Antihypertensive treatment prevents the age- and blood pressure-dependent decrease in endothelium-dependent tension oscillations in the aortae of spontaneously hypertensive rats, suggesting restoration of endothelial function.
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Hypothesis-generating in hypertensive rat models; leaves open translation to human endothelial function or therapy.
The influence of blood pressure and age of spontaneously hypertensive rats on endothelium-dependent tension oscillation of aortic preparation were studied. Rats with different blood pressures, normotensive Wistar Kyoto rats (WKY), spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR), stroke-prone SHR (SHRSP) and malignant type of SHRSP (M-SHRSP), were used. The effects of antihypertensive treatment of SHRSP on the tension oscillation were also studied. High doses of noradrenaline induced tension oscillations in endothelium-intact preparations of all strains of young rats. The rate of the occurrence of the tension oscillation decreased age-dependently. The decrease was faster when the blood pressure of the rats was higher. Application of acetylcholine in the presence of noradrenaline induced a relaxation and tension oscillations, both of which were negatively dependent on age and blood pressure. Antihypertensive treatment of hypertensive rats with hydralazine or captopril prevented a decrease in incidence of the tension oscillation. These influences of age and blood pressure as well as antihypertensive treatments on the tension oscillation resembled those on the endothelium-dependent relaxation and are thought to be brought about by functional changes of the endothelium.
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