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Villela NR, Kramer-Aguiar LG, Bottino DA, Wiernsperger N, Bouskela E. Metabolic disturbances linked to obesity: the role of impaired tissue perfusion. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010; 53:238-45. [PMID: 19466216 DOI: 10.1590/s0004-27302009000200015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2009] [Accepted: 02/17/2009] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Associated with elevated risk of cardiovascular events and cancer, obesity is a worldwide problem affecting developed and developing countries. Microcirculatory vessels, represented by arterioles, capillaries and venules (mean internal diameter < 100 microm), are the place where blood/tissue nutrition and exchange effectively take place. Microvascular dysfunction is an early event in obesity probably secondary to endothelial dysfunction and capillaries rarefaction. New research techniques allow the investigation of the microcirculation in different vascular beds in humans. Studies suggest a link between endothelial dysfunction and visceral obesity. Oxidative stress, inflammation and renin-angiotensin system are among factors considered to be involved on microvascular dysfunction in obesity. Microcirculatory impairment present in obesity suggests that it could be an important causal factor in obesity-related disorders such as insulin resistance and hypertension.
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- Nivaldo Ribeiro Villela
- Laboratório de Pesquisas Clínicas e Experimentais em Biologia Vascular, Centro Biomédico, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rua São Francisco Xavier 524, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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Bradley EA, Eringa EC, Stehouwer CDA, Korstjens I, van Nieuw Amerongen GP, Musters R, Sipkema P, Clark MG, Rattigan S. Activation of AMP-activated protein kinase by 5-aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide-1-beta-D-ribofuranoside in the muscle microcirculation increases nitric oxide synthesis and microvascular perfusion. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 2010; 30:1137-42. [PMID: 20224051 DOI: 10.1161/atvbaha.110.204404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To investigate the effects of activation of the AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) on muscle perfusion and to elucidate the mechanisms involved. METHODS AND RESULTS In a combined approach, we studied the vasoactive actions of AMPK activator by 5-aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide-1-beta-D-ribofuranoside (AICAR) on rat cremaster muscle resistance arteries ( approximately 100 mum) ex vivo and on microvascular perfusion in the rat hindlimb in vivo. In isolated resistance arteries, AICAR increased Thr172 phosphorylation of AMPK in arteriolar endothelium, which was predominantly located in microvascular endothelium. AICAR induced vasodilation (19+/-4% at 2 mmol/L, P<0.01), which was abolished by endothelium removal, inhibition of NO synthase (with N-nitro-L-arginine), or AMPK (with compound C). Smooth muscle sensitivity to NO, determined by studying the effects of the NO donor S-nitroso-N-acetylpenicillamine (SNAP), was not affected by AICAR except at the highest dose. AICAR increased endothelial nitric oxide synthase activity, as indicated by Ser1177 phosphorylation. In vivo, infusion of AICAR markedly increased muscle microvascular blood volume (approximately 60%, P<0.05), as was evidenced by contrast-enhanced ultrasound, without effects on blood pressure, femoral blood flow, or hind leg glucose uptake. CONCLUSIONS Activation of AMPK by AICAR activates endothelial nitric oxide synthase in arteriolar endothelium by increasing its Ser1177 phosphorylation, which leads to vasodilation of resistance arteries and recruitment of microvascular perfusion in muscle.
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- Eloise A Bradley
- Menzies Research Institute, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
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Kolka CM, Harrison LN, Lottati M, Chiu JD, Kirkman EL, Bergman RN. Diet-induced obesity prevents interstitial dispersion of insulin in skeletal muscle. Diabetes 2010; 59:619-26. [PMID: 19959760 PMCID: PMC2827487 DOI: 10.2337/db09-0839] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Obesity causes insulin resistance, which has been interpreted as reduced downstream insulin signaling. However, changes in access of insulin to sensitive tissues such as skeletal muscle may also play a role. Insulin injected directly into skeletal muscle diffuses rapidly through the interstitial space to cause glucose uptake. When insulin resistance is induced by exogenous lipid infusion, this interstitial diffusion process is curtailed. Thus, the possibility exists that hyperlipidemia, such as that seen during obesity, may inhibit insulin action to muscle cells and exacerbate insulin resistance. Here we asked whether interstitial insulin diffusion is reduced in physiological obesity induced by a high-fat diet (HFD). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Dogs were fed a regular diet (lean) or one supplemented with bacon grease for 9-12 weeks (HFD). Basal insulin (0.2 mU x min(-1) x kg(-1)) euglycemic clamps were performed on fat-fed animals (n = 6). During clamps performed under anesthesia, five sequential doses of insulin were injected into the vastus medialis of one hind limb (INJ); the contralateral limb (NINJ) served as a control. RESULTS INJ lymph insulin showed an increase above NINJ in lean animals, but no change in HFD-fed animals. Muscle glucose uptake observed in lean animals did not occur in HFD-fed animals. CONCLUSIONS Insulin resistance induced by HFD caused a failure of intramuscularly injected insulin to diffuse through the interstitial space and failure to cause glucose uptake, compared with normal animals. High-fat feeding prevents the appearance of injected insulin in the interstitial space, thus reducing binding to skeletal muscle cells and glucose uptake.
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- Cathryn M. Kolka
- From the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- From the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- From the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- From the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- From the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- From the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
- Corresponding author: Richard N. Bergman,
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Newman J, Dwyer R, St-Pierre P, Richards S, Clark M, Rattigan S. Reply from J. Newman, R. Dwyer, P. St-Pierre, S. Richards, M. Clark and S. Rattigan. J Physiol 2009. [DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2009.181370] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Inyard AC, Chong DG, Klibanov AL, Barrett EJ. Muscle contraction, but not insulin, increases microvascular blood volume in the presence of free fatty acid-induced insulin resistance. Diabetes 2009; 58:2457-63. [PMID: 19675134 PMCID: PMC2768172 DOI: 10.2337/db08-1077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Insulin and contraction each increase muscle microvascular blood volume (MBV) and glucose uptake. Inhibiting nitric oxide synthase blocks insulin's but not contraction's effects. We examined whether contraction could augment the MBV increase seen with physiologic hyperinsulinemia and whether free fatty acid (FFA)-induced insulin resistance differentially affects contraction- versus insulin-mediated increases in MBV. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Rats were fasted overnight. Plasma FFAs were increased by intralipid/heparin infusion (3 h), insulin was increased with a euglycemic clamp (3 mU x min(-1) x kg(-1)), and hindlimb muscle contraction was electrically stimulated. Muscle MBV was measured using contrast-enhanced ultrasound. Insulin transport into muscle was measured using (125)I-insulin. BQ-123 (0.4 mg/h) was used to block the endothelin-1 (ET-1) receptor A. RESULTS Superimposing contraction on physiologic hyperinsulinemia increased MBV within 10 min by 37 and 67% for 0.1 or 1 Hz, respectively (P < 0.01). FFA elevation alone did not affect MBV, whereas 0.1 Hz stimulation doubled MBV (P < 0.05) and increased muscle insulin uptake (P < 0.05) despite high FFA. Physiologic hyperinsulinemia during FFA elevation paradoxically decreased MBV (P < 0.05). This MBV decrease was reversed by either 0.1 Hz contraction or ET-1 receptor A antagonism, and the combination raised MBV above basal. CONCLUSIONS Contraction recruits microvasculature beyond that seen with physiologic hyperinsulinemia by a distinct mechanism that is not blocked by FFA-induced vascular insulin resistance. The paradoxical MBV decline seen with insulin plus FFA may result from differential inhibition of insulin-stimulated nitric oxide-dependent vasodilation relative to ET-1 vasoconstriction. Our results implicate ET-1 as a potential mediator of FFA-induced vascular insulin resistance.
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- From the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
- Corresponding author: Eugene J. Barrett,
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Turzyniecka M, Wild SH, Krentz AJ, Chipperfield AJ, Gamble J, Clough GF, Byrne CD. Skeletal muscle microvascular exchange capacity is associated with hyperglycaemia in subjects with central obesity. Diabet Med 2009; 26:1112-9. [PMID: 19929989 DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-5491.2009.02822.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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AIMS Poor glycaemic control is associated with increased risk of microvascular disease in various organs including the eye and kidney, but the relationship between glycated haemoglobin (HbA(1c)) and microvascular function in skeletal muscle has not been described. We tested the association between HbA(1c) and a measure of microvascular exchange capacity (K(f)) in skeletal muscle in people with central obesity at risk of developing Type 2 diabetes. METHODS Microvascular function was measured in 28 women and 19 men [mean (+/- sd) age 51 +/- 9 years] with central obesity who did not have diabetes. We estimated insulin sensitivity by hyperinsulinaemic-euglycaemic clamp, visceral and total fatness by magnetic resonance imaging, fitness (VO(2) max by treadmill testing), physical activity energy expenditure [metabolic equivalents of tasks (METS) by use of the SenseWear Pro armband] and skeletal muscle microvascular exchange capacity (K(f)) by venous occlusion plethysmography. RESULTS In regression modelling, age, sex and fasting plasma glucose accounted for 30.5% of the variance in HbA(1c) (r(2) = 0.31, P = 0.001). Adding K(f) to this model explained an additional 26.5% of the variance in HbA(1c) (r(2) = 0.57, P = 0.0001 and K(f) was strongly and independently associated with HbA(1c) (standardized B coefficient -0.45 (95% confidence interval -0.19, -0.06), P = 0.001). CONCLUSIONS We found a strong negative independent association between a measure of skeletal muscle microvascular exchange capacity (K(f)) and HbA(1c). K(f) was associated with almost as much of the variance in HbA(1c) as fasting plasma glucose.
