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Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 282: H1843-H1854, 2002. First published December 6, 2001; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00666.2001
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Vol. 282, Issue 5, H1843-H1854, May 2002

Effects of aging on vasoconstrictor and mechanical properties of rat skeletal muscle arterioles

Judy Muller-Delp1, Scott A. Spier1, Michael W. Ramsey1, Lisa A. Lesniewski1, Anthony Papadopoulos3, J. D. Humphrey3, and Michael D. Delp1,2

1 Departments of Health and Kinesiology and 2 Medical Physiology and 3 Biomedical Engineering Program, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843

Exercise capacity and skeletal muscle blood flow during exercise are reduced with advancing age. This reduction in blood flow capacity may be related to increased reactivity of skeletal muscle resistance vessels to vasoconstrictor stimuli. The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that aging results in increased vasoconstrictor responses of skeletal muscle resistance arterioles. First-order (1A) arterioles (90-220 µm) from the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles of young (4 mo) and aged (24 mo) Fischer-344 rats were isolated, cannulated, and pressurized via hydrostatic reservoirs. Vasoconstriction in response to increases in norepinephrine (NE; 1 × 10-9-1 × 10-4 M) and KCl (20-100 mM) concentrations and increases in intraluminal pressure (10-130 cmH2O) were evaluated in the absence of flow. Responses to NE and KCl were similar in both soleus and gastrocnemius muscle arterioles from young and aged rats. In contrast, active myogenic responses to changes in intraluminal pressure were diminished in soleus and gastrocnemius arterioles from aged rats. To assess whether alterations in the mechanical properties of resistance arterioles underlie altered myogenic responsiveness, passive diameter responses to pressure and mechanical stiffness were evaluated. There was no effect of age on the structural behavior (passive pressure-diameter relationship) or stiffness of arterioles from either the soleus or gastrocnemius muscles. These results suggest that aging does not result in a nonspecific decrease in vasoconstrictor responsiveness of skeletal muscle arterioles. Rather, aging-induced adaptations of vasoreactivity of resistance arterioles appear to be limited to mechanisms that are uniquely involved in the signaling of the myogenic response.

norepinephrine; potassium chloride; orthostatic hypotension; stiffness; myogenic response


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