endothelin-1, prostanoids, platelet-activating factor, and reactive oxygen species, resulting in sustained vasoconstriction and vascular remodeling. These changes occur in most cell types within the vascular wall, particularly endothelial and smooth muscle cells. At the cellular level, suppressed nitric oxide-cGMP signaling and augmented RhoA-Rho kinase signaling appear to be critical to the development of hypoxic pulmonary hypertension of the newborn.
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- Yuansheng Gao
- Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Peking University, Health Science Center, Beijing, China
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Gentry PR, Haber LT, McDonald TB, Zhao Q, Covington T, Nance P, Clewell III HJ, Lipscomb JC, Barton HA. Data for Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic Modeling in Neonatal Animals: Physiological Parameters in Mice and Sprague-Dawley Rats. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011. [DOI: 10.3109/15417060490970430] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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- Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment, Cincinnati, OH
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- Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment, Cincinnati, OH
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- Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment, Cincinnati, OH
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Bierer R, Nitta CH, Friedman J, Codianni S, de Frutos S, Dominguez-Bautista JA, Howard TA, Resta TC, Bosc LVG. NFATc3 is required for chronic hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension in adult and neonatal mice. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 2011; 301:L872-80. [PMID: 21908592 DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.00405.2010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Pulmonary hypertension occurs with prolonged exposure to chronic hypoxia in both adults and neonates. The Ca(2+)-dependent transcription factor, nuclear factor of activated T cells isoform c3 (NFATc3), has been implicated in chronic hypoxia-induced pulmonary arterial remodeling in adult mice. Therefore, we hypothesized that NFATc3 is required for chronic hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension in adult and neonatal mice. The aim of this study was to determine whether 1) NFATc3 mediates chronic hypoxia-induced increases in right ventricular systolic pressure in adult mice; 2) NFATc3 is activated in neonatal mice exposed to chronic hypoxia; and 3) NFATc3 is involved in chronic hypoxia-induced right ventricular hypertrophy and pulmonary vascular remodeling in neonatal mice. Adult mice were exposed to hypobaric hypoxia for 2, 7, and 21 days. Neonatal mouse pups were exposed for 7 days to hypobaric chronic hypoxia within 2 days after delivery. Hypoxia-induced increases in right ventricular systolic pressure were absent in NFATc3 knockout adult mice. In neonatal mice, chronic hypoxia caused NFAT activation in whole lung and nuclear accumulation of NFATc3 in both pulmonary vascular smooth muscle and endothelial cells. In addition, heterozygous NFATc3 neonates showed less right ventricular hypertrophy and pulmonary artery wall thickness in response to chronic hypoxia than did wild-type neonates. Our results suggest that NFATc3 mediates pulmonary hypertension and vascular remodeling in both adult and neonatal mice.
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- R Bierer
- Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 87131, USA
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Jin Y, Calvert TJ, Chen B, Chicoine LG, Joshi M, Bauer JA, Liu Y, Nelin LD. Mice deficient in Mkp-1 develop more severe pulmonary hypertension and greater lung protein levels of arginase in response to chronic hypoxia. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2010; 298:H1518-28. [PMID: 20173047 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00813.2009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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The mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinases are involved in cellular responses to many stimuli, including hypoxia. MAP kinase signaling is regulated by a family of phosphatases that include MAP kinase phosphatase-1 (MKP-1). We hypothesized that mice lacking the Mkp-1 gene would have exaggerated chronic hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension. Wild-type (WT) and Mkp-1(-/-) mice were exposed to either 4 wk of normoxia or hypobaric hypoxia. Following chronic hypoxia, both genotypes demonstrated elevated right ventricular pressures, right ventricular hypertrophy as demonstrated by the ratio of the right ventricle to the left ventricle plus septum weights [RV(LV + S)], and greater vascular remodeling. However, the right ventricular systolic pressures, the RV/(LV + S), and the medial wall thickness of 100- to 300-microm vessels was significantly greater in the Mkp-1(-/-) mice than in the WT mice following 4 wk of hypobaric hypoxia. Chronic hypoxic exposure caused no detectable change in eNOS protein levels in the lungs in either genotype; however, Mkp-1(-/-) mice had lower levels of eNOS protein and lower lung NO production than did WT mice. No iNOS protein was detected in the lungs by Western blotting in any condition in either genotype. Both arginase I and arginase II protein levels were greater in the lungs of hypoxic Mkp-1(-/-) mice than those in hypoxic WT mice. Lung levels of proliferating cell nuclear antigen were greater in hypoxic Mkp-1(-/-) than in hypoxic WT mice. These data are consistent with the concept that MKP-1 acts to restrain hypoxia-induced arginase expression and thereby reduces vascular remodeling and the severity of pulmonary hypertension.
