Nitric oxide inhibits alpha2-adrenoceptor-mediated endothelium-dependent vasodilation

Circulation Research
E ThorinJ A Bevan

Abstract

This study was designed to investigate the interaction between the NO/L-arginine pathway and the alpha2-adrenoceptor-mediated endothelium-dependent vasorelaxation. Reactivity of isolated resistance mesenteric arterial segments from mice lacking the gene for constitutive endothelial NO synthase (eNOS- mice, n=14) and from their wild-type controls (WT mice, n=46) was studied in isometric conditions in the presence of indomethacin (blocker of cyclooxygenase). Oxymetazoline (OXY, 0.01 to 30 micromol/L; a selective alpha2-adrenoceptor agonist) induced an endothelium-dependent relaxation of eNOS- but not WT arteries preconstricted either with phenylephrine or serotonin. In the presence of Nomega-nitro-L-arginine (l-NNA, 100 micromol/L), an inhibitor of NOS, OXY induced an endothelium-dependent relaxation of WT mesenteric arteries. l-NNA had no effect on the relaxation caused by OXY in eNOS- arterial rings. Therefore, the relaxation caused by OXY was independent of NO formation. To demonstrate the inhibitory role of NO on the alpha2-adrenoceptor-mediated relaxation, subthreshold (0.1 nmol/L) to threshold (1 nmol/L) concentrations of sodium nitroprusside (donor of NO) were added to l-NNA-treated arteries before OXY challenges: in these...Continue Reading

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