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J Physiol Volume 546, Number 2, 521-527, January 15, 2003 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2002.023663
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J Physiol (2003), 546.2, pp. 521-527
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DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2002.023663

Does nitric oxide allow endothelial cells to sense hypoxia and mediate hypoxic vasodilatation? In vivo and in vitro studies

Nicholas J. Edmunds, Salvador Moncada* and Janice M. Marshall

Department of Physiology, The Medical School, The University of Birmingham, Vincent Drive, Birmingham, B15 2TT and * The Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, The Cruciform Building, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK

Hypoxia-evoked vasodilatation is a fundamental regulatory mechanism that is often attributed to adenosine. The identity of the O2 sensor is unknown. Nitric oxide (NO) inhibits endothelial mitochondrial respiration and ATP generation by competing with O2 for its binding site on cytochrome oxidase. We proposed that in vivo this interaction allows endothelial cells to release adenosine when O2 tension falls or NO concentration increases. Using anaesthetised rats, we confirmed that the increase in femoral vascular conductance (FVC, hindlimb vasodilatation) evoked by systemic hypoxia is attenuated by NO synthesis blockade with L-NAME, but restored when baseline FVC is restored by infusion of NO donor. This 'restored' hypoxic response, like the control hypoxic response, is inhibited by the adenosine A1 receptor antagonist 8-cyclopentyl-1,3-dipropylxanthine. Similarly, the FVC increase evoked by adenosine infusion was attenuated by L-NAME but restored by infusion of NO donor. However, when baseline FVC was restored after L-NAME with 8-bromo-cGMP, the FVC increase evoked by adenosine infusion was restored, but not in response to systemic hypoxia, suggesting that adenosine was no longer released by hypoxia. Infusion of NO donor at a given rate after treatment with L-NAME evoked a greater FVC increase during systemic hypoxia than during normoxia, both responses being reduced by 8-cyclopentyl-1,3-dipropylxanthine. Finally, both bradykinin and NO donor released adenosine from superfused endothelial cells in vitro; L-NAME attenuated only the former response. We propose that in vivo, shear-released NO increases the apparent Km of endothelial cytochrome oxidase for O2, allowing the endothelium to act as an O2 sensor, releasing adenosine in response to moderate falls in O2.



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