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NEUROHUMORAL CONTROL OF CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION

Enhanced skeletal muscle arteriolar reactivity to ANG II after recovery from ischemic acute renal failure

¹Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana; ²Department of Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Wisconsin; and ³Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Cardiovascular Sciences, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia

Submitted 14 April 2005 ; accepted in final form 4 August 2005

In addition to the long-term renal complications, previous studies suggested that after acute renal failure (ARF), rats manifest an increased pressor response to an overnight infusion of ANG II. The present study tested whether recovery from ARF results in alterations in sensitivity to the peripheral vasculature. ARF was induced in Sprague-Dawley rats by 45 min of bilateral renal ischemia and reperfusion. Animals were allowed to recover renal structure and function for 5–8 wk, after which the acute pressor responses to ANG II were evaluated either in vivo in in situ skeletal muscle arterioles or in isolated gracilis muscle arteries in vitro. Baseline arterial pressure was not different in ARF rats vs. sham-operated controls, although ARF rats exhibited an enhanced pressor response to bolus ANG II infusion compared with control rats. Steady-state plasma ANG II concentration and plasma renin activity were similar between ARF and control rats. Constrictor reactivity of in situ cremasteric arterioles from ARF rats was enhanced in response to increasing concentrations of ANG II; however, no difference was observed in arteriolar responses to elevated PO₂, norepinephrine, acetylcholine, or sodium nitroprusside. Isolated gracilis muscle arteries from ARF rats also showed increased vasoconstriction in response to ANG II but not norepinephrine. In conclusion, recovery from ischemic ARF is not associated with hypertension but is associated with increased arteriolar constrictor reactivity to ANG II. Although the mechanisms of this altered responsiveness are unclear, such changes may relate, in part, to cardiovascular complications in patients with ARF and/or after renal transplant.

ischemia; blood pressure

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