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CLINICAL SCIENCE
Volume 113, Issue 5-6, Pages 267-278Publisher
PORTLAND PRESS LTD
DOI: 10.1042/CS20070123
Keywords
aldosterone; angiotensin II (AngII); cardiovascular remodelling; end-organ damage; mineralocorticoid receptor; renal injury; renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS)
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- NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE [R01HL060906, R01HL077389, R01HL067308] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NHLBI NIH HHS [HL067308, HL 077389, HL060906] Funding Source: Medline
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Aldosterone concentrations are inappropriately high in many patients with hypertension, as well as in an increasing number of individuals with metabolic syndrome and sleep apnoea. A growing body of evidence suggests that aldosterone and/or activation of the MR (mineralocorticoid receptor) contributes to cardiovascular remodelling and renal injury in these conditions. In addition to causing sodium retention and increased blood pressure, MR activation induces oxidative stress, endothelial dysfunction, inflammation and subsequent fibrosis. The MR may be activated by aldosterone and cortisol or via transactivation by the AT, (angiotenin 11 type 1) receptor through a mechanism involving the EGFR (epidermal growth factor receptor) and MAPK (mitogen-activated protein kinase) pathway. In addition, aldosterone can generate rapid non-genomic effects in the heart and vasculature. MR antagonism reduces mortality in patients with CHIF (congestive heart failure) and following myocardial infarction. MR antagonism improves endothelial function in patients with CHF, reduces circulating biomarkers of cardiac fibrosis in CHIF or following myocardial infarction, reduces blood pressure in resistant hypertension and decreases albuminuria in hypertensive and diabetic patients. In contrast, whereas adrenalectomy improves glucose homoeostasis in hyperaldosteronism, MR antagonism may worsen glucose homoeostasis and impairs endothelial function in diabetes, suggesting a possible detrimental effect of aldosterone via non-genomic pathways.
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