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- Yi Jin
- The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, 700 Children's Drive, Columbus, OH 43205, USA
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Hoehn T, Stiller B, McPhaden AR, Wadsworth RM. Nitric oxide synthases in infants and children with pulmonary hypertension and congenital heart disease. Respir Res 2009; 10:110. [PMID: 19912632 PMCID: PMC2780406 DOI: 10.1186/1465-9921-10-110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2009] [Accepted: 11/13/2009] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Rationale Nitric oxide is an important regulator of vascular tone in the pulmonary circulation. Surgical correction of congenital heart disease limits pulmonary hypertension to a brief period. Objectives The study has measured expression of endothelial (eNOS), inducible (iNOS), and neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) in the lungs from biopsies of infants with pulmonary hypertension secondary to cardiac abnormalities (n = 26), compared to a control group who did not have pulmonary or cardiac disease (n = 8). Methods eNOS, iNOS and nNOS were identified by immunohistochemistry and quantified in specific cell types. Measurements and main results Significant increases of eNOS and iNOS staining were found in pulmonary vascular endothelial cells of patients with congenital heart disease compared to control infants. These changes were confined to endothelial cells and not present in other cell types. Patients who strongly expressed eNOS also had strong expression of iNOS. Conclusion Upregulation of eNOS and iNOS occurs at an early stage of pulmonary hypertension, and may be a compensatory mechanism limiting the rise in pulmonary artery pressure.
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- Thomas Hoehn
- Neonatology and Pediatric Intensive Care Medicine, Department of General Pediatrics, Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf, Germany.
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Monau TR, Vargas VE, King N, Yellon SM, Myers DA, Ducsay CA. Long-term hypoxia increases endothelial nitric oxide synthase expression in the ovine fetal adrenal. Reprod Sci 2009; 16:865-74. [PMID: 19525401 DOI: 10.1177/1933719109336678] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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This study was designed to test the hypothesis that fetal adrenal nitric oxide synthase (NOS) is elevated in response to long-term hypoxia (LTH). Pregnant ewes were maintained at high altitude (3820 m) for approximately the last 100 days of gestation. Between days 138 and 141 of gestation, adrenal glands were collected from LTH fetuses and age-matched normoxic controls. Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) and Western analysis were used to quantify NOS expression, and NOS distribution was examined by immunohistochemistry and double-staining immunofluorescence for endothelial NOS (eNOS) and 17alpha-hydroxylase (CYP17). Neuronal NOS (nNOS) was expressed at very low levels and with no differences between groups. Expression of eNOS was significantly greater in the LTH group compared with control. Neuronal NOS was distributed throughout the cortex while the greatest density of eNOS was observed in the zona fasciculata/reticularis area and eNOS co-localized with CYP17. We conclude that LTH enhances eNOS expression in the inner adrenal cortex which may play a role in regulation of cortisol biosynthesis in the LTH fetus.
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- Tshepo R Monau
- Center for Perinatal Biology, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Loma Linda, California 92350, USA
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Chicoine LG, Paffett ML, Girton MR, Metropoulus MJ, Joshi MS, Bauer JA, Nelin LD, Resta TC, Walker BR. Maturational changes in the regulation of pulmonary vascular tone by nitric oxide in neonatal rats. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 2007; 293:L1261-70. [PMID: 17827249 DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.00235.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Nitric oxide (NO) is an important regulator of vasomotor tone in the pulmonary circulation. We tested the hypothesis that the role NO plays in regulating vascular tone changes during early postnatal development. Isolated, perfused lungs from 7- and 14-day-old Sprague-Dawley rats were studied. Baseline total pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) was not different between age groups. The addition of KCl to the perfusate caused a concentration-dependent increase in PVR that did not differ between age groups. However, the nitric oxide synthase (NOS) inhibitor N(omega)-nitro-L-arginine augmented the K(+)-induced increase in PVR in both groups, and the effect was greater in lungs from 14-day-old rats vs. 7-day-old rats. Lung levels of total endothelial, inducible, and neuronal NOS proteins were not different between groups; however, the production rate of exhaled NO was greater in lungs from 14-day-old rats compared with those of 7-day-old rats. Vasodilation to 0.1 microM of the NO donor spermine NONOate was greater in 14-day lungs than in 7-day lungs, and lung levels of both soluble guanylyl cyclase and cGMP were greater at 14 days than at 7 days. Vasodilation to 100 microM of the cGMP analog 8-(4-chlorophenylthio)guanosine-3',5'-cyclic monophosphate was greater in 7-day lungs than in 14-day lungs. Our results demonstrate that the pulmonary vascular bed depends more on NO production to modulate vascular tone at 14 days than at 7 days of age. The observed differences in NO sensitivity may be due to maturational increases in soluble guanylyl cyclase protein levels.
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- Louis G Chicoine
- Center for Gene Therapy, Columbus Children's Research Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, Columbus, OH 43205, USA.
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Endothelial nitric oxide synthase in human intestine resected for necrotizing enterocolitis. J Pediatr 2007; 150:40-5. [PMID: 17188611 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2006.09.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2006] [Revised: 07/18/2006] [Accepted: 09/01/2006] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To determine the expression and function of endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) in submucosal arterioles harvested from human intestine resected for necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) or congenital bowel disease. STUDY DESIGN eNOS expression was determined by using immunohistochemistry. The arteriolar diameter was measured in vitro at pressures of 10 to 40 mm Hg and also in response to the eNOS agonist acetylcholine (ACh), the exogenous nitric oxide (NO) donor S-nitroso-N-acetylpenicillamine, and the smooth muscle relaxant papaverine. Arteriolar release of NO in response to ACh was determined with a Sievers NOAnalyzer. Hemodynamics were also determined at flow rates of 50 and 100 microL/min. RESULTS eNOS was present in microvessels from both groups, but NEC arterioles failed to demonstrate physiological evidence of eNOS function: they constricted in response to pressure, failed to dilate or generate NO in response to ACh, and failed to dilate in response to flow. However, they dilated in response to exogenous NO and papaverine, indicating functional vascular smooth muscle and vasodilator reserve. CONCLUSION eNOS-derived NO, a vasodilator in the newborn intestine, did not contribute to vasoregulation in arterioles harvested from intestine resected for NEC. These vessels were constricted; lack of eNOS-derived NO may contribute to this vasoconstriction.
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Xing F, Jiang Y, Liu J, Zhao K, Mo Y, Qin Q, Wang J, Ouyang J, Zeng Y. Role of AP1 element in the activation of human eNOS promoter by lysophosphatidylcholine. J Cell Biochem 2006; 98:872-84. [PMID: 16453281 DOI: 10.1002/jcb.20739] [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: 11/12/2022]
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Human endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) plays a crucial role in maintaining blood pressure homeostasis and vascular integrity. It, therefore, is very essential to elucidate the regulation of it. In the current study, a red fluorescent protein (RFP) reporter system containing human eNOS promoter was first constructed, being characteristics of real time morphologic and quantitative analysis for the same sample. It was observed by DNA sequence deletion that 68% of the basal activity of the promoter was controlled by the region from -1 to -166 bp, and 32% of it was dependent on the region from -1,033 to -1,600 bp. The mutation of SSRE element (-999 to -994 bp) and wild-type SSRE decoy oligodeoxynucleotides (ODN) did not alter the basal activity and the stimulating activity by lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC). The mutation of upstream AP1 element (-1,530 to -1,524 bp) did not affect the basal activity, but resulted in near 30% reduction in the stimulating activity by LPC. Moreover, wild-type AP1 decoy ODN also remarkably attenuated it. It was proved by EMSA analysis that LPC indeed enhanced the activity of AP1 transcriptional factor binding to AP1 element. However, the role of AP1 was dependent on the presence of SP1, which was proved by the combining mutation of AP1 with SP1. The mutation of downstream AP1 element (-662 to -656 bp) had no influence on the basal and stimulating activities by LPC. These results strongly suggest that the main functional region of the promoter is from -1 bp to -166 bp, that the upstream AP1 participates in the activation of the promoter by LPC on the premise of the presence of SP1, and that the downstream AP1 and SSRE do not involve the basal and stimulating activity by LPC.
