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To investigate the possible involvement of endothelin-1 (ET-1), an endothelium-derived potent vasoconstrictor peptide, in the pathophysiology of hypertension, plasma ET-1 levels in 15-week-old spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and DOCA-salt hypertensive rats were measured with a sandwich-type enzyme immunoassay. The vasocontractile effect of ET-1 in aortic helical preparations was significantly more sensitive in DOCA-salt hypertensive rats than in control sham-operated rats, but plasma levels of ET-1 did not differ between them. Plasma ET-1 levels in genetically hypertensive rats (SHR and stroke-prone SHR) were significantly lower than those in age-matched normotensive Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rats. The plasma concentrations of big ET-1, a precursor of ET-1, in both SHR and SHR-SP were significantly lower than those of WKY, suggesting that the production of ET-1 is decreased in rats of genetic hypertension. Although the vascular reactivity to ET-1 increased in both DOCA-salt hypertensive and genetically hypertensive rats, present findings of the plasma ET-1 levels suggest that the role of ET-1 in the vascular control system may be different in DOCA-salt hypertensive rats and genetically hypertensive rats.
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