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Pontes CNR, Bessa ADSMD, Macedo LM, Ferreira-Junior MD, Cavalcante KVN, Campos HM, Cruz-Leite VRM, Neves ÂR, Gomes RM, Ghedini PC, Biancardi MF, Mendes EP, Borges CL, Pedrino GR, Castro CH. Angiotensin-(1-7) Treatment Early in Life Prevents Cardiac Hypertrophy in Adult Hypertensive Rats. J Cardiovasc Pharmacol 2024; 83:457-465. [PMID: 38498600 DOI: 10.1097/fjc.0000000000001530] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2023] [Accepted: 11/30/2023] [Indexed: 03/20/2024]
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ABSTRACT Angiotensin (Ang)-(1-7) is a cardioprotective peptide of the renin-angiotensin system. Prepuberty has been considered as a later susceptible window of development, and stressful factors in this life phase can induce chronic diseases in adulthood. We aimed to investigate whether the treatment with Ang-(1-7) during the prepuberty could attenuate the development of hypertension and cardiac injury in adult spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRs). SHRs were treated with Ang-(1-7) (24 μg/kg/h) from age 4 to 7 weeks. Systolic blood pressure was measured by tail-cuff plethysmography up to 17th week. Thereafter, echocardiography was performed, and the rats were euthanized for the collection of tissues and blood. Ang-(1-7) did not change the systolic blood pressure but reduced the septal and posterior wall thickness, and cardiomyocyte hypertrophy and fibrosis in SHR. In addition, Ang-(1-7) reduced the gene expression of atrial natriuretic peptide and brain natriuretic peptide, increased the metalloproteinase 9 expression, and reduced the extracellular signal-regulated kinases 1/2 phosphorylation. Ang-(1-7) also prevented the reduction of Mas receptor but did not change the protein expression of angiotensin-converting enzyme, angiotensin-converting enzyme 2, AT1, and AT2. The treatment with Ang-(1-7) decreased the malondialdehyde (MDA) levels and increased superoxide dismutase-1 and catalase activities and protein expression of catalase. Our findings demonstrate that the treatment of SHR with Ang-(1-7) for 3 weeks early in life promotes beneficial effects in the heart later in life, even without altering blood pressure, through mechanisms involving the reduction of oxidative stress and ERK1/2 phosphorylation. In addition, this study supports the prepuberty as an important programming window.
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- Department of Physiological Sciences, Federal University of Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil
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- Department of Physiological Sciences, Federal University of Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Federal University of Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil
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- Department of Physiological Sciences, Federal University of Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil
- National Institute of Science and Technology in Nanobiopharmaceutics
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Ruiz-Guerrero F, Gomez Del Barrio A, de la Torre-Luque A, Ayad-Ahmed W, Beato-Fernandez L, Polo Montes F, Leon Velasco M, MacDowell KS, Leza JC, Carrasco JL, Díaz-Marsá M. Oxidative stress and inflammatory pathways in female eating disorders and borderline personality disorders with emotional dysregulation as linking factors with impulsivity and trauma. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2023; 158:106383. [PMID: 37714047 DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2023.106383] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2023] [Revised: 07/02/2023] [Accepted: 09/05/2023] [Indexed: 09/17/2023]
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BACKGROUND Borderline personality disorder (BPD) and eating disorders (ED) are both disorders with emotional dysregulation that may share some similar biological underpinnings, leading to oxidative/inflammatory alterations. Unfortunately, to date, no studies have assessed the relationship between clinical features, inflammatory alterations and childhood trauma across these disorders. Our aim was to identify the potential common and disorder-specific inflammatory pathways and examine possible associations between these dysregulated pathways and the clinical features. METHODS We studied a sample of 108 women (m = 27.17 years; sd = 7.64), divided into four groups: 23 patients with a restrictive ED (ED-R), 23 patients with a bingeeating/ purging ED (ED-P) and 26 patients with BPD; whereas the control group included 23 healthy subjects. Several inflammatory/oxidative parameters: tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα), Thiobarbituric Acid Reactive Substances (TBARS), inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS), cyclooxygenase-2 (COX2), p38 mitogenactivated protein kinases, ERK mitogen-activated protein kinases and c-Jun NH2- terminal kinase (JNK), and some antiinflammatory antioxidant elements: glutathione peroxidase (GPx), superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), Kelch-like ECHassociated protein (Keap1) were determined in plasma or peripheral blood mononuclear cells. Furthermore, clinical, impulsivity, trauma and eating behavior questionnaires were administered. RESULTS Three main inflammatory/oxidative components were extracted using principal component analysis (59.19 % of biomarker variance explained). Disorder-specific dysfunction in the inflammatory and oxidative pathways in patients with BPD and ED were revealed by means of relationships with specific principal components (p < .01). BPD patients showed higher levels of a component featured by elevated levels of JNK and lower of GPx and SOD. ED-R and impulsivity were associated with a component featured by the activation of ERK and negative influence of Keap1. The component featured by the suppression of catalase and COX2 was associated with both ED subtypes and trauma exposure. CONCLUSION Several risk factors such as trauma, impulsivity and eating disorder symptoms were transdiagnostically associated with some inflammatory alterations regardless of diagnosis. These findings suggest that the clinical profile comprising trauma exposure and an emotional dysregulation disorder might constitute a specific endophenotype highly linked with inflammatory alterations.
