Hypoxia releases a vasoconstrictor substance from the canine vascular endothelium.
AUTOR(ES)
Rubanyi, G M
RESUMO
Experiments were designed to determine the role of the endothelium in the facilitation by anoxia of contractile responses of isolated coronary arteries. Rings and strips of canine coronary arteries, with or without endothelium, were suspended for isometric tension recording in modified Krebs-Ringer bicarbonate solution. To determine the release of a vasoactive substance(s) from the endothelial cells, strips without endothelium were layered with strips containing endothelium. In rings and in layered preparations with endothelium, anoxia (95% N2-5% CO2) augmented contractile responses to prostaglandin F2 alpha. Hypoxia (10 or 5% O2) caused contractions in the presence of indomethacin. Removal of the endothelium abolished the anoxic facilitation, and the hypoxic contractions. Inhibitors of cyclo-oxygenase, lipoxygenase or phospholipase A2 or of adrenergic, serotonergic and histaminergic receptors did not prevent the response to anoxia. Likewise, inhibitors of the endothelium-derived factor(s) (quinacrine, phenidone and methylene blue) did not affect the anoxic facilitation. Hypoxia and anoxia caused contraction of coronary arteries without endothelium when layered with femoral arteries and veins with endothelium. Anoxic facilitation was observed in femoral arteries, but not in femoral veins, with endothelium. These experiments indicate that hypoxia and anoxia cause the release of a diffusible vasoconstrictor substance(s) from endothelial cells. The sensitivity of smooth muscle of different anatomical origin to the facilitatory mediator(s) varies.
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