title: ANG II enhances contractile responses via PI3-kinase p110 delta pathway in aortas from diabetic rats with systemic hyperinsulinemia.
abstract: We investigated the involvement of ANG II and phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3-K) in the enhanced aortic contractile responses induced by hyperinsulinemia in chronic insulin-treated Type 1 diabetic rats. Plasma ANG II levels were elevated in untreated compared with control diabetic rats and further increased in insulin-treated diabetic rats. Aortic contractile responses and systolic blood pressure were significantly enhanced in chronic insulin-treated diabetic rats compared with the other groups. These insulin-induced increases were largely prevented by cotreatment with losartan (an ANG II type 1 receptor antagonist) or enalapril (an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor). LY-294002 (a PI3-K inhibitor) diminished the increases in contractile responses in ANG II-incubated aortas and aortas from chronic insulin-treated diabetic rats. The norepinephrine (NE)-stimulated levels of p110 delta-associated PI3-K activity and p110 delta protein expression were increased in aortas from insulin-treated diabetic compared with control and untreated diabetic rats, and chronic administration of losartan blunted these increases. Contractions were significantly larger in aortas from diabetic rats incubated with a low concentration (inducing approximately 10% of the maximum contraction) of ANG II or with NE or isotonic K+ than in aortas from nonincubated diabetic rats. NE-stimulated p110 PI3-K activity was elevated in aortas from diabetic rats coincubated with a noncontractile dose of ANG II. These results suggest that, in insulin-treated Type 1 diabetic rats with hyperinsulinemia, chronic ANG II type 1 receptor blockade blunts the increases in vascular contractility and blood pressure via a decrease in p110 delta-associated PI3-K activity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology and Morphology, Institute of Medicinal Chemistry, Hoshi University, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 142-8501, Japan.
authors.forename: Tsuneo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
authors.forename: Yuko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hayashi
authors.forename: Kumiko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Taguchi
authors.forename: Takayuki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Matsumoto
authors.forename: Katsuo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kamata
mesh_terms: D000804:Angiotensin II / Q000494:pharmacology*; D047228:Angiotensin II Type 1 Receptor Blockers / Q000494:pharmacology; D000818:Animals; D001013:Aorta, Thoracic / Q000378:metabolism / Q000503:physiopathology*; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000378:metabolism; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000187:drug effects; D015153:Blotting, Western; D058534:Class I Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases; D003921:Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental / Q000378:metabolism / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006946:Hyperinsulinism / Q000378:metabolism / Q000503:physiopathology*; D007328:Insulin / Q000097:blood; D007537:Isometric Contraction / Q000187:drug effects; D008297:Male; D009119:Muscle Contraction / Q000187:drug effects; D009131:Muscle, Smooth, Vascular / Q000187:drug effects; D009200:Myocardial Contraction / Q000187:drug effects*; D019869:Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D047228:Angiotensin II Type 1 Receptor Blockers; D001786:Blood Glucose; D007328:Insulin; D000804:Angiotensin II; D019869:Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases; D058534:Class I Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases; C488371:p110delta protein, rat