Effects of radiation therapy on vascular responsiveness

被引:14
作者
Levesque, L
Lam, MH
Allaire, P
Mondat, M
Houle, S
Beaudoin, G
Donath, D
Leclerc, G
机构
[1] CHU Montreal, Mol Cardiol Labs, Montreal, PQ H2L 4M1, Canada
[2] CHU Montreal, Div Cardiol, Montreal, PQ H2L 4M1, Canada
[3] CHU Montreal, Dept Radiooncol, Montreal, PQ H2L 4M1, Canada
[4] CHU Montreal, Dept Biomed Engn, Montreal, PQ H2L 4M1, Canada
[5] Univ Laval, Quebec City, PQ G1K 7P4, Canada
关键词
radiation therapy; rabbit aorta; arterial vascular responsiveness; B-1 receptor for kinins; gamma and beta irradiation; dose rate;
D O I
10.1097/00005344-200104000-00005
中图分类号
R5 [内科学];
学科分类号
1002 ; 100201 ;
摘要
The use of radiation therapy to inhibit vascular proliferative diseases has produced encouraging results in several clinical trials. However, little is known about the possible side effects of radiation on vascular responsiveness. Our goal was to study the in vitro vascular responses of the rabbit aorta to various agonists immediately after several regimens of radiation therapy administered at doses prescribed in clinical protocols and at two different dose rates, High-dose-rate radiation was administered either by brachytherapy, using a gamma source, iridium 192, or an external electron beam producing beta radiation. Low-dose-rate radiation was administered by brachytherapy using a liquid-filled balloon with the beta emitter P-32. Vascular reactivity after the various regimens of irradiation was determined using the organ bath pharmacology assay. Various agonists were applied to the rabbit aorta to produce full cumulative concentration-response curves. Radiation, administered using an external electron beam, did not alter endothelium-dependent relaxation of the aorta induced by acetylcholine. However, the use of a catheter-based system to deliver radiation disrupted the endothelial cell lining of the vessel, causing a lack of relaxation by acetylcholine. Therefore, to compare all modalities of radiation therapy on vascular responsiveness, the agonists used in this study are known to act directly on the smooth muscle. Radiation therapy had no effect on the contractile responses induced by the following agonists: phenylephrine and potassium chloride. Vascular dilatation induced by nitroglycerin, a nitric oxide donor, was unaffected by radiation therapy. The contractile response induced by des-Arg(9)-bradykinin, a kinin B-1 receptor agonist, was significantly increased twofold to threefold by all types of irradiation under study. This enhanced response is attributable to an increase of mRNA levels coding for this receptor. In all cases, radiation therapy did not alter the effective concentration producing 50% of maximal responsiveness (EC,,) and did not reduce the vascular responsiveness induced by agonists, Taken together, we conclude that radiation therapy does not hinder endothelium-independent vascular responsiveness and increases the kinin B-1 receptor-mediated vasoconstriction.
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页数:13
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