AJP - Renal Physiology, Vol 265, Issue 2 285-F292, Copyright © 1993 by American Physiological Society

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Influence of endothelium-derived relaxing factor on renal microvessels and pressure-dependent vasodilation

J. Hoffend, A. Cavarape, K. Endlich and M. Steinhausen
First Department of Physiology, University of Heidelberg, Germany.

The influence of endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF) on renal microvessels and autoregulation was visualized in vivo, in the split hydronephrotic kidney of rats. EDRF synthesis was inhibited by local administration of 10(-5) M NG-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME). Diameters of arcuate arteries decreased by 17%. In cortical vessels efferent arterioles constricted more (13-16%) than interlobular arteries and afferent arterioles (7-12%). Cortical glomerular blood flow (GBF) decreased by 46% after L-NAME. A similar behavior of blood flow and vascular diameters was also observed in juxtamedullary (JM) arterioles. The responses to acetylcholine but not to sodium nitroprusside were attenuated after L-NAME. After local administration of L-arginine (10(-3) M) diameters of all vessels and GBF increased, vascular responses to L-NAME were blunted. Stepwise reduction of renal perfusion pressure revealed that autoregulation was preserved in cortical vessels after L-NAME. In JM arterioles, which do not autoregulate in female Wistar rats, autoregulation of GBF was enhanced after L-NAME. These data suggest that tonic formation of EDRF influences basal renal hemodynamics to a considerable extent. EDRF may also impair autoregulation of JM glomeruli without disturbing autoregulation of cortical glomeruli.

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