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. 1991 Aug;103(4):1851–1856. doi: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.1991.tb12341.x

Kinin receptors of the central nervous system of spontaneously hypertensive rats related to the pressor response to bradykinin.

D T Martins 1, D R Fior 1, C R Nakaie 1, C J Lindsey 1
PMCID: PMC1908208  PMID: 1655143

Abstract

1. Kinin analogues bradykinin (BK), T-kinin, Met-Lys-BK, Lys-Lys-BK, Des-Arg9-BK with agonist activity and D-Arg0-Hyp3-Thi5,8-D-Phe7-BK (DAHTDBK) and Arg9-Leu8-BK with antagonist activity were injected into the posterior portion of the fourth cerebral ventricle of unanaesthetized rats implanted with permanent cannulae and arterial pressure was measured directly from the abdominal aorta. 2. The spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) were more sensitive than normotensive Wistar rats (NWR) to the pressor effect of BK and other kinin analogues. The SHR did not differ in sensitivity of the pressor response to centrally administered angiotensin II or endothelin-1. 3. Experiments with selective kinin agonists and antagonists revealed that in the SHR, as in the NWR, the receptors which mediated the central pressor response are of the BK2 subtype. 4. Measurements of the pressor activity of kinins with different degrees of susceptibility to degradation, as well as experiments with kininase inhibitors, enalaprilat and CPP-Ala-Ala-Phe-pAB, suggest that the kininase activity in the central nervous system of SHR is reduced in comparison to that of NWR. 5. The SHR also showed increased sensitivity to BK and Lys-Lys-BK, compared with the NWR, when the kinins were injected following the administration of a mixture of the kininase inhibitors, suggesting that mechanisms other than kininase activity may play a role in the increased sensitivity of the SHR to the central pressor action of kinins. 6. An in vivo characterization of the kinin receptors which mediate the central pressor response showed that the interaction with DAHTDBK was reversible and of competitive nature.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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