AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Vol 255, Issue 2 272-H279, Copyright © 1988 by American Physiological Society

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Hyperresponsiveness of arterial rings induced by renal prehypertensive rabbit plasma

D. E. Dostal, J. A. Johnson, P. B. Langevin and N. Abas
Harry S Truman Memorial Veteran's Administration Hospital, Columbia, Missouri.

Vascular rings from normal rabbit renal arteries, when bathed in processed plasma from 3-day renal artery stenosis (RAS) rabbits, had greater contractile responses to norepinephrine than did matched rings bathed in processed plasma from sham-operated rabbits. This vascular hyperresponsiveness of the rings produced by 3-day RAS plasma was abolished by the angiotensin II (ANG II) antagonist [Sar1, Ile8] ANG II but not by [Sar1, Ala8] ANG II at a dose that completely blocked the contractile responses of the rings to ANG II. The addition of [Sar1, Ala8]-ANG II to rings bathed in normal rabbit plasma did not alter the contractile responses to norepinephrine, indicating a lack of agonistic action by this ANG II analogue. These studies demonstrated that the ANG II receptors involved in the hormonally mediated vascular hyperresponsiveness in 3-day RAS rabbits are contained in the tissues that comprise these renal arterial rings.