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. 1995 Jul;115(5):859–867. doi: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.1995.tb15012.x

Endothelial function in spontaneously hypertensive rats: influence of quinapril treatment.

M Kähönen 1, H Mäkynen 1, X Wu 1, P Arvola 1, I Pörsti 1
PMCID: PMC1908522  PMID: 8548188

Abstract

1. Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibition has been shown to restore the impaired endothelial function in hypertension, but the mediators underlying the promoted endothelium-dependent dilatation have not been fully characterized. Therefore, we investigated the effects of 10-week-long quinapril therapy (10 mg kg-1 day-1) on responses of mesenteric arterial rings in vitro from spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and normotensive Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rats. 2. Endothelium-dependent relaxations of noradrenaline (NA)-precontracted rings to acetylcholine (ACh) and adenosine 5'-diphosphate (ADP) were similar in WKY rats and quinapril-treated SHR and more pronounced than in untreated SHR. The nitric oxide (NO) synthase inhibitor NG-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME) attenuated the relaxations in both WKY groups and quinapril-treated SHR, and completely inhibited them in untreated SHR. When endothelium-dependent hyperpolarization was prevented by precontraction of the preparations with potassium chloride (KCl), no differences were found in relaxations to ACh and ADP between the study groups. In addition, in NA-precontracted rings the L-NAME- and indomethacin-resistant relaxations to ACh were partially prevented by apamin, an inhibitor of calcium-activated potassium channels. 3. Interestingly, in quinapril-treated SHR but not in the other groups, exogenous bradykinin potentiated the relaxations to ACh in both NA- and KCl-precontracted arterial rings. 4. Contractile sensitivity of endothelium-intact rings to NA was reduced in SHR by quinapril, and was more effectively increased by L-NAME in quinapril-treated than untreated SHR.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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