Nitric oxide mediates hepatic arterial vascular escape from norepinephrine-induced constriction

American Journal of Physiology - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology

Volumn 277, Issue 6 40-6, 1999, Pages

  Ming, Zhi ^a   Han, Chao ^a   Lautt, W Wayne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blood flow; In vivo; Liver; N nitro L arginine methyl ester

Indexed keywords

N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NORADRENALIN;

ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERY CONSTRICTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEPATIC ARTERY; LIVER CIRCULATION; NONHUMAN; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; VASODILATATION;

EID: 0033383893     PISSN: 01931857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.1999.277.6.g1200     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. 2-Adrenoceptor subtype causing nitric oxide-mediated vascular relaxation in rats. J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther. 278: 1235-1243, 1996.
2. Busse, R., and I. Fleming. Pulsatile stretch and shear stress: physical stimuli determining the production of endothelium-derived relaxing factors. J. Vasc. Res. 35: 73-84, 1998.
3. 2-receptors in escape from sympathetic vasoconstriction. Am. J. Physiol. 261 (Heart Circ. Physiol. 30): H868-H873, 1991.
4. D'Almeida, M. S., and W. W. Lautt. The effect of glucagon on vasoconstriction and vascular escape from nerve-and norepinephrine-induced constriction of the hepatic artery of the cat. Can. J. Physiol. Pharmacol 67: 1418-1425, 1989.
5. 2+-independent activation of the endothelial nitric oxide synthase in response to tyrosine phosphatase inhibitors and fluid shear stress. Circ. Res. 82: 686-695 1998.
6. Forti, A. C., and M. C. Fonteles. Effect of insulin on renal vascular escape in normal and diabetic kidney. Horm. Metab. Res. 21: 6-9, 1995.
7. Greenway, C. V. Autoregulatory escape in arteriolar resistance vessels. In: Smooth Muscle Contraction, edited by N. L. Stephens. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1984, p. 473-484.
8. Greenway, C. V., G. D. Scott, and J. Zink. Sites of autoregulatory escape of blood flow in the mesenteric vascular bed. J. Physiol. (Lond.) 259: 1-12, 1976.
9. Hecker, M., A. Mulsch, E. Bassenge, and R. Busse. Vasoconstriction and increased flow: two principal mechanisms of shear stress-dependent endothelial autacoid release. Am. J. Physiol. 265 (Heart Circ. Physiol. 34): H828-H833, 1993.
10. 2 uptake and blood flow. Am. J. Physiol. 232 (Heart Circ. Physiol. 1): H652-H656, 1977.
11. Lautt, W. W. Carotid sinus baroreceptor effects on cat livers in control and hemorrhaged states. Can. J. Physiol. Pharmacol. 60: 1592-1602, 1982.
12. Lautt, W. W. Mechanism and role of intrinsic regulation of hepatic arterial blood flow: hepatic arterial buffer response. Am. J. Physiol. 249 (Gastrointest. Liver Physiol. 12): G549-G556, 1985.
13. Lautt, W. W. Hepatic circulation. In: Nervous Control of Blood Vessels, edited by T. Bennett and S. M. Gardiner. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Harwood Academic, 1996, p. 465-503.
14. Lautt, W. W., D. J. Legare, and M. S. d'Almeida. Adenosine as putative regulator of hepatic arterial flow (the buffer response). Am. J. Physiol. 248 (Heart Circ. Physiol. 17): H331-H338, 1985.
15. Lautt, W. W., and M. P. Macedo. Hepatic circulation and toxicology. Drug Metab. Rev. 29: 369-395, 1997.
16. Lautt, W. W., and F. S. Skelton. Effect of hepatic nerve stimulation on hepatic uptake of lidocaine in the cat. Life Sci. 19: 433-436, 1976.
17. Macedo, M. P., and W. W. Lautt. Shear-induced modulation of vasoconstriction in the hepatic artery and portal vein by nitric oxide. Am. J. Physiol. 274 (Gastrointest. Liver Physiol. 37): G253-G260, 1998.
18. Miura, H., A. Gardemann, J. Rosa, and K. Jungermann. Inhibition by noradrenaline and adrenaline of the increase in glucose and lactate output and decrease in flow after sympathetic nerve stimulation in perfused rat liver: possible involvement of protein kinase C. Hepatology 15: 477-484, 1992.
19. Nase, G. P., and M. A, Boegehold. Endothelium-derived nitric oxide limits sympathetic neurogenic constriction in intestinal microcirculation. Am. J. Physiol. 273 (Heart Circ. Physiol. 42): H426-H433, 1997.
20. Nase, G. P., and M. A. Boegehold. Modulation of sympathetic constriction by the arteriolar endothelium does not involve the cyclooxygenase pathway. Int. J. Microcirc. 17: 41-47, 1997.
21. 2-adrenoceptors are not present in proximal arterioles of the rat intestine. Am. J. Physiol. 274 (Heart Circ. Physiol. 43): H202-H208, 1998.
22. Oshita, M., Y. Takei, S. Kawano, H. Yoshihara, T. Hijioka, H. Fukui, M. Goto, E. Masuda, Y. Nishimura, H. Fusamoto, and T. Kamada. Roles of endothelin-1 and nitric oxide in the mechanism for ethanol-induced vasoconstriction in rat liver. J. Clin. Invest. 91: 1337-1342, 1993.
23. Pal, M., A. Toth, P. P. Ping, and P. C. Johnson. Capillary blood flow and tissue metabolism in skeletal muscle during sympathetic trunk stimulation. Am. J. Physiol. 274 (Heart Circ. Physiol. 43): H430-H440, 1998.
24. Remak, G., O. D. Hottenstein, and E. D. Jacobson. Adrenergic, purinergic, and endothelial mediators and modulators of norepinephrine-induced mesenteric autoregulatory escape. Dig. Dis. Sci. 39: 1655-1664, 1994.
25. Ruffolo, R. R., and J. P. Hieble. α-Adrenoceptors. J. Pharmacol. Ther. 61: 1-64, 1994.
26. Shebeko, V. I., and I. Rodionov. NO-synthase inhibition induces a resistant pressor reaction during the 10-minute intravenous infusion of angiotensin-2 to narcotized rats (Abstract). Biull. Eksp. Biol. Med. 116: 479, 1993.
27. Tschudi, M., V. Richard, F. R. Buhler, and T. F. Luscher. Importance of endothelium-derived nitric oxide in porcine coronary resistance arteries. Am. J. Physiol. 260 (Heart Circ. Physiol. 29): H13-H20, 1991.
28. Weidenbach, H., A. K. Nussler, Z. Shu, G. Adler, and K. Beckh. Nitric oxide formation lowers norepinephrine-induced intrahepatic resistance without major effects on the metabolism in the perfused rat liver. Hepatology 26: 147-154, 1997.