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- Feiyue Xing
- Department of Biochemistry, National Specialized Laboratory and the Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, People's Republic of China.
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Deruelle P, Balasubramaniam V, Kunig AM, Seedorf GJ, Markham NE, Abman SH. BAY 41-2272, a direct activator of soluble guanylate cyclase, reduces right ventricular hypertrophy and prevents pulmonary vascular remodeling during chronic hypoxia in neonatal rats. Neonatology 2006; 90:135-44. [PMID: 16582538 DOI: 10.1159/000092518] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2005] [Accepted: 12/19/2005] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Exposure to hypoxia during the first weeks of life in newborn rats decreases vascular growth and alveolarization and causes pulmonary hypertension (PH). BAY 41-2272 is a novel direct activator of soluble guanylate cyclase independent of nitric oxide, effective as an acute pulmonary vasodilator in an animal model of persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn, but whether prolonged BAY 41-2272 therapy is effective in the setting of chronic PH is unknown. We hypothesize that BAY 41-2272 would prevent PH induced by chronic exposure to neonatal hypoxia. At 2 days of age, newborn rats were randomly exposed to hypoxia (FiO2, 0.12) or room air, and received daily intramuscular treatment with BAY 41-2272 (1 mg/kg) or saline. After 2 weeks, rats were killed for assessment of right ventricular hypertrophy (RVH), wall thickness of small pulmonary arteries, vessels density, radial alveolar counts and mean linear intercepts. In comparison with control, hypoxia increased RVH and artery wall thickness, reduced vessels density, decreased radial alveolar counts and increased mean linear intercepts. In comparison with hypoxic controls, prolonged BAY 41-2272 treatment during chronic hypoxia reduced RVH (0.67 +/- 0.03 vs. 0.52 +/- 0.05; p < 0.05), and attenuated artery wall thickness (48.2 +/- 2.8% vs. 35.7 +/- 4.1 microm; p < 0.01). However, BAY 41-2272 did not change vessels density, radial alveolar counts or mean linear intercepts. We conclude that BAY 41-2272 prevents the vascular structural effects of PH and reduces RVH but does not protect from hypoxia-induced inhibition of alveolarization and vessel growth. We speculate that BAY 41-2272 may provide a new therapy for chronic PH.
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- Philippe Deruelle
- Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Heart Lung Center, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, Colo., USA.
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López-Ramos JC, Martínez-Romero R, Molina F, Cañuelo A, Martínez-Lara E, Siles E, Peinado MA. Evidence of a decrease in nitric oxide-storage molecules following acute hypoxia and/or hypobaria, by means of chemiluminescence analysis. Nitric Oxide 2005; 13:62-7. [PMID: 15970446 DOI: 10.1016/j.niox.2005.05.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2005] [Revised: 04/28/2005] [Accepted: 05/07/2005] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Nitrate, nitrite, and other nitroso compounds (NOxs) had been proposed as possible nitric oxide (NO) storage molecules. The present work examines, by means of chemiluminescence analysis, changes in NOx serum levels in rats 1 h before and 24, 48, and 72 h after exposure to acute hypobaric hypoxia (HH; barometric pressure [P(B)] 225 mmHg, oxygen partial pressure [PO2] 48 mmHg), normobaric hypoxia (NH; P(B) 716 mmHg [Jaén city], PO2 48 mmHg), hypobaric normoxia (HN; P(B) 225 mmHg, PO2 150 mmHg), and normobaric normoxia (NN; P(B) 716 mmHg, PO2 150 mmHg) the latter as a control group. Results show a decrease in NOx levels, which reached significance 24 h after exposure in HH animals, 4 h after exposure in the HN and NH groups, and persisted after 48 h of exposure in the HN group. NOx determinations were also performed in brain (cerebral cortex, hippocampus, decorticated brain [basal ganglia-brainstem] and cerebellum), liver, kidney, lung, and heart homogenates, 72 h after the experiment, to detect persistent effects when serum NOx levels had returned to basal values. Only in cerebellum (HN group) and hippocampus (HN and NH groups) were NOx levels significantly lower than in controls. We conclude that not only acute hypobaric hypoxia but also either hypobaria or hypoxia alone induce changes in NOx serum levels. Moreover, all three episodes involve a decrease in NOxs, greater and longer-lasting in hypoxia alone than in hypobaria and hypoxia together. The exhaustion of these NO-storage molecules could be critical when, as during a hypoxic episode, the L-arginine/NOS pathway is impaired.
