PMID- 2441910 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 19871019 LR - 20190918 IS - 0730-0077 (Print) IS - 0730-0077 (Linking) VI - 9 IP - 4 DP - 1987 TI - Augmented vascular responses to ouabain in SHRSP during salt loading. PG - 753-71 AB - It is not known whether high salt diet alters the sarcolemmal Na-K pump activity of resistance vessels in stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRSP). We examined hindquarters vascular responses to ouabain 10(-3) M in the isolated hindquarters perfused with the Krebs-Henseleit solution in SHRSP and in normotensive Wistar-Kyoto rats (WKY) after two weeks of either normal (0.3% NaCl) or high (8% NaCl) salt diet. Salt loading increased arterial pressure (P less than 0.05) and augmented ouabain-induced vasoconstriction (P less than 0.01) in SHRSP. In WKY, salt loading did not alter arterial pressure or vascular responses to ouabain. Neither hindquarters vascular resistance during maximal vasodilatation produced by nitroprusside nor hindquarters vascular responses to norepinephrine were different between the two groups of SHRSP, which suggested that augmented response to ouabain in SHRSP on high salt diet could not be explained by structural vascular changes. Vasodilatation by phentolamine during maximal vasoconstriction induced by ouabain was also not different between two groups of SHRSP, which suggested that ouabain-induced release of norepinephrine from nerve endings was not different between the two groups of SHRSP. These results suggest that salt loading might augment the sarcolemmal Na-K pump activity of hindquarters resistance vessels in SHRSP but not in WKY. The augmented sarcolemmal Na-K pump activity of resistance vessels may act against salt-induced vasoconstriction in SHRSP. FAU - Imaizumi, T AU - Imaizumi T FAU - Takeshita, A AU - Takeshita A FAU - Ashihara, T AU - Ashihara T FAU - Yamamoto, K AU - Yamamoto K FAU - Nakamura, M AU - Nakamura M LA - eng PT - Comparative Study PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - United States TA - Clin Exp Hypertens A JT - Clinical and experimental hypertension. Part A, Theory and practice JID - 8207790 RN - 0 (Ion Channels) RN - 169D1260KM (Nitroprusside) RN - 5ACL011P69 (Ouabain) RN - 9NEZ333N27 (Sodium) RN - RWP5GA015D (Potassium) RN - X4W3ENH1CV (Norepinephrine) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Blood Pressure/drug effects MH - Blood Vessels/*drug effects/physiopathology/ultrastructure MH - Diet MH - Hindlimb/blood supply MH - Hypertension/etiology/physiopathology MH - Ion Channels/metabolism MH - Male MH - Nitroprusside/pharmacology MH - Norepinephrine/pharmacology MH - Ouabain/*pharmacology MH - Potassium/metabolism MH - Rats MH - Rats, Inbred SHR MH - Rats, Inbred WKY MH - Sarcolemma/metabolism MH - Sodium/*administration & dosage/adverse effects/metabolism MH - Vascular Resistance/drug effects MH - Vasoconstriction/drug effects EDAT- 1987/01/01 00:00 MHDA- 1987/01/01 00:01 CRDT- 1987/01/01 00:00 PHST- 1987/01/01 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 1987/01/01 00:01 [medline] PHST- 1987/01/01 00:00 [entrez] AID - 10.3109/10641968709161448 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Clin Exp Hypertens A. 1987;9(4):753-71. doi: 10.3109/10641968709161448.