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Carneiro de Oliveira K, Wei Y, Repetti RL, Meth J, Majumder N, Sapkota A, Gusella GL, Rohatgi R. Tubular deficiency of ABCA1 augments cholesterol- and Na +-dependent effects on systemic blood pressure in male mice. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 2024; 326:F265-F277. [PMID: 38153852 PMCID: PMC11207546 DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.00154.2023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2023] [Revised: 10/31/2023] [Accepted: 11/17/2023] [Indexed: 12/30/2023] Open
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Dyslipidemia, with changes in plasma membrane (PM) composition, is associated with hypertension, while rising PM cholesterol induces Na+ channel activity. We hypothesize that ablation of renal tubular ABCA1, a cholesterol efflux protein, leads to cholesterol- and Na+-dependent changes in blood pressure (BP). Transgenic mice (TgPAX8rtTA;tetO-Cre/+) expressing a doxycycline (dox)-inducible CRE recombinase were bred with mice expressing floxed ABCA1 to generate renal tubules deficient in ABCA1 (ABCA1FF). Tail-cuff systolic BP (SBP) was measured in mice on specific diets. Immunoblotting was performed on whole and PM protein lysates of kidney from mice completing experimental diets. Cortical PM of ABCA1FF showed reduced ABCA1 (60 ± 28%; n = 10, P < 0.05) compared with wild-type littermates (WT; n = 9). Tail-cuff SBP of ABCA1FF (n = 11) was not only greater post dox, but also during cholesterol or high Na+ feeding (P < 0.05) compared with WT mice (n = 15). A Na+-deficient diet abolished the difference, while 6 wk of cholesterol diet raised SBP in ABCA1FF compared with mice before cholesterol feeding (P < 0.05). No difference in α-ENaC protein abundance was noted in kidney lysate; however, γ-ENaC increased in ABCA1FF mice versus WT mice. In kidney membranes, NKCC2 abundance was greater in ABCA1FF versus WT mice. Cortical lysates of ABCA1FF mouse kidneys expressed less renin and angiotensin I receptor than WT mouse kidneys. Furosemide injection induced a greater diuretic effect in ABCA1FF (n = 7; 45.2 ± 8.7 µL/g body wt) versus WT (n = 7; 33.1 ± 6.9 µL/g body wt; P < 0.05) but amiloride did not. Tubular ABCA1 deficiency induces cholesterol-dependent rise in SBP and modest Na+ sensitivity of SBP, which we speculate is partly related to Na+ transporters and channels.NEW & NOTEWORTHY Cholesterol has been linked to greater Na+ channel activity in kidney cells, which may predispose to systemic hypertension. We showed that when ABCA1, a protein that removes cholesterol from tissues, is ablated from mouse kidneys, systemic blood pressure is greater than normal mice. Dietary cholesterol further increases blood pressure in transgenic mice, whereas low dietary salt intake reduced blood pressure to that of normal mice. Thus, we speculate that diseases and pharmaceuticals that reduce renal ABCA1 expression, like diabetes and calcineurin inhibitors, respectively, contribute to the prominence of hypertension in their clinical presentation.
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- Karin Carneiro de Oliveira
- Renal Section, Department of Medicine, James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bronx, New York, United States
- Barbara T. Murphy Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States
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- Renal Section, Department of Medicine, James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bronx, New York, United States
- Barbara T. Murphy Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States
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- Renal Section, Department of Medicine, Northport Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Northport, New York, United States
- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, Stony Brook, New York, United States
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- Renal Section, Department of Medicine, Northport Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Northport, New York, United States
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, Stony Brook, New York, United States
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, Stony Brook, New York, United States
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- Barbara T. Murphy Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States
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- Renal Section, Department of Medicine, James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bronx, New York, United States
- Barbara T. Murphy Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States
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Watts SW, Darios ES, Contreras GA, Garver H, Fink GD. Male and female high-fat diet-fed Dahl SS rats are largely protected from vascular dysfunctions: PVAT contributions reveal sex differences. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2021; 321:H15-H28. [PMID: 33929898 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00131.2021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Vascular dysfunctions are observed in the arteries from hypertensive subjects. The establishment of the Dahl salt-sensitive (SS) male and female rat models to develop a reproducible hypertension with high-fat (HF) diet feeding from weaning allows addressing the question of whether HF diet-associated hypertension results in vascular dysfunction similar to that of essential hypertension in both sexes. We hypothesized that dysfunction of three distinct vascular layers, i.e., endothelial, smooth muscle, and perivascular adipose tissue (PVAT), would be present in the aorta from HF diet-fed versus control diet-fed male and female rats. Dahl SS rats were fed a control (10% kcal of fat) or HF (60%) diet from weaning for 24 wk. Male and female Dahl SS rats became equally hypertensive when placed on a HF diet. For male and female rats, the thoracic aorta exhibited medial hypertrophy in HF diet-induced hypertension versus control, but neither displayed a hyperresponsive contraction to the α-adrenergic agonist phenylephrine nor an endothelial cell dysfunction as measured by acetylcholine-induced relaxation. A beneficial PVAT function, support of stress relaxation, was reduced in the male versus female rats fed a HF diet. PVAT in the aorta of males but not in females retained the anticontractile activity. We conclude that this HF model does not display the same vascular dysfunctions observed in essential hypertension. Moreover, both male and female show significantly different vascular dysfunctions in this HF feeding model.NEW & NOTEWORTHY Although the aorta exhibits medial hypertrophy in response to HF diet-induced hypertension, it did not exhibit hyperresponsive contraction to an α-adrenergic agonist nor endothelial cell dysfunction; this was true for both sexes. Unlike other hypertension models, PVAT around aorta from (male) rats on the HF diet retained significant anticontractile activity. PVAT around aorta of the male on a HF diet was modestly more fibrotic and lost the ability to assist in arterial stress relaxation.