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- School of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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Kraemer-Aguiar LG, Maranhão PA, Sicuro FL, Bouskela E. Microvascular dysfunction: a direct link among BMI, waist circumference and glucose homeostasis in young overweight/obese normoglycemic women? Int J Obes (Lond) 2009; 34:111-7. [PMID: 19806157 DOI: 10.1038/ijo.2009.209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Capillary recruitment is impaired in obesity (OB), possibly worsening glucose and insulin availability to target organs. In this study, we investigated whether functional microvascular parameters were correlated with clinical-anthropometrical data and whether these parameters would influence OB-related metabolic disorders, especially glucose homeostasis, in young overweight (OW)/obese women. DESIGN Cross-sectional clinical study of microvascular reactivity in young OW/obese women. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A total of 10 lean (23.1 + or - 3.2 years, body mass index (BMI) 22.3 + or - 1.6 kg m(-2)) and 42 OW/obese (24.9 + or - 3.5 years; BMI 34.5 + or - 5.7 (25.7-46.5) kg m(-2)) sedentary non-smoking women were evaluated. Lipid profile, fasting plasma glucose (PG), post-load PG (75 g-2 h), insulin, C-reactive protein, HOMA-IR (homeostasis model assessment for insulin resistance) index and anthropometric variables (weight, BMI, waist and hip circumferences, waist-to-hip ratio and blood pressure (BP)) were determined. Functional microvascular parameters (functional capillary density, red blood cell velocity at baseline and peak (RBCV(max)), and time taken to reach RBCV(max) (TRBCV(max)) during post-occlusive reactive hyperemia after 1 min arterial occlusion) were evaluated by nailfold videocapillaroscopy. RESULTS The time taken to reach RBCV(max) was significantly longer in OW/obese patients compared with control subjects (8.6 + or - 2.4 versus 5.7 + or - 1.1 s, P<0.001), and its delay was directly associated with adiposity levels, systolic BP and insulin resistance, and inversely related to high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol. Post-load PG could be correlated with TRBCV(max) (R = 0.48, P<0.05) and RBCV(max) (R = -0.29, P<0.05), and it was influenced by weight, waist circumference and TRBCV(max) (adjusted R(2) = 24%) as well. CONCLUSIONS In the investigated group of young OW/obese women, the direct correlation between post-load PG and TRBCV(max) links microvascular parameters with metabolic variables and suggests a key role for microcirculation in OB-related metabolic disorders.
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- Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Insulin is a vascular hormone, able to influence vascular cell responses. In this review, we consider the insulin actions on vascular endothelium and on vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC) both in physiological conditions and in the presence of insulin resistance. In particular, we focus the relationships between activation of insulin signalling pathways of phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase (PI3-K) and mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) and the different vascular actions of insulin, with a particular attention to the insulin ability to activate the pathway nitric oxide (NO)/cyclic GMP/PKG via PI3-K, owing to the peculiar relevance of NO in vascular biology. We also discuss the insulin actions mediated by the MAPK pathway (such as endothelin-1 synthesis and secretion and VSMC proliferation and migration) and by the interactions between the two pathways, both in insulin-sensitive and in insulin-resistant states. Finally, we consider the influence of free fatty acids, cytokines and endothelin on vascular insulin resistance.
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- Giovanni Anfossi
- Internal Medicine University Unit, San Luigi Gonzaga Faculty of Medicine and Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences, Turin University, San Luigi Gonzaga Hospital, 10043 Orbassano, Turin, Italy
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Potenza MA, Addabbo F, Montagnani M. Vascular actions of insulin with implications for endothelial dysfunction. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 2009; 297:E568-77. [PMID: 19491294 DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00297.2009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Hemodynamic actions of insulin depend largely on the hormone's ability to stimulate synthesis and release of endothelial mediators, whose balanced activity ensures dynamic control of vascular function. Nitric oxide (NO), endothelin-1 (ET-1), and reactive oxygen species (ROS) are important examples of endothelial mediators with opposing properties on vascular tone, hemostatic processes, and vascular permeability. Reduced NO bioavailability, resulting from either insufficient production or increased degradation of NO, characterizes endothelial dysfunction. In turn, endothelial dysfunction predicts vascular complications of metabolic and hemodynamic disorders. In the cardiovascular system, insulin stimulates the production and release of NO, ET-1, and ROS via activation of distinct intracellular signaling pathways. Under insulin-resistant conditions, increased insulin concentrations and/or impaired insulin-signaling pathways in the vasculature may contribute to imbalance in secretion of endothelial mediators that promote pathogenesis of vascular abnormalities. This short review describes signaling pathways involved in insulin-stimulated release of NO, ROS, and ET-1 and suggests possible molecular mechanisms by which abnormal insulin signaling may contribute to endothelial dysfunction.
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- Maria Assunta Potenza
- Department of Pharmacology and Human Physiology, Medical School, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
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Chiu JD, Kolka CM, Richey JM, Harrison LN, Zuniga E, Kirkman EL, Bergman RN. Experimental hyperlipidemia dramatically reduces access of insulin to canine skeletal muscle. Obesity (Silver Spring) 2009; 17:1486-92. [PMID: 19521354 PMCID: PMC3417110 DOI: 10.1038/oby.2009.165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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A complex sequence of steps is required for insulin to cause glucose uptake. Impairment of any one of these steps can contribute to insulin resistance. We observed the effect of insulin resistance induced by hyperlipidemia on the dynamics of insulin injected into skeletal muscle. Basal insulin euglycemic clamps (0.2 mU/min/kg) with or without lipid infusions (20% at 1.5 ml/min) were done on anesthetized dogs. Sequential insulin doses were administered by intramuscular injection directly into the vastus medialis of one hindlimb, using the contralateral leg for comparison. Intramuscular insulin injection in normal animals caused a clear dose-dependent increment in interstitial insulin levels, as well as dose-dependent increase in leg glucose uptake. In a second group of animals, lipid was infused before and during intramuscular insulin injection to cause systemic increase in free fatty acids (FFAs). In sharp contrast, systemic lipid infusion caused insulin resistance, indicated by reduced glucose infusion required to maintain euglycemia, and prevented injection-induced increase in lymphatic insulin and leg glucose uptake observed without lipid. The injected insulin was instead detected in the venous outflow from the leg. Lipid infusion caused intramuscular insulin to be diverted from interstitium into the capillary circulation, preventing a rise in interstitial insulin and any increase in local leg glucose uptake. The diversion of insulin from the interstitium under hyperlipidemic conditions may play a role in the insulin resistance observed coincident with elevated nocturnal FFAs as is observed in obesity.
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- Jenny D Chiu
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Sung HK, Kim YW, Choi SJ, Kim JY, Jeune KH, Won KC, Kim JK, Koh GY, Park SY. COMP-angiopoietin-1 enhances skeletal muscle blood flow and insulin sensitivity in mice. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 2009; 297:E402-9. [PMID: 19491299 PMCID: PMC4056742 DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00122.2009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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To test whether chronic enhanced blood flow alters insulin-stimulated glucose uptake, we measured skeletal muscle glucose uptake in chow-fed and high-fat-fed mice injected with adenovirus containing modified angiopoietin-1, COMP-Ang1, via euglycemic-hyperinsulinemic clamp. Blood flow rates and platelet endothelial cell adhesion molecule-1 positive endothelial cells in the hindlimb skeletal muscle were elevated in COMP-Ang1 compared with control LacZ. Whole body glucose uptake and whole body glycogen/lipid synthesis were elevated in COMP-Ang1 compared with LacZ in chow diet. High-fat diet significantly reduced whole body glucose uptake and whole body glycolysis in LacZ mice, whereas high-fat-fed COMP-Ang1 showed a level of whole body glucose uptake that was comparable with chow-fed LacZ and showed increased glucose uptake compared with high-fat-fed LacZ. Glucose uptake and glycolysis in gastrocnemius muscle of chow-fed COMP-Ang1 were increased compared with chow-fed LacZ. High-fat diet-induced whole body insulin resistance in the LacZ was mostly due to approximately 40% decrease in insulin-stimulated glucose uptake in skeletal muscle. In contrast, COMP-Ang1 prevented diet-induced skeletal muscle insulin resistance compared with high-fat-fed LacZ. Akt phosphorylation in skeletal muscle was increased in COMP-Ang1 compared with LacZ in both chow-fed and high-fat-fed groups. These results suggest that increased blood flow by COMP-Ang1 increases insulin-stimulated glucose uptake and prevents high-fat diet-induced insulin resistance in skeletal muscle.
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- Hoon-Ki Sung
- Department of Biological Science, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Biomedical Research Center, Daejeon, South Korea
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Yuen DY, Dwyer RM, Matthews VB, Zhang L, Drew BG, Neill B, Kingwell BA, Clark MG, Rattigan S, Febbraio MA. Interleukin-6 attenuates insulin-mediated increases in endothelial cell signaling but augments skeletal muscle insulin action via differential effects on tumor necrosis factor-alpha expression. Diabetes 2009; 58:1086-95. [PMID: 19188427 PMCID: PMC2671037 DOI: 10.2337/db08-0775] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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OBJECTIVE The cytokine interleukin-6 (IL-6) stimulates AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) and insulin signaling in skeletal muscle, both of which result in the activation of endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS). We hypothesized that IL-6 promotes endothelial cell signaling and capillary recruitment in vivo, contributing to increased glucose uptake. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS The effect of IL-6 with and without insulin on AMPK, insulin, and eNOS signaling in and nitric oxide (NO) release from human aortic endothelial cells (HAECs) was examined. The physiological significance of these in vitro signaling events was assessed by measuring capillary recruitment in rats during control and euglycemic-hyperinsulinemic clamps with or without IL-6 infusion. RESULTS IL-6 blunted increases in insulin signaling, eNOS phosphorylation (Ser1177), and NO production and reduced phosphorylation of AMPK in HAEC in vitro and capillary recruitment in vivo. In contrast, IL-6 increased Akt phosphorylation (Ser473) in hindlimb skeletal muscle and enhanced whole-body glucose disappearance and glucose uptake during the clamp. The differences in endothelial cell and skeletal muscle signaling were mediated by the cell-specific, additive effects of IL-6 and insulin because this treatment markedly increased tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha protein expression in HAECs without any effect on TNF-alpha in skeletal muscle. When HAECs were incubated with a TNF-alpha-neutralizing antibody, the negative effects of IL-6 on eNOS signaling were abolished. CONCLUSIONS In the presence of insulin, IL-6 contributes to aberrant endothelial cell signaling because of increased TNF-alpha expression.
