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Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 247: H88-H94, 1984;
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AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Vol 247, Issue 1 88-H94, Copyright © 1984 by American Physiological Society

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Mechanism of the biphasic arteriolar response to angiotensin II

J. T. Fleming and I. G. Joshua

Male Sprague-Dawley rats (140-180 g) were anesthetized with alpha-chloralose and urethan. The cremaster muscle with intact blood supply and neural innervation was suspended in a tissue bath containing a modified Krebs solution. With the use of television microscopy the luminal diameters of third-order arterioles (14-32 micron) were measured before and after adding angiotensin II (ANG II, bath concn 10(-6) M). The arterioles responded to ANG II with an initial, transient constriction followed by a more prolonged dilation to a diameter larger than the control diameter. Pretreating the muscle with [Sar1, Ile8]ANG II significantly attenuated both the arteriolar constriction and subsequent dilation induced by ANG II. Treatment of the cremaster muscle with mefenamic acid or indomethacin, inhibitors of prostaglandin synthesis, produced a significant reduction in the diameter of the arterioles and abolished the dilator phase of the arteriolar response to ANG II without preventing the ANG II-induced constriction. These results demonstrate that within the intact microcirculation, ANG II produces both an arteriolar constriction and a dilation that are mediated by specific ANG II receptors. The ANG II-induced dilation of the arterioles appears to be caused by increased prostaglandin synthesis and release.


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