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Selected Contribution: Effects of ischemia-reperfusion on vascular contractility and α 1 -adrenergic-receptor signaling in the rat tail artery
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Selected Contribution: Effects of ischemia-reperfusion on vascular contractility and α 1 -adrenergic-receptor signaling in the rat tail artery

Tammy M. Seasholtz, Guoping Cai, Hoau-Yan Wang and Eitan Friedman
Journal of applied physiology (1985), v 91(2), pp 1004-1010
01 Aug 2001

Abstract

To determine the effects of ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) on α 1 -adrenergic-receptor (α 1 -AR) functions, α 1 -AR-mediated contraction, inositol phosphate (IP) accumulation, and α 1 -AR-G protein coupling were examined in the tail arteries of anesthetized rats after 60 min of ischemia and 60 min of reperfusion. The contractile response to norepinephrine (NE) was significantly increased after I/R, whereas the contractile response to KCl remained unchanged. This was accompanied by a 69% increase in NE-stimulated IP accumulation. Furthermore, receptor-stimulated coupling of α 1a -AR to Gα q/11 proteins was increased, whereas the coupling of α 1b -AR or α 1d -AR to their G proteins was not altered by I/R. These changes in vascular α 1 -AR function occurred without concurrent alteration in expression levels of membrane α 1 -AR subtypes or in the associated G proteins. These data demonstrate that I/R increases α 1a -AR-G q/11 protein coupling and α 1 -AR-stimulated IP accumulation in the tail artery. The alterations in α 1 -AR signaling are associated with and may underlie the enhanced contractile response of the tail artery to adrenergic stimulation after I/R.

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