Roles of heme oxygenase/carbon monoxide system in genetically hypertensive rats

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
T SekiH Demura

Abstract

Although carbon monoxide (CO) has been suggested to be involved in the regulation of cardiovascular function through activation of soluble guanylyl cyclase, the pathophysiological significance in hypertension remains unknown. We therefore examined the effects of heme oxygenase (HO) inhibitor zinc protoporphyrin IX (ZnPP-IX) on blood pressure and determined HO mRNA expression level in various tissues in stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR-SP/Izm) and Wistar Kyoto rats (WKY/Izm). Although ZnPP-IX significantly increased systolic blood pressure in both strains, the increment of blood pressure was larger in SHR-SP/Izm than in WKY/Izm. An essentially similar increase of blood pressure was demonstrated even in the ganglion blocker-pretreated rats. Constitutive type HO-2 mRNA levels in the aorta and kidney and inducible type HO-1 mRNA levels in the cardiac ventricle were significantly increased in SHR-SP/Izm compared with WKY/Izm. Clearly these results indicate the importance of the endogenous HO/CO system in the peripheral tissues in genetically hypertensive rats.

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