Effects of Hypoxic Acclimation, Muscle Strain and Contraction Frequency on Nitric Oxide-Mediated Myocardial Performance in Steelhead Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Carnevale ◽  
Douglas A. Syme ◽  
A. Kurt Gamperl
Keyword(s):  
Nitric Oxide ◽  
Myocardial Contractility ◽  
Soluble Guanylyl Cyclase ◽  
Surprising Result ◽  
Muscle Strain ◽  
No Donor ◽  
Contraction Frequency ◽  
Mediated Effects ◽  
Oxide Synthase ◽  
Hypoxic Acclimation

Whether hypoxic acclimation influences nitric oxide (NO)-mediated control of fish cardiac function is not known. Thus, we measured the function / performance of myocardial strips from normoxia and hypoxia-acclimated (40% air saturation; ~ 8 kPa O2) trout at several frequencies (20 - 80 contractions min-1) and two muscle strain amplitudes (8 and 14%) when exposed to increasing concentrations of the NO donor sodium nitroprusside (SNP) (10-9 to 10-4 M). Further, we examined the influence of: 1) nitric oxide synthase (NOS) produced NO (by blocking NOS with 10-4 M L-NMMA); and 2) soluble guanylyl cyclase mediated, NOS-independent, NO effects (i.e., after blockade with 10-4 M ODQ), on myocardial contractility. Hypoxic acclimation increased twitch duration by 8-10% and decreased mass-specific net power by ~35%. However, hypoxic acclimation only had minor impacts on the effects of SNP and the two blockers on myocardial function. The most surprising result of this study was the degree to which contraction frequency and strain amplitude influenced NO-mediated effects on myocardial power. For example, at 8% strain 10-4 SNP resulted in a decrease in net power of ~30% at 20 min-1 but an increase of ~20% at 80 min-1, and this effect was magnified at 14% strain. This study: suggests that hypoxic acclimation has only minor effects on NO-mediated myocardial contractility in salmonids; is the first to report the highly frequency- and strain-dependent nature of NO effects on myocardial contractility in fishes; and supports previous work showing that NO effects on the heart (myocardium) are finely tuned spatio-temporally.

Nitric Oxide Activates Leak K+ Currents in the Presumed Cholinergic Neuron of Basal Forebrain

2007 ◽  
Vol 98 (6) ◽  
pp. 3397-3410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Youngnam Kang ◽  
Yoshie Dempo ◽  
Atsuko Ohashi ◽  
Mitsuru Saito ◽  
Hiroki Toyoda ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nitric Oxide ◽  
Basal Forebrain ◽  
Reversal Potential ◽  
Soluble Guanylyl Cyclase ◽  
Outward Current ◽  
Pump Current ◽  
Atp Depletion ◽  
Equilibrium Potential ◽  
No Donor ◽  
Bath Application

Learning and memory are critically dependent on basal forebrain cholinergic (BFC) neuron excitability, which is modulated profoundly by leak K+ channels. Many neuromodulators closing leak K+ channels have been reported, whereas their endogenous opener remained unknown. We here demonstrate that nitric oxide (NO) can be the endogenous opener of leak K+ channels in the presumed BFC neurons. Bath application of 1 mM S-nitroso- N-acetylpenicillamine (SNAP), an NO donor, induced a long-lasting hyperpolarization, which was often interrupted by a transient depolarization. Soluble guanylyl cyclase inhibitors prevented SNAP from inducing hyperpolarization but allowed SNAP to cause depolarization, whereas bath application of 0.2 mM 8-bromoguanosine-3′,5′-cyclomonophosphate (8-Br-cGMP) induced a similar long-lasting hyperpolarization alone. These observations indicate that the SNAP-induced hyperpolarization and depolarization are mediated by the cGMP-dependent and -independent processes, respectively. When examined with the ramp command pulse applied at –70 mV under the voltage-clamp condition, 8-Br-cGMP application induced the outward current that reversed at K+ equilibrium potential ( EK) and displayed Goldman-Hodgkin-Katz rectification, indicating the involvement of voltage-independent K+ current. By contrast, SNAP application in the presumed BFC neurons either dialyzed with the GTP-free internal solution or in the presence of 10 μM Rp-8-bromo-β-phenyl-1,N2-ethenoguanosine 3′,5′-cyclic monophosphorothioate sodium salt, a protein kinase G (PKG) inhibitor, induced the inward current that reversed at potentials much more negative than EK and close to the reversal potential of Na+-K+ pump current. These observations strongly suggest that NO activates leak K+ channels through cGMP-PKG-dependent pathway to markedly decrease the excitability in BFC neurons, while NO simultaneously causes depolarization by the inhibition of Na+-K+ pump through ATP depletion.

