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EXPERIMENTAL EYE RESEARCH
Volume 234, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2023.109617
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Hypertensive retinopathy; Glycocalyx; Proteoglycans; Glycoproteins; Endothelial junction molecules
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Hypertension is associated with changes in the retina and choroid, resulting in increased vascular permeability and microhemorrhages. This study found decreases in certain endothelial surface molecules in hypertensive rats compared to control rats. These changes were both sex-dependent and accompanied by an increase in plasma levels of the proteoglycan, suggesting possible systemic endothelial shedding.
Hypertension is associated with changes in the retina and choroid, with resulting consequences of increased vascular permeability and microhemorrhages. To date, very little information is available regarding the changes in the retinal and choroidal endothelial surface layer. In this study, we have examined changes in protein expression of several molecules including platelet endothelial cell adhesion molecule-1 (PECAM-1), vascular endothelial cadherin (VE-cadherin), glypican-1, and syndecan-1, in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) compared to control normotensive Wistar Kyoto (WKY) rats. In male SHR vs WKY rat retinas, decreases were found for VE-cadherin and syndecan-1; whereas in female retinas, decreases were found for PECAM-1, glypican1, and syndecan-1. In male SHR vs WKY rat choroid, we found an increase in glypican-1, but choroidal syndecan1 was decreased in SHR in both males and females. Therefore, decreases in SHR of both retinal and choroidal syndecan-1 were found in both males and females. These losses of syndecan-1 were accompanied by an increase in plasma levels of the proteoglycan, indicating possible systemic endothelial shedding. In contrast, plasma levels of glypican-1 decreased. Interestingly, in normotensive WKY rats, retinal levels of all four endothelial surface molecules were higher in females than in males, in some cases, by substantial amounts. In summary, a number of changes occur in endothelial surface molecules in SHR, with some changes being sex-dependent; it is possible that the loss of these molecules contributes to the vascular dysfunction that occurs in hypertensive retina and choroid.
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