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Rio de Janeiro; s.n; 2000. x,121 p. ilus, tab, graf.
Thesis in Portuguese | LILACS | ID: lil-283024

ABSTRACT

Alterações estruturais do miocárdio devidas á inibição da síntese de óxido nítrico e concomitante tratamento com três drogras anti-hipertensivas foram estudadas quantitativamente após de 40 dias do tratamento. Cinco grupo de 10 ratos: Controle, L-NAME, espironolactona, enalapril e verapamil foram estudados. L-NAME foi administrado na dose de 50 mg/kg/dia na água do bebedouro. No 41§ dia de experimentação os ratos foram anestesiados, pesados e sacrificados. A pressão arterial da cauda (PAC) aumentou 76 por cento e 16 por cento nos grupos L-NAME e espironolactona, respectivamente, em comparação ao grupo de controle. A espironolactona, o enalapril e o verapamil foram eficientes em reduzir a PAC nos respectivos grupos (a espironolactona foi menos eficiente na redução da PAC). O volume do coração (VC) foi maior no grupo L-NAME que nos outros grupos, mas não foi diferente entre os grupos L-NAME e espironolactona. O ventrículo esquerdo foi o responsável pelas mudanças no VC. A relação entre o VC e a massa corporal (MC) não foi significativa entre os grupos L-NAME e espironolactona. Porém, esta relação foi alométrica nos grupos controle, enalapril e verapamil. No grupo controle o VC teve uma tendência alométrica positiva em relação a MC, mas nos trupos enalapril e verapamil esta tendência foi alométrica negativa. A hipertrofia cardíaca nestes animais foi prevenida mais eficazmente pelo uso do enalapril e do verapamil do que pela espironolactona. A inibição da síntese do ON provocou modificações no miocárdio e as drogas anti-hipertensivas foram eficientes na prevenção das modificações causadas pela hipertensão e a estereologia quantificou estas alteraçoes. Foram determinadas as densidades de volume dos cardiomiócitos (Vv[c]), intertício cardíaco (Vv[i]), densidade de superfície de cardiomiócitos (Sv[c]) e área transversão média dos cardiomiócitos (A[c]). Ocorreu hipertrofia dos cardiomiócitos vista através do aumento da A[c] que foi 30 por centro maior no grupo L-NAME, 13 por cento nos grupos espironolactona e enalapril. Aos 40 dias ocorrei diminuilão do Vv[c] e aumento do Vv[i] nos animais L-NAME (15 por centro e 24 por centro respectivamente)...


Subject(s)
Animals , Rats , Antihypertensive Agents/pharmacokinetics , Cardiovascular Physiological Phenomena/drug effects , Heart , Enalapril/pharmacokinetics , Nitric Oxide/pharmacokinetics , Spironolactone/pharmacokinetics , Ventricular Remodeling , Verapamil/pharmacokinetics , Biometry
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Arq. bras. cardiol ; 73(5): 407-18, Nov. 1999. ilus
Article in Portuguese, English | LILACS | ID: lil-261162

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE- To study the quantitative changes in intramyocardial blood vessels in rats in whom nitric oxide synthesis was inhibited. METHODS - Four groups of 10 rats were studied: control (C25 and C40) and L-NAME(L25 and L40). The animals L25 and L40 received L-NAME in the dosage of 50mg/kg/day for 25 and 40 days, respectively. On days 26 and 41 the animals in groups 25 and 40 were sacrificed. Analysis of the myocardium was performed using light microscopy and stereology. RESULTS - Arterial blood pressure and heart weight increased 74.5 and 57.8 per cent after 25 days and 90.2 and 34.6 per cent after 40 days, respectively. Comparing the L-NAME rats with the respective controls revealed that vessel volume density decreased 31.3 per cent after 40 days, and the vessel length-density decreased 53.5 per cent after 25 days and 25.7 per cent after 40 days. The mean cross-sectional area of the vessels showed an important reduction of 154.6 per cent after 25 days. The intramyocardial vessels decreased significantly in length- density in the L-NAME animals. The mean cross-sectional area of the vessels, which normally increases during heart growth between 25 and 40 days, showed a precocious increase by the 25th day in the L-NAME rats. This suggests an increase of the size of the heart, including blood vessels. CONCLUSION - The inhibition of the NO synthesis provokes rarefaction in the intramyocardial vessels that progresses with the time of administration of L-NAME.


Subject(s)
Animals , Male , Rats , Coronary Vessels/pathology , Enzyme Inhibitors/pharmacology , Hypertension/pathology , NG-Nitroarginine Methyl Ester/pharmacology , Nitric Oxide/antagonists & inhibitors , Blood Pressure/drug effects , Enzyme Inhibitors/administration & dosage , Hypertension/physiopathology , Microcirculation/pathology , NG-Nitroarginine Methyl Ester/administration & dosage , Nitric Oxide Synthase/antagonists & inhibitors , Organ Size/drug effects , Rats, Wistar , Time Factors
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Arq. bras. cardiol ; 70(6): 397-402, Jun. 1998.
Article in Portuguese | LILACS | ID: lil-320314

ABSTRACT

PURPOSE: To study structural changes of the myocardium in relation to the time of nitric oxide synthesis inhibition. METHODS: Four groups of 10 rats each were studied: 2 control groups and 2 groups with administration of L-Name (50 mg/kg/day), one during 25 days and the other during 40 days. The animals were then sacrificed and the hearts were prepared for study in light microscopy, where sections strained by picro-sirius were studied with and without polarized light for analysis of the cardiac interstitium collagen. Volume densities of myocytes (Vv[m]) and interstitium (Vv[int]), the numerical density of myocytes (Nv[m]) and the mean cross-sectional area of myocytes were (A[m]) also determined. RESULTS: The L-Name animals were compared with the respective controls. In the L-Name rats, the tail arterial pressure increased 74.5 and 90.2in the 25 days group and in the 40 days group, respectively. The heart weight increased 50in the 25 days group and 28.6in the 40 days group. The myocardium of the L-Name animals presented myocyte hypertrophy with increased A(m), perivascular and interstitial fibrosis, thickness of the tunica intima and tunica media of the intramyocardial arteries. In the 40 days group the L-Name animals had decreased Vv(m) and Nv(m) and increased Vv(int). CONCLUSIONS: Inhibition of nitric oxide synthesis provokes myocardial changes that progress with the time of L-Name administration. The stereology is useful to determine and to evaluate the myocardial changes in this model of arterial hypertension.


Subject(s)
Animals , Male , Rats , Hypertension/metabolism , Enzyme Inhibitors/pharmacology , Myocardium , NG-Nitroarginine Methyl Ester/pharmacology , Nitric Oxide Synthase , Myocardium , Organ Size , Time Factors
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