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. 1978 Mar;75(3):1605-7.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.75.3.1605.

Calcium leakage as a cause of the high resting tension in vascular smooth muscle from the spontaneously hypertensive rat

J P Noon, P J Rice, R J Baldessarini

Calcium leakage as a cause of the high resting tension in vascular smooth muscle from the spontaneously hypertensive rat

J P Noon et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1978 Mar.

Abstract

Aortic strips from spontaneously hypertensive (SH) rats relax in calcium-free physiological medium and contract to approximately 60% of maximum when calcium is again restored to the medium. In vivid contrast, the resting tension of aortic strips from normal rats is unaffected by manipulation of the calcium concentration of the bathing medium. These findings, as well as the reduced sensitivity of aortic strips from SH rats to norepinephrine and the observation that aortic strips from SH rats relax at a faster rate in calcium-free medium in comparison with aortic strips from normal rats, are consistent with the hypothesis that vascular smooth muscle membranes from SH rats leak calcium at a rate that is only partially compensated by the calcium pump.

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