Journal of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation · 2005
Parathyroid hormone-related protein-induced relaxation of rat uterine arteries: influence of the endothelium during gestation.
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Meziani Ferhat, Van Overloop Bruno, Schneider Francis, Gairard Alexis
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OBJECTIVE: Parathyroid hormone-related protein (PTHrP) has been reported to relax different vessels. We investigated the influence of both endothelium and gestation on the relaxation of uterine arteries (UA), which supply blood to myometrium and placenta.
METHODS: Small uterine and mesenteric arteries (MA) with (E+) and without endothelium (E-) from day 20 pregnant (P) and nonpregnant (NP) rats were mounted in a myograph, precontracted with phenylephrine (PE) in a physiologic salt solution. Relaxations to PTHrP, acetylcholine, and forskolin were performed and expressed as a percentage of the PE-induced contraction. Blockade of nitric oxide (NO) and endothelium-derived hyperpolarizing factor (EDHF) was also studied with Nomega-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME) and with charybdotoxin + apamin, respectively.
RESULTS: Gestation significantly increases maximal vasodilating effect of acetylcholine in UA (68% vs 52%, P < .05) and sensitivity to acetylcholine in small mesenteric vessels (P < .05). PTHrP relaxes uterine (maximal relaxation P: 32%, NP: 46%), as well as small MA (P: 68%, NP: 89%), but the maximal relaxation is significantly greater in NP than in P rats (P: 32%, NP: 46%, P < .01) in both vascular beds. In addition, in the UA of P rats, PTHrP only produces relaxation if functional endothelium is present; nevertheless in the absence of endothelium, forskolin still elicits relaxation (65%, P < .01). L-NAME significantly impairs relaxation of E+ UA (P < .05), and so does the association of charybdotoxin + apamin (P < .05). Thus, NO and EDHF contribute largely to this vasorelaxant effect.
CONCLUSION: PTHrP induces a relaxation on UA that is strongly endothelium-dependent during gestation, in contrast to what happens simultaneously in MA.
METHODS: Small uterine and mesenteric arteries (MA) with (E+) and without endothelium (E-) from day 20 pregnant (P) and nonpregnant (NP) rats were mounted in a myograph, precontracted with phenylephrine (PE) in a physiologic salt solution. Relaxations to PTHrP, acetylcholine, and forskolin were performed and expressed as a percentage of the PE-induced contraction. Blockade of nitric oxide (NO) and endothelium-derived hyperpolarizing factor (EDHF) was also studied with Nomega-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME) and with charybdotoxin + apamin, respectively.
RESULTS: Gestation significantly increases maximal vasodilating effect of acetylcholine in UA (68% vs 52%, P < .05) and sensitivity to acetylcholine in small mesenteric vessels (P < .05). PTHrP relaxes uterine (maximal relaxation P: 32%, NP: 46%), as well as small MA (P: 68%, NP: 89%), but the maximal relaxation is significantly greater in NP than in P rats (P: 32%, NP: 46%, P < .01) in both vascular beds. In addition, in the UA of P rats, PTHrP only produces relaxation if functional endothelium is present; nevertheless in the absence of endothelium, forskolin still elicits relaxation (65%, P < .01). L-NAME significantly impairs relaxation of E+ UA (P < .05), and so does the association of charybdotoxin + apamin (P < .05). Thus, NO and EDHF contribute largely to this vasorelaxant effect.
CONCLUSION: PTHrP induces a relaxation on UA that is strongly endothelium-dependent during gestation, in contrast to what happens simultaneously in MA.