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Department of Internal Medicine and the Cardiovascular Center,1 University of Iowa, and Department of Veterans Affairs,2 Iowa City, 52246; and Free Radical and Radiation Biology Program3 and Department of Biochemistry,4 University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52242
Submitted 19 May 2003 ; accepted in final form 8 July 2003
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) have been proposed to mediate vasodilation in the microcirculation. We investigated the role of ROS in arachidonic acid (AA)-induced coronary microvascular dilation. Porcine epicardial coronary arterioles (110 ± 4 µm diameter) were mounted onto pipettes in oxygenated Krebs buffer. Vessels were incubated with vehicle or 1 mM Tiron (a nonselective ROS scavenger), 250 U/ml polyethylene-glycolated (PEG)-superoxide dismutase (SOD; an
scavenger), 250 U/ml PEG-catalase (a H2O2 scavenger), or the cyclooxygenase (COX) inhibitors indomethacin (10 µM) or diclofenac (10 µM) for 30 min. After endothelin constriction (3060% of resting diameter), cumulative concentrations of AA (1010105 M) were added and internal diameters measured by video microscopy. AA (107 M) produced 37 ± 6% dilation, which was eliminated by the administration of indomethacin (4 ± 7%, P < 0.05) or diclofenac (8 ± 8%, P < 0.05), as well as by Tiron (4 ± 5%, P < 0.05), PEG-SOD (10 ± 6%, P < 0.05), or PEG-catalase (1 ± 4%, P < 0.05). Incubation of small coronary arteries with [3H]AA resulted in the formation of prostaglandins, which was blocked by indomethacin. In separate studies in microvessels, AA induced concentration-dependent increases in fluorescence of the oxidant-sensitive probe dichlorodihydrofluorescein diacetate, which was inhibited by pretreatment with indomethacin or by SOD + catalase. We conclude that in porcine coronary microvessels, COX-derived ROS contribute to AA-induced vasodilation.
cyclooxygenase; coronary microcirculation
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