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Effects of aortic coarctation on aortic antioxidant enzymes and NADPH oxidase protein expression.

Abstract：

:Abdominal aortic coarctation above the renal arteries leads to severe hypertension above the stenotic site and provides a model for simultaneous testing of the effects of increased and decreased pressure and consequently shear stress in the same animal. The effects of increased pressure, per se, on oxidative stress and antioxidant enzyme expression is unknown. We studied the protein expressions of antioxidant enzymes and NADPH oxidase (gp91phox subunit) in the aortic segments above and below the stenosis site in sham-operated control and aortic-banded rats at four weeks postoperatively. Compared with the control group, the banded group showed significant up-regulation of NADPH oxidase, catalase (CAT), Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD) and Mn SOD protein content in the thoracic aorta. In contrast, Mn SOD, Cu/Zn SOD and NADPH oxidase protein abundance were unchanged in the abdominal aortic segment below the stricture where blood pressure is not elevated, whereas CAT protein abundance was also elevated in the abdominal aorta. No changes were noted for glutathione peroxidase (GPX) protein content either in the thoracic or abdominal aortic segments. Coarctation-induced hypertension is associated with increased aortic CAT, Cu/Zn SOD, Mn SOD and NADPH oxidase protein expression. The up-regulation of NADPH oxidase increases reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation noted in the present study and contributes to inactivation of nitric oxide (NO) as shown previously in this model. Upregulation of antioxidant enzymes may be a compensatory response in the face of elevated pressure and oxidative stress. The normality of protein abundance in the abdominal aorta wherein blood pressure is not elevated points to the role of baromechanical factors, as opposed to circulating humoral factors that were similar in both segments, as a mechanism responsible for increased antioxidant enzyme expression.

journal_name

Life Sci

journal_title

Life sciences

authors

Sindhu RK,Roberts CK,Ehdaie A,Zhan CD,Vaziri ND

doi

10.1016/j.lfs.2004.10.014

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2005-01-07 00:00:00

pages

945-53

issue

eissn

0024-3205

issn

1879-0631

pii

S0024-3205(04)00908-7

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Effects of aortic coarctation on aortic antioxidant enzymes and NADPH oxidase protein expression.