title: CO modulates pulmonary vascular response to acute hypoxia: relation to endothelin.
abstract: Pulmonary intralobar arteries express heme oxygenase (HO)-1 and -2 and release carbon monoxide (CO) during incubation in Krebs buffer. Acute hypoxia elicits isometric tension development (0.77 +/- 0.06 mN/mm) in pulmonary vascular rings treated with 15 micromol/l chromium mesoporphyrin (CrMP), an inhibitor of HO-dependent CO synthesis, but has no effect in untreated vessels. Acute hypoxia also induces contraction of pulmonary vessels taken from rats injected with HO-2 antisense oligodeoxynucleotides (ODN), which decrease pulmonary HO-2 vascular expression and CO release. Hypoxia-induced contraction of vessels treated with CrMP is attenuated (P < 0.05) by endothelium removal, by CO (1-100 micromol/l) in the bathing buffer, and by endothelin-1 (ET-1) receptor blockade with L-754142 (10 micromol/l). CrMP increases ET-1 levels in pulmonary intralobar arteries, particularly during incubation in hypooxygenated media. CrMP also causes a leftward shift in the concentration-response curve to ET-1, which is offset by exogenous CO. In anesthetized rats, pretreatment with CrMP (40 micromol/kg iv) intensifies the elevation of pulmonary artery pressure elicited by breathing a hypoxic gas mixture. However, acute hypoxia does not elicit augmentation of pulmonary arterial pressure in rats pretreated concurrently with CrMP and the ET-1 receptor antagonist L-745142 (15 mg/kg iv). These data suggest that a product of HO activity, most likely CO, inhibits hypoxia-induced pulmonary vasoconstriction by reducing ET-1 vascular levels and sensitivity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA. Fan_Zhang@nymc.edu
authors.forename: Fan
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Jun Ichi
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Kaide
authors.forename: LiMing
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Houli
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Shuo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Quan
authors.forename: Rowena
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kemp
authors.forename: Weiying
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Gong
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Balazy
authors.forename: Nader G
authors.initials: NG
authors.lastname: Abraham
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nasjletti
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000818:Animals; D002248:Carbon Monoxide / Q000378:metabolism*; D019332:Endothelin-1 / Q000378:metabolism*; D006419:Heme Oxygenase (Decyclizing) / Q000378:metabolism; D051547:Heme Oxygenase-1; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000503:physiopathology; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D017466:Receptors, Endothelin / Q000378:metabolism; D014661:Vasoconstriction
chemical_list: D019332:Endothelin-1; D017466:Receptors, Endothelin; D002248:Carbon Monoxide; D006419:Heme Oxygenase (Decyclizing); D051547:Heme Oxygenase-1