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NADPH oxidase-derived reactive oxygen species in skeletal muscle modulates the exercise pressor reflex

Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska

Submitted 11 March 2009 ; accepted in final form 2 June 2009

Muscle metabolic by-products during exercise, such as K⁺, lactic acid, ATP, H⁺, and phosphate, are well established to be involved in the reflex cardiovascular response to static muscle contraction. However, the role of muscle reactive oxygen species (ROS), a metabolic by-product during muscle contraction, in the exercise pressor reflex (EPR) has not been investigated in detail. In the present study, we evaluated the role of muscle ROS in the EPR in a decerebrate rat model. We hypothesized that muscle NADPH oxidase-derived ROS contributes to sensitization of the EPR. Thus the rise in blood pressure and heart rate in response to a 30-s static contraction induced by electrical stimulation of L₄/L₅ ventral roots was compared before and after hindlimb arterial infusion of the redox agents: diethyldithiocarbamate, a superoxide dismutase inhibitor; the superoxide dismutase mimetic 4-hydroxy-2,2,6,6-tetramethyl piperidine 1-oxyl (tempol); the free radical scavenger dimethylthiourea; a NADPH oxidase inhibitor, apocynin; and a xanthine oxidase inhibitor, allopurinol. The EPR-induced pressor response was augmented after treatment with diethyldithiocarbamate and was attenuated after treatment with tempol, dimethylthiourea, and apocynin. Treatment with allopurinol did not affect the EPR function. None of the drug's affected the EPR heart rate response. In addition, neither the pressor response to electrical stimulation of the central end of dorsal roots, nor femoral blood flow was affected by any treatment. These data suggest that NADPH oxidase-derived muscle ROS plays an excitatory role in the EPR control of blood pressure.

static contraction; sympathetic outflow; blood pressure; decerebration

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