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JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL THERAPEUTICS
Volume 351, Issue 1, Pages 77-86Publisher
AMER SOC PHARMACOLOGY EXPERIMENTAL THERAPEUTICS
DOI: 10.1124/jpet.114.216747
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT) in Japan [21590290, 26460346]
- Private University High Technology Research Center Project, MEXT
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [21590290] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Contractile responses in small intrarenal arteries are associated with diabetic nephropathy. However, the mechanisms that induce and maintain altered small vessel contraction are not clearly understood. To further understand intrarenal artery dysfunction in diabetes, phenylephrine (PE)-induced force development was assessed in the intrarenal artery [interlobar artery (ILA)] in control (lean) and type II diabetic (ob/ob) mice. PE-induced dose-dependent force development in the ILA was significantly greater in ob/ob mice than in lean mice (592.8 +/- 5.2 and 770.1 +/- 12.1 mu/mm tissue, respectively, following administration of 30 mu M PE, n = 5). Under high-glucose conditions (twice the normal concentration of glucose), PE-induced force development in the ILA was only enhanced in ob/ob mice (946.0 +/- 18.2 mu N/mm tissue; n = 5). ILA dysfunction reduces blood flow to the glomerulus and may induce diabetic nephropathy. Basal overcontraction of the ILA in ob/ob mice under normal-glucose conditions was reduced by pretreatment with rottlerin, a calcium-independent protein kinase C (PKC delta) inhibitor. Total PKC activity was also reduced by rottlerin. Under high-glucose conditions, the enhanced ILA contraction in diabetic mice was suppressed by rho A and rho kinase inhibitors. Our results indicate two types of ILA dysfunction in diabetes, as follows: 1) a basal increase in PE-induced contraction under normal-glucose conditions, and 2) extracellular glucose-dependent enhancement of PE-induced contraction. We believe that these dysfunctions are mediated by the activation of the PKC delta and rho A-rho kinase pathways, respectively.
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