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2 Section on Clinical Pharmacology, Division of Medicine, and 1 Department of Histochemistry, Imperial College School of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, London W12 ONN, United Kingdom
Chronic hypoxia leads to a greater degree of pulmonary hypertension in the Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rat than in the Fischer 344 (F-344) rat. We questioned whether this difference is associated with baseline differences in pulmonary artery anatomy, a greater degree of hypoxia-induced pulmonary vascular remodeling in the WKY rat, and/or differences in expression of endothelin (ET)-1. Male F-344 and WKY rats were maintained in normoxia or normobaric hypoxia for 21 days. Morphometry revealed that baseline pulmonary artery anatomy was similar in the two strains. However, during chronic hypoxia, the WKY rats developed a greater degree of muscularization of small pulmonary arteries. Baseline plasma and lung immunoreactive ET-1 levels were similar in the WKY and F-344 rats and increased significantly during hypoxia in the WKY rats. Northern analysis demonstrated increased lung preproET-1 mRNA during hypoxia in both strains, with a greater increase in WKY rats. Immunostaining demonstrated increased ET-1 in bronchial epithelium and peripheral pulmonary arteries during hypoxia, although to a greater degree in the WKY rats. We conclude that the WKY strain demonstrates increased susceptibility to hypoxia-induced pulmonary vascular remodeling compared with the F-344 strain and that increased lung and circulating ET-1 levels during hypoxia may partly explain this difference.
endothelin-1; pulmonary vascular remodeling; preproendothelin-1; Wistar-Kyoto rats; Fischer 344 rats
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