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Cardiovascular Research 1995 30(6):952-959; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(95)00155-7
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Copyright © 1995, European Society of Cardiology

Temporal relationships between levels of circulating NO derivatives, vascular NO production and hyporeactivity to noradrenaline induced by endotoxin in rats

Dominique Payaa, Véronique Maupoilb, Christa Schotta, Luc Rochetteb and Jean-Claude Stoclet*

aLaboratoire de Pharmacologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire, CNRS URA 600, ULP, BP 24, 67041 Illkirch, France
bLaboratoire de Physiopathologie et Pharmacologie Cardiovasculaires Expérimentales, Faculté de Médecine, 7 Bd Jeanne d'Arc, 21033 Dijon, France

* Corresponding author. Tel. (+33) 88676933; Fax (+33) 88664633.

Objective: Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) induces early (within 1 h) and delayed (after several hours) impairment of vascular reactivity to catecholamines whose mechanisms are different, although they probably both involve nitric oxide (NO). Temporal and quantitative relationships between hyporeactivity to noradrenaline and NO production were investigated in a rat model of endotoxaemia allowing to clearly distinguish the two phases of hyporeactivity. Methods: Anaesthetised rats were infused with LPS (14 mg kg–1 h–1) for 1 h. Pressure responses to noradrenaline (NA) and circulating NO derivatives (nitrosyl haemoglobin, NO2–, NO3–) were monitored for 5 h after the onset of infusion. Reactivity to NA and tissue cyclic GMP level were also assessed ex vivo, in aortic rings taken at different experimental times. Results: LPS-induced early hyporeactivity to NA was associated with a moderate but significant increase in plasma NO3– level, without any significant change in concentration of the other circulating NO derivatives. Neither reactivity ex vivo nor cyclic GMP content were modified in aortae taken after 1 h of LPS infusion. By contrast, delayed hyporeactivity (5 h after the onset of LPS infusion) was associated with a large increase in all circulating NO derivatives (up to 2.5 fold), enhanced aortic cyclic GMP level and aortic hyporeactivity ex vivo. Pre-treatment of rats with NG-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (1 mg kg–1 i.v.) entirely prevented early hyporeactivity and rise in NO3– concentration. In addition it attenuated in comparable proportion both delayed hyporeactivity to NA in vivo and circulating levels of NO derivatives. Conclusion: The results confirm the involvement of NO in the two phases of hyporeactivity to NA induced by LPS. They strongly support the view that a circulating factor is involved in triggering endothelial NO release during the early phase, whereas the delayed phase is associated with a high production of NO in vascular smooth muscle resulting from the induction of NO synthase.

KEYWORDS Nitric oxide; L-NAME; Rat; arteries; Rat; anesthetized; Endotoxins; Catecholamines; Systemic hemodynamics


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