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Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21224
In the
lung, chronic hypoxia (CH) causes pulmonary arterial smooth muscle cell
(PASMC) depolarization, elevated endothelin-1 (ET-1), and
vasoconstriction. We determined whether, during CH, depolarization-driven activation of L-type Ca2+ channels
contributes to 1) maintenance of resting intracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i),
2) increased [Ca2+]i in response
to ET-1 (10
8 M), and 3) ET-1-induced
contraction. Using indo 1 microfluorescence, we determined that resting
[Ca2+]i in PASMCs from intrapulmonary
arteries of rats exposed to 10% O2 for 21 days was
293.9 ± 25.2 nM (vs. 153.6 ± 28.7 nM in normoxia). Resting
[Ca2+]i was decreased after extracellular
Ca2+ removal but not with nifedipine (10
6 M),
an L-type Ca2+ channel antagonist. After CH, the
ET-1-induced increase in [Ca2+]i was reduced
and was abolished after extracellular Ca2+ removal or
nifedipine. Removal of extracellular Ca2+ reduced
ET-1-induced tension; however, nifedipine had only a slight effect.
These data indicate that maintenance of resting [Ca2+]i in PASMCs from chronically hypoxic
rats does not require activation of L-type Ca2+ channels
and suggest that ET-1-induced contraction occurs by a mechanism
primarily independent of changes in [Ca2+]i.
intracellular calcium concentration; endothelin-1; chronic hypoxia; pulmonary hypertension; contraction; voltage-gated calcium channels; smooth muscle; pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells
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