AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Vol 271, Issue 3 1109-H1116, Copyright © 1996 by American Physiological Society

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Local and conducted vasomotor responses in isolated rat cerebral arterioles

H. H. Dietrich, Y. Kajita and R. G. Dacey Jr
Department of Neurosurgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, USA.

We tested the hypothesis that conduction of vasomotor responses occurs in cannulated and isolated rat cerebral penetrating arterioles. Both at the site of stimulation (local) and 500-650 microns distant from it, we observed the diameter responses and time courses thereof to pressure-ejected vasoactive stimuli. ATP locally caused an initial constriction (response onset at 0.3 s, average diameter 85% of control at 450-ms pulse with a maximum at 1.6 s after stimulation) followed by a secondary dilation (111% at 7 s). Conducted vasodilation of 111% was observed over a distance of 520 microns. Prostaglandin F2 alpha (PGF2 alpha) constricted the vessels locally (80%) and caused conducted vasodilation (110%). For both ATP and PGF2 alpha the local constriction occurred simultaneously to the conducted vasodilation. Adenosine dilated the vessels (123%) but produced only inconsistent conducted vasodilation. Hydrogen ions initially constricted the vessels (88%) and then dilated them to 113%. Thus, although ATP and PGF2 alpha are strong promoters of conduction, adenosine and hydrogen ions are not. Paradoxically, ATP and PGF2 alpha caused conducted vasodilation even though the initial local response was a vasoconstriction, indicating that in cerebral arterioles conduction may be mediated through endothelial cell mechanisms rather than through smooth muscle cell communication.

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