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- Derek Y.C. Yuen
- Cellular and Molecular Metabolism Laboratory, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Menzies Research Institute, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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- Cellular and Molecular Metabolism Laboratory, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Menzies Research Institute, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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- Clinical Physiology Laboratory, Division of Metabolism and Obesity, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Cellular and Molecular Metabolism Laboratory, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Clinical Physiology Laboratory, Division of Metabolism and Obesity, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Menzies Research Institute, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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- Menzies Research Institute, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
- Corresponding author: Mark A. Febbraio, , or Stephen Rattigan,
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- Cellular and Molecular Metabolism Laboratory, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Corresponding author: Mark A. Febbraio, , or Stephen Rattigan,
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Clough GF, Turzyniecka M, Walter L, Krentz AJ, Wild SH, Chipperfield AJ, Gamble J, Byrne CD. Muscle microvascular dysfunction in central obesity is related to muscle insulin insensitivity but is not reversed by high-dose statin treatment. Diabetes 2009; 58:1185-91. [PMID: 19208914 PMCID: PMC2671046 DOI: 10.2337/db08-1688] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To test the hypotheses that decreased insulin-mediated glucose disposal in muscle is associated with a reduced muscle microvascular exchange capacity (Kf) and that 6 months of high-dose statin therapy would improve microvascular function in people with central obesity. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We assessed skeletal muscle microvascular function, visceral fat mass, physical activity levels, fitness, and insulin sensitivity in skeletal muscle in 22 female and 17 male volunteers with central obesity whose age (mean +/- SD) was 51 +/- 9 years. We tested the effect of atorvastatin (40 mg daily) on muscle microvascular function in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial lasting 6 months. RESULTS Kf was negatively associated with a measure of glycemia (A1C; r = -0.44, P = 0.006) and positively associated with insulin sensitivity (the ratio of insulin-stimulated glucose effectiveness, or M value, to the mean insulin concentration, or I value; r = 0.39, P = 0.02). In regression modeling, A1C, visceral fat mass, and M:I explained 38% of the variance in Kf (in a linear regression model with Kf as the outcome [R2 = 0.38, P = 0.005]). M:I was associated with Kf independently of visceral fat mass (B coefficient 3.13 [95% CI 0.22-6.02], P = 0.036). Although 6 months' treatment with atorvastatin decreased LDL cholesterol by 51% (P < 0.001) and plasma high-sensitivity C-reactive protein by 75% (P = 0.02), microvascular function was unchanged. CONCLUSIONS Decreased insulin-mediated glucose uptake in skeletal muscle is associated with impaired muscle microvascular exchange capacity (Kf), independently of visceral fat mass. Muscle microvascular function is not improved by 6 months of high-dose statin treatment, despite marked statin-mediated improvements in lipid metabolism and decreased inflammation.
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- School of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, U.K.; the
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- School of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, U.K.; the
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- Public Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, U.K.; the
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- School of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, U.K.; the
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Schulman IH, Zhou MS. Vascular insulin resistance: a potential link between cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. Curr Hypertens Rep 2009; 11:48-55. [PMID: 19146801 DOI: 10.1007/s11906-009-0010-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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The physiologic actions of insulin in the vasculature serve to couple regulation of metabolic and hemodynamic homeostasis. Insulin activation of the phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase (PI3K) pathway promotes glucose uptake in insulin-responsive tissues and nitric oxide (NO) production in the endothelium. NO induces vasodilation and inhibits platelet aggregation and vascular smooth muscle cell growth. In contrast, insulin activation of the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) leads to vasoconstriction and pathologic vascular cellular growth. In states of insulin resistance, insulin activation of PI3K is selectively impaired, whereas the MAPK pathway is spared and activated normally. In the endothelium, selective impairment of insulin-mediated NO production may contribute to the development of hypertension, endothelial dysfunction, atherogenesis, and insulin resistance. This article reviews experimental and clinical data elucidating the physiologic and pathophysiologic role of insulin in the vasculature and the mechanisms contributing to the development of vascular and metabolic diseases.
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- Ivonne Hernandez Schulman
- Vascular Biology Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Nephrology-Hypertension Section, 1201 Northwest 16th Street, Miami, FL 33125, USA.
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Four grams of glucose circulates in the blood of a person weighing 70 kg. This glucose is critical for normal function in many cell types. In accordance with the importance of these 4 g of glucose, a sophisticated control system is in place to maintain blood glucose constant. Our focus has been on the mechanisms by which the flux of glucose from liver to blood and from blood to skeletal muscle is regulated. The body has a remarkable capacity to satisfy the nutritional need for glucose, while still maintaining blood glucose homeostasis. The essential role of glucagon and insulin and the importance of distributed control of glucose fluxes are highlighted in this review. With regard to the latter, studies are presented that show how regulation of muscle glucose uptake is regulated by glucose delivery to muscle, glucose transport into muscle, and glucose phosphorylation within muscle.
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- David H Wasserman
- Department of Molecular Physiology, Vanderbilt Univ. School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232, USA.
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Ku YH, Koo BK, Ahn HJ, Jeong JY, Seok HG, Kim HC, Han KA, Min KW. Effects of Aerobic Exercise Intensity on Insulin Resistance in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. KOREAN DIABETES JOURNAL 2009. [DOI: 10.4093/kdj.2009.33.5.401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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- Yun Hyi Ku
- Department of Internal Medicine, Eulji University School of Medicine, Daejeon, Korea
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Radiology, Eulji University School of Medicine, Daejeon, Korea
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Eulji University School of Medicine, Daejeon, Korea
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Eulji University School of Medicine, Daejeon, Korea
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Ischaemia and insulin, but not ischaemia and contraction, act synergistically in stimulating muscle glucose uptake in vivo in humans. Clin Sci (Lond) 2008; 116:157-64. [DOI: 10.1042/cs20080087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Ischaemia, like muscle contraction, has been reported to induce skeletal muscle glucose uptake in in vitro models. This stimulating effect appears independent of insulin and is probably mediated by activation of AMPK (AMP-activated protein kinase). In the present study, we hypothesized that in vivo in humans ischaemia- and insulin-induced glucose uptake are additive, and that the combined impact of ischaemia and contraction on glucose uptake is of a similar magnitude when each is applied separately. We assessed the effects of ischaemia with and without euglycaemic–hyperinsulinaemia (clamp; protocol 1) and with and without muscle contraction (protocol 2) on muscle FGU (forearm glucose uptake) in healthy subjects. Furthermore, we assessed the impact of ischaemia on FBF (forearm blood flow; plethysmography). In protocol 1, ischaemia increased FGU from 0.6±0.1 at baseline to 5.5±1.9 μmol·min−1·dl−1, and insulin increased FGU to 1.6±0.3 μmol·min−1·dl−1 (P<0.05 for both). The combination of ischaemia+insulin increased FGU to 15.5±2.2 μmol·min−1·dl−1 (P<0.05 compared with each stimulus alone). Maximal FBF obtained after ischaemia was similar with and without hyperinsulinaemia. In protocol 2, isometric contraction increased FGU from 0.3±0.1 to 2.7±0.8 μmol·min−1·dl−1 (P<0.05), but FGU was not significantly different from ischaemia compared with ischaemia+contraction. However, combined ischaemia+contraction resulted in a greater increase in FBF. In summary, ischaemia and insulin independently stimulate skeletal muscle glucose uptake in vivo in humans, whereas ischaemia and contraction do not. The observed differential effects of these stimuli on glucose uptake appear to be unrelated to changes in muscle blood flow.
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Muniyappa R, Hall G, Kolodziej TL, Karne RJ, Crandon SK, Quon MJ. Cocoa consumption for 2 wk enhances insulin-mediated vasodilatation without improving blood pressure or insulin resistance in essential hypertension. Am J Clin Nutr 2008; 88:1685-96. [PMID: 19064532 PMCID: PMC2969165 DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.2008.26457] [Citation(s) in RCA: 121] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Essential hypertension is characterized by reciprocal relations between endothelial dysfunction and insulin resistance. Cocoa flavanols stimulate production of the vasodilator nitric oxide from vascular endothelium. OBJECTIVE The objective was to test the hypothesis that consumption of cocoa may simultaneously lower blood pressure, improve endothelial dysfunction, and ameliorate insulin resistance in subjects with essential hypertension. DESIGN We conducted a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind, crossover trial of a flavanol-rich cocoa drink (150 mL twice a day, approximately 900 mg flavanols/d) in individuals with essential hypertension (n = 20). Antihypertensive medications were discontinued before study enrollment. After a 7-d cocoa-free run-in period, cocoa or flavanol-poor placebo (approximately 28 mg flavanols/d) treatment for 2 wk was followed by a 1-wk washout and then crossover to the other treatment arm. Blood pressure was measured thrice weekly. At baseline and after each treatment period, we assessed insulin sensitivity (hyperinsulinemic-isoglycemic glucose clamp) and insulin-stimulated changes in brachial artery diameter and forearm skeletal muscle capillary recruitment (Doppler ultrasound with or without microbubble contrast). RESULTS Cocoa treatment for 2 wk increased insulin-stimulated changes in brachial artery diameter when compared with placebo [median percentage increase from baseline (25th-75th percentile): 8.3 (4.2-11.3) compared with 5.9 (-0.3 to 9.6); P < 0.04]. Nevertheless, cocoa treatment did not significantly reduce blood pressure or improve insulin resistance and had no significant effects on skeletal muscle capillary recruitment, circulating plasma concentrations of adipocytokines, or endothelial adhesion molecules. CONCLUSIONS Daily consumption of flavanol-rich cocoa for 2 wk is not sufficient to reduce blood pressure or improve insulin resistance in human subjects with essential hypertension. This trial was registered at clinicaltrials.gov as NCT00099476.
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- Ranganath Muniyappa
- Diabetes Unit, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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Kraemer-Aguiar LG, Laflor CM, Bouskela E. Skin microcirculatory dysfunction is already present in normoglycemic subjects with metabolic syndrome. Metabolism 2008; 57:1740-6. [PMID: 19013299 DOI: 10.1016/j.metabol.2008.07.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2008] [Accepted: 07/11/2008] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The role of microcirculatory dysfunction (MD) in metabolic and cardiovascular diseases is not well established. Considering that metabolic syndrome (MS) is an independent risk factor and diabetic patients have microangiopathy, our aim was to investigate if normoglycemic subjects with MS already have detectable skin MD. Thirty-six subjects with MS (National Cholesterol Education Program-Adult Treatment Panel III criteria) (10 men/26 women, 38.8 +/- 7.9 years, 35.8 +/- 4.9 kg/m(2)) with normal glucose tolerance (American Diabetes Association criteria) and 16 controls (11 men/5 women, 33.6 +/- 8.4 years, 23.9 +/- 3.6 kg/m(2)) were studied using nailfold videocapillaroscopy. Afferent, efferent, and apical capillary diameters; functional capillary density; red blood cell velocity (RBCV) at baseline; and RBCV(max) and time (TRBCV(max)) to reach it during postocclusive reactive hyperemia after 1-minute arterial occlusion were measured. Subjects with MS had smaller afferent, efferent, and apical diameters (4.2 [3.8-4.2] vs 5.6 [4.65-6.25] mum, P < .001; 4.8 [4.2-4.8] vs 6.2 [5.6-7] mum, P < .001; and 5.2 [4.8-5.55] vs 7.4 [6.2-8] mum, P < .001); lower functional capillary density (7.28 [6.37-9.10] vs 10.4 [9.1-11.8] capillaries per square millimeter, P < .001), RBCV (0.62 [0.57-0.65] vs 0.79 [0.76-0.89] mm/s, P < .001], and RBCV(max) (1.14 [1.12-1.210] vs 1.57 [1.45-1.62] mm/s, P < .001); and longer TRBCV(max) (10.0 [10-11] vs 4.5 [4-6] seconds, P < .001) compared with controls. Microcirculatory dysfunction was associated with body mass index. We concluded that subjects with MS already have nutritive skin MD even within the normoglycemic milieu.
