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Augmented sphingosylphosphorylcholine-induced Ca2+-sensitization of mesenteric artery contraction in spontaneously hypertensive rat

Authors
 Sung-Kyung Ryu  ;  Duck Sun Ahn  ;  Young-Eun Cho  ;  Soo-Kyung Choi  ;  Young-Hwan Kim  ;  Kathleen G. Morgan  ;  Young-Ho Lee 
Citation
 NAUNYN-SCHMIEDEBERGS ARCHIVES OF PHARMACOLOGY, Vol.373(1) : 30-36, 2006 
Journal Title
NAUNYN-SCHMIEDEBERGS ARCHIVES OF PHARMACOLOGY
ISSN
 0028-1298 
Issue Date
2006
MeSH
Amides/pharmacology ; Animals ; Calcium/metabolism* ; Flavonoids/pharmacology ; Hypertension/physiopathology* ; Mesenteric Arteries/drug effects* ; Mesenteric Arteries/physiology ; Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases/physiology ; Myosin Light Chains/metabolism ; Naphthalenes/pharmacology ; Phosphorylation ; Phosphorylcholine/analogs & derivatives* ; Phosphorylcholine/pharmacology ; Protein Kinase C/physiology ; Pyridines/pharmacology ; Rats ; Rats, Inbred SHR ; Rats, Inbred WKY ; Sphingosine/analogs & derivatives* ; Sphingosine/pharmacology ; Vasoconstriction/drug effects* ; rho-Associated Kinases/physiology
Keywords
E-C coupling ; Hypertension ; Microcirculation ; Vasoconstriction
Abstract
Sphingosylphosphorylcholine (SPC) is a vasoconstricting lysosphingolipid, and the RhoA/Rho-kinase pathway plays an important role in SPC-induced contraction. Since RhoA/Rho-kinase-mediated signaling is involved in the generation and/or maintenance of hypertension, we compared the effect of SPC on the contractility of endothelium-denuded small mesenteric arteries in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and Wistar Kyoto rats (WKY). Fura-2 Ca2+ signals, contractile responses, and phosphorylation of 20-kDa myosin light chains (MLC20) were measured. Ten μM SPC induced a gradual and sustained vasoconstriction, which was greater in arteries of the SHR (82.5±4.3%, n=9) than in those of the WKY (26.7±4.5%, n=10). In Ca2+-free media, SPC gradually increased vascular tone in the SHR, but caused little vasoconstriction in the WKY. In the SHR and WKY, SPC evoked a greater vasoconstriction than did high K+depolarization at a given Ca2+ ratio, and the Ca2+ ratio–tension curve induced by SPC was significantly shifted to the left compared with that induced by high K+ depolarization. However, the magnitude of shift to the left was greater in the SHR than in the WKY. The Rho-kinase inhibitor Y-27632 significantly inhibited SPC-induced contractions, but neither the protein kinase C inhibitor calphostin-C nor PD98059, which inhibits activation of some mitogen-activated protein kinases, had any effect on the SHR or the WKY. SPC significantly increased the phosphorylation of MLC20 in both the SHR and the WKY, and Y-27632 inhibited the SPC-induced increase in MLC20 phosphorylation in the SHR. Our results suggest that SPC induces greater vascular tone in the SHR than in the WKY. Furthermore, our results indicate that activation of the Rho-kinase pathway plays an important role in the SPC-induced Ca2+ sensitization in the SHR.
Full Text
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00210-006-0036-7
DOI
10.1007/s00210-006-0036-7
Appears in Collections:
1. College of Medicine (의과대학) > Dept. of Physiology (생리학교실) > 1. Journal Papers
Yonsei Authors
Ahn, Duk Sun(안덕선) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9351-6951
Lee, Young Ho(이영호) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5749-1045
URI
https://ir.ymlib.yonsei.ac.kr/handle/22282913/108779
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