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  • Title: Contractile responses to ouabain and K+-free solution in aorta from hypertensive rats.
    Author: Moreland RS, Major TC, Webb RC.
    Journal: Am J Physiol; 1986 Apr; 250(4 Pt 2):H612-9. PubMed ID: 3963217.
    Abstract:
    This study characterizes isometric force development in response to ouabain and K+-free solution in isolated aortic strips from spontaneously hypertensive (SHR) and Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rats. SHR aortas were more sensitive to ouabain than those from WKY (threshold: SHR, 3.1 X 10(-5) M; WKY, 25.6 X 10(-5) M), and force development in response to 10(-3) M ouabain was greater in SHR (SHR, 586 +/- 51 mg; WKY, 245 +/- 24 mg). Monensin, a Na+ ionophore, potentiated contractile responses to ouabain, whereas amiloride, a Na+ channel blocker, and low Na+ solutions depressed contractile responses to ouabain. Contractile responses of SHR aortic strips to K+-free solution were faster than those of WKY aortic strips [time to half-maximal response (t1/2): SHR, 24 +/- 5 min; WKY, 47 +/- 4 min]. Maximal force development by aortic strips from SHR in response to K+-free solution was not different from that of WKY aortic strips (SHR, 808 +/- 34 mg; WKY, 750 +/- 37 mg). Monensin (10(-5) M) increased the rate of force development to K+-free solution to a greater extent in WKY aortic strips than in those from SHR (t1/2: SHR, 3 +/- 1 min; WKY, 4 +/- 2 min). Amiloride and low Na+ solution depressed contractile responses to K+-free solution in both SHR and WKY aortic strips. These observations demonstrate that SHR aortas are more responsive to ouabain and K+-free solution compared with WKY aortas. Contractile responses to ouabain and K+-free solution were sensitive to experimental interventions that alter transmembrane Na+ movements.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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