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- Luiz Guilherme Kraemer-Aguiar
- Laboratório de Pesquisas em Microcirculação, Biomedical Center, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 20550-013, Brazil
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Tamariz LJ, Young JH, Pankow JS, Yeh HC, Schmidt MI, Astor B, Brancati FL. Blood viscosity and hematocrit as risk factors for type 2 diabetes mellitus: the atherosclerosis risk in communities (ARIC) study. Am J Epidemiol 2008; 168:1153-60. [PMID: 18931370 PMCID: PMC2581671 DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwn243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 124] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Several lines of evidence support the notion that elevated blood viscosity may predispose to insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes mellitus by limiting delivery of glucose, insulin, and oxygen to metabolically active tissues. To test this hypothesis, the authors analyzed longitudinal data on 12,881 initially nondiabetic adults, aged 45–64 years, who were participants in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study (1987–1998). Whole blood viscosity was estimated by using a validated formula based on hematocrit and total plasma proteins at baseline. At baseline, estimated blood viscosity was independently associated with several features of the metabolic syndrome. In models adjusted simultaneously for known predictors of diabetes, estimated whole blood viscosity and hematocrit predicted incident type 2 diabetes mellitus in a graded fashion (Ptrend (linear) < 0.001): Compared with their counterparts in the lowest quartiles, adults in the highest quartile of blood viscosity (hazard ratio = 1.68, 95% confidence interval: 1.53, 1.84) and hematocrit (hazard ratio = 1.63, 95% confidence interval: 1.49, 1.79) were over 60% more likely to develop diabetes. Therefore, elevated blood viscosity and hematocrit deserve attention as emerging risk factors for insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes mellitus.
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Bakker W, Eringa EC, Sipkema P, van Hinsbergh VWM. Endothelial dysfunction and diabetes: roles of hyperglycemia, impaired insulin signaling and obesity. Cell Tissue Res 2008; 335:165-89. [PMID: 18941783 DOI: 10.1007/s00441-008-0685-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 210] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2008] [Accepted: 08/22/2008] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Endothelial dysfunction comprises a number of functional alterations in the vascular endothelium that are associated with diabetes and cardiovascular disease, including changes in vasoregulation, enhanced generation of reactive oxygen intermediates, inflammatory activation, and altered barrier function. Hyperglycemia is a characteristic feature of type 1 and type 2 diabetes and plays a pivotal role in diabetes-associated microvascular complications. Although hyperglycemia also contributes to the occurrence and progression of macrovascular disease (the major cause of death in type 2 diabetes), other factors such as dyslipidemia, hyperinsulinemia, and adipose-tissue-derived factors play a more dominant role. A mutual interaction between these factors and endothelial dysfunction occurs during the progression of the disease. We pay special attention to the possible involvement of endoplasmic reticulum stress (ER stress) and the role of obesity and adipose-derived adipokines as contributors to endothelial dysfunction in type 2 diabetes. The close interaction of adipocytes of perivascular adipose tissue with arteries and arterioles facilitates the exposure of their endothelial cells to adipokines, particularly if inflammation activates the adipose tissue and thus affects vasoregulation and capillary recruitment in skeletal muscle. Hence, an initial dysfunction of endothelial cells underlies metabolic and vascular alterations that contribute to the development of type 2 diabetes.
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- Wineke Bakker
- Laboratory of Physiology, Institute for Cardiovascular Research, VU University Medical Center, Van der Boechorststraat 7, 1081BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Clark MG. Impaired microvascular perfusion: a consequence of vascular dysfunction and a potential cause of insulin resistance in muscle. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 2008; 295:E732-50. [PMID: 18612041 PMCID: PMC2575906 DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.90477.2008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 138] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Insulin has an exercise-like action to increase microvascular perfusion of skeletal muscle and thereby enhance delivery of hormone and nutrient to the myocytes. With insulin resistance, insulin's action to increase microvascular perfusion is markedly impaired. This review examines the present status of these observations and techniques available to measure such changes as well as the possible underpinning mechanisms. Low physiological doses of insulin and light exercise have been shown to increase microvascular perfusion without increasing bulk blood flow. In these circumstances, blood flow is proposed to be redirected from the nonnutritive route to the nutritive route with flow becoming dominant in the nonnutritive route when insulin resistance has developed. Increased vasomotion controlled by vascular smooth muscle may be part of the explanation by which insulin mediates an increase in microvascular perfusion, as seen from the effects of insulin on both muscle and skin microvascular blood flow. In addition, vascular dysfunction appears to be an early development in the onset of insulin resistance, with the consequence that impaired glucose delivery, more so than insulin delivery, accounts for the diminished glucose uptake by insulin-resistant muscle. Regular exercise may prevent and ameliorate insulin resistance by increasing "vascular fitness" and thereby recovering insulin-mediated capillary recruitment.
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- Michael G Clark
- Menzies Research Institute, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 58, Hobart 7001, Australia.
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Ketel IJG, Stehouwer CDA, Serné EH, Korsen TJM, Hompes PGA, Smulders YM, de Jongh RT, Homburg R, Lambalk CB. Obese but not normal-weight women with polycystic ovary syndrome are characterized by metabolic and microvascular insulin resistance. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2008; 93:3365-72. [PMID: 18593766 DOI: 10.1210/jc.2008-0626] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/12/2023]
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CONTEXT Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and obesity are associated with diabetes and cardiovascular disease, but it is unclear to what extent PCOS contributes independently of obesity. OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was to investigate whether insulin sensitivity and insulin's effects on the microcirculation are impaired in normal-weight and obese women with PCOS. DESIGN AND POPULATION Thirty-five women with PCOS (19 normal weight and 16 obese) and 27 age- and body mass index-matched controls (14 normal weight and 13 obese) were included. Metabolic Insulin sensitivity (isoglycemic-hyperinsulinemic clamp) and microvascular insulin sensitivity [endothelium dependent (acetylcholine [ACh])] and endothelium-independent [sodium nitroprusside (SNP)] vasodilation with laser Doppler flowmetry was assessed at baseline and during hyperinsulinemia. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Metabolic insulin sensitivity (M/I value) and the area under the response curves to ACh and SNP curves were measured to assess microcirculatory function at baseline and during insulin infusion (microvascular insulin sensitivity). RESULTS Obese women were more insulin resistant than normal-weight women (P < 0.001), and obese PCOS women were more resistant than obese controls (P = 0.02). In contrast, normal-weight women with PCOS had similar insulin sensitivity, compared with normal-weight women without PCOS. Baseline responses to ACh showed no difference in the four groups. ACh responses during insulin infusion were significantly greater in normal-weight PCOS and controls than in obese PCOS and controls. PCOS per se had no significant influence on ACh responses during insulin infusion. During hyperinsulinemia, SNP-dependent vasodilatation did not significantly increase, compared with baseline in the four groups. CONCLUSION PCOS per se was not associated with impaired metabolic insulin sensitivity in normal-weight women but aggravates impairment of metabolic insulin sensitivity in obese women. In obese but not normal-weight women, microvascular and metabolic insulin sensitivity are decreased, independent of PCOS. Therefore, obese PCOS women in particular may be at increased risk of metabolic and cardiovascular diseases.
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- Iris J G Ketel
- Division of Reproductive Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, de Boelelaan 1118, Room 0Z106, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Murdolo G, Sjöstrand M, Strindberg L, Gudbjörnsdóttir S, Lind L, Lönnroth P, Jansson PA. Effects of Intrabrachial metacholine infusion on muscle capillary recruitment and forearm glucose uptake during physiological hyperinsulinemia in obese, insulin-resistant individuals. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2008; 93:2764-73. [PMID: 18460559 DOI: 10.1210/jc.2007-2737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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CONTEXT Impairment of insulin-mediated capillary recruitment in skeletal muscle contributes to a hampered glucose uptake in obesity. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to evaluate whether metacholine (MCh), a nitric oxide vasodilator, potentiates muscle capillary recruitment and forearm glucose uptake (FGU) during physiological hyperinsulinemia. DESIGN The double-forearm technique [i.e. infused vs. control (Ctrl) forearm] was combined with im microdialysis during an oral glucose tolerance test in 15 nondiabetic, obese subjects divided into a group of insulin-resistant (IR) (n = 7) and insulin-sensitive (n = 8) individuals. RESULTS After the oral glucose tolerance test, forearm blood flow in the Ctrl forearm was unchanged, whereas it increased about 3-fold (P < 0.0001 vs. baseline) in response to MCh. Capillary permeability surface area product for glucose (PS(glu)) (capillary recruitment), FGU, and interstitial insulin concentrations increased significantly over time (P < 0.001) in both forearms. Compared with insulin-sensitive, the IR subjects exhibited lower PS(glu) (P < 0.001) and FGU (P < 0.01) in the Ctrl arm, whereas this difference was insignificant in the MCh arm despite the blunted forearm blood flow increase. Moreover, in IR individuals MCh significantly (P < 0.05) ameliorated the delayed onset of insulin action, i.e. the FGU response to hyperinsulinemia. Finally, we found PS(glu) to be a strong and independent predictor of FGU response (adjusted R(2) 0.72; P < 0.0001). CONCLUSIONS MCh-induced vasodilation may improve the microvascular and metabolic responses to physiological hyperinsulinemia in obese, IR individuals. Further studies are required to unravel whether stimulation of nitric oxide production in skeletal muscle may represent an attractive therapeutic approach to bypassing cellular resistance to glucose disposal.
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- Giuseppe Murdolo
- Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Internal Medicine, Endocrine and Metabolic Sciences, Perugia University, Via Enrico Dal Pozzo I, Perugia, Italy.
