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  • Title: Hypoxia-induced hyperreactivity of pulmonary arteries: role of cyclooxygenase-2, isoprostanes, and thromboxane receptors.
    Author: Delannoy E, Courtois A, Freund-Michel V, Leblais V, Marthan R, Muller B.
    Journal: Cardiovasc Res; 2010 Feb 01; 85(3):582-92. PubMed ID: 19710084.
    Abstract:
    AIMS: This study investigates the role of the cyclooxygenase (COX)/prostanoid pathway in chronic hypoxia-induced hyperreactivity of pulmonary arteries. METHODS AND RESULTS: Pulmonary arteries were removed from normoxic or hypoxic (0.5 atm for 21 days) mice and studied for protein expression/localization of COX-1, COX-2, and thromboxane A2 (TXA2)-synthase, release of TXA2, prostacyclin (PGI2) and the isoprostane 8-iso-prostaglandin F2alpha (8-iso-PGF2alpha), and vasomotor responses. COX-2 expression was increased in all layers of pulmonary arteries from hypoxic mice. In contrast, COX-1 expression was not significantly modified following chronic hypoxia, whereas TXA2-synthase was decreased. Chronic hypoxia differentially affected prostanoid release from pulmonary arteries: TXA2 secretion was not significantly modified; PGI2 secretion was decreased, whereas 8-iso-PGF2alpha secretion was increased. A selective COX-2 inhibitor decreased 8-iso-PGF2alpha release. Arachidonic acid elicited an endothelium- and COX-1-dependent relaxation in pulmonary arteries from normoxic mice. In contrast, arachidonic acid induced an endothelium-independent contraction in pulmonary arteries from hypoxic mice that was partially reduced by catalase, COX-1, COX-2, or TXA2-synthase inhibitors and was totally abolished by blockade of the thromboxane (TP) receptor. Hyperresponsiveness to phenylephrine (PE) of pulmonary arteries from hypoxic mice was also decreased by COX-2 inhibitors, TP receptor antagonists or catalase, but not by TXA2-synthase inhibitors. Finally, 8-iso-PGF2alpha induced a TP receptor-dependent contraction in pulmonary arteries and markedly potentiated the contractile response to PE. CONCLUSION: Chronic hypoxia up-regulates COX-2 expression, increases 8-iso-PGF2alpha release, and shifts arachidonic acid-induced, endothelium-dependent relaxation to an endothelium-independent and TP receptor-dependent contraction in pulmonary arteries. COX-2-dependent production of 8-iso-PGF2alpha, by activating TP receptors, participates in hypoxia-induced hyperreactivity of pulmonary arteries.
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