Prostaglandins mediate arteriolar dilation to increased blood flow velocity in skeletal muscle microcirculation

Circulation Research
A Koller, G Kaley

Abstract

In cremaster muscle of pentobarbital-anesthetized rats, temporary occlusion of an arteriole increased red blood cell velocity (mean increase, 8.2 +/- 1.0 mm/sec from a control velocity of 7.9 +/- 0.7 mm/sec) in proximal parallel arteriolar branches (mean control diameter, 19.4 +/- 0.6 microns). Increases in flow velocity were consistently followed by proportional delayed (6-15 seconds) increases in arteriolar diameter (5.8 +/- 0.7 microns). Administration of NG-monomethyl-L-arginine (200 microM), an inhibitor of the synthesis of endothelium-derived relaxing factor that blocked the arteriolar responses to acetylcholine (1 microM) but not to arachidonic acid (10 microM), did not affect the dilation (mean increase, 8.9 +/- 1.1 microns) due to increases in red blood cell velocity (13.4 +/- 1.5 mm/sec). However, the cyclooxygenase inhibitor indomethacin (or meclofenamate), which completely blocked the dilator response to arachidonic acid but did not change the response to acetylcholine, inhibited the arteriolar dilation (mean increase, 0.3 +/- 0.2 micron) due to increases in red blood cell velocity (9.3 +/- 1.0 mm/sec). Inhibition of prostaglandin synthesis also reduced the increase in calculated blood flow by 57% during occlusion. ...Continue Reading

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