title: Relationship among superoxide-related enzyme, PPARs, and endothelium-dependent relaxation in murine aortas previously organ-cultured in high-glucose conditions.
abstract: The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship among superoxide anion, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs), and endothelium-dependent relaxation in murine aortas organ-cultured in a high-glucose condition. Aortas organ-cultured with a high concentration of glucose (40 mmol/L, 20 h; HG group) exhibited the following characteristics (versus aortas cultured in serum-free medium): (i) significantly weaker relaxation to acetylcholine, but unchanged relaxation to SNP and unchanged contractions to norepinephrine and isotonic K+, (ii) significantly greater superoxide generation (indicated by the amount of nitroblue tetrazolium reduced, (iii) significantly higher protein expression levels of gp91phox, NAD(P)H oxidase subunits, and endothelial NO synthase, (iv) significantly lower protein expression level of Mn-superoxide dismutase (SOD), and (v) markedly greater reduction in the protein expression of PPARgamma than in that of PPARalpha. The HG-induced impairment of endothelium-dependent relaxation was prevented by cotreatment with tempol (a SOD mimetic). These results suggest that in the mouse aorta, exposure to high glucose levels may lead to an excessive generation of superoxide via increased gp91phox and decreased Mn-SOD protein expression and that this may in turn trigger an impairment of endothelium-dependent relaxation. Moreover, such protein changes in gp91phox and Mn-SOD may be secondary to a decreased expression of PPARgamma protein.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology and Morphology, Institute of Medicinal Chemistry, Hoshi University, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 142-8501, Japan.
authors.forename: Yasuhiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Takenouchi
authors.forename: Tsuneo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
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: D000818:Animals; D001011:Aorta / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D004730:Endothelium, Vascular / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D005947:Glucose / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology; D008297:Male; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins / Q000378:metabolism; D051379:Mice; D008813:Mice, Inbred ICR; D000074662:NADPH Oxidase 2; D019255:NADPH Oxidases / Q000378:metabolism; D052250:Nitric Oxide Synthase Type III / Q000378:metabolism; D009924:Organ Culture Techniques; D047493:PPAR alpha / Q000378:metabolism; D047495:PPAR gamma / Q000378:metabolism; D047492:Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors / Q000378:metabolism*; D026361:Reactive Nitrogen Species / Q000378:metabolism; D013482:Superoxide Dismutase / Q000378:metabolism; D013481:Superoxides / Q000378:metabolism*; D014664:Vasodilation / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins; D047493:PPAR alpha; D047495:PPAR gamma; D047492:Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors; D026361:Reactive Nitrogen Species; D013481:Superoxides; D052250:Nitric Oxide Synthase Type III; C496315:Nos3 protein, mouse; D013482:Superoxide Dismutase; C488842:Cybb protein, mouse; D000074662:NADPH Oxidase 2; D019255:NADPH Oxidases; D005947:Glucose