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Article Dans Une Revue Vascular Pharmacology Année : 2006

Chronic exercise does not prevent hypoxia-induced increased aortic sensitivity to endothelin in rats.

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OBJECTIVES: We report in the present study the effect of regular exercise on vascular reactivity alterations to endothelin (ET-1) following prolonged exposure to hypoxic stress. METHODS: Male Dark Agouti rats were randomly assigned to N (sedentary rats), NCE (normoxic exercised rats), CH (chronic hypoxic sedentary rats) and CHCE (chronic hypoxic exercised rats) groups. The effects of ET-1 in the presence or not of the endothelium and/or of the specific inhibitor, bosentan, have been investigated in an isolated model of rat thoracic aorta. RESULTS: Prolonged exposure to hypoxia induced a significant increase in aortic sensitivity to ET-1 (-log ED50 in CH = 8.15 +/- 0.01 vs in N = 7.98 +/- 0.02, p < 0.05). Despite exercise training reduced the sensitivity to ET-1 in normoxic rats, it has no effects in hypoxic rats (-log ED50 in CH = 8.15 +/- 0.01 vs in CHCE = 8.19 +/- 0.01, NS). Moreover, although the removal of endothelium has no effect in N rats, it leads, in NCE rats, to a significant increase in sensitivity to ET-1 (-log ED50 in endothelium intact rings = 7.89 +/- 0.04 vs in denuded rings = 8.04 +/- 0.02, p < 0.05). The implication of ET-1 receptors on both endothelial and smooth muscle cells is confirmed by the significant reduced sensitivity to ET-1 in the four groups when bosentan is present in organ bath. CONCLUSION: Our study clearly suggests that part of the beneficial effect of chronic exercise could be mediated by enhancing endothelial function associated with endothelin reactivity in peripheric vessels. However, chronic exercise training does not seem to be able to limit the increased vasoconstriction to ET-1 stimulation induced by chronic hypoxia exposure.

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hal-00776260 , version 1 (15-01-2013)

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Cyril Reboul, Stéphane Tanguy, Michel Dauzat, Philippe Obert. Chronic exercise does not prevent hypoxia-induced increased aortic sensitivity to endothelin in rats.. Vascular Pharmacology, 2006, 44 (5), pp.333-7. ⟨10.1016/j.vph.2006.01.006⟩. ⟨hal-00776260⟩
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