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Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 270: R1265-R1272, 1996;
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AJP - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, Vol 270, Issue 6 1265-R1272, Copyright © 1996 by American Physiological Society

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Role of angiotensin II and catecholamines in blood pressure variability responses to stress in SHR

E. Gaudet, J. Blanc and J. L. Elghozi
Laboratory of Pharmacology, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unite de Recherche Associee,Faculty of Medicine Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France.

The contribution of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) and the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) to blood pressure (BP) and heart rate (HR) variability responses to air-jet stress was assessed in spontaneously hypertensive (SHR) and Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rats. Activity of the encogenous RAS was suppressed by chronic treatment by a nonpeptide angiotensin II receptor antagonist (Iosartan). The role of alpha 1-adrenoceptor activity was evaluated in rats by acute administration of prazosin. In untreated animals, an air jet induced an increase in systolic BP (SBP; 9 +/- 2 mmHg for WKY and 8 +/- 2 mmHg for SHR) and in HR (56 +/- 19 beats/min for WKY and 76 +/- 8 beats/min for SHR), followed by an increase of the midfrequency (MF; 0.2-0.6 Hz) component of HR in WKY (183%) and by an increase of the MF component of SBP and diastolic BP in SHR (65%). Prazosin prevented BP rises as well as the MF component of BP and HR increases associated with air-jet stress. Chronic suppression of the RAS by losartan did not alter the BP response to the air jet in WKY and slightly reduced it in SHR but abolished all the BP and HR variability changes in both strains. These results indicate that the SNS but not RAS is essential for the BP rise induced by stress and demonstrate that RAS in conjunction with SNS is involved in BP and HR variability changes associated with stress.


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