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AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Vol 254, Issue 1 28-H33, Copyright © 1988 by American Physiological Society
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G. Osol and W. Halpern
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington 05405.
Resistance-sized branches of posterior cerebral arteries from Wistar-Kyoto (WKY), spontaneously hypertensive (SHR), spontaneously hypertensive stroke-prone (SHRSP), and antihypertensive-treated SHRSP (SHRSP-TRT) rats were studied in vitro. After the rats were killed, arterial segments were excised, mounted on microcannulas, and pressurized. After equilibration, intravascular pressure was increased in a stepwise fashion from 30 to 150-200 mmHg. All vessels developed a myogenic tone, which resulted in diameter reductions of 31-37% at 100 mmHg when compared with fully relaxed diameters [approximately 200 micron in 1 mM ethylene glycol-bis(beta-aminoethyl ether)-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid]. Differences in the extent of tone were not significant between animal groups (P greater than 0.05). Rhythmic vasomotion was present in 94% SHRSP and 100% SHRSP-TRT, 83% SHR, and only 6% of the WKY arteries. At higher pressures, the amplitude of the diameter oscillations decreased and frequency increased. Vasomotion was unaltered by tetrodotoxin or indomethacin, but could be abolished by cooling to 34 degrees C, ouabain (a depolarizing solution containing 125 mM K+), potassium-free physiological saline solution, or by calcium entry blockade with diltiazem or MnCl2. In normally quiescent WKY arteries, vasomotion, which was qualitatively similar to that observed in the hypertensive strains, could be induced by the addition of 5 mM tetraethylammonium chloride. Thus intrinsic oscillations in membrane calcium and potassium conductance may underlie the rhythmic contractile activity of rat cerebral arteries. This property appears to have a major genetic component, the expression of which is relatively independent of blood pressure history and is not related to the myogenic properties of the preparation.
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