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- J C López-Ramos
- Department of Experimental Biology, University of Jaén, Paraje Las Lagunillas s/n, 23071 Jaén, Spain
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Fike CD, Zhang Y, Kaplowitz MR. Thromboxane inhibition reduces an early stage of chronic hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension in piglets. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2005; 99:670-6. [PMID: 15802364 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.01337.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The pulmonary vasoconstrictor, thromboxane, may contribute to the development of pulmonary hypertension. Our objective was to determine whether a combined thromboxane synthase inhibitor-receptor antagonist, terbogrel, prevents pulmonary hypertension and the development of aberrant pulmonary arterial responses in newborn piglets exposed to 3 days of hypoxia. Piglets were maintained in room air (control) or 11% O(2) (hypoxic) for 3 days. Some hypoxic piglets received terbogrel (10 mg/kg po bid). Pulmonary arterial pressure, pulmonary wedge pressure, and cardiac output were measured in anesthetized animals. A cannulated artery technique was used to measure responses to acetylcholine. Pulmonary vascular resistance for terbogrel-treated hypoxic piglets was almost one-half the value of untreated hypoxic piglets but remained greater than values for control piglets. Dilation to acetylcholine in preconstricted pulmonary arteries was greater for terbogrel-treated hypoxic than for untreated hypoxic piglets, but it was less for pulmonary arteries from both groups of hypoxic piglets than for control piglets. Terbogrel may ameliorate pulmonary artery dysfunction and attenuate the development of chronic hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension in newborns.
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- Candice D Fike
- Dept. of Pediatrics, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Blvd., Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA.
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Villamor E, Kessels CGA, Ruijtenbeek K, van Suylen RJ, Belik J, de Mey JGR, Blanco CE. Chronic in ovo hypoxia decreases pulmonary arterial contractile reactivity and induces biventricular cardiac enlargement in the chicken embryo. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2004; 287:R642-51. [PMID: 15117730 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00611.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Although chronic prenatal hypoxia is considered a major cause of persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn, experimental studies have failed to consistently find pulmonary hypertensive changes after chronic intrauterine hypoxia. We hypothesized that chronic prenatal hypoxia induces changes in the pulmonary vasculature of the chicken embryo. We analyzed pulmonary arterial reactivity and structure and heart morphology of chicken embryos maintained from days 6 to 19 of the 21-day incubation period under normoxic (21% O2) or hypoxic (15% O2) conditions. Hypoxia increased mortality (0.46 vs. 0.14; P < 0.01) and reduced the body mass of the surviving 19-day embryos (22.4 ± 0.5 vs. 26.6 ± 0.7 g; P < 0.01). A decrease in the response of the pulmonary artery to KCl was observed in the 19-day hypoxic embryos. The contractile responses to endothelin-1, the thromboxane A2 mimetic U-46619, norepinephrine, and electrical-field stimulation were also reduced in a proportion similar to that observed for KCl-induced contractions. In contrast, no hypoxia-induced decrease of response to vasoconstrictors was observed in externally pipped 21-day embryos (incubated under normoxia for the last 2 days). Relaxations induced by ACh, sodium nitroprusside, or forskolin were unaffected by chronic hypoxia in the pulmonary artery, but femoral artery segments of 19-day hypoxic embryos were significantly less sensitive to ACh than arteries of control embryos [pD2 (= −log EC50): 6.51 ± 0.1 vs. 7.05 ± 0.1, P < 0.01]. Pulmonary vessel density, percent wall area, and periarterial sympathetic nerve density were not different between control and hypoxic embryos. In contrast, hypoxic hearts showed an increase in right and left ventricular wall area and thickness. We conclude that, in the chicken embryo, chronic moderate hypoxia during incubation transiently reduced pulmonary arterial contractile reactivity, impaired endothelium-dependent relaxation of femoral but not pulmonary arteries, and induced biventricular cardiac hypertrophy.
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- Eduardo Villamor
- Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital Maastricht, P. Debyelaan 25, P.O. Box 5800, 6202 AZ Maastricht, The Netherlands.
