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Angiotensin II-induced changes in smooth muscle calcium in rat renal arterioles

JD Conger, SA Falk and JB Robinette
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver.

The isolated rat renal arteriole technique was adapted for use in a fluorescence ratio imaging system in which angiotensin II (AII)-induced changes in lumen diameter and smooth muscle cell (SMC) cytosolic calcium [(Ca2+]i were serially determined for 4 min with Fura-2. Selective fluorescence acquisition from SMC was guided by direct image visualization of the vessel walls. A maximal constricting concentration of AII (10(-8) M) caused similar abrupt and sustained increases in SMC [Ca2+]i in afferent arterioles (AA) at 80 mm Hg and efferent arterioles (EA) at 30 mm Hg. When lumen pressure was reduced to 0 mm Hg, 10(-8) M AII caused abrupt peak increases in SMC [Ca2+]i in 15 s in both AA and EA, which declined rapidly thereafter--patterns distinctly different from pressurized vessels (P < 0.02). With diltiazem (10(-5) M) in the bathing media, 10(-8) M AII caused an abrupt rise and decline in SMC [Ca2+]i in AA, but a sustained elevation in EA (P < 0.02). In low- Ca(2+)-EGTA media, there was an abrupt peak and rapid decline in SMC [Ca2+]i to 10(-8) M AII in AA and EA; the abrupt peaks were attenuated by the prior addition of dantrolene (5 x 10(-5) M) to the low-Ca(2+)- EGTA media. When half-maximal constricting (EC50) AII for AA (4 x 10(- 11) M) was added, there was a slow, progressive increase in SMC [Ca2+]i that was distinctly different from the abrupt peak and decline with EC50 AII (5 x 10(-12) M) in EA. Collectively, these findings indicate that maximal AII stimulates both Ca2+ entry and storage mobilization in AA and EA; EC50 AII stimulates primarily Ca2+ entry in AA, but storage mobilization in EA. Lumen pressure modifies the AII SMC [Ca2+]i response profiles.

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