TY - JOUR
T1 - Hypoxia, metabolic inhibition, and isolated rat mesenteric tone
T2 - Influence of arterial diameter
AU - Otter, Donna
AU - Austin, Clare
PY - 2000/1/1
Y1 - 2000/1/1
N2 - The present study examined and compared the effects of severe hypoxia (induced by either substitution of O2 in the gassing medium with N2 or by addition of the O2 scavenger sodium dithionite) and metabolic inhibition (induced by addition of sodium cyanide) on the tone of isolated rat mesenteric resistance vessels. The influence of vessel diameter and the endothelium on responses to these maneuvers was investigated. Hypoxia (due to both substitution of O2 with N2 and by addition of 2 mM sodium dithionite) caused near maximal relaxation of all tissues studied. Addition of 10 mM dithionite, however, produced a significantly smaller response. Two mM cyanide also relaxed mesenteric arteries. In small vessels a neat maximal relaxation to cyanide was observed, however, in larger vessels the relaxation to metabolic inhibition was significantly less than that observed to hypoxia. Increasing the concentration of cyanide had no further effect on responses. All responses were found to be endothelium-independent. Thus, as the effects of hypoxia and cyanide are not always similar, care must be taken when extrapolating the effects of metabolic inhibition to those of hypoxia. The results of this study suggest that, in large mesenteric vessels at least, an 'O2 sensing step,' in addition to effects of metabolism, may be involved in the hypoxic response. (C) 2000 Academic Press.
AB - The present study examined and compared the effects of severe hypoxia (induced by either substitution of O2 in the gassing medium with N2 or by addition of the O2 scavenger sodium dithionite) and metabolic inhibition (induced by addition of sodium cyanide) on the tone of isolated rat mesenteric resistance vessels. The influence of vessel diameter and the endothelium on responses to these maneuvers was investigated. Hypoxia (due to both substitution of O2 with N2 and by addition of 2 mM sodium dithionite) caused near maximal relaxation of all tissues studied. Addition of 10 mM dithionite, however, produced a significantly smaller response. Two mM cyanide also relaxed mesenteric arteries. In small vessels a neat maximal relaxation to cyanide was observed, however, in larger vessels the relaxation to metabolic inhibition was significantly less than that observed to hypoxia. Increasing the concentration of cyanide had no further effect on responses. All responses were found to be endothelium-independent. Thus, as the effects of hypoxia and cyanide are not always similar, care must be taken when extrapolating the effects of metabolic inhibition to those of hypoxia. The results of this study suggest that, in large mesenteric vessels at least, an 'O2 sensing step,' in addition to effects of metabolism, may be involved in the hypoxic response. (C) 2000 Academic Press.
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U2 - 10.1006/mvre.1999.2212
DO - 10.1006/mvre.1999.2212
M3 - Article
C2 - 10625577
AN - SCOPUS:0033979409
SN - 0026-2862
VL - 59
SP - 107
EP - 114
JO - Microvascular Research
JF - Microvascular Research
IS - 1
ER -