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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM
Volume 304, Issue 5, Pages E538-E545Publisher
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00537.2012
Keywords
angiotensin receptors; insulin uptake; insulin action; microvascular blood volume; muscle
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- American Diabetes Association [1-11-CR-30, 7-09-NOVO-11]
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute [R01-HL-094722]
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Losartan increases muscle insulin delivery and rescues insulin's metabolic action during lipid infusion via microvascular recruitment. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 304: E538-E545, 2013. First published January 8, 2013; doi:10.1152/ajpendo.00537.2012.-Insulin delivery and transendothelial insulin transport are two discrete steps that limit muscle insulin action. Angiotensin II type 1 receptor (AT(1)R) blockade recruits microvasculature and increases glucose use in muscle. Increased muscle microvascular perfusion is associated with increased muscle delivery and action of insulin. To examine the effect of acute AT(1)R blockade on muscle insulin uptake and action, rats were studied after an overnight fast to examine the effects of losartan on muscle insulin uptake (protocol 1), microvascular perfusion (protocol 2), and insulin's microvascular and metabolic actions in the state of insulin resistance (protocol 3). Endothelial cell insulin uptake was assessed, using I-125-insulin as tracer. Systemic lipid infusion was used to induce insulin resistance. Losartan significantly increased muscle insulin uptake (similar to 60%, P < 0.03), which was associated with a two- to threefold increase in muscle microvascular blood volume (MBV; P = 0.002) and flow (MBF; P = 0.002). Losartan +/- angiotensin II had no effect on insulin internalization in cultured endothelial cells. Lipid infusion abolished insulin-mediated increases in muscle MBV and MBF and lowered insulin-stimulated whole body glucose disposal (P = 0.0001), which were reversed by losartan administration. Inhibition of nitric oxide synthase abolished losartan-induced muscle insulin uptake and reversal of lipid-induced metabolic insulin resistance. We conclude that AT(1)R blockade increases muscle insulin uptake mainly via microvascular recruitment and rescues insulin's metabolic action in the insulin-resistant state. This may contribute to the clinical findings of decreased cardiovascular events and new onset of diabetes in patients receiving AT(1)R blockers.
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