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- Francisco Ruiz-Guerrero
- Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital, Eating Disorders Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Santander, Spain; Valdecilla Biomedical Research Institute (IDIVAL), Santander, Spain
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- Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital, Eating Disorders Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Santander, Spain; Center for Biomedical Research in Mental Health (CIBERSAM), Spain; Valdecilla Biomedical Research Institute (IDIVAL), Santander, Spain.
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- Center for Biomedical Research in Mental Health (CIBERSAM), Spain; Department of Legal Medicine, Psychiatry, and Pathology, School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Spain
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- Center for Biomedical Research in Mental Health (CIBERSAM), Spain; Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of Medicine, UCM, Madrid, Spain; IIS Hospital 12 de Octubre, IUIN-UCM, Madrid, Spain
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- Center for Biomedical Research in Mental Health (CIBERSAM), Spain; Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of Medicine, UCM, Madrid, Spain; IIS Hospital 12 de Octubre, IUIN-UCM, Madrid, Spain
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- Center for Biomedical Research in Mental Health (CIBERSAM), Spain; Department of Legal Medicine, Psychiatry, and Pathology, School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Spain; IIS Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain
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- Center for Biomedical Research in Mental Health (CIBERSAM), Spain; Department of Legal Medicine, Psychiatry, and Pathology, School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Spain; IIS Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain.
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Dos Santos BG, Miranda RA, Saavedra LPJ, Francisco FA, Ribeiro MVG, Oliveira Ferreira AR, Ferreira-Junior MD, Cavalcante KVN, Xavier CH, de Moura EG, Lisboa PC, Mota APCD, Pedrino GR, Armitage JA, Mathias PCDF, Palma-Rigo K, Gomes RM. Puberty as a DOHaD programming window: high-fat diet induces long-term hepatic dysfunction in male rats. J Dev Orig Health Dis 2023; 14:614-622. [PMID: 37955113 DOI: 10.1017/s2040174423000272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2023]
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The aim of this study was to evaluate whether high-fat (HF) diet intake during puberty can program obesity as well as generate glucose imbalance and hepatic metabolic dysfunctions in adult life. Male Wistar rats were randomly assigned into two groups: rats fed standard chow (NF) and rats fed a HF from postnatal 30-day-old (PND30) until PND60. Then, both groups were fed a standard chow from PND60 until PND120. Euthanasia and samples collections occurred at PND120. HF animals were overweight (+11%) and had increased adiposity, hyperphagia (+12%), hyperglycaemia (+13%), hyperinsulinemia (+69%), and hypertriglyceridemia (+34%). Plasma glucose levels during intravenous glucose tolerance test (ivGTT) and intraperitoneal insulin tolerance test (ipITT) were also higher in the HF group, whereas Kitt was significantly lower (-34%), suggesting reduced insulin sensitivity. In the same sense, HF animals present pancreatic islets hypertrophy and high β-cell mass. HF animals also had a significant increase in blood glucose levels during pyruvate tolerance test, indicating increased gluconeogenesis. Hepatic morphology analyses showed an increase in lipid inclusion in the HF group. Moreover, PEPCK and FAS protein expression were higher in the livers of the HF animals (+79% and + 37%, respectively). In conclusion, HF during puberty causes obese phenotype leading to glucose dyshomeostasis and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, which can be related to the overexpression of proteins PEPCK and FAS.