Inducible nitric oxide synthase augments injury elicited by oxidative stress in rat cardiac myocytes

1998 ◽  
Vol 274 (1) ◽  
pp. C245-C252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junsuke Igarashi ◽  
Masashi Nishida ◽  
Shiro Hoshida ◽  
Nobushige Yamashita ◽  
Hiroaki Kosaka ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oxidative Stress ◽  
Nitric Oxide ◽  
Cardiac Myocytes ◽  
Myocardial Injury ◽  
No Production ◽  
Dependent Manner ◽  
Concentration Dependent Manner ◽  
No Donor ◽  
Oxide Synthase ◽  
Gpx Activity

The effects of nitric oxide (NO) produced by cardiac inducible NO synthase (iNOS) on myocardial injury after oxidative stress were examined. Interleukin-1β induced cultured rat neonatal cardiac myocytes to express iNOS. After induction of iNOS,l-arginine enhanced NO production in a concentration-dependent manner. Glutathione peroxidase (GPX) activity in myocytes was attenuated by elevated iNOS activity and by an NO donor, S-nitroso- N-acetyl-penicillamine (SNAP). Although NO production by iNOS did not induce myocardial injury, NO augmented release of lactate dehydrogenase from myocyte cultures after addition of H2O2(0.1 mM, 1 h). Inhibition of iNOS with Nω-nitro-l-arginine methyl ester ameliorated the effects of NO-enhancing treatments on myocardial injury and GPX activity. SNAP augmented the myocardial injury induced by H2O2. Inhibition of GPX activity with antisense oligodeoxyribonucleotide for GPX mRNA increased myocardial injury by H2O2. Results suggest that the induction of cardiac iNOS promotes myocardial injury due to oxidative stress via inactivation of the intrinsic antioxidant enzyme, GPX.

Maturational changes in the regulation of pulmonary vascular tone by nitric oxide in neonatal rats

2007 ◽  
Vol 293 (5) ◽  
pp. L1261-L1270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis G. Chicoine ◽  
Michael L. Paffett ◽  
Mark R. Girton ◽  
Matthew J. Metropoulus ◽  
Mandar S. Joshi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nitric Oxide ◽  
Guanylyl Cyclase ◽  
Vascular Tone ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Soluble Guanylyl Cyclase ◽  
No Production ◽  
Sprague Dawley ◽  
No Donor ◽  
Early Postnatal Development ◽  
Old Rats

Nitric oxide (NO) is an important regulator of vasomotor tone in the pulmonary circulation. We tested the hypothesis that the role NO plays in regulating vascular tone changes during early postnatal development. Isolated, perfused lungs from 7- and 14-day-old Sprague-Dawley rats were studied. Baseline total pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) was not different between age groups. The addition of KCl to the perfusate caused a concentration-dependent increase in PVR that did not differ between age groups. However, the nitric oxide synthase (NOS) inhibitor Nω-nitro-l-arginine augmented the K+-induced increase in PVR in both groups, and the effect was greater in lungs from 14-day-old rats vs. 7-day-old rats. Lung levels of total endothelial, inducible, and neuronal NOS proteins were not different between groups; however, the production rate of exhaled NO was greater in lungs from 14-day-old rats compared with those of 7-day-old rats. Vasodilation to 0.1 μM of the NO donor spermine NONOate was greater in 14-day lungs than in 7-day lungs, and lung levels of both soluble guanylyl cyclase and cGMP were greater at 14 days than at 7 days. Vasodilation to 100 μM of the cGMP analog 8-(4-chlorophenylthio)guanosine-3′,5′-cyclic monophosphate was greater in 7-day lungs than in 14-day lungs. Our results demonstrate that the pulmonary vascular bed depends more on NO production to modulate vascular tone at 14 days than at 7 days of age. The observed differences in NO sensitivity may be due to maturational increases in soluble guanylyl cyclase protein levels.

