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Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 272: G894-G901, 1997;
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AJP - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology, Vol 272, Issue 4 894-G901, Copyright © 1997 by American Physiological Society

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Constitutive NOS isoforms account for gastric mucosal NO overproduction in uremic rats

A. Mendez, M. Fernandez, Y. Barrios, I. Lopez-Coviella, J. L. Gonzalez-Mora, M. Del Rivero, E. Salido, J. Bosch and E. Quintero
Unidad de Investigacion and Servicio de Gastroenterologia, Hospital Universitario de Canarias, Spain.

To study whether renal failure enhances gastric mucosal nitric oxide (NO) formation in the rat, we measured 1) in vivo NO concentration and 2) NO synthase (NOS) activity, content, and mRNA expression in gastric mucosal homogenates of uremic and sham-operated anesthetized rats. Gastric mucosal NO release was measured by an electrochemical technique. NOS content was analyzed by Western immunoblots, using specific monoclonal antibodies. Constitutive (Ca2+ dependent; cNOS) and inducible (Ca2+ independent; iNOS) NOS activities were assayed by following the conversion of L-[U-14C]arginine to [U-14C]citrulline. mRNA expression for the constitutive neuronal (ncNOS), endothelial (ecNOS), and iNOS isoforms was determined by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction. Under basal conditions, gastric mucosal NO concentration was significantly greater in uremic compared with control rats. This was accompanied by significantly greater gastric mucosal cNOS activity in uremic rats than in control rats, whereas no differences were observed in iNOS activity between both groups of animals. Moreover, total enzyme content and the levels of gastric mucosal mRNA expression for ncNOS, ecNOS, and iNOS showed no significant differences between uremic and sham-operated rats. These data confirm that, in uremic rats, enhanced Ca2+-dependent NOS activity is responsible for gastric mucosal NO overproduction and suggest that the main regulatory mechanism is not transcriptional but translational and/or posttranslational in nature.


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