Affiliation:
1. From the Division of Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Diseases (D.H., V.M., R.S.S., D.R.H. Jr), and the Departments of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minn (L.A.S., Z.S.K.).
Abstract
Abstract
The coronary vasoconstrictor effects of endothelins, mediated by both endothelin ETA and ETB receptors, may be differentially altered in pathophysiological states associated with endothelial dysfunction and elevated endothelin levels. Experimental hypercholesterolemia is associated with coronary endothelial dysfunction and increased circulating endothelin concentrations. These studies were designed to test the hypothesis that experimental hypercholesterolemia is characterized by a differentially altered coronary contractile response to ETA- and ETB-receptor stimulation, in vitro. Pigs were fed either a normal or a high-cholesterol diet for 10 to 13 weeks. Changes in the intraluminal diameter of pressurized small coronary arteries (<481±25 μm in diameter) to cumulative concentrations (10
−10
to 10
−6
mol/L) of endothelin-1 (ET-1), and sarafotoxin 6c (S6c), a specific ETB-receptor agonist, were measured using a video dimension analyzer. The maximal contraction attained with ET-1 was greater than with S6c in both normal (86±7% versus 47±7%,
P
=.001) and hypercholesterolemic (77±6% versus 37±7%,
P
<.001) pigs. At 10
−10
mol/L, vessels from hypercholesterolemic pigs manifested greater contraction to both ET-1 (23±6% versus 8±3%,
P
=.02) and S6c (17±5% versus 4±2%,
P
=.02). Incubation of arteries from hypercholesterolemic pigs with BQ-788 (ETB-receptor antagonist), but not FR-139317 (ETA-receptor antagonist), altered the contractile response to ET-1 at 10
−10
mol/L. Removal of the endothelium abolished the difference in response to S6c between normal and hypercholesterolemic pigs. These studies demonstrate that experimental hypercholesterolemia is characterized by enhanced coronary vasoconstriction to endothelins in vitro, the mechanism of which is mediated mainly through the ETB receptor. Thus, the ETB receptor has a role in regulation of coronary artery tone in both the steady-state and pathophysiological states.
Publisher
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Subject
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
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