scholarly journals Synaptic Localization of Nitric Oxide Synthase and Soluble Guanylyl Cyclase in the Hippocampus

2002 ◽  
Vol 22 (20) ◽  
pp. 8961-8970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alain Burette ◽  
Ulrike Zabel ◽  
Richard J. Weinberg ◽  
Harald H. H. W. Schmidt ◽  
Juli G. Valtschanoff
Keyword(s):  
Nitric Oxide ◽  
Nitric Oxide Synthase ◽  
Guanylyl Cyclase ◽  
Soluble Guanylyl Cyclase ◽  
Synaptic Localization ◽  
Oxide Synthase

scholarly journals Nitric oxide-induced cardioprotection in cultured rat ventricular myocytes

2000 ◽  
Vol 278 (4) ◽  
pp. H1211-H1217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roby D. Rakhit ◽  
Richard J. Edwards ◽  
James W. Mockridge ◽  
Anwar R. Baydoun ◽  
Amanda W. Wyatt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nitric Oxide ◽  
Ventricular Myocytes ◽  
Culture Conditions ◽  
Neonatal Rat ◽  
No Donor ◽  
Rat Ventricular Myocytes ◽  
Kinase C ◽  
Neonatal Rat Ventricular Myocytes ◽  
Oxide Synthase

The aim of this study was to investigate the role of nitric oxide (NO) in a cellular model of early preconditioning (PC) in cultured neonatal rat ventricular myocytes. Cardiomyocytes “preconditioned” with 90 min of stimulated ischemia (SI) followed by 30 min reoxygenation in normal culture conditions were protected against subsequent 6 h of SI. PC was blocked by N G-monomethyl-l-arginine monoacetate but not by dexamethasone pretreatment. Inducible nitric oxide synthase (NOS) protein expression was not detected during PC ischemia. Pretreatment (90 min) with the NO donor S-nitroso- N-acetyl-l,l-penicillamine (SNAP) mimicked PC, resulting in significant protection. SNAP-triggered protection was completely abolished by 1H-[1,2,4]oxadiazolo[4,3-a]quinoxalin-1-one (ODQ) but was unaffected by chelerythrine or the presence of glibenclamide and 5-hydroxydecanoate. With the use of RIA, SNAP treatment increased cGMP levels, which were blocked by ODQ. Hence, NO is implicated as a trigger in this model of early PC via activation of a constitutive NOS isoform. After exposure to SNAP, the mechanism of cardioprotection is cGMP dependent but independent of protein kinase C or ATP-sensitive K+ channels. This differs from the proposed mechanism of NO-induced cardioprotection in late PC.

TNF-alpha and IFN-gamma induce expression of nitric oxide synthase in cultured rat medullary interstitial cells

1995 ◽  
Vol 269 (2) ◽  
pp. F212-F217 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. S. Lau ◽  
O. Nakashima ◽  
G. R. Aalund ◽  
L. Hogarth ◽  
K. Ujiie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nitric Oxide ◽  
Smooth Muscle ◽  
Nitric Oxide Synthase ◽  
Vascular Smooth Muscle ◽  
Guanylyl Cyclase ◽  
Soluble Guanylyl Cyclase ◽  
Tnf Alpha ◽  
No Production ◽  
Ifn Gamma ◽  
Oxide Synthase

