Adrenergic stimulation of rat resistance arteries affects Ca(2+) sparks, Ca(2+) waves, and Ca(2+) oscillations |
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Authors: | Mauban J R Lamont C Balke C W Wier W G |
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Affiliation: | Department of Physiology and Division of Cardiology, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, USA. |
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Abstract: | Confocal laser scanning microscopy and fluo 4 were used to visualize local and whole cell Ca(2+) transients within individual smooth muscle cells (SMC) of intact, pressurized rat mesenteric small arteries during activation of alpha1-adrenoceptors. A method was developed to record the Ca(2+) transients within individual SMC during the changes in arterial diameter. Three distinct types of "Ca(2+) signals" were influenced by adrenergic activation (agonist: phenylephrine). First, asynchronous Ca(2+) transients were elicited by low levels of adrenergic stimulation. These propagated from a point of origin and then filled the cell. Second, synchronous, spatially uniform Ca(2+) transients, not reported previously, occurred at higher levels of adrenergic stimulation and continued for long periods during oscillatory vasomotion. Finally, Ca(2+) sparks slowly decreased in frequency of occurrence during exposure to adrenergic agonists. Thus adrenergic activation causes a decrease in the frequency of Ca(2+) sparks and an increase in the frequency of asynchronous wavelike Ca(2+) transients, both of which should tend to decrease arterial diameter. Oscillatory vasomotion is associated with spatially uniform synchronous oscillations of cellular [Ca(2+)] and may have a different mechanism than the asynchronous, propagating Ca(2+) transients. |
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