Abstract
The hypothesis was tested that wall tension can influence the membrane potential response to noradrenaline (NA) using isometric and isobaric vessel preparations of rat mesenteric small arteries. The resting membrane potential was significantly less negative in the isobaric (-49.7+/-0.5 mV, S.E.M., n=12 vessels) compared to the isometric preparation (-56.1+/-0.7 mV, n=10), although there was no difference in wall tension. The depolarization induced by 10(-5) M NA was 2.6-fold smaller in the isobaric preparation, where wall tension decreased, compared to the isometric preparation, where wall tension increased. Since wall tension decreases under isobaric conditions, but increases under isometric conditions, the latter finding can be explained by assuming that part of the NA-induced membrane potential change is wall tension dependent.
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