Affiliation:
1. Clinical Pharmacology Department, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale CIC3, University Hospital, Grenoble, France;
2. Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U1042, Grenoble, France; and
3. University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
Abstract
Several mediators contribute to postocclusive reactive hyperemia (PORH) of the skin, including sensory nerves and endothelium-derived hyperpolarizing factors. The main objective of our study was to investigate the specific contribution of epoxyeicosatrienoic acids in human skin PORH. Eight healthy volunteers were enrolled in two placebo-controlled experiments. In the first experiment we studied the separate and combined effects of 6.5 mM fluconazole, infused through microdialysis fibers, and lidocaine/prilocaine cream on skin PORH following 5 min arterial occlusion. In the second experiment we studied the separate and combined effects of 6.5 mM fluconazole and 10 mM NG-monomethyl-l-arginine (l-NMMA). Skin blood flux was recorded using two-dimensional laser speckle contrast imaging. Maximal cutaneous vascular conductance (CVCmax) was obtained following 29 mM sodium nitroprusside perfusion. The PORH peak at the placebo site averaged 66 ± 11%CVCmax. Compared with the placebo site, the peak was significantly lower at the fluconazole (47 ± 10%CVCmax; P < 0.001), lidocaine (29 ± 10%CVCmax; P < 0.001), and fluconazole + lidocaine (30 ± 10%CVCmax; P < 0.001) sites. The effect of fluconazole on the area under the curve was more pronounced. In the second experiment, the PORH peak was significantly lower at the fluconazole site, but not at the l-NMMA or combination site, compared with the placebo site. In addition to sensory nerves cytochrome epoxygenase metabolites, putatively epoxyeicosatrienoic acids, play a major role in healthy skin PORH, their role being more important in the time course rather than the peak.
Publisher
American Physiological Society
Subject
Physiology (medical),Physiology
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