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Reduced GABA inhibition of sympathetic function in renal-wrapped hypertensive rats.

Abstract
Animals with bilateral cannulas in the paraventricular nucleus were made hypertensive by a one-kidney, figure eight renal wrap procedure or sham operated. Femoral artery and vein catheters were inserted for arterial pressure measurement and plasma catecholamine determination. After recovery and 4 days after hypertension surgery, bicuculline methiodide or muscimol was microinjected into the paraventricular nucleus. In some rats, nitroprusside was infused intravenously to reflexly stimulate the sympathetic nervous system. In control rats, bicuculline increased blood pressure, heart rate, and plasma norepinephrine and epinephrine concentrations. In contrast, in hypertensive rats blood pressure did not change while the heart rate response was maintained. Plasma norepinephrine and epinephrine responses were reduced 75 and 68%, respectively. Muscimol injections decreased arterial pressure in the hypertensive rats. Heart rate responses to nitroprusside were similar in the two groups of rats, while the plasma catecholamine responses were attenuated in the hypertensive animals. These data suggest that GABA function in the paraventricular nucleus is reduced in renal wrap hypertension.
AuthorsD S Martin, J R Haywood
JournalThe American journal of physiology (Am J Physiol) Vol. 275 Issue 5 Pg. R1523-9 (11 1998) ISSN: 0002-9513 [Print] United States
PMID9791069 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.)
Chemical References
  • GABA Antagonists
  • Receptors, GABA
  • gamma-Aminobutyric Acid
Topics
  • Animals
  • GABA Antagonists (pharmacology)
  • Hypertension, Renovascular (physiopathology)
  • Hypothalamus (physiology)
  • Male
  • Rats
  • Rats, Sprague-Dawley
  • Receptors, GABA (physiology)
  • Sympathetic Nervous System (physiology)
  • gamma-Aminobutyric Acid (physiology)

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