Abstract：
:We investigated the involvement of angiotensin II and vascular smooth muscle sarco/endoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+)-ATPase (SERCA) function in the impaired NO-induced relaxation seen in established streptozotocin-induced diabetes. Plasma angiotensin II levels, which were elevated in untreated diabetic rats (vs age-matched controls), were improved by treatment with the angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor enalapril. Systolic blood pressure was significantly decreased in chronic enalapril-treated diabetics (vs the other two groups). Intact aortae from diabetic rats and chronic angiotensin II-infused control rats, but not those from diabetic rats treated with enalapril, showed impaired endothelium-dependent relaxations to acetylcholine (vs controls). The relaxation induced by Angeli's Salt (a NO donor) was significantly impaired in endothelium-denuded aortae from diabetic rats (vs controls) but it was normalised by enalapril treatment. After preincubation with the irreversible SERCA inhibitor, thapsigargin, the relaxation induced by Angeli's Salt was significantly impaired in endothelium-denuded aortae from the controls, but not from the diabetics, and there was no significant difference between the thapsigargin-treated groups. Nitrotyrosine, an indirect marker of peroxynitrite, was markedly increased in aortic smooth muscle from diabetic rats, while chronic enalapril administration reduced this increase. These results suggest that in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats, excessive angiotensin II production may lead to the generation of peroxynitrite and that this may in turn trigger a dysfunction of vascular smooth muscle SERCA. Enalapril improved the diabetes-related impairments.
journal_name
Eur J Pharmacoljournal_title
European journal of pharmacologyauthors
Taguchi K,Kobayashi T,Hayashi Y,Matsumoto T,Kamata Kdoi
10.1016/j.ejphar.2006.11.026subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2007-02-05 00:00:00pages
121-8issue
1-3eissn
0014-2999issn
1879-0712pii
S0014-2999(06)01266-0journal_volume
556pub_type
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