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Chien K, Hsu K, Lo H, Pan R, Kuo C, Chen F, Hsu M. Effects of swimming on the pharmacokinetics and glucose tolerance of metformin in insulin‐resistant rats. Biopharm Drug Dispos 2008; 29:300-7. [DOI: 10.1002/bdd.615] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Lesniewski LA, Donato AJ, Behnke BJ, Woodman CR, Laughlin MH, Ray CA, Delp MD. Decreased NO signaling leads to enhanced vasoconstrictor responsiveness in skeletal muscle arterioles of the ZDF rat prior to overt diabetes and hypertension. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2008; 294:H1840-50. [PMID: 18245568 PMCID: PMC2646849 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00692.2007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Approximately 40% of patients with type 2 diabetes present with concurrent hypertension at the time of diabetes diagnosis. Increases in peripheral vascular resistance and correspondingly enhanced vasoconstrictor capacity could have profound implications for the development of hypertension and the progression of insulin resistance to overt diabetes. The purpose of this study was to determine whether skeletal muscle arteriolar vasoconstrictor dysfunction precedes or occurs concurrently with the onset of diabetes and hypertension. Male Zucker diabetic fatty (ZDF) rats were studied at 7, 13, and 20 wk of age to represent prediabetic and short-term and long-term diabetic states, respectively. Conscious mean arterial pressure (MAP), fasted plasma insulin and glucose, vasoconstrictor responses, and passive mechanical properties of isolated skeletal muscle arterioles were measured in prediabetic, diabetic, and age-matched control rats. Elevated MAP was manifest in short-term diabetes (control 117 +/- 1, diabetic 135 +/- 3 mmHg) and persisted with long-term diabetes (control 113 +/- 2, diabetic 135 +/- 3 mmHg). This higher MAP was preceded by augmented arteriolar vasoconstrictor responses to norepinephrine and endothelin-1 and followed by diminished beta-adrenergic vasodilation and enhanced myogenic constriction in long-term diabetes. Furthermore, we demonstrate that diminished nitric oxide (NO) signaling underlies the increases in vasoconstrictor responsiveness in arterioles from prediabetic and diabetic rats. Arteriolar stiffness was not different between control and prediabetic or diabetic rats at any time point studied. Collectively, these results indicate that increases in vasoconstrictor responsiveness resulting from diminished NO signaling in skeletal muscle arterioles precede the development of diabetes and hypertension in ZDF rats.
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- Lisa A Lesniewski
- Dept. of Health and Kinesiology, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas, USA
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Clark M, Rattigan S, Barrett E, Vincent M. Last Word on Point:Counterpoint: There is/is not capillary recruitment in active skeletal muscle during exercise. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2008; 104:900. [DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.01318.2007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Bakker W, Sipkema P, Stehouwer CDA, Serne EH, Smulders YM, van Hinsbergh VWM, Eringa EC. Protein kinase C theta activation induces insulin-mediated constriction of muscle resistance arteries. Diabetes 2008; 57:706-13. [PMID: 18086904 DOI: 10.2337/db07-0792] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Protein kinase C (PKC) theta activation is associated with insulin resistance and obesity, but the underlying mechanisms have not been fully elucidated. Impairment of insulin-mediated vasoreactivity in muscle contributes to insulin resistance, but it is unknown whether PKC theta is involved. In this study, we investigated whether PKC theta activation impairs insulin-mediated vasoreactivity and insulin signaling in muscle resistance arteries. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Vasoreactivity of isolated resistance arteries of mouse gracilis muscles to insulin (0.02-20 nmol/l) was studied in a pressure myograph with or without PKC theta activation by palmitic acid (PA) (100 micromol/l). RESULTS In the absence of PKC theta activation, insulin did not alter arterial diameter, which was caused by a balance of nitric oxide-dependent vasodilator and endothelin-dependent vasoconstrictor effects. Using three-dimensional microscopy and Western blotting of muscle resistance arteries, we found that PKC theta is abundantly expressed in endothelium of muscle resistance arteries of both mice and humans and is activated by pathophysiological levels of PA, as indicated by phosphorylation at Thr(538) in mouse resistance arteries. In the presence of PA, insulin induced vasoconstriction (21 +/- 6% at 2 nmol/l insulin), which was abolished by pharmacological or genetic inactivation of PKC theta. Analysis of intracellular signaling in muscle resistance arteries showed that PKC theta activation reduced insulin-mediated Akt phosphorylation (Ser(473)) and increased extracellular signal-related kinase (ERK) 1/2 phosphorylation. Inhibition of PKC theta restored insulin-mediated vasoreactivity and insulin-mediated activation of Akt and ERK1/2 in the presence of PA. CONCLUSIONS PKC theta activation induces insulin-mediated vasoconstriction by inhibition of Akt and stimulation of ERK1/2 in muscle resistance arteries. This provides a new mechanism linking PKC theta activation to insulin resistance.
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- Wineke Bakker
- Laboratory of Physiology, Institute for Cardiovascular Research, Vrije Universiteit Medical Center, van der Boechorststraat 7, 1081BT Amsterdam, Netherlands
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The relationship between diabetes mellitus and traffic-related air pollution. J Occup Environ Med 2008; 50:32-8. [PMID: 18188079 DOI: 10.1097/jom.0b013e31815dba70] [Citation(s) in RCA: 186] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Air pollution is associated with an increased risk for cardiovascular events. Many of the biological pathways involved could also promote diabetes mellitus (DM). We therefore investigated the association between DM prevalence and exposure to traffic-related air pollution (nitrogen dioxide [NO 2]). METHODS Study participants were patients who attended two respiratory clinics in Hamilton (n = 5228) and Toronto (n = 2406). The diagnosis of DM was ascertained by linkage to administrative databases of the Ontario universal Health Insurance Plan for patients aged 40 years and above. Geographic Information systems methodology was used to assign individual estimates of NO2 based on a network of samplers in each city. Logistic regression was used to estimate the relations between NO2 exposures and the odds of DM diagnosis. RESULTS After adjusting for age, body mass index, and neighborhood income there were positive effects in women on the odds ratio for DM for each 1 ppb NO2 exposure in Toronto (OR 1.055, 95% CI: 0.99 to 1.11) and Hamilton (OR 1.029, 95% CI: 0.98 to 1.08). In a meta-analytic model including both cities, there was a significant effect in women (OR = 1.04; 95% CI: 1.00 to 1.08). Across the inter-quartile range (approximately 4 ppb NO2) there was nearly a 17% increase in the odds of DM for women. There were no positive associations among men. CONCLUSIONS Exposure to NO2, a marker of traffic-related air pollutants, was associated with DM prevalence among women. Exposure estimate errors in men may explain the apparent gender difference. These results suggest that common air pollutants are associated with DM and warrant more investigation to determine if this is a cause-and-effect relationship.
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Jablonski KL, Seals DR, Eskurza I, Monahan KD, Donato AJ. High-dose ascorbic acid infusion abolishes chronic vasoconstriction and restores resting leg blood flow in healthy older men. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2008; 103:1715-21. [PMID: 17965239 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00533.2007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Resting whole leg blood flow and vascular conductance decrease linearly with advancing age in healthy adult men. The potential role of age-related increases in oxidative stress in these changes is unknown. Resting leg blood flow during saline and ascorbic acid infusion was studied in 10 young (25 +/- 1 yr) and 11 older (63 +/- 2 yr) healthy normotensive men. Plasma oxidized LDL, a marker of oxidative stress, was greater in the older men (P < 0.05). Absolute resting femoral artery blood flow at baseline (iv saline control infusion) was 25% lower in the older men (238 +/- 25 vs. 316 +/- 38 ml/min; P < 0.05), and it was inversely related to plasma oxidized LDL (r = -0.56, P < 0.01) in all subjects. Infusion of supraphysiological concentrations of ascorbic acid increased femoral artery blood flow by 37% in the older men (to 327 +/- 52 ml/min; P < 0.05), but not in the young men (352 +/- 41 ml/min; P = 0.28), thus abolishing group differences (P = 0.72). Mean arterial blood pressure was greater in the older men at baseline (86 +/- 4 vs. 78 +/- 2 mmHg; P < 0.05), but it was unaffected by ascorbic acid infusion (P >/= 0.70). As a result, the lower baseline femoral artery blood flow in the older men was mediated solely by a 32% lower femoral artery vascular conductance (P < 0.05). Baseline femoral vascular conductance also was inversely related to plasma oxidized LDL (r = -0.65, P < 0.01). Ascorbic acid increased femoral vascular conductance by 36% in the older men (P < 0.05) but not in the young men (P = 0.31). In conclusion, ascorbic acid infused at concentrations known to scavenge reactive oxygen species restores resting femoral artery blood flow in healthy older adult men by increasing vascular conductance. These results support the hypothesis that oxidative stress plays a major role in the reduced resting whole leg blood flow and increased leg vasoconstriction observed with aging in men.
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Ross RM, Wadley GD, Clark MG, Rattigan S, McConell GK. Local nitric oxide synthase inhibition reduces skeletal muscle glucose uptake but not capillary blood flow during in situ muscle contraction in rats. Diabetes 2007; 56:2885-92. [PMID: 17881613 DOI: 10.2337/db07-0745] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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OBJECTIVE We have previously shown in humans that local infusion of a nitric oxide synthase (NOS) inhibitor into the femoral artery attenuates the increase in leg glucose uptake during exercise without influencing total leg blood flow. However, rodent studies examining the effect of NOS inhibition on contraction-stimulated skeletal muscle glucose uptake have yielded contradictory results. This study examined the effect of local infusion of an NOS inhibitor on skeletal muscle glucose uptake (2-deoxyglucose) and capillary blood flow (contrast-enhanced ultrasound) during in situ contractions in rats. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Male hooded Wistar rats were anesthetized and one hindleg electrically stimulated to contract (2 Hz, 0.1 ms) for 30 min while the other leg rested. After 10 min, the NOS inhibitor N(G)-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME) (arterial concentration of 5 micromol/l) or saline was infused into the epigastric artery of the contracting leg. RESULTS Local NOS inhibition had no effect on blood pressure, heart rate, or muscle contraction force. Contractions increased (P < 0.05) skeletal muscle NOS activity, and this was prevented by L-NAME infusion. NOS inhibition caused a modest significant (P < 0.05) attenuation of the increase in femoral blood flow during contractions, but importantly there was no effect on capillary recruitment. NOS inhibition attenuated (P < 0.05) the increase in contraction-stimulated skeletal muscle glucose uptake by approximately 35%, without affecting AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) activation. CONCLUSIONS NOS inhibition attenuated increases in skeletal muscle glucose uptake during contraction without influencing capillary recruitment, suggesting that NO is critical for part of the normal increase in skeletal muscle fiber glucose uptake during contraction.
