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HEART AND VESSELS
卷 15, 期 3, 页码 135-143出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s003800070030
关键词
nerve; capillary endothelium; renal-ureter; hypertrophy; heart failure
资金
- NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE [P01HL051971] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES [R29GM048595] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NHLBI NIH HHS [HL-51971] Funding Source: Medline
- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM-48595] Funding Source: Medline
Hyperhomocyst(e)inemia has been associated with the development of hypertension, stroke, and cardiovascular, cerebral/neuronal, renal, and liver diseases. To test the hypothesis that homocyst(e)ine plays an integrated role in multiorgan injury in hypertension, we employed: (1) spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) in which endogenous homocyst(e)ine levels are moderately high (18.1 +/- 0.5 muM); (2) control age- and sex-matched Wistar Kyoto (WKY) rats in which homocyst(e)ine levels are normal (3.7 +/- 0.3 CIM) To create the pathophysiological condition of hyperhomocyst(e)inemia, 20mg/day homocyst(e)ine was administered for 12 weeks in (3) SHR (SHR-H) and in (4) WKY (WKY-H) rats, (5) Endogenous homocyst(e)ine levels were reduced slightly but not significantly from 18.1 +/- 0.5 muM to 12.5 +/- 0.7 muM in SHR by folic acid administration (SHR-F), Plasma and tissue levels of homocyst(e)ine were determined by HPLC and spectrophotometric methods. Plasma and sympathetic ganglion (neuronal) matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) activity was measured by zymography. Activity of neuronal MMP was increased in hyperhomocyst(e)inemic rats as compared with controls. Mean arterial pressure (mmHg) was 95 +/- 5, 126 +/- 8,157 +/- 10, 188 +/- 5, and 165 +/- 12 in WKY, WKY-H, SHR, SHR-H, and SHR-F, respectively. Urinary protein (mg/day) was 0.11 +/- 0.03. 0.88 +/- 0.22, 0.47 +/- 0.10, 0.89 +/- 0.21, and 0.81 +/- 0.21 in WKY, WKY-H, SHR, SHR-H, and SHR-F, respectively, as measured by the Bio-Rad dye binding assay. The relationships between increased arterial pressure, plasma homocyst(e)ine, and urinary protein were delineated. Plasma and neuronal creatinine phosphokinase (CK) isoenzymes were measured by agarose gel electrophoresis. All three CK isoenzymes, i.e., MM, MB, and BE, specific for skeletal, cardiac, and nerve tissue, respectively, were induced following 12 weeks hyperhomocyst(e)inemia. suggesting multiorgan injury by homocyst(e)ine. Homocyst(e)ine induces endocardial endothelial cell (capillary) apoptosis and may reduce capillary cell density. Structural damage to aorta, myocardium. kidney, and renal-ureter was analyzed by histology. Results suggested an integrated physiological role of homocyst(e)ine in injury to the endothelial/epithelial cell lining in the respective organs.
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