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AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Vol 272, Issue 4 1804-H1809, Copyright © 1997 by American Physiological Society
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A. Huang, D. Sun, A. Koller and G. Kaley
Department of Physiology, New York Medical College, Valhalla 10595, USA.
The characteristics of arteriolar myogenic responses of female rats have not been investigated. Thus experiments were conducted on isolated gracilis muscle arterioles (approximately 55 microm diameter) of four groups of 12-wk-old rats: male rats, female rats, ovariectomized female rats with no estrogen replacement (OV), and ovariectomized female rats with estrogen replacement (OV + E2, 50 microg/kg s.c. injection of 17beta-estradiol benzoate every 48 h). Diameter changes in response to increases in perfusion pressure from 20 to 140 mmHg and to various concentrations of substance P (SP, 10(-9)-5 x 10(-8) M) and sodium nitroprusside (SNP, 10(-8)-10(-6) M) were measured before and after administration of N(omega)-nitro-L-arginine (L-NNA, 10(-4) M), an inhibitor of NO synthase. Arteriolar diameters of male and OV female rats were significantly less at 60-140 mmHg pressure than those of normal female and OV + E2 female rats (at 80 mmHg, 45.4 +/- 1.8 and 43.1 +/- 2.2 vs. 58.4 +/- 1.6 and 57.3 +/- 1.3%). L-NNA elicited a significantly greater downward shift of pressure-diameter curves in arterioles of normal female and OV + E2 female rats than in arterioles of male and OV female rats (28.6 +/- 4.6 and 30.6 +/- 4.7 vs. 13.2 +/- 0.9 and 10.4 +/- 2.6%). Dilations of arterioles from normal female and OV +/- E2 female rats to SP were significantly greater (by 50-60%) than those from male and OV female rats (20.8 +/- 1.8 and 22.3 +/- 1.9 vs. 13.8 +/- 1.4 and 13.8 +/- 0.6% at 10(-8) M). L-NNA did not affect dilations to SNP but significantly reduced the dilation of arterioles in all groups to SP, more so in arterioles of male and OV female rats than in arterioles of the other two groups. We conclude that pressure-induced myogenic constriction of arterioles of female rats is less pronounced than that of male rats; this is, most likely, due to the enhanced release and/or activity of NO related to the presence of estrogen.
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