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Cardiovascular Pulmonary Research Laboratory, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado 80262
There is controversy on the role of endothelin (ET)-1 in the mechanism of hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction (HPV). Although HPV is inhibited by ET-1 subtype A (ETA)-receptor antagonists in animals, it has been reported that ETA-receptor blockade does not affect HPV in isolated lungs. Thus we reassessed the role of ET-1 in HPV in both rats and isolated blood- and physiological salt solution (PSS)-perfused rat lungs. In rats, the ETA-receptor antagonist BQ-123 and the nonselective ETA- and ETB-receptor antagonist PD-145065, but not the ETB-receptor antagonist BQ-788, inhibited HPV. Similarly, BQ-123, but not BQ-788, attenuated HPV in blood-perfused lungs. In PSS-perfused lungs, either BQ-123, BQ-788, or the combination of both attenuated HPV equally. Inhibition of HPV by combined BQ-123 and BQ-788 in PSS-perfused lungs was prevented by costimulation with angiotensin II. The ATP-sensitive K+ (KATP)-channel blocker glibenclamide also prevented inhibition of HPV by BQ-123 in both lungs and rats. These results suggest that ET-1 contributes to HPV in both isolated lungs and intact animals through ETA receptor-mediated suppression of KATP-channel activity.
adenosine 5'-triphosphate-sensitive potassium channel; hypoxia; endothelin-1; endothelin-receptor blockers; glibenclamide; pulmonary vascular regulation
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