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- Stephanie W Watts
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
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- Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
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Wang XJ, Wei JG, Wang CM, Wang YC, Wu QZ, Xu JK, Yang XX. Effect of cholesterol liposomes on calcium mobilization in muscle cells from the rabbit sphincter of Oddi. World J Gastroenterol 2002; 8:144-9. [PMID: 11833091 PMCID: PMC4656607 DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v8.i1.144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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AIM: To analyze the influence of cholesterol liposome on the Ca2+ mobilization of cultured muscle cells in rabbit sphincter of Oddi’s.
METHODS: New Zealand rabbit was sacrificed and the sphincter of Oddi (SO) segement was obtained aseptically. The SO segment was cut into pieces and cultured in DMEM solution. Then the smooth muscle cells were subcultured, and the 4th-7th passage cells were used for further investigation. The intracellular Ca2+ increase was measured under confocal microscope after the addition of 20 mmol·L-1 KCl, 10-7 mol·L-1 acetylcholine and 10-7 mol·L-1 cholecystokinin, and different antagonists were added to analyze the Ca2+ mobilization pathway. After the cells were incubated with 1 g·L-1 cholesterol liposome (CL)(molar ratio was-2:1), the intracellular Ca2+ increase was measured again to determine the effect of CL on cellular Ca2+ mobilization.
RESULTS: The resting cellular calcium concentration of cultured SO cell was 108 nmol·L-1± 21 nmol·L-1. The intracellular Ca2+ increases induced by 20 mmol·L-1 KCl, 10-7 mol·L-1 ACh and 10-7 mol·L-1 CCK were 183% ± 56%, 161% ± 52% and 130% ± 43%, respectively. When the extracellular Ca2+ was eliminated by 2 mmol·L-1 EGTA and 5 μmol·L-1 verapamil, the intracellular Ca2+ increases induced by KCl, ACh and CCK were 20% ± 14%, 82% ± 21% and 104% ± 23%, respectively. After the preincubation with heparin, the Ca2+ increases were 62% ± 23% and 23% ± 19% induced by ACh and CCK, as for preincubation with procaine they were 72% ± 28% and 85% ± 37% induced by ACh and CCK, respectively. Pretreatment with CL for 18 h, the resting cellular Ca2+ concentration elevated to 152 nmol·L-1± 26 nmol·L-1, however, the cellular Ca2+ increase percentages in response to these agonists were 67% ± 32%, 56% ± 33% and 34% ± 15%.
CONCLUSION: KCl elicite the SO cellular Ca2+ increase depends on influx of extracellular Ca2+, ACh evoked the SO celllular Ca2+ increase is through the mobilization of intracellular Ca2+ pool and influx of extracellular Ca2+ as well, CCK excites the SO cells mainly through mobilization of intracellular IP3-sensitive Ca2+ store. After the incorporation with cholesterol liposome, KCl,ACh and CCK induced cellular Ca2+ increase percentages decreased.
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- Xin-Jiang Wang
- Department of Radiology, Tangdu Hospital, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an 710038, Shaanxi Province,China.
