Macrophage migration inhibitory factor in hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus neurons decreases blood pressure in spontaneously hypertensive rats.
Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) expression is increased by angiotensin II (Ang II) within paraventricular nucleus (PVN) neurons of normotensive rats and acts via its intrinsic thiol protein oxidoreductase (TPOR) to counterregulate the central nervous system-mediated pressor action of Ang II. Considering that the PVN-mediated actions of Ang II are enhanced in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRs) and contribute to the development of hypertension in these animals, we investigated this MIF regulatory mechanism in SHRs. Here, we have demonstrated that Ang II failed to increase MIF protein expression in the PVN of SHRs. Furthermore, although basal levels of MIF protein and mRNA were similar in the PVN of SHRs and normotensive rats, immunostaining revealed that MIF was either absent from or diminished in PVN neurons of SHRs. AAV2-mediated increases in MIF expression within PVN neurons of young (8 wk old) SHRs produced a chronic attenuation of hypertension and cardiac hypertrophy. However, similar AAV2-mediated transduction of [C60S]-MIF, which lacks TPOR activity, did not alter the development of hypertension or cardiac hypertrophy in SHRs. Collectively, these findings suggest that a lack of MIF expression within PVN neurons contributes to the development of hypertension and cardiac hypertrophy in SHRs.
Dept. of Physiology and Functional Genomics, College of Medicine, 1600 SW Archer Rd., University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610-0274, USA.
Hongwei
H
Li
Yongxin
Y
Gao
Yanfei
Y
Qi
Michael J
MJ
Katovich
Nan
N
Jiang
Leah N
LN
Braseth
Deborah A
DA
Scheuer
Peng
P
Shi
Colin
C
Sumners
D000818:Animals; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000187:drug effects; D006332:Cardiomegaly / Q000517:prevention & control; D019746:Intramolecular Oxidoreductases / Q000502:physiology*; D008263:Macrophage Migration-Inhibitory Factors / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology; D010286:Paraventricular Hypothalamic Nucleus / Q000502:physiology*; D051381:Rats; D011918:Rats, Inbred SHR; D011921:Rats, Inbred WKY; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley
D008263:Macrophage Migration-Inhibitory Factors; D019746:Intramolecular Oxidoreductases; C515599:Mif protein, rat