Circulation Research, Vol 74, 700-709, Copyright © 1994 by American Heart Association

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Vascular free radical release. Ex vivo and in vivo evidence for a flow- dependent endothelial mechanism

FR Laurindo, A Pedro M de, HV Barbeiro, F Pileggi, MH Carvalho, O Augusto and PL da Luz
Division of Experimental Research, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Mechanisms underlying production of vascular free radicals are unclear. We hypothesized that changes in blood flow might serve as a physiological stimulus for endothelial free radical release. Intact isolated aortas from 45 rabbits were perfused with the spin trap alpha- phenyl-N-tert-butylnitrone (PBN, 20 mmol/L) and formed radical adducts detected by electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy (EPR). Sequential perfusion at 2, 7.5, and 12 mL/min changed cumulative vascular PBN radical adduct yields, respectively, from 3.2 +/- 0.9 to 4.1 +/- 0.7 (P < .05) and 7.0 +/- 1.5 (P < .005) pmol/mg with endothelium and from 3.6 +/- 1.6 to 3.8 +/- 1.4 and 2.2 +/- 0.8 pmol/mg without endothelium (P = NS). In endothelialized aortas, superoxide dismutase (SOD) completely blocked flow-induced free radical production, whereas inactivated SOD, indomethacin, and the nitric oxide synthetase antagonist nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME) had no effect; relaxations to acetylcholine remained unchanged with higher flows. To assess the role of flow on in vivo radical production, femoral arterial plasma levels of the ascorbyl radical, a stable ascorbate oxidation product, were measured by direct EPR in 56 other rabbits. Ascorbyl levels were assessed at baseline (30.2 +/- 0.7 nmol/L) and at peak-induced iliac flow changes. Flow increases from 25% to 100% due to saline injections through an extracorporeal aortic loop induced significant dose-dependent increases in ascorbyl levels (n = 5). In addition, after papaverine bolus injections, flow increased by 114 +/- 8% versus baseline, and ascorbyl levels increased by 5.4 +/- 0.7 nmol/L (n = 31, P < .001); similar results occurred with adenosine, isoproterenol, or hyperemia after 30-second occlusions (P < .05, n = 4 or 5 in each group). Active SOD completely blocked papaverine-induced ascorbyl radical increase, despite preserved flow response (delta ascorbyl = 0.02 +/- 1.6 nmol/L, P = NS); inactivated SOD, catalase, indomethacin, and L-NAME had no effect. Blood flow decreases of 65% to 100% due to phenylephrine or 60-second balloon occlusions were accompanied by an average decrease of 4.4 nmol/L (P < .05) in ascorbyl levels. No change in ascorbyl signal was observed when rabbit blood alone was submitted to in vitro flow increases through a tubing circuit. Thus, increases in blood flow trigger vascular free radical generation; such a response seems to involve endothelium-derived superoxide radicals unrelated to cyclooxygenase or nitric oxide synthetase activities. This mechanism may contribute to explain vascular free radical generation in physiological or pathological circumstances.

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