[The effect of a submaximal physical load on the beta 2-adrenoreceptor-dependent adenylate cyclase system of the lymphocytes in hypertension].

Effects of dynamic exercise on lymphocyte beta 2-adrenoreceptor density (BARD) and adenylate cyclase activity (ACA) basal and stimulated by isoproterenol (I). Gpp(NH)p, Gpp(NH)p+I, and forskolin (F), on plasma adrenaline and noradrenaline levels, renin activity (PRA) were compared in 6 healthy donors and 12 patients with essential hypertension (EH). Acute stimulation of sympathetic activity by dynamic exercise leads to a rapid increase in lymphocyte BARD in normotensive and hypertensive subjects. The rise in BARD was accompanied by a significant increase in lymphocyte basal ACA in normotensive subjects, but not hypertensive patients. In patients with EH, basal ACA changed after exercise according to their renin status: patients with low baseline PRA showed a decrease in basal ACA after exercise, whereas patients with normal baseline PRA showed an increase as did normotensive subjects. Patients with decreased basal ACA after exercise also showed a lower ACA stimulation by IPR, F, Gpp (NH)p and Gpp(NH)p+IPR, which did not change after exercise. These patients also exhibited substantial rises in PRA with exercise. These was an inverse relationship between exercise-induced changes in PRA and basal ACA. So the acute regulation of lymphocyte BARD-ACA system is changed in a subset of patients with EH. The pattern of the regulation of this lymphocyte system is associated that of baseline renin activity and of its response to exercise in patients with EH.