Comparison of endothelium-dependent relaxation in carotid arteries from Japanese white and Watanabe heritable hyperlipidemic rabbits

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作者
Ayajiki, K
Ozaki, M
Shiomi, M
Okamura, T
Toda, N [1 ]
机构
[1] Shiga Univ Med Sci, Dept Pharmacol, Otsu, Shiga 5202192, Japan
[2] Kobe Univ, Sch Med, Inst Expt Anim, Kobe, Hyogo 650, Japan
关键词
atherosclerosis; endothelium-dependent relaxation; carotid artery; nitric oxide; heritable hyperlipidemic rabbit;
D O I
10.1097/00005344-200011000-00012
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R5 [内科学];
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1002 ; 100201 ;
摘要
Modifications by atherosclerosis of endothelium-dependent and -independent relaxations were evaluated in carotid arteries isolated from Watanabe heritable hyperlipidemic (WHHL; age 20-29 months) and age-matched Japanese white (JW) rabbits, Marked, patchy atherosclerotic lesions were observed in all WHHL rabbit arteries. Endothelium-dependent relaxations induced by acetylcholine, partly depressed by N-G-nitro-L-arginine (L-NA), were significantly inhibited in the WHHL rabbit arteries with atherosclerosis, compared with those in the arteries without atherosclerotic lesions from JW and WHHL rabbits. No difference was observed in the relaxation caused by superoxide dismutase in these arteries. Conversely, endothelium-dependent relaxations by substance P were greater in the arteries with and without atherosclerosis from WHHL rabbits than in the arteries from JW rabbits. Endothelium-independent relaxations elicited by sodium nitroprusside and 2,2-(hydroxynitrosohydrazino)bis-ethanamine (NOC18) did not differ in the arteries from JW and WHHL rabbits. The responses to acetylcholine and substance P of JW rabbit arteries with the endothelium were not attenuated by treatment with pertussis toxin. L-NA-resistant, endothelium-dependent relaxations by substance P were almost abolished by charybdotoxin, and atherosclerosis did not alter the response. It is concluded that endothelial functions, evaluated by substance P, in rabbit carotid arteries are not impaired by atherosclerosis and by long exposure to hyperlipidemia in vivo. Dysfunction of muscarinic receptors may be involved in the depressed response to acetylcholine. As far as the arteries used in the present study are concerned, responses mediated possibly by endothelium-derived hyperpolarizing factor (EDHF) are unlikely to be modulated by atherosclerosis.
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