Cytokines increase the expression of the inducible (type II) nitric oxide synthase (NOS) in macrophages, liver, and renal epithelial cells. Previously, we found that cultured rat medullary interstitial cells (RMIC) contain high levels of soluble guanylyl cyclase. To determine whether these cells can also produce NO, we studied the effects of tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) and interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) on NO production, NOS II mRNA, and NOS II protein expression. Both TNF-alpha and IFN-gamma, in the presence of a low concentration of the other cytokine, caused dose-dependent increases in NO production. Exposure to TNF-alpha and IFN-gamma stimulated the production of NOS II mRNA, as determined by Northern blotting. Restriction mapping of reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction products indicated that normal cells contained macrophage NOS II, whereas cytokine-stimulated cells contained primarily vascular smooth muscle NOS II and some macrophage NOS II. The appearance of NOS II protein was demonstrated by Western blotting. RMIC cell guanosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate accumulation increased 129-fold in response to the cytokines. NOS inhibitors decreased nitrite production. We conclude that 1) TNF-alpha and IFN-gamma induce the expression of vascular smooth muscle NOS II and production of NO in RMIC, and 2) NO acts as an autocrine activator of the soluble guanylyl cyclase in RMIC.

scholarly journals Contributions of nitric oxide synthase isoforms to pulmonary oxygen toxicity, local vs. mediated effects

2008 ◽  
Vol 294 (5) ◽  
pp. L984-L990 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan T. Demchenko ◽  
Dmitriy N. Atochin ◽  
Diana R. Gutsaeva ◽  
Ryan R. Godfrey ◽  
Paul L. Huang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nitric Oxide ◽  
Nitric Oxide Synthase ◽  
Lung Injury ◽  
Oxygen Toxicity ◽  
Reactive Species ◽  
Pulmonary Injury ◽  
Glutathione Peroxidase 1 ◽  
Mediated Effects ◽  
New Findings ◽  
Oxide Synthase

Reactive species of oxygen and nitrogen have been collectively implicated in pulmonary oxygen toxicity, but the contributions of specific molecules are unknown. Therefore, we assessed the roles of several reactive species, particularly nitric oxide, in pulmonary injury by exposing wild-type mice and seven groups of genetically altered mice to >98% O2 at 1, 3, or 4 atmospheres absolute. Genetically altered animals included knockouts lacking either neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS−/−), endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS−/−), inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS−/−), extracellular superoxide dismutase (SOD3−/−), or glutathione peroxidase 1 (GPx1−/−), as well as two transgenic variants (S1179A and S1179D) having altered eNOS activities. We confirmed our earlier finding that normobaric hyperoxia (NBO2) and hyperbaric hyperoxia (HBO2) result in at least two distinct but overlapping patterns of pulmonary injury. Our new findings are that the role of nitric oxide in the pulmonary pathophysiology of hyperoxia depends both on the specific NOS isozyme that is its source and on the level of hyperoxia. Thus, iNOS predominates in the etiology of lung injury in NBO2, and SOD3 provides an important defense. But in HBO2, nNOS is a major contributor to pulmonary injury, whereas eNOS is protective. In addition, we demonstrated that nitric oxide derived from nNOS is involved in a neurogenic mechanism of HBO2-induced lung injury that is linked to central nervous system oxygen toxicity through adrenergic/cholinergic pathways.

scholarly journals Complex interactions of NO/cGMP/PKG systems on Ca2+ signaling in afferent arteriolar vascular smooth muscle

2010 ◽  
Vol 298 (1) ◽  
pp. H144-H151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan K. Fellner ◽  
William J. Arendshorst
Keyword(s):  
Nitric Oxide ◽  
Smooth Muscle ◽  
Vascular Smooth Muscle ◽  
No Production ◽  
No Donor ◽  
Complex Interactions ◽  
Resistance Vessels ◽  
Microsphere Method ◽  
Afferent Arterioles ◽  
Oxide Synthase

