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Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 268: G177-G182, 1995;
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AJP - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology, Vol 268, Issue 1 177-G182, Copyright © 1995 by American Physiological Society

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Nitric oxide causes hyporeactivity to phenylephrine in isolated perfused livers from endotoxin-treated rats

C. M. Pastor and T. R. Billiar
Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261.

Systemic vascular hyporeactivity to vasoconstrictors has been described in rats following endotoxin administration. Inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) expression is known to occur in the liver in endotoxemia, but consequences of iNOS induction on hepatic hemodynamics are unknown. The reactivity of the hepatic circulation to phenylephrine was tested in perfused livers from normal rats and rats previously injected with endotoxin (20 mg/kg ip). In control rats (n = 5), phenylephrine-induced portal pressure increases were similar in livers perfused with Krebs-Henseleit-bicarbonate (KHB) buffer, KHB plus the NOS inhibitor NG-monomethyl-L-arginine (L-NMMA, 1 mM), or KHB plus the substrate for NO synthesis, L-arginine (1 mM). In contrast, livers from endotoxin-treated rats (n = 5) exhibited a marked reduction in the vasoconstrictive response to phenylephrine (14.6 vs. 55.1% in livers from control rats, P < 0.05). Perfusion with L-NMMA restored the phenylephrine response, and the L-NMMA effect was reversible with L-arginine. Perfusate NO2-/NO3- and guanosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cGMP) levels were increased in endotoxin-treated rats and significantly reduced by L-NMMA perfusion. In control livers, the NO donor S-nitroso-N-acetyl-DL-penicillamine blocked the portal pressure increase after phenylephrine administration. These results suggest that rat hepatic circulation takes part in the systemic vascular hyporeactivity to vasoconstrictors observed in endotoxemia and that NO is involved in this hyporeactivity to phenylephrine.


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