title: L-NAME enhances responses to atrial natriuretic peptide in the pulmonary vascular bed of the cat.
abstract: This study investigated the hypothesis that atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) responses are mediated by particulate guanylate cyclase in the pulmonary vascular bed of the cat. When tone in the pulmonary vascular bed was raised to a high steady level with the thromboxane mimic U-46619, injections of ANP caused dose-related decreases in lobar arterial pressure. After administration of HS-142-1, an ANP-A- and ANP-B-receptor antagonist, vasodilator responses to ANP were reduced. The nitric oxide (NO) synthase inhibitor N(omega)-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME) enhanced ANP vasodilator responses, suggesting that inhibition of NO modulates ANP responses. L-NAME administration with constant 8-bromo-cGMP infusion attenuated the increased vasodilator response to ANP, suggesting that supersensitivity to ANP occurs upstream to activation of a cGMP-dependent protein kinase. In pulmonary arterial rings, ANP produced concentration-related vasorelaxant responses with and without endothelium. Methylene blue, L-NAME, or N(omega)-monomethyl-L-arginine did not alter ANP vasorelaxant responses. These data show that ANP supersensitivity observed in the intact pulmonary vascular bed is not seen in isolated pulmonary arterial segments, suggesting that it may only occur in resistance vessel elements. These results suggest that ANP responses occur through activation of ANP-A and/or -B receptors in an endothelium-independent manner and are modulated by NO in resistance vessel elements in the pulmonary vascular bed of the cat.
authors.affiliation: Cardiopulmonary Research Laboratory, Department of Surgery, Louisiana State University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112, USA.
authors.forename: A L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Hyman
authors.forename: B J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: De Witt
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Gumusel
authors.forename: Q
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Hao
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Kadowitz
authors.forename: H L
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Lippton
mesh_terms: D019796:15-Hydroxy-11 alpha,9 alpha-(epoxymethano)prosta-5,13-dienoic Acid / Q000494:pharmacology; D000818:Animals; D009320:Atrial Natriuretic Factor / Q000494:pharmacology*; D001808:Blood Vessels / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D002415:Cats; D006152:Cyclic GMP / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000494:pharmacology; D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors / Q000494:pharmacology*; D005260:Female; D006162:Guanylate Cyclase / Q000378:metabolism; D008168:Lung / Q000201:enzymology / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male; D019331:NG-Nitroarginine Methyl Ester / Q000494:pharmacology*; D019001:Nitric Oxide Synthase / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors*; D052250:Nitric Oxide Synthase Type III; D011652:Pulmonary Circulation / Q000187:drug effects*; D014664:Vasodilation / Q000187:drug effects
chemical_list: D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors; C016276:8-bromocyclic GMP; D019796:15-Hydroxy-11 alpha,9 alpha-(epoxymethano)prosta-5,13-dienoic Acid; D009320:Atrial Natriuretic Factor; D019001:Nitric Oxide Synthase; D052250:Nitric Oxide Synthase Type III; D006162:Guanylate Cyclase; D006152:Cyclic GMP; D019331:NG-Nitroarginine Methyl Ester