Journal article
Rapid tachyphylaxis to hemodynamic effects of PACAP-27 after inhibition of nitric oxide synthesis
American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology, Vol.276(6), pp.H2117-H2126
06/01/1999
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.1999.276.6.H2117
PMID: 10362695
Abstract
The vasodilator effects of pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP)-27 are subject to tachyphylaxis in rats treated with the nitric oxide (NO) synthase inhibitor N G-nitro-l-arginine methyl ester (l-NAME). We examined whether this tachyphylaxis could be prevented by administration of the putative endothelium-derived nitrosyl factor S-nitroso-l-cysteine (l-SNC) and whetherl-SNC may exert its effects via increases in cGMP levels in vascular smooth muscle. Five doses of PACAP-27 (2 nmol/kg iv) produced pronounced vasodilator responses in saline-treated rats. These responses were not subject to tachyphylaxis. The first injection of PACAP-27 (2 nmol/kg iv) inl-NAME-treated (50 μmol/kg iv) rats produced vasodilator responses similar to those in saline-treated rats, whereas subsequent injections produced progressively smaller responses. The injection ofl-SNC (1,200 nmol/kg iv) before each injection of PACAP-27 prevented tachyphylaxis to the Gs protein-coupled receptor agonist in l-NAME-treated rats, whereas equihypotensive doses of the NO donor sodium nitroprusside (100 μg/kg iv) did not. The injection of the membrane-permeant cGMP analog 8-(4-chlorophenylthio)guanosine 3′,5′-cyclic monophosphate (8-CPT-cGMP; 30 μmol/kg iv) tol-NAME-treated rats restored resting hemodynamic values to pre-l-NAME levels but did not prevent the development of tachyphylaxis to PACAP-27. These results suggest that nitrosyl factors prevent the development of tachyphylaxis to the hemodynamic actions of PACAP-27. These nitrosyl factors may act independently of their ability to generate cGMP in vascular smooth muscle.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Rapid tachyphylaxis to hemodynamic effects of PACAP-27 after inhibition of nitric oxide synthesis
- Creators
- Erin J Whalen - Departments of Pharmacology and Psychology and Cardiovascular Center, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242Mark D Travis - Departments of Pharmacology and Psychology and Cardiovascular Center, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242Alan Kim Johnson - Departments of Pharmacology and Psychology and Cardiovascular Center, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242Stephen J Lewis - Departments of Pharmacology and Psychology and Cardiovascular Center, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology, Vol.276(6), pp.H2117-H2126
- DOI
- 10.1152/ajpheart.1999.276.6.H2117
- PMID
- 10362695
- ISSN
- 0363-6135
- eISSN
- 1522-1539
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/01/1999
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Neuroscience and Pharmacology; Health and Human Physiology
- Record Identifier
- 9984213410102771
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