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Relation between Expression of Heat Shock Protein 70 and Vascular Contractility of Rat Aorta Treated with Arsenic  

권윤정 (경북대학교 의과대학 약리학교실)
박태규 (경북대학교 의과대학 약리학교실)
김중영 (경북대학교 의과대학 약리학교실)
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Korean Journal of Environmental Biology / v.21, no.3, 2003 , pp. 313-318 More about this Journal
Abstract
Environmental stresses, such as heat shock, alcohol and physiological salt have been shown to induce a group of protein called heat shock protein (HSPs) in various tissues. In this investigation, we studied that arsenic stress would alter contraction of isolated rat aorta and expression of heat shock protein 70 and investigated the relation between expression of HSP 70 and vascular contractility of isolated rat aorta. Rat aorta strips, mounted in organ baths were exposed to 0, 0.5, 1,2 and 4 mM arsonic for 60 min. and 1,3 and 8 hours later tested for contractile response and expression of heat shock protein 70. Contractility of rat aorta were determined by isometric transducer connected to computerized physiograph and expression of HSP 70 was characterized by western blotting, respectively. Potassium chloride (55 mM) significantly augmented vascular contractility of yat aorta by 39% compared with the control at 8 hours but not one or three hours after treatment of 4 mM arsenic. Arsonic stress (4 mM) also increased the expression of HSP 70 in rat aorta at 8 hours but one or three hours compared with the control and HSP expressed in vascular smooth muscle cells and some expressed in endothelium cells. These results suggest that arsenic stress not only did alter the magnitude of the contractile response to high potassium chloride but also increased the expression of HSP 70 in the rat aorta.
Keywords
arsenic; heat shock protein; smooth muscle; contractility;
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