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Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular y Fisiología, Instituto de Biología y Genética Molecular, Consejo Superior Investigaciones Científicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Valladolid, 47005 Valladolid, Spain
The aim of the present work was to elucidate the
role of NADPH oxidase in hypoxia sensing and transduction in the
carotid body (CB) chemoreceptor cells. We have studied the effects of several inhibitors of NADPH oxidase on the normoxic and hypoxia-induced release of [3H]catecholamines
(CA) in an in vitro preparation of intact CB of the rat and rabbit
whose CA deposits have been labeled by prior incubation with the
natural precursor
[3H]tyrosine. It was
found that diphenyleneiodonium (DPI; 0.2-25 µM), an inhibitor of
NADPH oxidase, caused a dose-dependent release of
[3H]CA from normoxic CB
chemoreceptor cells. Contrary to hypoxia, DPI-evoked release was only
partially Ca2+ dependent.
Concentrations of DPI reported to produce full inhibition of NADPH
oxidase in the rat CB did not prevent the hypoxic release response in
the rat and rabbit CB chemoreceptor cells, as stimulation with hypoxia
in the presence of DPI elicited a response equaling the sum of that
produced by DPI and hypoxia applied separately. Neopterin (3-300
µM) and phenylarsine oxide (0.5-2 µM), other inhibitors of
NADPH oxidase, did not promote release of
[3H]CA in normoxic conditions or
affect the response elicited by hypoxia. On the basis of effects of
neopterin and phenylarsine oxide, it is concluded that NADPH oxidase
does not appear to play a role in oxygen sensing or transduction in the
rat and rabbit CB chemoreceptor cells in vitro and, in the context of
the present study, that DPI effects are not related to NADPH oxidase inhibition.
hypoxia; reactive oxygen species; diphenyleneiodonium; neopterin; phenylarsine oxide; carotid body; partial pressure of oxygen
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