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Chicoine LG, Tzeng E, Bryan R, Saenz S, Paffett ML, Jones J, Lyons CR, Resta TC, Nelin LD, Walker BR. Intratracheal adenoviral-mediated delivery of iNOS decreases pulmonary vasoconstrictor responses in rats. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2004; 97:1814-22. [PMID: 15258125 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00193.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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We hypothesized that adenovirus-mediated inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) gene transduction of the lung would result in time-dependent iNOS overexpression and attenuate the vascular constrictor responses to a thromboxane mimetic, U-46619. Rats were treated via the trachea with surfactant alone (sham), surfactant containing an adenoviral construct with a cytomegalovirus promoter-regulated human iNOS gene (Adeno-iNOS), or an adenoviral construct without a gene insert (Adeno-Control). Adeno-iNOS-transduced rats demonstrated human iNOS mRNA and increased iNOS protein levels only in the lungs. Immunohistochemistry of lungs from Adeno-iNOS-treated animals demonstrated transgene expression in alveolar wall cells. In the lungs from Adeno-iNOS-transduced rats, the expression of iNOS protein and exhaled nitric oxide concentrations were increased on days 1-4 and 7 but returned to baseline values by day 14. The administration of the selective iNOS inhibitor L-N6-(1-iminoethyl)lysine dihydrochloride (L-NIL) decreased exhaled nitric oxide concentrations to levels found in Adeno-Control-transduced lungs. In a second group of rats, the segmental vasoconstrictor responses to U-46619 were determined in isolated, perfused lungs 3 days after transduction. Lungs from rats transduced with Adeno-iNOS had reduced total, arterial, and venous vasoconstrictor responses to U-46619 compared with sham, Adeno-Control, and control groups. In a third set of experiments, the response to 400 nM U-46619 in the presence of 10 microM L-NIL was not different in the isolated lungs from Adeno-Control- and Adeno-iNOS-transduced rats. We conclude that adenovirus-mediated iNOS gene transduction of the lung results in time-dependent iNOS overexpression, which attenuates the vascular constrictor responses to the thromboxane mimetic U-46619.
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- Louis G Chicoine
- Department of Pediatrics, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA.
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Gentry P, Haber L, McDonald T, Zhao Q, Covington T, Nance P, Clewell III H, Lipscomb J, Barton H. Data for Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic Modeling in Neonatal Animals: Physiological Parameters in Mice and Sprague-Dawley Rats. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004. [DOI: 10.1080/15417060490970430] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Fike CD, Aschner JL, Zhang Y, Kaplowitz MR. Impaired NO signaling in small pulmonary arteries of chronically hypoxic newborn piglets. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 2004; 286:L1244-54. [PMID: 14766668 DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.00345.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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We performed studies to determine whether chronic hypoxia impairs nitric oxide (NO) signaling in resistance level pulmonary arteries (PAs) of newborn piglets. Piglets were maintained in room air (control) or hypoxia (11% O2) for either 3 (shorter exposure) or 10 (longer exposure) days. Responses of PAs to a nonselective NO synthase (NOS) antagonist, Nω-nitro-l-arginine methylester (l-NAME), a NOS-2-selective antagonist, aminoguanidine, and 7-nitroindazole, a NOS-1-selective antagonist, were measured. Levels of NOS isoforms and of two proteins involved in NOS signaling, heat shock protein (HSP) 90 and caveolin-1, were assessed in PA homogenates. PAs from all groups constricted to l-NAME but not to aminoguanidine or 7-nitroindazole. The magnitude of constriction to l-NAME was similar for PAs from control and hypoxic piglets of the shorter exposure period but was diminished for PAs from hypoxic compared with control piglets of the longer exposure period. NOS-3, HSP90, and caveolin-1 levels were similar in hypoxic and control PAs. These findings indicate that NOS-3, but not-NOS 2 or NOS-1, is involved with basal NO production in PAs from both control and hypoxic piglets. After 10 days of hypoxia, NO function is impaired in PAs despite preserved levels of NOS-3, HSP90, and caveolin-1. The development of NOS-3 dysfunction in resistance level PAs may contribute to the progression of chronic hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension in newborn piglets.
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- Candice D Fike
- Department of Pediatrics, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Blvd., Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA.
