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Vascular smooth muscle and neurohypophyseal hormones
B M Altura et al. Fed Proc. 1977 May.
Abstract
Experimental studies relating to the direct peripheral vascular actions of neurohypophyseal hormones and their synthetic variants are reviewed. In addition, the available data on the comparative pharmacologic actions of these peptides on mammalian vascular smooth muscle are reviewed. Experiments relating to mechanisms by which neurohypophyseal peptides induce contraction of blood vessels are discussed. Neurohypophyseal peptide hormones appear to be able to contract and relax vascular smooth muscle, the exact type of response being dependent on species, vascular bed, and region within a vascular bed. Receptors that subserve both contraction and relaxation may exist on different blood vessels within a species, with a preponderance of receptors that subserve contraction being present in most blood vessels. Concentrations of vasopressin that can be considered physiologic (i.e., 10(-13) to 10(-11) M) are capable of evoking responses on a variety of microscopic as well as large blood vessels. Arginine-vasopressin appears to be, relatively, the most potent contractile substance on rat blood vessels investigated to date; angiotensin is not. Preservative-free oxytocin is a contractile agent on all mammalian arterial and arteriolar vessels so far investigated. A great deal of the controversy surrounding the exact vascular actions elicited by these peptide hormones can be attributed to many factors that were not controlled in older experiments. Moreover, rat pressor assays cannot be utilized to determine structure-activity relationship for neurohypophyseal peptides on vascular smooth muscles. Nuerohypophyseal peptide-induced contractions of vascular smooth muscles can be markedly affected by sex, sex hormones, alcohols, [Ca2+]0, [mg2+]0, oxygen deficit, and glucose-deprivation. Extracellular sodium and potassium ions appear to play relatively little role in vasopressin-induced contractions of rat arterial smooth muscle. The terminal amino group, phenolic hydroxyl, aromatic ring and basicity in positions 1, 2, 3, and 8, respectively, of the neurohypophyseal hormones are important for optimizing hormone-receptor affinity and intrinsic contractile activity on vascular smooth muscle. Basicity in position 8 of these peptide hormones is not an absolute requirement for contractile activation of these smooth muscles. Alterations in molecular structure can result in neurohypophyseal peptides with unique, and selective, microcirculatory effects that may be beneficial in the treatment of low-flow states.
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