title: Arterial resistance vessels in primary hypertension--evidence for altered cellular Ca2+ metabolism.
abstract: The role of intracellular free Ca2+ in arterial smooth muscle was investigated in aortic smooth muscle cells from spontaneously hypertensive and normotensive rats, as well as in porcine aortic smooth muscle. Intracellular free Ca2+ in aortic smooth muscle from spontaneously hypertensive rats was elevated. Incubation of porcine aortic smooth muscle with plasma from essential hypertensive and normotensive subjects revealed a humoral factor in subjects with essential hypertension, which increased intracellular free Ca2+. Cross-circulation experiments between spontaneously hypertensive and normotensive rats demonstrated a transmission of hypertension to the normotensive animals as a result of a circulating hypertensive factor possibly produced in the kidneys and adrenals. The experiments suggest that vasoconstriction in primary hypertension may be caused by a humoral factor that increases intracellular free Ca2+ in arterial smooth muscle.
authors.affiliation: Med. Univ.-Poliklinik, Muenster, F.R.G.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zidek
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Heckmann
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Vischer
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gruenwald
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kerenyi
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001158:Arteries / Q000378:metabolism; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism*; D006973:Hypertension / Q000378:metabolism*; D009131:Muscle, Smooth, Vascular / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D014655:Vascular Resistance / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D002118:Calcium