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Vol. 83, Issue 5, 1617-1622, 1997
1 Department of Biomedical
Engineering,
Received 22 November 1996; accepted in final form 16 July 1997.
Shimoda, Larissa A., Nan A. Norins, and Jane A. Madden. Flow-induced responses in cat isolated
pulmonary arteries. J. Appl. Physiol.
83(5): 1617-1622, 1997.
endothelin-1; BQ-123; shear stress
Isolated, cannulated, endothelium-intact
cat pulmonary arteries, averaging 692 ± 104 µm in diameter, were
set at a transmural pressure of 10 mmHg and monitored with a video
system. Intraluminal flow was increased in steps from 0 to 1.6 ml/min
by using a syringe pump. An electronic system held pressure constant by
changing outflow resistance. Flow-diameter curves were generated in
physiological saline solution. At constant transmural pressure, the
arteries constricted in response to increased intraluminal flow.
Constriction was not affected by removing extracellular
Ca2+ but was abolished after
treatment with ryanodine to deplete intracellular Ca2+ stores, with the endothelin-1
synthesis inhibitor phosphoramidon, with the endothelin A-receptor
antagonist BQ-123, with the protein kinase C inhibitor staurosporine,
or with glutaraldehyde to reduce endothelial cell deformability. The
results indicate that isolated pulmonary arteries can constrict in
response to intraluminal flow and suggest that constriction is mediated
by endothelin-1 and depends on intracellular
Ca2+ release and protein kinase C
activation.
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