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CANADIAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY
Volume 30, Issue 12, Pages 1700-1705Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.cjca.2014.09.010
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- Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Poland [IP2011 057571, DIA/2013/42]
- European Union-the European Regional Development Found
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Background: Recent evidence suggests that an elevated plasma trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) level is associated with an increased risk of adverse cardiovascular events in humans; however, the mechanism is not clear. The aims of this study were to establish the plasma TMAO level in rats and to evaluate the effect of TMAO on arterial blood pressure (BP) and the hemodynamic effects of angiotensin II (Ang II). Methods: Twelve-week-old, Sprague-Dawley rats were implanted with telemetric transmitters, and continuous recordings of heart rate, systolic BP (SBP), and diastolic BP (DBP) were made for 7 days before and 14 days during osmotic minipump-driven subcutaneous infusion of saline (controls), TMAO, low-dose Ang II, or Ang II + TMAO. Plasma TMAO concentration was evaluated using liquid chromatography coupled with triple-quadrupole mass spectrometry. Results: The plasma TMAO concentration in controls was 0.57 mu mol/L, whereas in TMAO-infused rats it was 58 mu mol/L. Neither saline nor TMAO infusion affected SBP and DBP. Infusion of Ang II significantly increased SBP and DBP for the first 5 days of infusion only. In contrast, infusion of Ang II + TMAO produced a hypertensive response that lasted until the end of the experiment. TMAO infusions did not affect body weight and motor activity. Conclusions: We showed that physiological plasma TMAO concentration in rats was approximately 10 times lower than that reported in humans. Furthermore, the new finding of the study is that TMAO does not affect BP in normotensive animals. However, it prolongs the hypertensive effect of Ang II.
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