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Initiation of remote microvascular preconditioning requires K_ATP channel activity

Department of Biomedical Engineering, State University of New York Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York

Submitted 5 May 2005 ; accepted in final form 22 August 2005

The purpose of this study was to investigate vascular preconditioning of individual microvascular networks. Prior work shows that exposure of downstream arterioles to specific agonists preconditions upstream arterioles so that they exhibit an altered local vasoactive response [remote microvascular preconditioning (RMP)]. We hypothesized that mitochondrial ATP-sensitive K⁺ (K_ATP) channels were involved in stimulation of RMP. Arteriolar diameter (15 µm) was observed 1,000 µm upstream of the remote exposure site in the cheek pouch of pentobarbital sodium-anesthetized (70 mg/kg) male hamsters (n = 104); all agonists were applied via micropipette. RMP was initiated by application of pinacidil (Pin), diazoxide (DZ), sodium nitroprusside (SNP), or bradykinin (BK) to the downstream vessel. After 15 min, RMP was apparent at the upstream observation site from testing of local vasoactive responses to L-arginine. Pin, DZ, SNP, and BK each stimulated RMP. To evaluate a specific role for mitochondrial K_ATP channels in this response, 5-hydroxydecanoate was applied (via a 2nd pipette) during downstream stimulation with agonist. 5-Hydroxydecanoate blocked RMP initiated by Pin, DZ, or SNP, suggesting that mitochondrial K_ATP channels are involved before SNP signal transduction. To verify this, we applied N-nitro-L-arginine during DZ or SNP stimulation. RMP was blocked during SNP, but not during DZ, stimulation. Thus stimulation of the RMP response requires mitochondrial K_ATP channel activity after stimulation by nitric oxide donors.

nitric oxide; reactive oxygen; diazoxide

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