Mechanisms of hydrogen peroxide-induced relaxation in rabbit mesenteric small artery.

The effects of hydrogen peroxide were studied on isolated rabbit mesenteric small artery; rabbit superior mesenteric artery and mouse aorta were also studied as reference tissues. For mesenteric small artery, hydrogen peroxide (1 to 100 microM) relaxed a norepinephrine-stimulated artery in a concentration-dependent manner. The relaxation was not significantly affected by removal of the endothelium and was less pronounced in arteries contracted with high-KCl solution plus norepinephrine than in those contracted with norepinephrine alone. The relaxation response to hydrogen peroxide was increased by isobutylmethylxanthine and zaprinast, inhibited by diclofenac, methylene blue and dithiothreitol and unaffected by atropine, tetraethylammonium, superoxide dismutase, deferoxamine, dimethyl sulfoxide or the Rp stereoisomer of adenosine cyclic monophosphothioate. Hydrogen peroxide shifted concentration-contractile response curves for norepinephrine to the right and downwards. Norepinephrine and caffeine elicited a transient, phasic contraction of the mesenteric small artery exposed for 0.5, 1 and 2 min to a Ca2+-free solution. Hydrogen peroxide inhibited the norepinephrine-induced contraction, and to a lesser extent the caffeine-induced contraction, and verapamil did not alter the contraction to norepinephrine. These pharmacological properties of hydrogen peroxide were similar to those of 8-bromo cGMP; 8-bromo cGMP inhibited more potently the norepinephrine-induced than the KCl-induced contraction and the contraction elicited by norepinephrine in Ca2+-free solution. The present results suggest that hydrogen peroxide induces endothelium-independent relaxation of the rabbit mesenteric small artery precontracted with norepinephrine. The effects of hydrogen peroxide may be at least in part mediated by cGMP and cyclooxygenase products in the vascular smooth muscles now used.

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