Lipoteichoic Acid from Staphylococcus aureus Depresses Contractile Function of Human Arteries in Vitro Due to the Induction of Nitric Oxide Synthase

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 948-953

  Tsuneyoshi, Isao ^a   Kanmura, Yuichi ^a   Yoshimura, Nozomu ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CYCLIC GMP; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; GUANYLATE CYCLASE INHIBITOR; ISOBUTYLMETHYLXANTHINE; LIPOTEICHOIC ACID; METHYLENE BLUE; N(G) NITROARGININE; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR; NORADRENALIN; POLYMYXIN B;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY CONSTRICTION; ARTERY ENDOTHELIUM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INDUCTION; GASTROEPIPLOIC ARTERY; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VASCULAR RING;

ABDOMINAL MUSCLES; AGED; ARTERIES; CYCLIC GMP; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; HUMANS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NOREPINEPHRINE; OMENTUM; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TEICHOIC ACIDS; TIME FACTORS; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS;

EID: 0029988709     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199605000-00010     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Lowry SF. Sepsis and complications: clinical definitions and therapeutic prospects. Crit Care Med 1994;22:S1-2.
2. Moncada S, Palmer RMJ, Higgs EA. Nitric oxide: physiology, pathophysiology and pharmacology. Pharmacol Rev 1991;43: 109-42.
3. Nathan C, Xie Q-W. Nitric oxide synthases: roles, tolls, and controls. Cell 1994;78:915-8.
4. Julou-Schaeffer G, Gray G, Fleming I. Loss of vascular responsiveness induced by endotoxin involves L-arginine pathway. Am J Physiol 1990;259:H1038-43.
5. Petros A, Bennett D, Vallance P. Effect of nitric oxide synthase inhibitor on hypotension in patients with septic shock. Lancet 1991;338:1557-8.
6. Geroulanos S, Schilling J, Cakmakci M, et al. Inhibition of NO synthesis in septic shock. Lancet 1992;39:434-5.
7. Nabil SD, Mohammed NHC, Desouky FF. Septic shock in critically ill patients: aetiology, management and outcome. J Infect 1993;26:159-70.
8. Suffredini AF, Fromm RE, Parker MM, et al. The cardiovascular response of normal human to the administration of endotoxin. N Engl J Med 1989;321:280-7.
9. Beasley D. Interleukin 1 and endotoxin activate soluble guanylate cyclase in vascular smooth muscle. Am J Physiol 1990;259: R38-44.
10. Wakabayashi I, Hatake K, Kakishita E, et al. Desensitization of alpha-1 adrenergic receptor mediated smooth muscle contraction in aorta from endotoxic rats. Life Sci 1989;45:509-15.
11. Fischer W. Lipoteichoic acids and lipids in the membrane of Staphylococcus aureus. Med Microbiol Immunol 1994;183:61-76.
12. Auguet M, Lonchampt M-O, Delaflotte S, et al. Induction of nitric oxide synthase by lipoteichoic acid from Staphylococcus aureus in vascular smooth muscle cells. FEBS 1992;297:183-5.
13. De Kimpe SJ, Hunter ML, Bryant CE, et al. Delayed circulatory failure due to induction of nitric oxide synthase by lipoteichoic acid from Staphylococcus aureus in anaesthetized rats. Br J Pharmacol 1995;114:1317-23.
14. Radpmski MW, Palmer RMJ, Moncada S. Glucocorticoids inhibit the expression of an inducible, but not the constitutive, nitric oxide synthase in vascular endothelial cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1990;87:10043-7.
15. Bone RC. Gram-positive organisms and sepsis. Arch Intern Med 1994;154:26-34.
16. Wakabayashi G, Gelfand JA, Jung WK, et al. Staphylococcus epidermidis induces complement activation, tumor necrosis factor and interleukin-1, a shock-like state and tissue injury in rabbits without endotoxiemia. J Clin Invest 1991;87:1925-35.
17. Ahmed AJ, Kruse JA, Haupt MT, et al. Hemodynamic responses to Gram-positive sepsis in critically ill patients with and without circulatory shock. Crit Care Med 1991;19:1520-5.
18. Todd JK, Franco-Buff A, Lawellin DW, Vasil ML. Phenotypic distinctiveness of Staphylococcus aureus strains associated with toxic shock syndrome. Infect Immun 1984;45:339-44.
19. Veasy LGSE, Wiedmeier SE, Orsmond GS, et al. Resurgence of acute rheumatic fever in the intermountain area of the United States. N Engl J Med 1987;316:421-7.
20. Maurer JJ, Mattingly SJ. Molecular analysis of lipoteichoic acid from Streptococcus agalactiae. J Bacteriol 1991;173:487-94.