Endothelial Mineralocorticoid Receptor Ablation Confers Protection Towards Endothelial Dysfunction in Experimental Diabetes in Mice

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristina S. Lyngsø ◽  
Boye L. Jensen ◽  
Pernille B. L. Hansen ◽  
Henrik Dimke
2007 ◽  
Vol 293 (2) ◽  
pp. R707-R713 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharyn M. Fitzgerald ◽  
Barbara K. Kemp-Harper ◽  
Helena C. Parkington ◽  
Geoffrey A. Head ◽  
Roger G. Evans

We determined whether nitric oxide (NO) counters the development of hypertension at the onset of diabetes in mice, whether this is dependent on endothelial NO synthase (eNOS), and whether non-NO endothelium-dependent vasodilator mechanisms are altered in diabetes in mice. Male mice were instrumented for chronic measurement of mean arterial pressure (MAP). In wild-type mice, MAP was greater after 5 wk of Nω-nitro-l-arginine methyl ester (l-NAME; 100 mg·kg−1·day−1 in drinking water; 97 ± 3 mmHg) than after vehicle treatment (88 ± 3 mmHg). MAP was also elevated in eNOS null mice (113 ± 4 mmHg). Seven days after streptozotocin treatment (200 mg/kg iv) MAP was further increased in l-NAME-treated mice (108 ± 5 mmHg) but not in vehicle-treated mice (88 ± 3 mmHg) nor eNOS null mice (104 ± 3 mmHg). In wild-type mice, maximal vasorelaxation of mesenteric arteries to acetylcholine was not altered by chronic l-NAME or induction of diabetes but was reduced by 42 ± 6% in l-NAME-treated diabetic mice. Furthermore, the relative roles of NO and endothelium-derived hyperpolarizing factor (EDHF) in acetylcholine-induced vasorelaxation were altered; the EDHF component was enhanced by l-NAME and blunted by diabetes. These data suggest that NO protects against the development of hypertension during early-stage diabetes in mice, even in the absence of eNOS. Furthermore, in mesenteric arteries, diabetes is associated with reduced EDHF function, with an apparent compensatory increase in NO function. Thus, prior inhibition of NOS results in endothelial dysfunction in early diabetes, since the diabetes-induced reduction in EDHF function cannot be compensated by increases in NO production.


2000 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 623-634 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Martínez-Nieves ◽  
H. L. Collins ◽  
S. E. DiCarlo

2015 ◽  
Vol 93 (7) ◽  
pp. 555-561 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Sturza ◽  
Oana M. Duicu ◽  
Adrian Vaduva ◽  
Maria D. Dănilă ◽  
Lavinia Noveanu ◽  
...  

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is widely recognized as the most severe metabolic disease associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. The generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) is a major event causally linked to the development of cardiovascular complications throughout the evolution of DM. Recently, monoamine oxidases (MAOs) at the outer mitochondrial membrane, with 2 isoforms, MAO-A and MAO-B, have emerged as novel sources of constant hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) production in the cardiovascular system via the oxidative deamination of biogenic amines and neurotransmitters. Whether MAOs are mediators of endothelial dysfunction in DM is unknown, and so we studied this in a streptozotocin-induced rat model of diabetes. MAO expression (mRNA and protein) was increased in both arterial samples and hearts isolated from the diabetic animals. Also, H2O2 production (ferrous oxidation – xylenol orange assay) in aortic samples was significantly increased, together with an impairment of endothelium-dependent relaxation (organ-bath studies). MAO inhibitors (clorgyline and selegiline) attenuated ROS production by 50% and partially normalized the endothelium-dependent relaxation in diseased vessels. In conclusion, MAOs, in particular the MAO-B isoform, are induced in aortas and hearts in the streptozotocin-induced diabetic rat model and contribute, via the generation of H2O2, to the endothelial dysfunction associated with experimental diabetes.


Hypertension ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 72 (Suppl_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica L Faulkner ◽  
Simone Kennard ◽  
Galina Antonova ◽  
Zsolt Bagi ◽  
Iris Jaffe ◽  
...  

2014 ◽  
Vol 103 (suppl 1) ◽  
pp. S30.3-S30 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Sturza ◽  
L Noveanu ◽  
O Duicu ◽  
DM Muntean

2011 ◽  
Vol 300 (6) ◽  
pp. H2035-H2043 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Favre ◽  
Ji Gao ◽  
An Di Zhang ◽  
Isabelle Remy-Jouet ◽  
Antoine Ouvrard-Pascaud ◽  
...  

The deleterious effects of aldosterone excess demonstrated in cardiovascular diseases might be linked in part to coronary vascular dysfunction. However, whether such vascular dysfunction is a cause or a consequence of the changes occurring in the cardiomyocytes is unclear. Moreover, the possible link between mineralocorticoid receptor (MR)-mediated effects on the cardiomyocyte and the coronary arteries is unknown. Thus we used a mouse model with conditional, cardiomyocyte-specific overexpression of human MR (hMR) and observed the effects on endothelial function in isolated coronary segments. hMR overexpression decreased the nitric oxide (NO)-mediated relaxing responses to acetylcholine in coronary arteries (but not in peripheral arteries), and this was prevented by a 1-mo treatment either with an MR antagonist, vitamin E/vitamin C, or a NADPH oxidase inhibitor. hMR overexpression did not affect coronary endothelial NO synthase content nor its level of phosphorylation on serine 1177, but increased cardiac levels of reactive oxygen species, cardiac NADPH oxidase (NOX) activity, and expression of the NOX subunit gp91phox, which was limited to endothelial cells. Thus an increase in hMR activation, restricted to cardiomyocytes, is sufficient to induce a severe coronary endothelial dysfunction. We suggest a new paracrine mechanism by which cardiomyocytes trigger a NOX-dependent, reactive oxygen species-mediated coronary endothelial dysfunction.


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