Abstract
We report in the present study the effect of regular exercise on vascular reactivity alterations to endothelin (ET-1) following prolonged exposure to hypoxic stress. Male Dark Agouti rats were randomly assigned to N (sedentary rats), NCE (normoxic exercised rats), CH (chronic hypoxic sedentary rats) and CHCE (chronic hypoxic exercised rats) groups. The effects of ET-1 in the presence or not of the endothelium and/or of the specific inhibitor, bosentan, have been investigated in an isolated model of rat thoracic aorta. Prolonged exposure to hypoxia induced a significant increase in aortic sensitivity to ET-1 (-log ED50 in CH = 8.15 +/- 0.01 vs in N = 7.98 +/- 0.02, p < 0.05). Despite exercise training reduced the sensitivity to ET-1 in normoxic rats, it has no effects in hypoxic rats (-log ED50 in CH = 8.15 +/- 0.01 vs in CHCE = 8.19 +/- 0.01, NS). Moreover, although the removal of endothelium has no effect in N rats, it leads, in NCE rats, to a significant increase in sensitivity to ET-1 (-log ED50 in endothelium intact rings = 7.89 +/- 0.04 vs in denuded rings = 8.04 +/- 0.02, p < 0.05). The implication of ET-1 receptors on both endothelial and smooth muscle cells is confirmed by the significant reduced sensitivity to ET-1 in ...Continue Reading
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