Exposure to stress differential vascular adaptive response in spontaneously hypertensive and Wistar rats: Role of nitric oxide, and prehypertensive and hypertensive states.
Stress-induced vascular adaptive response in SHR was investigated, focusing on the endothelium. Noradrenaline responses were studied in intact and denuded aortas from 6-week-old (prehypertensive) and 14-week-old (hypertensive) SHR and age-matched Wistar rats submitted or not to acute stress (20-min swimming and 1-h immobilization 25 min apart), preceded or not by chronic stress (2 sessions 2 days apart of 1-h day immobilization for 5-consecutive days). Stress did not alter the reactivity of denuded aorta. Moreover, no alteration in the EC50 values was observed after stress exposure. In intact aortas, acute stress-induced hyporeactivity to noradrenaline similar between strains at both age. Chronic stress potentiated this adaptive response in 6- and 14-week-old Wistar but not in 6-week-old SHR, and did not alter the reactivity of 14-week-old SHR. Maximum response (g) in intact aortas [6-week-old: Wistar 3.25+/-0.12, Wistar/acute 1.95+/-0.12*, Wistar/chronic 1.36+/-0.21*(+), SHR 1.75+/-0.11, SHR/acute 0.88+/-0.08*, SHR/chronic 0.85+/-0.05*; 14-week-old: Wistar 3.83+/-0.13, Wistar/acute 2.72+/-0.13*, Wistar/chronic 1.91+/-0.19*(+), SHR 4.03+/-0.17, SHR/acute 2.26+/-0.12*, SHR/chronic 4.10+/-0.23; inside the same strain: *P < 0.05 relate to non-stressed rat, +P < 0.05 related to acute stressed rat; n = 6-18]. Independent of age and strain, L-NAME and endothelium removal abolished the stress-induced aorta hyporeactivity.


CONCLUSIONS
The vascular adaptive response to stress is impaired in SHR, independently of the hypertensive state. Moreover, this vascular adaptive response is characterized by endothelial nitric oxide-system hyperactivity in both strains.
Cordellini
Sandra
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Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Biosciences, University Estadual Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil. cordelli@ibb.unesp.br
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Rosangela
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Lanza Júnior
Ubirajara
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D000222:Adaptation, Physiological / Q000502:physiology*; D000316:Adrenergic alpha-Agonists / Q000494:pharmacology; D000818:Animals; D001011:Aorta / Q000503:physiopathology; D004730:Endothelium, Vascular / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology; D006439:Hemodynamics / Q000502:physiology*; D006973:Hypertension / Q000235:genetics / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008297:Male; D019331:NG-Nitroarginine Methyl Ester / Q000494:pharmacology; D009569:Nitric Oxide / Q000502:physiology*; D052250:Nitric Oxide Synthase Type III / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors; D009638:Norepinephrine / Q000494:pharmacology; D051381:Rats; D011918:Rats, Inbred SHR; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000503:physiopathology*
D000316:Adrenergic alpha-Agonists; D009569:Nitric Oxide; D052250:Nitric Oxide Synthase Type III; D019331:NG-Nitroarginine Methyl Ester; D009638:Norepinephrine