title: Endotoxin alteration of muscle microvascular renin-angiotensin responses.
abstract: Endotoxin decreases arteriolar sensitivity to norepinephrine and sympathetic neural activity, but vasopressin sensitivity is increased. Vascular responses to the renin-angiotensin system may also be altered by endotoxin (ENDT). Reactivity of cremaster muscle microvessels of pentobarbital anesthetized Wistar rats was studied using videomicroscopy. Escherichia coli endotoxin (6 mg/kg) was infused i.v. over a 1 hr period. Femoral arterial pressure (Pm) and arteriolar diameter changes, to i.a. bolus injections (60 ng) of angiotensin II (AII) were obtained in Group A at control and at 30 and 90 min post-ENDT, and in Group B at control, 30 min after continuous infusion of saralasin (10 micrograms/min/kg) began, and at 30 and 90 min post-endotoxin. In Group A, the control Pm was 106 +/- 4 mm Hg, and at 30 and 90 min post-ENDT was 96 +/- 4 and 89 +/- 7 mm Hg. All increased Pm 29 +/- 4% before ENDT but the increase was significantly less (P less than .05) at 7 +/- 1% and 6 +/- 1% 30 and 90 min post-ENDT. In Group B, the control Pm was 116 +/- 6 mm Hg, 103 +/- 5 after saralasin, 85 +/- 2 after ENDT infusion, and 83 +/- 4 and 63 +/- 8 mm Hg at 30 and 90 min post-ENDT. All increased Pm 34 +/- 7% before saralasin but only 5 +/- 2% (P less than .05) during saralasin infusion. In Group A, the A1 and A2 arterioles were constricted significantly more post-endotoxin by AII than during control. A3 arterioles post-endotoxin were constricted similar to control amounts by AII.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology and Biophysics, College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa 33612.
authors.forename: C H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Baker
authors.forename: E T
authors.initials: ET
authors.lastname: Sutton
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Dietz
mesh_terms: D000804:Angiotensin II / Q000494:pharmacology*; D000818:Animals; D001160:Arterioles / Q000187:drug effects; D001794:Blood Pressure; D004731:Endotoxins / Q000633:toxicity*; D008297:Male; D009132:Muscles / Q000098:blood supply*; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D012083:Renin / Q000097:blood*; D012504:Saralasin / Q000494:pharmacology; D012772:Shock, Septic / Q000097:blood / Q000503:physiopathology*; D014661:Vasoconstriction / Q000187:drug effects*; D014699:Venules / Q000187:drug effects
chemical_list: D004731:Endotoxins; D000804:Angiotensin II; D012083:Renin; D012504:Saralasin