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Modulation of autonomic nervous system adjustments to heat stress by central ANG II receptor antagonism

K. C. Kregel, H. Stauss and T. Unger
Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721.

The purpose of this study was to determine whether central angiotensin II (ANG II) participates in mediating selected sympathetic nervous system and neuroendocrine adjustments to heat stress in conscious freely moving rats. Mean arterial pressure (MAP), heart rate (HR), splanchnic sympathetic nerve activity (SpNA), plasma arginine vasopressin (AVP) concentration, and colonic temperature were measured before and during whole body heating (42 degrees C ambient temperature). Heating was stopped when a colonic temperature of 41 degrees C was attained. On consecutive days, rats received an intracerebroventricular (icv) injection of saline (0.9%) or 25 micrograms of the ANG II AT1-selective receptor antagonist losartan 20 min before the start of heating. Neither treatment influenced control levels of any parameter. The increase above baseline for MAP at the end of heating was attenuated by > 50% in the losartan, compared with the saline trial (P < 0.05), while HR remained unchanged from control values for both trials. Pretreatment with losartan icv eliminated the increase in SpNA observed during the heating period in the saline trial. Furthermore, the magnitude of change in plasma AVP during heating was significantly elevated in rats after icv administration of saline compared with losartan. These findings indicate that central ANG II receptor antagonism significantly attenuates the heating-induced elevations in MAP, sympathetic neural activity to visceral regions, and plasma AVP and suggest that the central nervous system actions of endogenous ANG II are required for full expression of the sympathoexcitatory, pressor, and neuroendocrine responses associated with nonexertional heat stress in the conscious rat.

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