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- Beatriz Gonçalves Dos Santos
- Department of Physiological Sciences, Laboratory of Endocrine Physiology and Metabolism, Federal University of Goiás, Goiânia, GO, Brazil
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- Department of Physiological Sciences, Laboratory of Endocrine Physiology, Institute of Biology Roberto Alcantara Gomes, Rio de Janeiro State University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Department of Biotechnology, Genetics and Cell Biology, Laboratory of Secretion Cell Biology, State University of Maringá, Maringá, Brazil
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- Department of Biotechnology, Genetics and Cell Biology, Laboratory of Secretion Cell Biology, State University of Maringá, Maringá, Brazil
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- Department of Biotechnology, Genetics and Cell Biology, Laboratory of Secretion Cell Biology, State University of Maringá, Maringá, Brazil
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- Department of Biotechnology, Genetics and Cell Biology, Laboratory of Secretion Cell Biology, State University of Maringá, Maringá, Brazil
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- Department of Physiological Sciences, Laboratory of Endocrine Physiology and Metabolism, Federal University of Goiás, Goiânia, GO, Brazil
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- Department of Physiological Sciences, Laboratory of Endocrine Physiology and Metabolism, Federal University of Goiás, Goiânia, GO, Brazil
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- Department of Physiological Sciences, Laboratory of Endocrine Physiology, Institute of Biology Roberto Alcantara Gomes, Rio de Janeiro State University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Department of Physiological Sciences, Laboratory of Endocrine Physiology, Institute of Biology Roberto Alcantara Gomes, Rio de Janeiro State University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Department of Physiological Sciences, Laboratory of Endocrine Physiology and Metabolism, Federal University of Goiás, Goiânia, GO, Brazil
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- Department of Biotechnology, Genetics and Cell Biology, Laboratory of Secretion Cell Biology, State University of Maringá, Maringá, Brazil
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- Department of Biotechnology, Genetics and Cell Biology, Laboratory of Secretion Cell Biology, State University of Maringá, Maringá, Brazil
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- Department of Physiological Sciences, Laboratory of Endocrine Physiology and Metabolism, Federal University of Goiás, Goiânia, GO, Brazil
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Ferreira LA, Ferreira-Junior MD, Amaral KDJV, Cavalcante KVN, Pontes CNR, Cristin L, Ribeiro DS, dos Santos BG, Xavier CH, Mathias PCDF, Andersen ML, Pedrino GR, de Castro CH, Mazaro-Costa R, Gomes RM. Maternal postnatal early overfeeding induces sex-related cardiac dysfunction and alters sexually hormones levels in young offspring. J Nutr Biochem 2022; 103:108969. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jnutbio.2022.108969] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2021] [Revised: 10/08/2021] [Accepted: 01/31/2022] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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The challenge of spreading DOHaD concept throughout Latin America. J Dev Orig Health Dis 2021; 11:439-440. [PMID: 32933605 DOI: 10.1017/s2040174420000732] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Programming of Cardiovascular Dysfunction by Postnatal Overfeeding in Rodents. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:ijms21249427. [PMID: 33322275 PMCID: PMC7763005 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21249427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2020] [Revised: 12/07/2020] [Accepted: 12/09/2020] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Nutritional environment in the perinatal period has a great influence on health and diseases in adulthood. In rodents, litter size reduction reproduces the effects of postnatal overnutrition in infants and reveals that postnatal overfeeding (PNOF) not only permanently increases body weight but also affects the cardiovascular function in the short- and long-term. In addition to increased adiposity, the metabolic status of PNOF rodents is altered, with increased plasma insulin and leptin levels, associated with resistance to these hormones, changed profiles and levels of circulating lipids. PNOF animals present elevated arterial blood pressure with altered vascular responsiveness to vasoactive substances. The hearts of overfed rodents exhibit hypertrophy and elevated collagen content. PNOF also induces a disturbance of cardiac mitochondrial respiration and produces an imbalance between oxidants and antioxidants. A modification of the expression of crucial genes and epigenetic alterations is reported in hearts of PNOF animals. In vivo, a decreased ventricular contractile function is observed during adulthood in PNOF hearts. All these alterations ultimately lead to an increased sensitivity to cardiac pathologic challenges such as ischemia-reperfusion injury. Nevertheless, caloric restriction and physical exercise were shown to improve PNOF-induced cardiac dysfunction and metabolic abnormalities, drawing a path to the potential therapeutic correction of early nutritional programming.
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