Role of prostaglandins in acetylcholine-induced contraction of aorta from spontaneously hypertensive and Wistar-Kyoto rats
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Role of prostaglandins in acetylcholine-induced contraction of aorta from spontaneously hypertensive and Wistar-Kyoto rats
Abstract
Evidence in support of prostaglandin (PG) H2 as the endothelium-derived contracting factor released in response to acetylcholine in vessels from adult spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and Wistar-Kyoto rats (WKY) is to a large degree indirect. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to test the hypothesis that a prostaglandin or prostaglandins other than PGH2 may serve as the endothelium-derived contracting factor that mediates acetylcholine-induced contraction in these vessels. Acetylcholine-induced contraction of endothelium-intact aorta from 7- to 12-month-old SHR and WKY in the presence of the nitric oxide synthase inhibitor N omega-nitro-L-arginine was abolished by indomethacin and only partially decreased by the thromboxane (Tx) A2/PGH2 receptor antagonist SQ29548. Contraction induced by the TxA2/ PGH2 receptor agonist U46619 was abolished by SQ29548. These findings suggest that in endothelium-intact aorta from SHR and WKY, acetylcholine causes the release of a cyclooxygenase product other than PGH2 that induces contraction independently of TxA2/PGH2 receptor activation. To investigate which prostaglandin or prostaglandins could be responsible for the TxA2/PGH2 receptor-independent component, we challenged endothelium-denuded aorta from SHR and WKY with various prostaglandins in the presence of SQ29548. In SQ29548-treated aorta from 7- to 12-month-old rats, maximal contractions to PGF2 alpha, PGE2, and carbacyclin (a PGI2 analogue) were greater than the magnitude of acetylcholine-induced contraction. These findings suggest that PGF2 alpha, PGE2, and/or PGI2 could serve as mediators of the TxA2 receptor-independent component of the acetylcholine-induced contraction. However, in studies with SQ29548-treated aorta from 4- to 6-week-old SHR and WKY (an age at which acetylcholine-induced contraction is known to be absent), maximal contraction to PGF2 alpha and PGE2 was also greater or equivalent to that of SQ29548-treated aorta from 7- to 12-month-old rats, whereas carbacyclin induced negligible contraction. Thus, unlike PGE2 and PGF2 alpha, the age-dependent pattern of contraction induced by carbacyclin closely resembles the pattern induced by acetylcholine. We also measured the levels of PGI2 released in response to acetylcholine and found that they are sufficient to account for the TxA2 receptor-independent component of the acetylcholine-induced contraction. Thus, we propose that PGI2 released in response to acetylcholine may serve as the endothelium-derived contracting factor that elicits the TxA2/PGH2 receptor-independent and dependent components of the acetylcholine-induced contraction.
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