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Zicha J, Dobesová Z, Kunes J. Relative deficiency of nitric oxide-dependent vasodilation in salt-hypertensive Dahl rats: the possible role of superoxide anions. J Hypertens 2001; 19:247-54. [PMID: 11212967 DOI: 10.1097/00004872-200102000-00011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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OBJECTIVE The contribution of major vasoactive systems (renin-angiotensin system, sympathetic nervous system and nitric oxide) to blood pressure maintenance and the possible involvement of superoxide anions in the reduced efficiency of nitric oxide (NO)-dependent vasodilation to counterbalance sympathetic vasoconstriction were studied in salt-hypertensive Dahl rats. DESIGN AND METHODS We used Dahl salt-sensitive (SS/Jr) and salt-resistant (SR/Jr) female rats kept on a low-salt (0.3% NaCl) or high-salt diet (8% NaCl) for 6 weeks since weaning. Mean arterial pressure (MAP) was measured in conscious animals subjected to acute consecutive blockade of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) [captopril, 10 mg/kg intravenously (i.v.)], the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) (pentolinium, 5 mg/kg i.v.) and NO synthase (Nomega-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME), 30 mg/kg i.v.). Before the consecutive blockade of vasoactive systems one-half of the animals in each experimental group was pre-treated with a stable membrane-permeable mimetic of superoxide dismutase (tempol, 25 mg/kg i.v.) which functions as a superoxide scavenger. RESULTS Compared to normotensive SR/Jr animals, salt-hypertensive SS/Jr rats were characterized by an enhanced blood pressure (BP) fall after ganglionic blockade (-104 +/- 8 versus -62 +/- 5 mm Hg, P < 0.001) and by higher residual blood pressure recorded after the blockade of both RAS and SNS (70 +/- 3 versus 43 +/- 3 mmHg, P < 0.01), but there was only a borderline elevation of their BP response to acute NO synthase inhibition (67 +/- 6 versus 49 +/- 4 mmHg, P < 0.05). The acute tempol pre-treatment elicited the most pronounced reduction of basal BP (-13 +/- 1 mmHg, P < 0.001) in the salt-hypertensive SS/Jr group in which the BP rise after L-NAME administration was augmented by about 50%. On the contrary, tempol pre-treatment did not affect norepinephrine- or angiotensin II-dependent vasoconstriction. CONCLUSIONS The NO system is not able to counterbalance effectively the hyperactivity of the sympathetic nervous system in salt-hypertensive Dahl rats. The predominance of sympathetic vasoconstriction over NO-dependent vasodilation could be explained partially by enhanced NO inactivation due to augmented superoxide anion formation in hypertensive animals.
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- J Zicha
- Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, and Center for Experimental Research of Cardiovascular Diseases, Prague.
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Herrera VL, Makrides SC, Xie HX, Adari H, Krauss RM, Ryan US, Ruiz-Opazo N. Spontaneous combined hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease and decreased survival in Dahl salt-sensitive hypertensive rats transgenic for human cholesteryl ester transfer protein. Nat Med 1999; 5:1383-9. [PMID: 10581080 DOI: 10.1038/70956] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The acceleration of atherosclerosis by polygenic (essential) hypertension is well-characterized in humans; however, the lack of an animal model that simulates human disease hinders the elucidation of pathogenic mechanisms. We report here a transgenic atherosclerosis-polygenic hypertension model in Dahl salt-sensitive hypertensive rats that overexpress the human cholesteryl ester transfer protein (Tg[hCETP]DS). Male Tg[hCETP]DS rats fed regular rat chow showed age-dependent severe combined hyperlipidemia, atherosclerotic lesions, myocardial infarctions and decreased survival. These findings differ from various mouse atherosclerosis models, demonstrating the necessity of complex disease modeling in different species. The data demonstrate that cholesteryl ester transfer protein can be proatherogenic. The interaction of polygenic hypertension and hyperlipidemia in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis in Tg[hCETP]DS rats substantiates epidemiological observations in humans.
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- V L Herrera
- Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, 700 Albany Street, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA.
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Kagota S, Tamashiro A, Yamaguchi Y, Nakamura K, Kunitomo M. Excessive salt or cholesterol intake alters the balance among endothelium-derived factors released from renal arteries in spontaneously hypertensive rats. J Cardiovasc Pharmacol 1999; 34:533-9. [PMID: 10511128 DOI: 10.1097/00005344-199910000-00009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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We investigated the vasorelaxation in renal arteries isolated from spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRs) fed a basal, a high-salt, or a high-cholesterol diet for 8 weeks. In renal arterial rings from the control group, acetylcholine (ACh)-induced endothelium-dependent relaxations were markedly increased by indomethacin (IND) and ONO-3708, a prostaglandin H2/thromboxane A2-receptor antagonist, but not affected by OKY-046, a thromboxane A2 synthetase inhibitor. These increased relaxations were partially inhibited by either NG-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME) or charybdotoxin (CTX), and almost completely abolished by the combination of L-NAME plus CTX. The ACh-induced endothelium-dependent relaxations in the absence of IND were significantly attenuated by the high-salt intake but not affected by the high-cholesterol intake. The degrees of relaxations in the presence of IND were approximately equal among the three diet groups. On the other hand, the relaxations in the presence of IND plus L-NAME were significantly augmented by a high-cholesterol intake and abolished by a high-salt intake, and the relaxations in the presence of IND plus CTX were slightly reduced by a high-cholesterol intake and significantly augmented by a high-salt intake. The production of cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP) in response to ACh was significantly decreased by a high-cholesterol intake and tended to be increased by a high-salt intake. These findings indicate that in the renal artery of SHRs, ACh causes production of a sufficient amount of nitric oxide (NO), together with a relaxing factor resembling endothelium-derived hyperpolarizing factors (EDHFs) and also endothelium-derived contracting factors (EDCFs), probably prostaglandin H2. Our results also suggest that excessive salt intake increases the release of EDCF and NO and decreases that of an EDHF-like factor, whereas excessive cholesterol intake increases release of an EDHF-like factor and decreases that of NO.
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- S Kagota
- Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Mukogawa Women's University, Nishinomiya, Japan
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