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- Renee M Ross
- Menzies Research Institute, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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Eggleston EM, Jahn LA, Barrett EJ. Hyperinsulinemia rapidly increases human muscle microvascular perfusion but fails to increase muscle insulin clearance: evidence that a saturable process mediates muscle insulin uptake. Diabetes 2007; 56:2958-63. [PMID: 17720897 DOI: 10.2337/db07-0670] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Transport of insulin from the central circulation into muscle is rate limiting for the stimulation of glucose metabolism. By recruiting muscle microvasculature, insulin may promote its own movement into muscle interstitium. We tested whether in humans, as in the rat, insulin exerts an early action to recruit microvasculature within skeletal muscle. We further hypothesized that expansion of the microvascular volume of muscle would enhance muscle insulin clearance. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Microvascular volume, total blood flow, and muscle insulin and glucose uptake (forearm balance method) were measured in 14 lean, healthy volunteers before and during a 2-h hyperinsulinemic-euglycemic clamp (1 mU x kg(-1) x min(-1)). Microvascular volume was measured using contrast-enhanced ultrasound. RESULTS Forearm muscle microvascular volume increased within 20 min of insulin infusion (P < 0.01), whereas an effect to increase total forearm flow was not observed until 100 min. Forearm insulin uptake increased with physiological hyperinsulinemia (15 +/- 3 and 87 +/- 13 fmol x min(-1) x 100 ml(-1) basal vs. last 40 min of clamp, P < 0.001). However, the extraction fraction and clearance of insulin declined (P = 0.02, for each), indicating saturability of muscle insulin uptake at physiological hyperinsulinemia. CONCLUSIONS Skeletal muscle contributes to peripheral insulin clearance both in the basal state and with physiological hyperinsulinemia. Insulin promptly expands human muscle microvascular volume but only slowly increases blood flow. Despite increased microvascular volume available for insulin uptake, muscle insulin clearance decreases significantly. These findings are consistent with the presence of a saturable transport mechanism facilitating the transendothelial transport of insulin into human muscle.
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- Emma M Eggleston
- University of Virginia Health System, P.O. Box 801410, 450 Ray C. Hunt Dr., Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA.
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Contrast-enhanced ultrasound measurement of microvascular perfusion relevant to nutrient and hormone delivery in skeletal muscle: a model study in vitro. Microvasc Res 2007; 75:323-9. [PMID: 18207201 DOI: 10.1016/j.mvr.2007.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2007] [Accepted: 11/09/2007] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEU) has been used to measure muscle microvascular perfusion in vivo in response to exercise and insulin. In the present study we address whether CEU measurement of capillary volume is influenced by bulk flow and if measured capillary filling rate allows discrimination of different flow pattern changes within muscle. Three in vitro models were used: (i) bulk flow rate was varied within a single length of capillary tubing; (ii) at constant bulk flow, capillary volume was increased 3-fold by joining lengths of capillary in series, and compared to a single length; and (iii) at constant bulk flow, capillary volume was increased by sharing flow between a number of lengths of identical capillaries in parallel. The contrast medium for CEU was gas-filled albumin microbubbles. Pulsing interval (time) versus acoustic-intensity curves were constructed and from these, capillary volume and capillary filling rate were calculated. CEU estimates of capillary volume were not affected by changes in bulk flow. Furthermore, as CEU estimates of capillary volume increased, measures of capillary filling rate decreased, regardless of whether capillaries were connected in series or parallel. Therefore, CEU can detect a change in filling rate of the microvascular volume under measurement, but it can not be used to discriminate between different flow patterns within muscle that might account for capillary recruitment in vivo.
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Eringa EC, Stehouwer CDA, Roos MH, Westerhof N, Sipkema P. Selective resistance to vasoactive effects of insulin in muscle resistance arteries of obese Zucker (fa/fa) rats. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 2007; 293:E1134-9. [PMID: 17623751 DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00516.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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UNLABELLED Obesity is related to insulin resistance and hypertension, but the underlying mechanisms are unclear. Insulin exerts both vasodilator and vasoconstrictor effects on muscle resistance arteries, which may be differentially impaired in obesity. OBJECTIVES To investigate whether vasodilator and vasoconstrictor effects of insulin are impaired in muscle resistance arteries of obese rats and the roles of Akt and endothelial NO synthase (eNOS). METHODS/RESULTS Effects of insulin were studied in resistance arteries isolated from cremaster muscles of lean and obese Zucker rats. In arteries of lean rats, insulin increased activity of both NO and endothelin (ET-1), resulting in a neutral effect under basal conditions. In arteries of obese rats, insulin induced endothelin-mediated vasoconstriction (-15 +/- 5% at 1 nM, P < 0.05 vs. lean). Insulin induced vasodilatation during endothelin receptor blockade in arteries of lean rats (20 +/- 5% at 1 nM) but not in those of obese rats. Inhibition of NO synthesis increased vascular tone (by 12 +/- 2%) and shifted insulin-mediated vasoreactivity to vasoconstriction (-25 +/- 1% at 1 nM) in lean rats but had no effect in arteries of obese rats, indicating reduced NO activity. Protein analysis of resistance arteries revealed that insulin-mediated activation of Akt was preserved in obese rats, whereas expression of eNOS was markedly decreased. CONCLUSIONS Vasodilator but not vasoconstrictor effects of insulin are impaired in muscle resistance arteries of obese rats, and this selective impairment is associated with decreased protein levels of eNOS. These findings provide a new mechanism linking obesity to insulin resistance and hypertension.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Blotting, Western
- Endothelin Receptor Antagonists
- Endothelin-1/antagonists & inhibitors
- Endothelin-1/metabolism
- Enzyme Inhibitors/pharmacology
- In Vitro Techniques
- Insulin/pharmacology
- Insulin Resistance/physiology
- Muscle, Smooth, Vascular/drug effects
- Muscle, Smooth, Vascular/enzymology
- Muscle, Smooth, Vascular/metabolism
- Muscle, Smooth, Vascular/physiopathology
- Nitric Oxide Synthase Type III/biosynthesis
- Nitric Oxide Synthase Type III/metabolism
- Nitroarginine/pharmacology
- Obesity/enzymology
- Obesity/metabolism
- Obesity/physiopathology
- Oligopeptides/pharmacology
- Oncogene Protein v-akt/metabolism
- Rats
- Rats, Zucker
- Receptors, Endothelin/metabolism
- Vasoconstriction/drug effects
- Vasodilation/drug effects
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- Etto C Eringa
- Laboratory for Physiology, Institute for Cardiovascular Research ICaR-VU VU University Medical Center, 1081 BT, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Jonk AM, Houben AJHM, de Jongh RT, Serné EH, Schaper NC, Stehouwer CDA. Microvascular dysfunction in obesity: a potential mechanism in the pathogenesis of obesity-associated insulin resistance and hypertension. Physiology (Bethesda) 2007; 22:252-60. [PMID: 17699878 DOI: 10.1152/physiol.00012.2007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 164] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Obesity is an important risk factor for insulin resistance and hypertension and plays a central role in the metabolic syndrome. Insight into the pathophysiology of this syndrome may lead to new treatments. This paper has reviewed the evidence for an important role for the microcirculation as a possible link between obesity, insulin resistance and hypertension.
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- Amy M Jonk
- Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Maastricht, and Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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Meigs JB, Larson MG, Fox CS, Keaney JF, Vasan RS, Benjamin EJ. Association of oxidative stress, insulin resistance, and diabetes risk phenotypes: the Framingham Offspring Study. Diabetes Care 2007; 30:2529-35. [PMID: 17586736 DOI: 10.2337/dc07-0817] [Citation(s) in RCA: 160] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Systemic oxidative stress causes insulin resistance in rodents. We tested the hypothesis that oxidative stress and insulin resistance are associated in humans. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We used cross-sectional data from 2,002 nondiabetic subjects of the community-based Framingham Offspring Study. We measured insulin resistance with the homeostasis model and defined categorical insulin resistance as homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) > 75th percentile. We measured oxidative stress using the ratio of urine 8-epi-prostaglandin F2alpha (8-epi-PGF2alpha) to creatinine and used age- and sex-adjusted regression models to test the association of oxidative stress with insulin resistance in individuals without diabetes and among subgroups at elevated risk of diabetes. RESULTS Across 8-epi-PGF2alpha/creatinine tertiles, the prevalence of insulin resistance increased (18.0, 27.5, and 29.4% for the first, second, and third tertiles, respectively; P < 0.0001), as did mean levels of HOMA-IR (3.28, 3.83, and 4.06 units; P < 0.0001). The insulin resistance-oxidative stress association was attenuated by additional adjustment for BMI (P = 0.06 across tertiles for insulin resistance prevalence; P = 0.004 for mean HOMA-IR). Twenty-six percent of participants were obese (BMI > or = 30 kg/m2), 39% had metabolic syndrome (according to the Adult Treatment Panel III definition), and 37% had impaired fasting glucose (IFG) (fasting glucose 5.6-6.9 mmol/l). Among 528 obese participants, respectively, insulin resistance prevalence was 41.3, 60.6, and 54.2% across 8-epi-PGF2alpha/creatinine tertiles (P = 0.005); among 781 subjects with metabolic syndrome, insulin resistance prevalence was 41.3, 56.7, and 51.7% (P = 0.0025); and among 749 subjects with IFG, insulin resistance prevalence was 39.6, 47.2, and 51.6% (P = 0.04). CONCLUSIONS Systemic oxidative stress is associated with insulin resistance in individuals at average or elevated risk of diabetes even after accounting for BMI.
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- James B Meigs
- General Medicine Division and Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA.
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Newman JMB, Ross RM, Richards SM, Clark MG, Rattigan S. Insulin and contraction increase nutritive blood flow in rat muscle in vivo determined by microdialysis of L-[14C]glucose. J Physiol 2007; 585:217-29. [PMID: 17884927 PMCID: PMC2375457 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2007.138818] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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In the present study, a mathematical model using the microdialysis outflow: inflow (O/I) ratio of the novel analogue L-[14C]glucose has been developed which allows the calculation of the nutritive (and non-nutritive) flow in muscle as a proportion of total blood flow. Anaesthetized rats had microdialysis probes carrying L-[14C]glucose inserted through a calf muscle group (tibialis/plantaris/gastrocnemius). The nutritive fraction of total blood flow was determined under basal conditions and in response to contraction (electrical field stimulation), insulin (hyperinsulinaemic euglycaemic clamp with 10 mU min(-1) kg(-1) insulin) or saline control from limb blood flow and the microdialysis O/I ratio of L-[14C]glucose. Both contraction and insulin infusion decreased the O/I ratio of L-[14C]glucose and increased total limb blood flow. Calculations based on mathematical models using L-[14C]glucose O/I and limb blood flow revealed that during basal conditions, the nutritive fraction of total flow was 0.38 +/- 0.06, indicating that basal flow was predominantly non-nutritive. Contraction and insulin increased the nutritive fraction to 0.82 +/- 0.24 (P < 0.05) and 0.52 +/- 0.12 (P < 0.05). Thus the increase in limb blood flow from insulin was fully accommodated by nutritive flow, while contraction increased nutritive flow at the expense of non-nutritive flow. This novel method using microdialysis and the O/I ratio of L-[14C]glucose allows the determination of the nutritive fraction of total flow in muscle as well as the proportion of total flow that may be redistributed in response to contraction and insulin.
