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Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 274: H1301-H1307, 1998;
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Vol. 274, Issue 4, H1301-H1307, April 1998

Vasomotor responses in chronically hyperperfused and hypoperfused rat mesenteric arteries

Fabrice Pourageaud and Jo G. R. De Mey

Department of Pharmacology and Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht, Universiteit Maastricht, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands

We evaluated the reactivity of small arteries after remodeling induced by elevated or reduced blood flow. In 6-wk-old rats, every other first-order side branch of the superior mesenteric artery was ligated near the bifurcation of second-order branches. Four weeks after surgery, vessels that had been exposed to high flow (HF) or low flow (LF) were isolated and mounted in a pressure myograph at 100 mmHg and were compared with vessels from sham-operated rats (Sham). In HF: 1) basal lumen diameter was increased; 2) sensitivity to norepinephrine, arginine vasopressin, and perivascular nerve stimulation was not modified; 3) maximal constrictor responses (Delta  diameter) to these stimuli and 125 mM K+ were increased; and 4) sensitivity and maximal dilator responses to sodium nitroprusside, acetylcholine, and flow were not modified. In LF: 1) basal diameter was reduced; 2) sensitivity to constrictor stimuli was not altered; 3) maximal responses to all vasoconstrictors except arginine vasopressin were reduced; and 4) sensitivity but not maximal dilator responses to sodium nitroprusside and acetylcholine was reduced. During acute flow-induced dilatations, lower shear stress was maintained in HF (48 ± 7 dyn/cm2) than in Sham (63 ± 10 dyn/cm2), but no shear stress regulation was observed in LF. These observations indicate that arterial structural responses to altered blood flow are accompanied by modified reactivity of the arterial smooth muscle, which entails changes in responsiveness to neurogenic and endothelium-dependent stimuli.

resistance arteries; blood flow; remodeling; endothelium; perivascular nerves


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