Little is known about the effects of nitric oxide (NO) and the cyclic GMP (cGMP)/protein kinase G (PKG) system on Ca2+ signaling in vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC) of resistance vessels in general and afferent arterioles in particular. We tested the hypotheses that cGMP-, Ca2+-dependent big potassium channels (BKCa2+) buffer the Ca2+ response to depolarization by high extracellular KCl and that NO inhibits adenosine diphosphoribose (ADPR) cyclase, thereby reducing the Ca2+-induced Ca2+ release. We isolated rat afferent arterioles, utilizing the magnetized microsphere method, and measured cytosolic Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) with fura-2, a preparation in which endothelial cells do not participate in [Ca2+]i responses. KCl (50 mM)-induced depolarization causes an immediate increase in [Ca2+]i of 151 nM. The blockers Nω-nitro-l-arginine methyl ester (of nitric oxide synthase), 1,2,4-oxodiazolo-[4,3- a]quinoxalin-1-one (ODQ, of guanylyl cyclase), KT-5823 (of PKG activation), and iberiotoxin (IBX, of BKCa2+ activity) do not alter the [Ca2+]i response to KCl, suggesting no discernible endogenous NO production under basal conditions. The NO donor sodium nitroprusside (SNP) reduces the [Ca2+]i response to 77 nM; IBX restores the response to control values. These data show that activation of BKCa2+ in the presence of NO/cGMP provides a brake on KCl-induced [Ca2+]i responses. Experiments with the inhibitor of cyclic ADPR 8-bromo-cyclic ADPR (8-Br-cADPR) and SNP + downstream inhibitors of PKG and BKCa2+ suggest that NO inhibits ADPR cyclase in intact arterioles. When we pretreat afferent arterioles with 8-bromoguanosine 3′,5′-cyclic monophosphate (8-Br-cGMP; 10 μM), the response to KCl is 143 nM. However, in the presence of both IBX and 8-Br-cGMP, we observe a surprising doubling of the [Ca2+]i response to KCl. In summary, we present evidence for effects of the NO/cGMP/PKG system to reduce [Ca2+]i, via activation of BKCa2+ and possibly by inhibition of ADPR cyclase, and to increase [Ca2+]i, by a mechanism(s) yet to be defined.

Nitric oxide donor stimulated increase of cyclic GMP in the goldfish retina

2001 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 849-856 ◽  
Author(s):  
WILLIAM H. BALDRIDGE ◽  
ANDY J. FISCHER
Keyword(s):  
Nitric Oxide ◽  
Optic Nerve ◽  
Ganglion Cells ◽  
Soluble Guanylyl Cyclase ◽  
Cyclic Guanosine Monophosphate ◽  
Guanosine Monophosphate ◽  
Nitric Oxide Donor ◽  
No Donor ◽  
Intracellular Signalling Pathway ◽  
Teleost Retina

Nitric oxide (NO) activates soluble guanylyl cyclase (sGC) and the resulting increase in cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP) is an important intracellular signalling pathway in the vertebrate retina. Immunocytochemical detection of cGMP following exposure to NO donors has proven an effective method of identifying cells that express sGC. While such an approach has proven useful for the study of several vertebrate retinas, it has not been applied to the well-characterized teleost retina. Therefore, in the present study, we have applied this approach to the retina of the goldfish (Carassius auratus). In the presence of the phosphodiesterase (PDE) inhibitor 3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine (IBMX), incubation of goldfish eyecups in Ringer's solution containing (±)-S-nitroso-N-acetylpenicillamine (SNAP) increased cGMP-like immunoreactivity (cG-ir) in bipolar, horizontal, amacrine, and ganglion cells and in ganglion cell axons and optic nerve. Weak labeling was observed in horizontal cells but no change in cG-ir was noted within photoreceptors. The NO donor-stimulated increases of cG-ir in horizontal, bipolar, amacrine, and ganglion cells are consistent with known physiological effects of NO on these neurons. The physiological significance of NO action at the level of optic nerve is not known. The lack of an effect of SNAP on cG-ir in photoreceptors was unexpected, as there are known physiological actions of NO, mediated by cGMP, on these neurons. Although this may be due to insufficient sensitivity of immunolabeling, this result may indicate a difference between isoforms of sGC or cGMP PDE in these neurons, compared to neurons where exogenous NO increased cG-ir.

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