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Complete blockade of the vasorelaxant effects of angiotensin‐(1–7) and bradykinin in murine microvessels by antagonists of the receptor Mas

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Title
Complete blockade of the vasorelaxant effects of angiotensin‐(1–7) and bradykinin in murine microvessels by antagonists of the receptor Mas
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Journal of Physiology, April 2013
DOI 10.1113/jphysiol.2013.251413
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Concepción Peiró, Susana Vallejo, Florian Gembardt, Erika Palacios, Susana Novella, Verónica Azcutia, Leocadio Rodríguez‐Mañas, Carlos Hermenegildo, Carlos F. Sánchez‐Ferrer, Thomas Walther

Abstract

The heptapeptide angiotensin-(1-7) is a biologically active metabolite of angiotensin II, the predominant peptide of the renin-angiotensin system. Recently, we have shown that the receptor Mas is associated with angiotensin-(1-7)-induced signalling and mediates, at least in part, the vasodilatory properties of angiotensin-(1-7). However, it remained controversial whether an additional receptor could account for angiotensin-(1-7)-induced vasorelaxation. Here, we used two different angiotensin-(1-7) antagonists, A779 and d-Pro-angiotensin-(1-7), to address this question and also to study their influence on the vasodilatation induced by bradykinin. Isolated mesenteric microvessels from both wild-type and Mas-deficient C57Bl/6 mice were precontracted with noradrenaline, and vascular reactivity to angiotensin-(1-7) and bradykinin was subsequently studied using a small-vessel myograph. Furthermore, mechanisms for Mas effects were investigated in primary human umbilical vein endothelial cells. Both angiotensin-(1-7) and bradykinin triggered a concentration-dependent vasodilatation in wild-type microvessels, which was absent in the presence of a nitric oxide synthase inhibitor. In these vessels, the pre-incubation with the Mas antagonists A779 or d-Pro-angiotensin-(1-7) totally abolished the vasodilatory capacity of both angiotensin-(1-7) and bradykinin, which was nitric oxide mediated. Accordingly, Mas-deficient microvessels lacked the capacity to relax in response to either angiotensin-(1-7) or bradykinin. Pre-incubation of human umbilical vein endothelial cells with A779 prevented bradykinin-mediated NO generation and NO synthase phosphorylation at serine 1177. The angiotensin-(1-7) antagonists A779 and d-Pro-angiotensin-(1-7) equally block Mas, which completely controls the angiotensin-(1-7)-induced vasodilatation in mesenteric microvessels. Importantly, Mas also appears to be a critical player in NO-mediated vasodilatation induced by renin-angiotensin system-independent agonists by altering phosphorylation of NO synthase.

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Brazil 1 3%
Unknown 28 97%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 34%
Researcher 7 24%
Student > Bachelor 3 10%
Professor 2 7%
Student > Master 2 7%
Other 2 7%
Unknown 3 10%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 31%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 17%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 4 14%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 3%
Other 4 14%
Unknown 3 10%
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