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- John M B Newman
- Biochemistry, Medical School, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 58, Hobart 7001, Tasmania, Australia.
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Inyard AC, Clerk LH, Vincent MA, Barrett EJ. Contraction stimulates nitric oxide independent microvascular recruitment and increases muscle insulin uptake. Diabetes 2007; 56:2194-200. [PMID: 17563063 DOI: 10.2337/db07-0020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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We examined whether contraction-induced muscle microvascular recruitment would expand the surface area for insulin and nutrient exchange and thereby contribute to insulin-mediated glucose disposal. We measured in vivo rat hindlimb microvascular blood volume (MBV) using contrast ultrasound and femoral blood flow (FBF) using Doppler ultrasound in response to a stimulation frequency range. Ten minutes of 0.1-Hz isometric contraction more than doubled MBV (P < 0.05; n = 6) without affecting FBF (n = 7), whereas frequencies >0.5 Hz increased both. Specific inhibition of nitric oxide (NO) synthase with N(omega)-l-nitro-arginine-methyl ester (n = 5) significantly elevated mean arterial pressure by approximately 30 mmHg but had no effect on basal FBF or MBV. We next examined whether selectively elevating MBV without increasing FBF (0.1-Hz contractions) increased muscle uptake of albumin-bound Evans blue dye (EBD). Stimulation at 0.1 Hz (10 min) elicited more than twofold increases in EBD content (micrograms EBD per gram dry tissue) in stimulated versus contralateral muscle (n = 8; 52.2 +/- 3.8 vs. 20 +/- 2.5, respectively; P < 0.001). We then measured muscle uptake of EBD and (125)I-labeled insulin (dpm per gram dry tissue) with 0.1-Hz stimulation (n = 6). Uptake of EBD (19.1 +/- 3.8 vs. 9.9 +/- 1; P < 0.05) and (125)I-insulin (5,300 +/- 800 vs. 4,244 +/- 903; P < 0.05) was greater in stimulated muscle versus control. Low-frequency contraction increases muscle MBV by a NO-independent pathway and facilitates muscle uptake of albumin and insulin in the absence of blood flow increases. This microvascular response may, in part, explain enhanced insulin action in exercising skeletal muscle.
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- April C Inyard
- Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
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Weinhandl H, Pachler C, Mader JK, Ikeoka D, Mautner A, Falk A, Suppan M, Pieber TR, Ellmerer M. Physiological hyperinsulinemia has no detectable effect on access of macromolecules to insulin-sensitive tissues in healthy humans. Diabetes 2007; 56:2213-7. [PMID: 17601990 DOI: 10.2337/db07-0238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Physiologically elevated insulin concentrations promote access of macromolecules to skeletal muscle in dogs. We investigated whether insulin has a stimulating effect on the access of macromolecules to insulin-sensitive tissues in humans as well. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS In a randomized, controlled trial, euglycemic-hyperinsulinemic clamp (1.2 mU x kg(-1) x min(-1) insulin) and saline control experiments were performed in 10 healthy volunteers (aged 27.5 +/- 4 years, BMI 22.6 +/- 1.6 kg/m(2)). Distribution and clearance parameters of inulin were determined in a whole-body approach, combining primed intravenous infusion of inulin with compartment modeling. Inulin kinetics were measured in serum using open-flow microperfusion in interstitial fluid of femoral skeletal muscle and subcutaneous adipose tissue. RESULTS Inulin kinetics in serum were best described using a three-compartment model incorporating a serum and a fast and a slow equilibrating compartment. Inulin kinetics in interstitial fluid of peripheral insulin-sensitive tissues were best represented by the slow equilibrating compartment. Serum and interstitial fluid inulin kinetics were comparable between the insulin and saline groups. Qualitative analysis of inulin kinetics was confirmed by model-derived distribution and clearance parameters of inulin. Physiological hyperinsulinemia (473 +/- 6 vs. 18 +/- 2 pmol/l for the insulin and saline group, respectively; P < 0.001) indicated no effect on distribution volume (98.2 +/- 6.2 vs. 102.5 +/- 5.7 ml/kg; NS) or exchange parameter (217.6 +/- 34.2 vs. 243.1 +/- 28.6 ml/min; NS) of inulin to peripheral insulin-sensitive tissues. All other parameters identified by the model were also comparable between the groups. CONCLUSIONS Our data suggest that in contrast to studies performed in dogs, insulin at physiological concentrations does not augment recruitment of insulin-sensitive tissues in healthy humans.
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- Heinz Weinhandl
- Division of Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria
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de Jongh RT, Serné EH, IJzerman RG, Stehouwer CDA. Microvascular function: a potential link between salt sensitivity, insulin resistance and hypertension. J Hypertens 2007; 25:1887-93. [PMID: 17762653 DOI: 10.1097/hjh.0b013e32825e1db7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Generalized microvascular dysfunction may contribute to the development of salt sensitivity, insulin resistance and hypertension, and may thus link these cardiovascular risk factors. To test this hypothesis, we examined skin microvascular function, salt sensitivity, insulin sensitivity and blood pressure in 27 normotensive and 26 hypertensive individuals. METHODS Capillary density was examined by videomicroscopy during venous congestion and postocclusive reactive hyperaemia. Endothelium-(in)dependent vasodilation was assessed by iontophoresis of acetylcholine and sodium nitroprusside and by laser Doppler flowmetry. Salt sensitivity was determined as the difference in mean arterial pressure (MAP) between a 1-week high-salt diet (approximately 235 mmol NaCl/day) versus low-salt diet (approximately 55 mmol NaCl/day). Insulin sensitivity was measured with the hyperinsulinaemic, euglycaemic clamp, and blood pressure was assessed by 24-h ambulatory blood pressure monitoring. RESULTS Salt sensitivity of blood pressure was inversely associated with postocclusive capillary recruitment and endothelium-dependent vasodilation (r=-0.67, P<0.001 and r=-0.60, P<0.01, respectively), but not with capillary density during venous congestion or endothelium-independent vasodilation. Salt sensitivity was negatively associated with insulin sensitivity (r=-0.55, P<0.001) and positively with MAP (r=0.58, P<0.001). Multiple regression analyses suggested that associations between salt sensitivity and both insulin sensitivity and MAP were dependent on microvascular function. CONCLUSION Our results suggest a close inverse association between skin microvascular function and salt sensitivity and a role for generalized microvascular defects as a link between salt sensitivity, insulin resistance and hypertension.
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- Renate T de Jongh
- Department of Internal Medicine and Institute for Cardiovascular Research-Vrije Universiteit, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, and Maastricht University Hospital, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
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Thyfault JP, Rector RS, Noland RC. Metabolic inflexibility in skeletal muscle: a prelude to the cardiometabolic syndrome? ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007; 1:184-9. [PMID: 17679820 DOI: 10.1111/j.1559-4564.2006.05629.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Peripheral insulin resistance, which is largely dependent on skeletal muscle, is closely linked to the development of the cardiometabolic syndrome. Metabolic flexibility is the capacity for skeletal muscle to acutely shift its reliance between lipids or glucose during fasting or postprandial conditions. Obese and insulin-resistant individuals display elevated intramuscular lipids, impaired vasculature function, decreased fatty add oxidation during fasting, and reduced postprandial glucose metabolism. Impairments in metabolic flexibility are linked to physical inactivity, excess energy intake and obesity, and genetic predisposition. Each of these factors precludes the development of insulin resistance and the cardiometabolic syndrome by mechanistic links that are not fully understood.
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- John P Thyfault
- Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia, Harry S. Truman VA Hospital, Columbia, MO 65211, USA.
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de Jongh RT, Serné EH, IJzerman RG, Jørstad HT, Stehouwer CDA. Impaired local microvascular vasodilatory effects of insulin and reduced skin microvascular vasomotion in obese women. Microvasc Res 2007; 75:256-62. [PMID: 17920639 DOI: 10.1016/j.mvr.2007.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2007] [Revised: 08/02/2007] [Accepted: 08/07/2007] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Our study aim is to investigate whether obesity is characterized by an impairment of insulin-mediated vasodilatory effects and by a modification of basal vasomotion in the skin microvasculature. Forty healthy obese and forty healthy lean women were included. Microvascular effects of insulin as compared to a control substance were measured by cathodal iontophoresis combined with laser Doppler flowmetry. Vasomotion was examined by Fourier transform analyses of skin laser Doppler flow at rest. Locally administered insulin, as compared to the control substance, induced a microvascular vasodilatory response in lean (median (interquartile range): 31.6 (17.1-43.9) vs. 22.9 (16.4-36.7) perfusion units, P=0.04), but not in obese women (28.1 (14.4-47.1) vs. 27.5 (17.5-48.2) perfusion units, P=0.7). The relative insulin-induced increase in blood flow corrected for the control substance was higher in lean than obese women (ANOVA for repeated measures F=3.93, P=0.05). The contribution of the total frequency spectrum 0.01-1.6 Hz and of the frequency intervals 0.01-0.02 Hz and 0.02-0.06 Hz (representative of endothelial and neurogenic activity, respectively) to basal microvascular vasomotion was lower in obese than in lean women (P<0.05 for all). These findings show that obesity is characterized by an impaired direct microvascular vasodilatory effect of insulin and by decreased skin microvascular vasomotion in a way that is suggestive for alterations of endothelial and neurogenic activity.
