AJP - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, Vol 272, Issue 1 26-R33, Copyright © 1997 by American Physiological Society

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Role of central ANG II receptors in stress-induced cardiovascular and hyperthermic responses in rats

Y. Saiki, T. Watanabe, N. Tan, M. Matsuzaki and S. Nakamura
Department of Physiology, Yamaguchi University School of Medicine, Japan.

The present study was carried out using a biotelemetry system to investigate whether central angiotensin II (ANG II) is involved in stress-induced cardiovascular and body temperature responses in rats. Intracerebroventricular injections of the nonselective ANG II-receptor antagonist saralasin and of the ANG II AT1-receptor antagonist losartan attenuated both the heart rate and pressor responses to immobilization stress in a dose-dependent manner. The elevation of plasma norepinephrine and epinephrine induced by immobilization stress was also suppressed by central ANG II-receptor blockade, suggesting a general attenuation of stress-induced sympathetic nervous and adrenomedullary activity by central ANG II-receptor blockade. The hyperthermia induced by immobilization stress was attenuated by central ANG II AT1-receptor blockade in a dose-dependent manner. The effects of central saralasin on the blood pressure response induced by immobilization stress were greater in Wistar-Kyoto rats than in spontaneously hypertensive rats. The present results suggest that central ANG II AT1-receptors are involved in expression of the tachycardia and hyperthermia, as well as the pressor response, induced by immobilization stress.

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