title: Effect of beta-adrenergic and renin-angiotensin system blockade on myocyte apoptosis and oxidative stress in diabetic hypertensive rats.
abstract: Diabetes aggravates the clinical severity and represents an additional independent risk factor of hypertension. Since both diseases separately concur to cardiomyocyte apoptosis, a mechanism at least partly involving unbalanced oxidative stress, we investigated whether the combination of diabetes and hypertension potentiated cardiac cell death in experimental models, compared to either disease alone. We also evaluated the short-term effects of different drugs in these models. Streptozotocin-induced diabetic normotensive (WKY) or hypertensive (SHR) rats were treated for one week with a DA(2)/alpha(2) agonist (CHF-1024), a selective beta1 adrenergic blocker (metoprolol), an angiotensin II-receptor blocker (valsartan) or a radical scavenger (tempol). In separate experiments, isolated cardiomyocytes were cultured in high glucose medium (25 mM) containing the same drugs. Although the number of apoptotic cardiomyocytes and the myocardial density of oxygen radicals were higher in non diabetic hypertensive than in normotensive controls, diabetes raised these variables to comparable absolute levels in both strains. All drugs except metoprolol significantly reduced apoptosis and oxidative stress in the diabetic animals of both strains and in the isolated myocytes cultured with high glucose. In conclusion, hypertensive rat is no more susceptible than its normotensive control to acute apoptosis induced by diabetes. Oxidative stress might be considered the common trigger for cardiac myocyte apoptosis in both conditions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Research, Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, 20157 Milan, Italy. fiordaliso@marionegri.it
authors.forename: Fabio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Fiordaliso
authors.forename: Noeleen
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: De Angelis
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bai
authors.forename: Ivan
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Cuccovillo
authors.forename: Monica
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Salio
authors.forename: Domenico Maria
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Serra
authors.forename: Roberto
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bianchi
authors.forename: Roberta
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Razzetti
authors.forename: Roberto
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Latini
authors.forename: Serge
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Masson
mesh_terms: D000319:Adrenergic beta-Antagonists / Q000494:pharmacology*; D047228:Angiotensin II Type 1 Receptor Blockers / Q000494:pharmacology*; D000818:Animals; D017209:Apoptosis / Q000187:drug effects*; D048909:Diabetes Complications / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D003921:Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental / Q000150:complications*; D006973:Hypertension / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008790:Metoprolol / Q000494:pharmacology* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D032383:Myocytes, Cardiac / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D018384:Oxidative Stress / Q000187:drug effects*; D051381:Rats; D011918:Rats, Inbred SHR; D011921:Rats, Inbred WKY; D013311:Streptozocin; D013777:Tetrazoles / Q000494:pharmacology* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D014633:Valine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000068756:Valsartan