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Tuder RM, McGrath S, Voelkel NF, Geraci MW. Oxygen-Dependent Regulation of Pulmonary Circulation. Methods Enzymol 2004; 381:87-106. [PMID: 15063667 DOI: 10.1016/s0076-6879(04)81005-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/29/2023]
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- Rubin M Tuder
- Division of Cardiopulmonary Pathology, Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkinds University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
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Kanagy NL, Perrine MF, Cheung DK, Walker BR. Erythropoietin Administration In Vivo Increases Vascular Nitric Oxide Synthase Expression. J Cardiovasc Pharmacol 2003; 42:527-33. [PMID: 14508239 DOI: 10.1097/00005344-200310000-00011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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This study was designed to determine whether recombinant human erythropoietin (rHuEpo) administration increases vascular nitric oxide (NO) production in healthy rats. We hypothesized that rHuEpo hypertension is associated with increased endothelial expression of nitric oxide synthase and augmented NO-dependent vasodilation. Male rats were instrumented with pulsed Doppler flow probes around their ascending aorta and with arterial and femoral catheters. Rats were treated for 14 days with rHuEpo (2 U/d) or vehicle. rHuEpo elevated hematocrit and increased mean arterial pressure (142 +/- 3 versus 116 +/- 4 mm Hg). Thoracic aorta segments from rHuEpo rats had a modest increase in NO-dependent relaxation assessed by acetylcholine (10(-10) to 10(-5) mol/L) relaxation of phenylephrine (PE) (10(-6) mol/L) contracted arteries. Relaxation to NO-donor, s-nitrosyl acetylpenicillamine, and PE contraction were not different from control arteries. The NO synthase inhibitor, N-omega-nitro-L-arginine, increased blood pressure and total peripheral resistance more in rHuEpo rats at both 10 and 30 mg/kg. NOS expression in rHuEpo aorta and plasma NOx concentrations were increased compared with control. Thus, it appears that vascular eNOS expression is increased and causes basal vasodilation in rHuEpo hypertensive rats.
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- Nancy L Kanagy
- Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque 87131-0218, USA.
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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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Turley JE, Nelin LD, Kaplowitz MR, Zhang Y, Fike CD. Exhaled NO is reduced at an early stage of hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension in newborn piglets. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 2003; 284:L489-500. [PMID: 12426238 DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.00246.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Altered nitric oxide (NO) production could contribute to the pathogenesis of hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension. To determine whether parameters of lung NO are altered at an early stage of hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension, newborn piglets were exposed to room air (control, n = 21) or 10% O(2) (hypoxia, n = 19) for 3-4 days. Some lungs were isolated and perfused for measurement of exhaled NO output and the perfusate accumulation of nitrite and nitrate (NOx-), the stable metabolites of NO. Pulmonary arteries (20-600-microm diameter) and their accompanying airways were dissected from other lungs and incubated for NOx- determination. Abundances of the nitric oxide synthase (NOS) isoforms endothelial NOS and neural NOS were assessed in homogenates of PAs and airways. The perfusate NOx- accumulation was similar, whereas exhaled NO output was lower for isolated lungs of hypoxic, compared with control, piglets. The incubation solution NOx- did not differ between pulmonary arteries (PAs) of the two groups but was lower for airways of hypoxic, compared with control, piglets. Abundances of both eNOS and nNOS proteins were similar for PA homogenates from the two groups of piglets but were increased in airway homogenates of hypoxic compared with controls. The NO pathway is altered in airways, but not in PAs, at an early stage of hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension in newborn piglets.
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- Joyce E Turley
- Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226, USA
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Chronic hypoxia compromises the development of both airways and pulmonary vasculature following exposure before or after birth. It also impairs adaptation to extrauterine life. The immediate morbidity and mortality is high, and long-term sequelae in terms of lung structure, and thus function, are common, particularly in premature infants. Chronic lung disease or bronchopulmonary dysplasia can develop with or without cor pulmonale. The extensive fibrotic disease of classical bronchopulmonary dysplasia has become uncommon with the development of improved treatment strategies, but the development of the lung periphery can still be compromised as more immature babies survive. This article highlights the landmarks of normal lung development together with the principal established and newly recognized features of exposure to chronic hypoxic in the young. In doing so, it indicates promising areas for research activity.
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- Sheila G Haworth
- Unit of Vascular Biology and Pharmacology, Institute of Child Health, University College London,30 Guilford Street, WC1N 1EH, London, UK
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