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Mechanism of coronary vasodilation produced by bradykinin. Circulation 1991 Jun;83(6):2048-56

Date

06/01/1991

Pubmed ID

1645623

DOI

10.1161/01.cir.83.6.2048

Scopus ID

2-s2.0-0025833323 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)   89 Citations

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Bradykinin has been demonstrated to be an endothelium-dependent vasodilator in the cerebral circulation of the mouse, but the actions of bradykinin on regional tissue perfusion in the canine coronary circulation have not been studied.

METHODS AND RESULTS: The mechanism of coronary vasodilation by bradykinin was studied in open-chest, anesthetized dogs. The role of cyclooxygenase stimulation, bradykinin B2 receptor activation, and endothelium-derived relaxing factor in bradykinin-mediated vasodilation was studied in separate groups of dogs. Bradykinin was infused intracoronarily so as to avoid changes in systemic hemodynamics capable of altering the regional distribution of coronary blood flow (radioactive microspheres). Bradykinin produced a preferential increase in subendocardial blood flow. Pretreatment with indomethacin had no effect on bradykinin-mediated increases in total left ventricular flow or the transmural distribution of coronary blood flow. Blockade of bradykinin B2 receptors with the competitive antagonist [Thi5,8, D-Phe7]-bradykinin attenuated both the increase in total flow and redistribution of perfusion to the subendocardium produced by bradykinin. Inhibition of endothelium-derived relaxing factor with quinacrine, occlusion/reperfusion, or NG-monomethyl L-arginine attenuated the total increase in left ventricular flow and blocked the redistribution of flow to the subendocardium produced by bradykinin.

CONCLUSIONS: The present results demonstrate that intracoronary infusion of bradykinin produces a preferential increase in blood flow to the subendocardium via stimulation of B2 receptors and the release of an endothelium-dependent relaxing factor that may be nitric oxide.

Author List

Pelc LR, Gross GJ, Warltier DC

Author

David C. Warltier PhD Emeritus Professor in the Anesthesiology department at Medical College of Wisconsin

MESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold

Animals
Bradykinin
Coronary Circulation
Dogs
Female
Hemodynamics
Male
Nitric Oxide
Receptors, Bradykinin
Receptors, Neurotransmitter
Vasodilator Agents