Efeito do treinamento físico no remodelamento de grandes artérias em ratos normotensos e hipertensos. / Effect of exercise training in the remodeling of large arteries in spontaneously hypertensive and normotensive rats.

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2008

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We investigated the effects of exercise training (T) on the possible remodeling of large arteries of spontaneously hypertensive (SHR) and normotensive rats (WKY). The animals were submitted to treadmill T (50-60% of maximum capacity, 1h/day, 5 d/week) or kept sedentary (S) for 3 months. At the end of the protocols, they were submitted to chronic cannulation for records of baselines hemodynamics. Following they were anesthetized and perfused with saline and PFA 4% for histological analysis and Karnovski solution for transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The thoracic and abdominal aorta and carotid, renal and femoral arteries were harvested and processed for the technique of Weigert/Hematoxylin and TEM. In morphometric analysis were determined the following parameters: DI, DE, thickness of wall, media/lumen ratio and AST in all arterial segments, while the stereological analysis quantified the density number (QA), the density volume (VV) and density of area (SV) of the nucleus of vascular smooth muscle and the elastic component (total, lamellar and fibrillar). In SHRS (vs WHYS) MAP and HR baseline were seen to be high (172 ± 1 mmHg and 386 ± 9 bpm respectively). T has also been effective in increasing the gain of physical capacity in both groups (+264 ± 12 and +279 ± 33 m), but falls in MAP (-4%) and HR (-7%) were observed only in SHRT. There were no significant ultrastructural differences in vessels of SHR and WKY, but T was effective in reorganize the smooth muscle cells, reduce the collagen of extracellular matrix, preventing the duplication of internal elastic lamina, reduce the subendothelial vacuolization in both groups and prevent the fragmentation of internal elastic lamina in the thoracic aorta of SHR. In SHRS there were significant increases in the caliber of the thoracic aorta (+7%) carotid (+19%), reduction of abdominal aorta (-7%), increases of the media/lumen ratio of the renal arteries (+80%) and femoral (+48%). There were also significant increases in thickness of the carotid and AST (+27% and +47% respectively), femoral (+64% and +62% respectively) and the thoracic aorta (+31%). T did not cause changes in the geometry of the large arteries of SHR and WKY, except for unexpected increase of media/lumen ratio in the femoral (+31%, p <0.05) only in SHRT. In spite of stereological parameters there were significant increases in VV (+60%) and SV (+60%) of the vascular smooth muscle of the thoracic aorta, with significant reduction of VV (-10%, -29%) and SV (-11 %, -23%) of the total and lamellar elastic component without changing the fibrillar elastic component in SHRS. The ratio between density of volume of lamellas and fibrils and density of volume of vascular smooth muscle was also significantly reduced (-43% and -56% respectively) in SHRS. Furthermore, T determined reduction of QA (-25%), VV (-40%) and SV (-40%) only in vascular smooth muscle in SHRT, without changing the lamellar and fibrillar elastic component. However, the ratio between elastic component and vascular smooth muscle cell was corrected by T (increases of +85% and +90% respectively, vs SHRS). Our data suggest that hypertension increases preferably the thickness of the large arteries in order to maintain constant tension developed by the vascular wall, while the low-intensity aerobic training, regardless of the level of blood pressure, changes essentially the ultrastructural arrangement of vessel, determining further, in skeletal muscle artery, geometric changes compensatory to adjustments of the microcirculation induced by exercise. Moreover, the comparison of our results with those induced by training in skeletal muscle microcirculation suggests that the effects of T differ between large and small arteries/arterioles.

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hypertension remodelamento remodeling treinamento físico exercise training large arteries grandes artérias hipertensão

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