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J Appl Physiol 86: 1715-1720, 1999;
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Vol. 86, Issue 5, 1715-1720, May 1999

cGMP and cAMP cause pulmonary vasoconstriction in the presence of hemolysate

Norbert F. Voelkel1, Jenny D. Allard1, Steven M. Anderson2, and Thomas J. Burke3

1 Pulmonary Hypertension Center, 2 Department of Pathology, and 3 Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, University of Colorado Medical School, Denver, Colorado 20262

We recently reported that addition of a small amount of hemolysate to the salt solution that perfused isolated rat lungs hypersensitized the vasculature to subsequent additions of ANG II or exposure to hypoxia, and addition of NO gas (· NO) to the perfusate that contained hemolysate caused a strong vasoconstrictor rather than a vasodilator response. In the present study, we demonstrate that CO and the secondary messengers cGMP and cAMP (usually associated with vasodilation) exert similar effects in hemolysate-perfused lungs. Analogs of the cyclic nucleotides cGMP or cAMP (8-bromo-cGMP and dibutyryl-cAMP, respectively) caused profound vasoconstriction in the isolated rat lung perfused with a salt solution that contained hemolysate. The cGMP- or cAMP-analog-induced vasoconstriction was inhibited by chemically dissimilar Ca2+ antagonists, by the protein phosphatase inhibitor okadaic acid, and, to a lesser degree, by protein kinase inhibitor H-7. Antiphosphothreonine immunoblotting demonstrated that lungs perfused with hemolysate exhibit increased phosphorylation of several proteins. These data indicate that, in the presence of hemolysate, pulmonary vasculature responds to nominally vasodilatory stimuli, including analogs of cGMP and cAMP, with vasoconstriction rather than vasodilation. The importance of our finding is the paradoxical nature of the response to (analogs of) cyclic nucleotides because, to our knowledge, cyclic nucleotide-induced vasoconstriction has not been previously reported.

nitric oxide; carbon monoxide; calcium antagonists; hypersensitization


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