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Modulation of vascular tone in renal microcirculation by erythrocytes: role of EDRF

J. D. Imig, D. Gebremedhin, D. R. Harder and R. J. Roman
Department of Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 53226.

The effect of erythrocytes (red blood cells, RBC) on vascular tone in the renal microcirculation was examined using the juxtamedullary nephron microvascular preparation perfused in vitro with a physiological salt solution containing 5% albumin. The basal diameters of the arcuate, interlobular, proximal, and distal afferent arterioles averaged 444 +/- 24, 74 +/- 3, 29 +/- 1, and 19 +/- 1 micron, respectively, when perfused with a cell-free solution at a pressure of 80 mmHg. The diameters of the arcuate and interlobular arteries increased by 14 +/- 4 and 13 +/- 4%, respectively, whereas the diameter of the proximal and distal portions of the afferent arterioles decreased by 7 +/- 2% when perfusion pressure was elevated from 80 to 160 mmHg. The addition of RBC to the perfusate reduced the basal diameters of interlobular and afferent arterioles by 11 +/- 4 and 15 +/- 3%, respectively. The maximal vasoconstrictor response was seen after the addition of only 1% RBC to the perfusate. Removal of platelets did not block the vasoconstrictor response to addition of RBC to the perfusate. The role of endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF) in the vasoconstrictor response to RBC was studied by addition of nitric oxide synthase inhibitor, N omega-nitro-L-arginine (L-NNA, 100 microM) to the perfusate. L-NNA reduced the basal diameters of interlobular and afferent arterioles by 7 +/- 3 and 9 +/- 3%, respectively, and abolished the vasoconstrictor response to RBC. L-NNA had no effect on the pressure-diameter relationships of the preglomerular vasculature when added to perfusates already containing RBC.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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