title: Atrial natriuretic peptide, a regulator of nuclear factor-kappaB activation in vivo.
abstract: Natriuretic peptides (NPs) comprise a family of vasoactive hormones that play important roles in the regulation of cardiovascular and renal homeostasis. Along this line, atrial NP (ANP) (international non-proprietary name: carperitide, HANP) is an approved drug for the treatment of acute heart failure. In recent years, evidence has been given that the NP system possesses a far broader biological spectrum than the regulation of blood pressure and volume homeostasis. In fact, a substantial amount of in vitro work indicates that ANP affects important inflammatory processes and signaling pathways. Quite surprisingly, however, no information exists on the in vivo antiinflammatory potential and signaling of ANP. We show here that pretreatment of lipopolysaccharide (Salmonella abortus equi, 2.5 mg/kg)-challenged mice with ANP (5 microg/kg iv, 15 min) rapidly inhibits nuclear factor-kappaB activation via inhibition of phosphorylation and degradation of the IkappaB-alpha protein. ANP also reduces Akt activation upon lipopolysaccharide injection. In ANP-pretreated mice, the increase of TNF-alpha serum concentration is markedly prevented; most importantly, the survival of these animals improved. These findings demonstrate both in vitro and in vivo an antiinflammatory profile of ANP that deserves to be further investigated in a therapeutic perspective.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacy, Center of Drug Research, University of Munich, Germany.
authors.forename: Kathrin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ladetzki-Baehs
authors.forename: Melanie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Keller
authors.forename: Alexandra K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Kiemer
authors.forename: Elke
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Koch
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zahler
authors.forename: Albrecht
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wendel
authors.forename: Angelika M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Vollmar
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D009320:Atrial Natriuretic Factor / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology*; D020672:I-kappa B Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D007249:Inflammation / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000401:mortality; D018836:Inflammation Mediators / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology*; D008070:Lipopolysaccharides / Q000494:pharmacology; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D000072000:NF-KappaB Inhibitor alpha; D016328:NF-kappa B / Q000378:metabolism*; D051057:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt / Q000378:metabolism; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000378:metabolism; D015996:Survival Rate; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D020672:I-kappa B Proteins; D018836:Inflammation Mediators; D008070:Lipopolysaccharides; D016328:NF-kappa B; C000606205:Nfkbia protein, mouse; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha; D000072000:NF-KappaB Inhibitor alpha; D009320:Atrial Natriuretic Factor; D051057:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt