Vasomotion of mice mesenteric arteries during low oxygen levels

European Journal of Medical Research
J WesthoffM Henrich

Abstract

Ischemia of intestinal organs is a main cause of complications in surgical intensive care patients. Changes in the tonus of arteries contributing to vascular resistance play an important role in the determination of blood flow and thus oxygen supply of various abdominal organs. It is generally acknowledged that hypoxia itself is able to alter arterial tonus and thus blood flow. The present study compared the effects of various degrees of hypoxia on second-order mesenteric arteries from male C57BL/6J mice. After vessel isolation and preparation, we assessed vessel diameter using an arteriograph perfusion chamber. Investigating mechanisms promoting hypoxia-induced vasodilatation, we performed experiments in Ca2+-containing and Ca2+-free solutions, and furthermore, Ca2+-influx was inhibited by NiCl2, eNOS-/--, and TASK1-/--mice were investigated too. Mild hypoxia 14.4% O2 induced, in 50% of mesenteric artery segments from wild-type (wt) mice, a vasodilatation; severe hypoxia recruited further segments responding with vasodilatation reaching 80% under anoxia. However, the extension of dilatation of luminal arterial diameter reduced from 1.96% ± 0.55 at 14.4% O2 to 0.68% ± 0.13 under anoxia. Arteries exposed to hypoxia in Ca2+-free ...Continue Reading

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