title: Mechanisms in rabbit aorta for hyperglycaemia-induced alterations in angiotensin II and norepinephrine effects.
abstract: The (Na+,K+)-ATPase activity operative in rabbit aortic intima-media incubated with normal plasma levels of glucose and myo-inositol (70 mumol/l) is decreased when the glucose content of the medium is raised from 5 to 10 mmol/l or higher; this effect is prevented by aldose reductase inhibitors and by raising the myo-inositol content of the medium to 500 mumol/l. The decrease in (Na+,K+)-ATPase activity results from the loss of a component normally regulated (stimulated) by endogenously released adenosine through a receptor that stimulates phosphatidylinositol turnover in a discrete pool. The replenishment of this phosphatidylinositol pool selectively requires myo-inositol transport and is inhibited when increased polyol pathway activity impairs myo-inositol transport at a normal plasma level. Adenosine is a vasodilator, some endothelium-released vasodilators modulate the responses to vasoconstrictors by stimulating an increase in (Na+,K+)-ATPase activity in vascular smooth muscle. Whether adenosine mediates this effect in angiotensin II or norepinephrine-stimulated aorta was examined. Angiotensin II (100 nmol/l) and norepinephrine (1 mumol/l) evoked marked increases in (Na+,K+)-ATPase activity in aortic intima-media incubated with 5 mmol/l glucose and 70 mumol/l myo-inositol, which were inhibited when adenosine deaminase was added or the medium myo-inositol omitted to inhibit myo-inositol transport. Raising the medium glucose to 30 mmol/l inhibited the angiotensin II and norepinephrine-evoked increases in (Na+,K+)-ATPase activity, and this was prevented when tolrestat (10 mumol/l) was added or the myo-inositol content of the medium was raised from 70 to 500 mumol/l.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
authors.affiliation: Cox Institute, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia.
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Simmons
authors.forename: A I
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Winegrad
mesh_terms: D000804:Angiotensin II / Q000494:pharmacology*; D000818:Animals; D001011:Aorta / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D005947:Glucose / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006943:Hyperglycemia / Q000378:metabolism*; D007294:Inositol / Q000378:metabolism*; D007700:Kinetics; D008297:Male; D009131:Muscle, Smooth, Vascular / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D009638:Norepinephrine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D011188:Potassium / Q000378:metabolism; D011817:Rabbits; D012413:Rubidium / Q000378:metabolism; D000254:Sodium-Potassium-Exchanging ATPase / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D000804:Angiotensin II; D007294:Inositol; D000254:Sodium-Potassium-Exchanging ATPase; D005947:Glucose; D012413:Rubidium; D011188:Potassium; D009638:Norepinephrine