title: Integrated cardiovascular function in the conscious streptozotocin-diabetic deoxycorticosterone-acetate-hypertensive rats.
abstract: Blood pressure, heart rate, and left ventricular function were measured in conscious diabetic Sprague-Dawley rats subjected to 5 weeks of deoxycorticosterone acetate (DOCA) treatment which was started 1 week following intravenous injection of streptozotocin (STZ) (60 mg/kg) to induce diabetes mellitus. It was found that chronic administration of DOCA in nondiabetic animals caused an increase in blood pressure and functional parameters of left ventricle, and a decrease in heart rate and plasma insulin levels. Normotensive diabetic rats exhibited hyperglycemia, hypoinsulinemia, and a lower body weight as compared with control animals but did not show significant abnormalities in cardiovascular function. DOCA-hypertensive STZ-diabetic rats had similar hyperglycemia, milder hypoinsulinemia, and a significantly lower rate of left ventricular relaxation and systolic blood pressure compared with the nondiabetic DOCA-hypertensive animals. It is concluded that the addition of DOCA hypertension to intact 6-week STZ-diabetic Sprague-Dawley rats results in the occurrence of cardiac dysfunction.
authors.affiliation: Division of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Schenk
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Hebden
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dai
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: McNeill
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000502:physiology; D001835:Body Weight; D003900:Desoxycorticosterone; D003921:Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006339:Heart Rate / Q000502:physiology; D006439:Hemodynamics / Q000502:physiology*; D006943:Hyperglycemia / Q000503:physiopathology; D006973:Hypertension / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D007328:Insulin / Q000097:blood; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D007328:Insulin; D003900:Desoxycorticosterone