Affiliation:
1. Department of Pharmacology, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112
Abstract
The role of cyclooxygenase (COX)-1 and -2 in prostanoid formation and modulation of pressor responses to ANG II was investigated in the pulmonary and systemic vascular beds in the rat. In the present study, selective COX-1 and -2 inhibitors attenuated increases in pulmonary arterial pressure and decreases in systemic arterial pressure in response to arachidonic acid but did not alter responses to PGE1 or U-46619. The selective COX-1 and -2 inhibitors did not modify systemic pressor responses to injections or infusions of ANG II or pulmonary pressor responses to injections of the peptide. COX-2 inhibitors did not alter, whereas a COX-1 inhibitor depressed, arachidonic acid-induced platelet aggregation. These data provide evidence in support of the hypothesis that prostanoid synthesis occurs by way of the COX-1 and -2 pathways in the pulmonary and systemic vascular beds but that pressor responses to ANG II are not mediated or modulated by these pathways in the rat.
Publisher
American Physiological Society
Subject
Physiology (medical),Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine,Physiology
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15 articles.
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