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ArticlePulmonary circulation

Depolarization-dependent contraction increase after birth and preservation following long-term hypoxia in sheep pulmonary arteries.

Demosthenes G Papamatheakis, Jay J Patel, Quintin Blood, Travis T Merritt, Lawrence D Longo, Sean M Wilson

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Article in Pulmonary circulation. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Long-Term Hypoxia Negatively Influences CaFrontiers in physiology · 2021
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  3. Enhanced Vasoconstriction Mediated by αFrontiers in physiology · 2021
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  5. Review
  6. Long-term hypoxia uncouples CaAmerican journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology · 2018
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  7. Long-term high-altitude hypoxia influences pulmonary arterial L-type calcium channel-mediated CaAmerican journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology · 2018
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  13. Effect of chronic perinatal hypoxia on the role of rho-kinase in pulmonary artery contraction in newborn lambs.American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology · 2013
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Demosthenes G PapamatheakisDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care, University of California San Diego Health System, La Jolla, California, USA.
Jay J Patel
Quintin Blood
Travis T Merritt
Lawrence D Longo
Sean M Wilson
Loma Linda University · USLoma Linda University Medical Center · USUC San Diego Health System · US

Funding

Uterine vascular responses to pregnancy and long term hypoxemiaP01HD031226 · NICHD · LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY · PI ZHANG, LUBO · 1995 to 2014
$21.4M
The role of imidazoline receptor in type-2 diabetesP20MD001632 · NIMHD · LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY · PI DE LEON, DAISY D. · 2005 to 2009
$8.0M
FETAL OXYGENATION AND PLACENTAL GAS EXCHANGER01HD003807 · NICHD · LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY · PI GOYAL, RAVI · 1985 to 2015
$4.1M
NICHD NIH HHS P01 HD031226NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD003807NIMHD NIH HHS P20 MD001632
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Membrane depolarization is critical to pulmonary arterial (PA) contraction. Both L-type Ca(2+) channels (Ca(L)) and Rho-kinase are important signaling components of this process and mitochondrial and non-mitochondrial generated superoxides can be part of the signaling process. Maturation and long-term hypoxia (LTH) each can modify depolarization-dependent contraction and the role of superoxides. By the use of wire myography, we tested the hypothesis that maturation and LTH increase pulmonary arterial reactivity to high-K(+)-induced membrane depolarization through enhancements in the importance of Ca(L)and Rho-kinase-dependent pathways. The data show that maturation, but not LTH, increases contraction to 125 mM KCl (high-K(+)) without altering the EC(50). High-K(+)-dependent contraction was inhibited to a similar extent in fetal and adult PA by multiple Ca(L) blockers, including 10 μM diltiazem, 10 μM verapamil, and 10 μM nifedipine. Postnatal maturation increased the role for 10 μM nifedipine-sensitive Ca(L), and decreased that for 10 μM Y-27632-sensitive Rho-kinase. In all groups, the combination of nifedipine and Y-27632 effectively inhibited high-K(+) contraction. Tempol (3 mM) but not 100 μM apocynin slightly reduced contraction in arteries from fetal hypoxic and adult normoxic and hypoxic sheep, indicating a limited role for non-mitochondrial derived superoxide to high-K(+)-induced contraction. Western immunoblot for alpha smooth muscle actin indicated small increases in relative abundance in the adult. The data suggest that while Ca(L) therapies more effectively vasodilate PA in adults and rho-kinase therapies are more effective in newborns, combination therapies would provide greater efficacy in both young and mature patients regardless of normoxic or hypoxic conditions.

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K+-induced depolarizationL-type Ca2+ channelmyographyrho-kinasesuperoxide

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PMID22558519
PMCPMC3342748
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