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Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 282: H237-H243, 2002;
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Vol. 282, Issue 1, H237-H243, January 2002

Agonist-specific differences in mechanisms mediating eNOS-dependent pial arteriolar dilation in rats

H.-L. Xu, D. L. Feinstein, R. A. Santizo, H. M. Koenig, and D. A. Pelligrino

Neuroanesthesia Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607

Nitric oxide (NO), derived from the endothelial isoform of NO synthase (eNOS), is a vital mediator of cerebral vasodilation. In the present study, we addressed the issue of whether the mechanisms responsible for agonist-induced eNOS activation differ according to the specific receptor being stimulated. Thus we examined whether heat shock protein 90 (HSP90), phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase (PI3K), and tyrosine kinase participate in ACh- versus ADP-induced eNOS activation in cerebral arterioles in vivo. Pial arteriolar diameter changes in anesthetized male rats were measured during sequential applications of ACh and ADP in the absence and presence of the nonselective NOS inhibitor Nomega -nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME), the neuronal NOS (nNOS)-selective inhibitor ARR-17477, the HSP90 blocker 17-(allylamino)-17-demethoxygeldanamycin (AAG), the PI3K inhibitor wortmannin (Wort), or the tyrosine kinase blocker tyrphostin 47 (T-47). Only NOS inhibition with L-NAME (not ARR-17477) reduced ACh and ADP responses (by 65-75%), which suggests that all of the NO dependence in the vasodilating actions of those agonists derived from eNOS. Suffusions of AAG, Wort, and T-47 were accompanied by substantial reductions in ACh-induced dilations but no changes in the responses to ADP. These findings suggest that muscarinic (ACh) and purinergic (ADP) receptor-mediated eNOS activation in cerebral arterioles involve distinctly different signal transduction pathways.

heat shock protein 90; muscarinic; endothelial nitric oxide synthase; phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase; purinergic; tyrosine kinase


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