Abstract:
:To analyze the effects of diabetes mellitus on the vascular responsiveness to nitric oxide and thromboxane receptor stimulation, 2 mm long segments of basilar, coronary, renal and tail arteries from male and female, control (normoglycemic) and streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats, were prepared for isometric tension recording. In the segments at basal resting tension, the thromboxane analog U46619 (10(-9)-10(-5) M) produced concentration-dependent contraction, which was similar in arteries from male and female rats, and was reduced by diabetes in coronary arteries from male and in tail arteries from female rats. In the vascular segments precontracted with endothelin-1 (10(-9) M), acetylcholine (10(-9)-3 x 10(-5) M) produced concentration-dependent relaxation which was similar in all arteries from normoglycemic male and female rats, and was increased by diabetes in tail arteries from female, but not in those from male rats. In precontracted segments the nitric oxide donor sodium nitroprusside (10(-10)-10(-5) M) also produced concentration-dependent relaxation, which was higher in basilar arteries from normoglycemic females compared with males, and was increased by diabetes in tail arteries from female but not from male rats. These results suggest that diabetes may increase the relaxation to nitric oxide in tail arteries, and may reduce the contraction to thromboxane receptor activation in coronary and tail arteries in a gender-dependent way. These changes in vascular reactivity may be adaptative to the vascular alterations produced by diabetes.
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Life Scijournal_title
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Sanz E,Fernández N,Monge L,Martínez MA,Climent B,Diéguez G,García-Villalón ALdoi
10.1016/s0024-3205(02)02444-xsubject
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2003-02-14 00:00:00pages
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