Endothelial function in deoxycorticosterone-NaCl hypertension: effect of calcium supplementation

Circulation
H MäkynenI Pörsti

Abstract

Dietary calcium intake has been suggested to correlate inversely with blood pressure in humans and experimental animals. However, the effects of calcium supplementation on hypertensive disturbances of the endothelium have not been well characterized. Wistar-Kyoto rats made hypertensive by deoxycorticosterone (DOC)-NaCl treatment, but a concurrent increase in chow calcium content from 1.1% to 2.5% markedly attenuated the rise in blood pressure. The function of isolated mesenteric arterial rings in vitro was investigated at the close of the 10-week study. In norepinephrine-precontracted rings, the relaxations to acetylcholine (ACh) and ADP, as well as to nitroprusside, 3-morpholinosydnonimine, and isoproterenol were attenuated in hypertensive rats on 1.1% calcium supplementation. In the presence of NG-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME), the relaxations to ACh in hypertensive animals on normal calcium were practically absent, whereas in normotensive rats and calcium-supplemented hypertensive rats, distinct relaxations to higher concentrations of ACh were still present. These responses were reduced by 30% to 50% with apamin, a blocker of Ca2+-activated K+ channels, and were further inhibited by blockade of ATP-dependent K+ chan...Continue Reading

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