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Increasing evidence shows that the olfactory bulb is involved in blood pressure regulation in health and disease. Enhanced noradrenergic transmission in the olfactory bulb was reported in hypertension. Given that endothelins modulate catecholamines and are involved in the pathogenesis of hypertension, in the present study we sought to establish the role of the endothelin receptor type A on tyrosine hydroxylase, the rate limiting enzyme in catecholamine biosynthesis, in the olfactory bulb of DOCA-salt hypertensive rats. Sprague-Dawley male rats, randomly divided into Control and DOCA-Salt hypertensive groups, were used to assess endothelin receptors by Western blot and confocal microscopy, and their co-localization with tyrosine hydroxylase in the olfactory bulb. Blood pressure and heart rate as well as tyrosine hydroxylase expression and activity were assessed following BQ610 (ETA antagonist) applied to the brain. DOCA-Salt hypertensive rats showed enhanced ETA and decreased ETB expression. ETA co-localized with tyrosine hydroxylase positive neurons. Acute ETA blockade reduced blood pressure and heart rate and decreased the expression of total tyrosine hydroxylase and its phosphorylated forms. Furthermore, it also diminished mRNA tyrosine hydroxylase expression and accelerated the enzyme degradation through the proteasome pathway as shown by pretreatment with MG132, (20s proteasome inhibitor) intracerebroventricularly applied. Present findings support that the brain endothelinergic system plays a major role through ETA activation in the increase of catecholaminergic activity in the olfactory bulb of DOCA-Salt hypertensive rats. They provide rationale evidence that this telencephalic structure contributes in a direct or indirect way to the hemodynamic regulation in salt dependent hypertension.
Overactivity of the sympathetic nervous system and central endothelins (ETs) are involved in the development of hypertension. Besides the well-known brain structures involved in the regulation of blood pressure like the hypothalamus or locus coeruleus, evidence suggests that the olfactory bulb (OB) also modulates cardiovascular function. In the present study, we evaluated the interaction between the endothelinergic and catecholaminergic systems in the OB of deoxycorticosterone acetate (DOCA)-salt hypertensive rats. Following brain ET receptor type A (ETA) blockade by BQ610 (selective antagonist), transcriptional, traductional, and post-traductional changes in tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) were assessed in the OB of normotensive and DOCA-salt hypertensive rats. Time course variations in systolic blood pressure and heart rate were also registered. Results showed that ETA blockade dose dependently reduced blood pressure in hypertensive rats, but it did not change heart rate. It also prevented the increase in TH activity and expression (mRNA and protein) in the right OB of hypertensive animals. However, ETA blockade did not affect hemodynamics or TH in normotensive animals. Present results support that brain ETA are not involved in blood pressure regulation in normal rats, but they significantly contribute to chronic blood pressure elevation in hypertensive animals. Changes in TH activity and expression were observed in the right but not in the left OB, supporting functional asymmetry, in line with previous studies regarding cardiovascular regulation. Present findings provide further evidence on the role of ETs in the regulation of catecholaminergic activity and the contribution of the right OB to DOCA-salt hypertension.
Endothelins regulate catecholaminergic activity in the olfactory bulb (OB) in normotensive and hypertensive animals. Administration of an endothelin ETA receptor antagonist decreases blood pressure in deoxycorticosterone acetate-salt (DOCA-salt) rats along with a reduction in tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) activity and expression. In the present work, we sought to establish the role of brain endothelin ETB receptor on blood pressure regulation and its relationship with the catecholaminergic system within the OB of DOCA-Salt rats. Sprague-Dawley male rats were divided into control and DOCA-Salt groups. Blood pressure, heart rate and TH activity as well as neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) expression were assessed following IRL-1620 (selective endothelin ETB receptor agonist) applied to be brain. IRL-1620 significantly reduced systolic, diastolic, and mean arterial pressure in DOCA-Salt hypertensive rats. It also decreased TH activity, TH total and phosphorylated forms expression as well as its mRNA in the OB of hypertensive animals. The expression of phospho-Ser1417-nNOS, which reflects nNOS activation, was significantly decreased in the of OB of DOCA-salt rats, but it was enhanced by IRL-1620. These findings suggest that DOCA-Salt hypertension depends on endogenous central endothelin ETA receptor activity, rather than on ETB, and that low endothelin ETB stimulation is essential for blood pressure elevation in this animal model. The effect of endothelin ETA receptor antagonism may also result from endothelin ETB receptor overstimulation. The present study shows that endothelin receptors are involved in the regulation of TH in the OB and that such changes are likely implicated in the hemodynamic control and sympathetic outflow.
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