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JOURNAL OF VASCULAR SURGERY
Volume 52, Issue 4, Pages 975-983Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2010.05.086
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- National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA [2 RO-1 HL064338-08, 1 P50 HL083800-03, T32-HL007708-15]
- Uehara Memorial Foundation (Japan)
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Objective: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is associated with reduced progression of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) disease. Mechanisms responsible for this negative association remain unknown. We created AAAs in hyperglycemic mice to examine the influence of serum glucose concentration on experimental aneurysm progression. Methods: Aortic aneurysms were induced in hyperglycemic (DM) and normoglycemic models by using intra-aortic porcine pancreatic elastase (PPE) infusion in C57BL/6 mice or by systemic infusion of angiotensin II (ANG) in apolipoprotein E-deficient (ApoE(-/-)) mice, respectively. In an additional DM cohort, insulin therapy was initiated after aneurysm induction. Aneurysmal aortic enlargement progression was monitored with serial transabdominal ultrasound measurements. At sacrifice, AAA cellularity and proteolytic activity were evaluated by immunohistochemistry and substrate zymography, respectively. Influences of serum glucose levels on macrophage migration were examined in separate models of thioglycollate-induced murine peritonitis. Results: At 14 days after PPE infusion, AAA enlargement in hyperglycemic mice (serum glucose a 300 mg/dL) was less than that in euglycemic mice (PPE-DM: 54% +/- 19% vs PPE: 84% +/- 24%, P < .0001). PPE-DM mice also demonstrated reduced aortic mural macrophage infiltration (145 87 vs 253 119 cells/cross-sectional area, P = .0325), elastolysis (% residual elastin: 20% +/- 7% vs 12% +/- 6%, P = .0209), and neovascularization (12 +/- 8 vs 20 +/- 6 vessels/high powered field, P = .0229) compared with PPE mice. Hyperglycemia limited AAA enlargement after ANG infusion in ApoE(-/-)mice (ANG-DM: 38% +/- 12% vs ANG: 61% +/- 37% at day 28). Peritoneal macrophage production was reduced in response to thioglycollate stimulation in hyperglycemic mice, with limited augmentation noted in response to vascular endothelial growth factor administration. Insulin therapy reduced serum glucose levels and was associated with AAA enlargement rates intermediate between euglycemic and hyperglycemic mice (PPE: 1.21 +/- 0.14 mm vs PPE-DM: 1.00 +/- 0.04 mm vs PPE-DM + insulin: 1.14 +/- 0.05 mm). Conclusions: Hyperglycemia reduces progression of experimental AAA disease; lowering of serum glucose levels with insulin treatment diminishes this protective effect. Identifying mechanisms of hyperglycemic aneurysm inhibition may accelerate development of novel clinical therapies for AAA disease. (J Vase Surg 2010;52:975-83.)
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