Affiliation:
1. Departments of Reproductive Biology,
2. Pathology, and
3. Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio 44106
Abstract
Estradiol had a biphasic effect on permeability across cultures of human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC): at nanomolar concentrations it decreased the HUVEC culture permeability, but at micromolar concentrations it increased the permeability. The objective of the present study was to test the hypothesis that the changes in permeability were mediated by nitric oxide (NO)-related mechanisms. The results revealed dual modulation of endothelial paracellular permeability by estrogen. 1) An endothelial NO synthase (eNOS)-, NO-, and cGMP-related, Ca2+-dependent decrease in permeability was activated by nanomolar concentrations of estradiol, resulting in enhanced Cl−influx, increased cell size, and increases in the resistance of the lateral intercellular space ( RLIS) and in the resistance of the tight junctions ( RTJ); these effects appeared to be limited by the ability of cells to generate cGMP in response to NO. 2) An inducible NO synthase (iNOS)- and NO-related, Ca2+-independent increase in permeability was activated by micromolar concentrations of estradiol, resulting in enhanced Cl−efflux, decreased cell size, and decreased RLISand RTJ. We conclude that the net effect on transendothelial permeability across HUVEC depends on the relative contributions of each of these two systems to the total paracellular resistance.
Publisher
American Physiological Society
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