Enhanced function of inhibitory presynaptic cannabinoid CB1 receptors on sympathetic nerves of DOCA-salt hypertensive rats.

Abstract:

AIMS:This study was performed to examine whether hypertension affects the sympathetic transmission to resistance vessels of pithed rats via inhibitory presynaptic cannabinoid CB1 receptors and whether endocannabinoids are involved in this response. MATERIALS AND METHODS:We compared uninephrectomised rats rendered hypertensive by high salt diet and deoxycorticosterone acetate (DOCA) injections with normotensive animals (uninephrectomy only). Experiments were performed on vagotomised and pithed animals. Increases in diastolic blood pressure (DBP) were induced four times (S1-S4) by electrical stimulation or phenylephrine injection. KEY FINDINGS:Electrical stimulation (0.75Hz, 1ms, 50V, 5 impulses) of the preganglionic sympathetic nerve fibres innervating the blood vessels more strongly increased DBP in normotensive than in DOCA-salt rats. Phenylephrine (0.01μmol/kg) induced similar increases in DBP in both groups. The cannabinoid receptor agonist CP55940 (0.01-1μmol/kg) did not modify the rises in DBP induced by phenylephrine. However, it inhibited the electrically stimulated increases in DBP, more strongly in DOCA-salt than in normotensive animals (maximally by 50 and 30%, respectively). The effect of CP55940 was attenuated by the CB1 antagonist AM251 (3μmol/kg). AM251 enhanced the neurogenic vasopressor response during S4 by itself in hypertensive rats only. URB597 (3μmol/kg), which inhibits degradation of the endocannabinoid anandamide, did not modify the electrically stimulated increases in DBP. SIGNIFICANCE:The function of inhibitory presynaptic CB1 receptors on sympathetic nerves is enhanced in DOCA-salt hypertensive rats. Thus, the CB1 receptor-mediated inhibition of noradrenaline release from the sympathetic nerve fibres innervating the resistance vessels might play a protective role in hypertension.

journal_name

Life Sci

journal_title

Life sciences

authors

Toczek M,Schlicker E,Grzęda E,Malinowska B

doi

10.1016/j.lfs.2015.03.022

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2015-10-01 00:00:00

pages

78-85

eissn

0024-3205

issn

1879-0631

pii

S0024-3205(15)00215-5

journal_volume

138

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