title: Disturbances in autoregulatory responses of rat pial arteries by sulfonylureas.
abstract: It was aimed to test the role of ATP-sensitive K+ channels in the autoregulatory response of cerebral arterioles in vivo. Changes in pial arterial caliber (mean, 43.2 +/- 2.3 microns in diameter) in response to changes in systemic arterial blood pressure (mean, 104.3 +/- 1.4 mmHg) were observed directly through closed cranial windows in anesthetized normotensive rats. During superfusion with vehicle, pial arterial caliber automatically increased in response to hypotension induced by arterial bleeding into a reservoir and decreased on reverse of arterial blood pressure by infusion of blood. After pretreatment with sulfonylureas, glibenclamide (1 and 3 microM) and glipizide (30 and 100 microM), arteriolar dilatation and constriction observed during hypotension and its reverse were disturbed. A similarity was evidenced when hypotension was induced by sodium nitroprusside (750 nmol kg-1min-1, i.v.). Cromakalim, a K+ channel opener, exerted a concentration-dependent vasodilatation of the pial artery and its effect was antagonized by glibenclamide. These data suggest that the endogenous glibenclamide-sensitive K+ channel opener is involved in the modulation of cerebral microvascular autoregulation.
authors: Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, Pusan National University, Korea.
authors: W S
authors: WS
authors: Lee
authors: Y J
authors: YJ
authors: Kwon
authors: S S
authors: SS
authors: Yu
authors: B Y
authors: BY
authors: Rhim
authors: K W
authors: KW
authors: Hong
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001160:Arterioles / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D002536:Cerebral Arteries / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D005913:Glipizide / Q000494:pharmacology*; D005905:Glyburide / Q000494:pharmacology*; D010841:Pia Mater / Q000098:blood supply*; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D014664:Vasodilation / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D005905:Glyburide; D005913:Glipizide