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- Renate T de Jongh
- Department of Internal Medicine and Institute for Cardiovascular Research-Vrije Universiteit, VU University Medical Center, De Boelelaan 1117, PO Box 7057, 1007 MB Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Townsend RR, Kapoor S, McFadden CB. Salt intake and insulin sensitivity in healthy human volunteers. Clin Sci (Lond) 2007; 113:141-8. [PMID: 17425514 DOI: 10.1042/cs20060361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The literature on salt intake and insulin sensitivity presents a mixed picture, as some studies have shown an increase, whereas others have shown a decrease, in insulin action as sodium intake is enhanced. In some cases, this may relate to the study of salt intake in patients with co-morbidities such as hypertension or diabetes. In the present study, we selected healthy normotensive lean volunteers who underwent a euglycaemic clamp following 6 days of a low-salt diet (20 mmol sodium daily) and, subsequently, 6 days of a high-salt diet (200 mmol sodium daily). Our results show an increase in insulin-mediated glucose disposal during euglycaemic clamp conditions that was significantly higher following the high-salt diet compared with the low-salt diet (7.41+/-0.41 compared with 6.11+/-0.40 mg x kg(-1) of body weight x min(-1) respectively; P=0.03). We measured calf blood flow before and during insulin infusion (no significant change after the two dietary salt interventions was detected) and plasma non-esterified fatty acids (also no significant differences were detected). We observed the expected increases in renin concentration and aldosterone activity in subjects on the low-salt diet, and also observed a significantly less increase in plasma noradrenaline concentration during euglycaemic insulin infusion following the high-salt compared with the low-salt diet. We propose that the 4-5-fold increase in serum aldosterone and the greater increase in plasma noradrenaline concentration following the low-salt intervention compared with the high-salt period may have contributed to the differences in insulin sensitivity following the adjustment in dietary sodium intake.
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- Raymond R Townsend
- Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
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Insulin has important vascular actions to stimulate production of nitric oxide from endothelium. This leads to capillary recruitment, vasodilation, increased blood flow, and subsequent augmentation of glucose disposal in classical insulin target tissues (e.g., skeletal muscle). Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase-dependent insulin-signaling pathways regulating endothelial production of nitric oxide share striking parallels with metabolic insulin-signaling pathways. Distinct MAPK-dependent insulin-signaling pathways (largely unrelated to metabolic actions of insulin) regulate secretion of the vasoconstrictor endothelin-1 from endothelium. These and other cardiovascular actions of insulin contribute to coupling metabolic and hemodynamic homeostasis under healthy conditions. Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in insulin-resistant individuals. Insulin resistance is typically defined as decreased sensitivity and/or responsiveness to metabolic actions of insulin. This cardinal feature of diabetes, obesity, and dyslipidemia is also a prominent component of hypertension, coronary heart disease, and atherosclerosis that are all characterized by endothelial dysfunction. Conversely, endothelial dysfunction is often present in metabolic diseases. Insulin resistance is characterized by pathway-specific impairment in phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase-dependent signaling that in vascular endothelium contributes to a reciprocal relationship between insulin resistance and endothelial dysfunction. The clinical relevance of this coupling is highlighted by the findings that specific therapeutic interventions targeting insulin resistance often also ameliorate endothelial dysfunction (and vice versa). In this review, we discuss molecular mechanisms underlying cardiovascular actions of insulin, the reciprocal relationships between insulin resistance and endothelial dysfunction, and implications for developing beneficial therapeutic strategies that simultaneously target metabolic and cardiovascular diseases.
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- Ranganath Muniyappa
- Diabetes Unit, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-1632, USA
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Clark MG, Rattigan S, Barrett EJ, Vincent MA. Point: There is capillary recruitment in active skeletal muscle during exercise. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2007; 104:889-91. [PMID: 17656624 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00779.2007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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- Michael G Clark
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania.
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de Jongh RT, Ijzerman RG, Serné EH, van Weissenbruch MM, Voordouw JJ, Delemarre-van de Waal HA, Stehouwer CDA. Urinary cortisol is inversely associated with capillary recruitment in women: a potential explanation for the cortisol–blood pressure relationship. Clin Sci (Lond) 2007; 113:83-91. [PMID: 17295610 DOI: 10.1042/cs20060357] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The relationships of cortisol with elevated blood pressure and insulin resistance are likely to be the result of a complex interplay of different mechanisms. We hypothesize that cortisol is associated with impaired microvascular function and that this contributes to cortisol-associated high blood pressure and insulin resistance. We examined 24 h urinary free cortisol excretion in 56 healthy adults (26 women). Blood pressure was assessed by 24 h ambulatory measurements. Insulin sensitivity was determined using the hyperinsulinaemic euglycaemic clamp technique. Skin capillary recruitment after arterial occlusion was visualized with videomicroscopy and endothelium-(in)dependent vasodilation was evaluated with iontophoresis of acetylcholine and sodium nitroprusside combined with laser Doppler fluxmetry. Men were characterized by higher urinary cortisol excretion [median (interquartile range), 162 (130–194) compared with 118 (99–156) nmol/24 h, P<0.05]. In women, but not in men, urinary cortisol excretion was associated with impaired capillary recruitment (r=−0.66, P<0.001), higher systolic blood pressure (r=0.64, P<0.001) and lower insulin sensitivity (r=−0.43, P<0.05). Urinary cortisol excretion was not associated with endothelium-(in)dependent vasodilation in men or women. Regression analysis demonstrated that capillary recruitment statistically explained 37% of the association between urinary cortisol and blood pressure in women. Capillary recruitment did not explain part of the association between urinary cortisol and insulin sensitivity. In conclusion, urinary cortisol excretion is inversely associated with capillary recruitment in women, but not in men, and capillary recruitment explains part of the cortisol–blood pressure relationship. These data suggest that, in women, impairment of capillary function mediates some of the adverse effects of cortisol and thus may provide a target to prevent such adverse effects.
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- Renate T de Jongh
- Department of Internal Medicine, Institute for Cardiovascular Research-Vrije Universiteit, VU University Medical Center, De Boelelaan, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Serné EH, de Jongh RT, Eringa EC, IJzerman RG, Stehouwer CDA. Microvascular dysfunction: a potential pathophysiological role in the metabolic syndrome. Hypertension 2007; 50:204-11. [PMID: 17470716 DOI: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.107.089680] [Citation(s) in RCA: 180] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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- Erik H Serné
- Department of Internal Medicine, VU Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Ayala JE, Bracy DP, Julien BM, Rottman JN, Fueger PT, Wasserman DH. Chronic treatment with sildenafil improves energy balance and insulin action in high fat-fed conscious mice. Diabetes 2007; 56:1025-33. [PMID: 17229936 DOI: 10.2337/db06-0883] [Citation(s) in RCA: 183] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Stimulation of nitric oxide-cGMP signaling results in vascular relaxation and increased muscle glucose uptake. We show that chronically inhibiting cGMP hydrolysis with the phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitor sildenafil improves energy balance and enhances in vivo insulin action in a mouse model of diet-induced insulin resistance. High-fat-fed mice treated with sildenafil plus L-arginine or sildenafil alone for 12 weeks had reduced weight and fat mass due to increased energy expenditure. However, uncoupling protein-1 levels were not increased in sildenafil-treated mice. Chronic treatment with sildenafil plus L-arginine or sildenafil alone increased arterial cGMP levels but did not adversely affect blood pressure or cardiac morphology. Sildenafil treatment, with or without l-arginine, resulted in lower fasting insulin and glucose levels and enhanced rates of glucose infusion, disappearance, and muscle glucose uptake during a hyperinsulinemic (4 mU x kg(-1) x min(-1))-euglycemic clamp in conscious mice. These effects occurred without an increase in activation of muscle insulin signaling. An acute treatment of high fat-fed mice with sildenafil plus l-arginine did not improve insulin action. These results show that phosphodiesterase-5 is a potential target for therapies aimed at preventing diet-induced energy imbalance and insulin resistance.
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- Julio E Ayala
- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 2200 Pierce Ave., 702 Light Hall, Nashville, TN 37232, USA.
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Samuelsson A, Steinvall I, Sjöberg F. Microdialysis shows metabolic effects in skin during fluid resuscitation in burn-injured patients. CRITICAL CARE : THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE CRITICAL CARE FORUM 2007; 10:R172. [PMID: 17166287 PMCID: PMC1794489 DOI: 10.1186/cc5124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2006] [Revised: 10/31/2006] [Accepted: 12/13/2006] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Established fluid treatment formulas for burn injuries have been challenged as studies have shown the presence of tissue hypoxia during standard resuscitation. Such findings suggest monitoring at the tissue level. This study was performed in patients with major burn injuries to evaluate the microdialysis technique for the continuous assessment of skin metabolic changes during fluid resuscitation and up to four days postburn. METHODS We conducted an experimental study in patients with a burn injury, as represented by percentage of total body surface area burned (TBSA), of more than 25% in a university eight-bed burns intensive care unit serving about 3.5 million inhabitants. Six patients with a median TBSA percentage of 59% (range 33.5% to 90%) and nine healthy controls were examined by intracutaneous MD, in which recordings of glucose, pyruvate, lactate, glycerol, and urea were performed. RESULTS Blood glucose concentration peaked on day two at 9.8 mmol/l (6.8 to 14.0) (median and range) and gradually declined on days three and four, whereas skin glucose in MD continued to increase throughout the study period with maximum values on day four, 8.7 mmol/l (4.9 to 11.0). Controls had significantly lower skin glucose values compared with burn patients, 3.1 mmol/l (1.5 to 4.6) (p < 0.001). Lactate from burn patients was significantly higher than controls in both injured and uninjured skin (MD), 4.6 mmol/l (1.3 to 8.9) and 3.8 mmol/l (1.6 to 7.5), respectively (p < 0.01). The skin lactate/pyruvate ratio (MD) was significantly increased in burn patients on all days (p < 0.001). Skin glycerol (MD) was significantly increased at days three and four in burn patients compared with controls (p < 0.01). CONCLUSION Despite a strategy that fulfilled conventional goals for resuscitation, there were increased lactate/pyruvate ratios, indicative of local acidosis. A corresponding finding was not recorded systemically. We conclude that MD is a promising tool for depicting local metabolic processes that are not fully appreciated when examined systemically. Because the local response in glucose, lactate, and pyruvate metabolism seems to differ from that recorded systemically, this technique may offer a new method of monitoring organs.
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- Anders Samuelsson
- Department of Intensive Care, Linköping University Hospital, 581 85 Linköping, Sweden
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- The Burn Unit, Department of Hand and Plastic Surgery, Linköping University Hospital, 581 85 Linköping, Sweden
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- Department of Intensive Care, Linköping University Hospital, 581 85 Linköping, Sweden
- The Burn Unit, Department of Hand and Plastic Surgery, Linköping University Hospital, 581 85 Linköping, Sweden
- Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Biomedicine and Surgery, Linköping University Hospital, 581 85 Linköping, Sweden
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