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We investigated the effect of hypercholesterolemia on the vascular reactivity of thoracic aortas isolated from hypertensive Dahl salt-sensitive (DS) rats. DS rats were fed on a low-sodium diet (control group), a low-sodium plus high-cholesterol diet (CHOL group), a high-sodium diet (NaCl group) or a high-sodium plus high-cholesterol diet (NaCl + CHOL group) for 8 weeks. Hypercholesterolemia developed in the CHOL and NaCl + CHOL groups, while hypertension developed in the NaCl and NaCl + CHOL groups, with these changes being greatest in the NaCl + CHOL group. Aortic cholesteryl ester accumulation was attenuated in the aortic rings from the NaCl and NaCl + CHOL groups, compared to the control group. The degree of attenuation in the NaCl + CHOL group was significantly greater than that in the NaCl group. Endothelium-dependent relaxations induced by the calcium ionophore A23187 were attenuated only in the NaCl + CHOL group. Endothelium-independent relaxations in response to sodium nitroprusside were slightly but significantly attenuated in the NaCl + CHOL group. The relaxations in the CHOL group were comparable to those in the control group. These findings indicate that cholesterol feeding strikingly enhances the impaired endothelium-dependent relaxations and the slightly impaired endothelium-independent relaxations in the aorta of DS rats with salt-induced hypertension, parallel to the development of hypertension, hypercholesterolemia and cholesterol deposition.
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