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BIOCHEMICAL PHARMACOLOGY
Volume 69, Issue 5, Pages 781-790Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.bcp.2004.11.022
Keywords
insulin endothelium; nitric oxide; nitric oxide synthase; calcium; phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase; protein kinase B
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- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/C508377/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/C508377/1] Funding Source: Medline
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Insulin exerts a vasodilator effect by stimulating endothelial nitric oxide (NO) production. Studies in cultured cells suggest that insulin might activate endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) by an atypical, calcium-independent mechanism. This study investigates the mechanism of insulin-stimulated endothelial NO production in intact aortic wall. Real time fluorescence imaging with 4,5-diaminofluorescin diacetate (DAF-2 DA) or 4-amino-5-methylamino-2',7'-difluorofluorescein diacetate (DAF-FM DA) and FURA 2-AM was used to simultaneously visualise NO and intracellular calcium concentrations at multiple locations in the endothelium and vascular smooth muscle of isolated rat and mouse aorta after exposure to insulin. Inhibitors of intracellular insulin signalling were used to determine the pathway for insulin-stimulated NO production. Unlike acetylcholine, which stimulated endothelial NO production with a typical increase in free intracellular calcium, insulin (10(-8) to 10(-6) M) stimulated endothelial NO production without elevating intracellular calcium levels. Insulin-stimulated NO production was concentration dependent and detected within 30 s of application. Peak increases in NO occurred between 60 and 120 s and declined slowly thereafter. Separate measurements of NO production by fluorescence of 2,3-diaminonaphthalene (DAN) noted that selective inhibitors of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) and protein kinase B (PKB) inhibited insulin-stimulated NO production, whereas these inhibitors alone did not alter NO production or acetylcholine-stimulated NO production. Insulin-stimulated NO production by endothelium is an acute calcium-independent effect mediated via the PI3K-PKB signalling pathway. (C) 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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