title: Pulmonary vascular reactivity to endothelin-1 in normal and chronically pulmonary hypertensive rats.
abstract: The pulmonary vascular reactivity to endothelin-1 (ET-1) was assessed in rats previously exposed to 11% O2 (hypoxic) or room air (controls) for 3 weeks. In isolated control lung preparations studied during conditions of increased tone by U46619 (50 pmol/min) and treated with meclofenamate (3 microM), low doses of ET-1 (30 and 100 pM) reduced the pressor response to U46619 by 58 +/- 5% (p less than 0.01). Vasodilation induced by ET-1 was not abolished by the antagonist of endothelium-dependent relaxing factor (EDRF) NG-monomethyl-L-arginine (5 x 10(-4) M), which suppressed vasodilator response to ionophore A23187 (10(-8)-10(-7) M). Higher doses of ET-1 (300 and 1,000 pM) induced vasoconstriction during conditions of basal tone, and the pressor response to 300 pM ET-1 was enhanced by EDRF antagonists. Administration of ET-1 to lungs from hypoxic rats failed to cause pulmonary vasodilation and instead induced a greater pulmonary pressor response (300 pM) than in control rat lungs (7 +/- 1.5 vs. 1.6 +/- 0.5 mm Hg, p less than 0.01), which was not further potentiated by EDRF antagonists. Infusion of 300 pM ET to conscious catheterized animals induced a sustained increase in pulmonary resistance only in the hypoxic group (from 305 +/- 37 to 389 +/- 55 mm Hg/L/min, p less than 0.01) (n = 7). The results suggest that depending on the dose, ET-1 can cause pulmonary vasodilation (independent of EDRF release) or vasoconstriction (opposed by EDRF). During chronic hypoxic pulmonary hypertension, ET-1 behaves only as a pulmonary vasoconstrictor.
authors.affiliation: Département de Physiologie, Hôpital Henri Mondor, Créteil, France.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Eddahibi
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Raffestin
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Braquet
authors.forename: P E
authors.initials: PE
authors.lastname: Chabrier
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Adnot
mesh_terms: D019796:15-Hydroxy-11 alpha,9 alpha-(epoxymethano)prosta-5,13-dienoic Acid; D000818:Animals; D001120:Arginine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000494:pharmacology; D000001:Calcimycin / Q000494:pharmacology; D016232:Endothelins / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006439:Hemodynamics / Q000187:drug effects; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000503:physiopathology*; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000503:physiopathology; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D008297:Male; D009129:Muscle Tonus / Q000502:physiology; D009569:Nitric Oxide / Q000494:pharmacology; D011450:Prostaglandin Endoperoxides, Synthetic / Q000494:pharmacology; D011652:Pulmonary Circulation / Q000187:drug effects*; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D014664:Vasodilation / Q000187:drug effects; D019323:omega-N-Methylarginine
chemical_list: D016232:Endothelins; D011450:Prostaglandin Endoperoxides, Synthetic; D019323:omega-N-Methylarginine; D009569:Nitric Oxide; D000001:Calcimycin; D019796:15-Hydroxy-11 alpha,9 alpha-(epoxymethano)prosta-5,13-dienoic Acid; D001120:Arginine