Acute or chronic exercise alters angiotensin II-induced contraction of rat aorta.
Chronic exercise substantially shifted the dose-response curve for angiotensin II (ANG II)-induced contractions to the right with increases in the EC50 value in both endothelium-intact and endothelium-denuded aortae. An acute endurance exercise also caused a 3-fold increase in the EC50 value in both endothelium-intact and endothelium-denuded aortae from sedentary control rats. Whereas, no substantial increase in the EC50 value was observed in trained rats after an acute endurance exercise. Thus, chronic exercise attenuates ANG II receptor-mediated contraction of rat aortae. An acute exercise also caused the reduced responses to ANG II in sedentary control rats but not in chronically exercise-trained rats.
Izawa
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Department of Health and Sports Sciences, University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Tokyo, Japan.
Morikawa
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Inoue
M
M
Mizuta
T
T
Yamashita
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Ohno
H
H
Komabayashi
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T
D000804:Angiotensin II / Q000494:pharmacology*; D000818:Animals; D001013:Aorta, Thoracic / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology*; D004730:Endothelium, Vascular / Q000502:physiology; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D008297:Male; D010805:Physical Conditioning, Animal; D005082:Physical Exertion / Q000502:physiology*; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D014661:Vasoconstriction / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology
D000804:Angiotensin II