Antihypertensive therapy prevents endothelial dysfunction in chronic nitric oxide deficiency. Effect of verapamil and trandolapril

Hypertension
H TakaseT F Lüscher

Abstract

The objective of this study was to examine the effects of long-term antihypertensive therapy on blood pressure and vascular responses of resistance arteries during prolonged inhibition of nitric oxide synthesis. Four groups of 6-week-old Wistar-Kyoto rats were treated with either placebo as controls or N omega-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME) alone or in combination with verapamil or with trandolapril. Drugs were given orally for 6 weeks or short-term in vitro to vessels obtained from untreated rats. Endothelium-dependent and -independent relaxations as well as contractions were studied in isolated perfused mesenteric and renal arteries with an arteriograph. Kidney nitric oxide synthase activity was also evaluated. Verapamil and trandolapril prevented the increase in systolic blood pressure and the blunted acetylcholine-induced relaxations that occurred with L-NAME treatment without improving the nitric oxide synthase activity. Both antihypertensive regimens also normalized sensitivity to sodium nitroprusside, which was enhanced by L-NAME. In contrast, short-term in vitro preincubation with verapamil or trandolaprilat in the presence of L-NAME did not improve the impaired relaxations to acetylcholine. Long-term but not sh...Continue Reading

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