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Nitric oxide produced via neuronal NOS may impair vasodilatation in septic rat skeletal muscle

N C Gocan et al. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2000 May.

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Abstract

Impaired vascular responsiveness in sepsis may lead to maldistribution of blood flow in organs. We hypothesized that increased production of nitric oxide (NO) via inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) mediates the impaired dilation to ACh in sepsis. Using a 24-h cecal ligation and perforation (CLP) model of sepsis, we measured changes in arteriolar diameter and in red blood cell velocity (V(RBC)) in a capillary fed by the arteriole, following application of ACh to terminal arterioles of rat hindlimb muscle. Sepsis attenuated both ACh-stimulated dilation and V(RBC) increase. In control rats, arteriolar pretreatment with the NO donors S-nitroso-N-acetylpenicillamine or sodium nitroprusside reduced diameter and V(RBC) responses to a level that mimicked sepsis. In septic rats, arteriolar pretreatment with the "selective" iNOS blockers aminoguanidine (AG) or S-methylisothiourea sulfate (SMT) restored the responses to the control level. The putative neuronal NOS (nNOS) inhibitor 7-nitroindazole also restored the response toward control. At 24-h post-CLP, muscles showed no reduction of endothelial NOS (eNOS), elevation of nNOS, and, surprisingly, no induction of iNOS protein; calcium-dependent constitutive NOS (eNOS+nNOS) enzyme activity was increased whereas calcium-independent iNOS activity was negligible. We conclude that 1) AG and SMT inhibit nNOS activity in septic skeletal muscle, 2) NO could impair vasodilative responses in control and septic rats, and 3) the source of increased endogenous NO in septic muscle is likely upregulated nNOS rather than iNOS. Thus agents released from the blood vessel milieu (e.g., NO produced by skeletal muscle nNOS) could affect vascular responsiveness.

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Nitric oxide produced via neuronal NOS may impair vasodilatation in septic rat skeletal muscle - PubMed (original) (raw)