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Vascular Physiology Group, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131-5218
Chronic hypoxia (CH) attenuates systemic vasoconstriction to a variety of agonists in conscious rats. Recent evidence suggests that similarly diminished responses to vasoconstrictors in aortic rings from CH rats may be due to increased endothelial heme oxygenase (HO) activity and enhanced production of the vasodilator carbon monoxide (CO). Thus we hypothesized that a hypoxia-induced increase in HO activity is responsible for decreased vasoconstrictor responsiveness observed in conscious CH rats. CH (4 wk at 0.5 atm) and control rats were renal denervated and instrumented for the measurement of renal blood flow (RBF) and blood pressure. First, renal vasoconstrictor responses to graded intravenous infusion of phenylephrine (PE) were assessed in conscious rats. CH rats demonstrated significantly diminished renal vasoconstrictor responses to PE compared with control responses that persisted even with acute restoration of normoxia. In additional experiments, CH rats exhibited increased renal vascular resistance and decreased RBF in response to the HO inhibitor zinc protoporphyrin IX (11 µmol/kg iv), whereas renal hemodynamics were unaffected by the inhibitor in control animals. Furthermore, we demonstrated greater HO enzyme activity in renal tissue from CH rats compared with controls. These data suggest that enhanced HO activity contributes a tonic vasodilatory influence in the renal vasculature of CH rats that may be responsible for the diminished sensitivity to vasoconstrictor agonists observed under these conditions.
heme oxygenase; conscious rats; renal blood flow
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