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Pince CL, Whiting KE, Wang T, Lékó AH, Farinelli LA, Cooper D, Farokhnia M, Vendruscolo LF, Leggio L. Role of aldosterone and mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) in addiction: A scoping review. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2023; 154:105427. [PMID: 37858908 PMCID: PMC10865927 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105427] [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: 07/28/2023] [Revised: 09/24/2023] [Accepted: 10/13/2023] [Indexed: 10/21/2023]
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Preclinical and human studies suggest a role of aldosterone and mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) in addiction. This scoping review aimed to summarize (1) the relationship between alcohol and other substance use disorders (ASUDs) and dysfunctions of the aldosterone and MR, and (2) how pharmacological manipulations of MR may affect ASUD-related outcomes. Our search in four databases (MEDLINE, Embase, Web of Science, and Cochrane Library) indicated that most studies focused on the relationship between aldosterone, MR, and alcohol (n = 30), with the rest focused on opioids (n = 5), nicotine (n = 9), and other addictive substances (n = 9). Despite some inconsistencies, the overall results suggest peripheral and central dysregulations of aldosterone and MR in several species and that these dysregulations depended on the pattern of drug exposure and genetic factors. We conclude that MR antagonism may be a promising target in ASUD, yet future studies are warranted.
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- Claire L Pince
- Clinical Psychoneuroendocrinology and Neuropsychopharmacology Section, Translational Addiction Medicine Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program and National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Division of Intramural Clinical and Biological Research, National Institutes of Health, 251 Bayview Blvd, Suite 200, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA; Neurobiology of Addiction Section, Integrative Neuroscience Research Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program, National Institutes of Health, 251 Bayview Blvd, Suite 200, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA; Stress & Addiction Neuroscience Unit, Integrative Neuroscience Research Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program and National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Division of Intramural Clinical and Biological Research, National Institutes of Health, 251 Bayview Blvd, Suite 200, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
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- Clinical Psychoneuroendocrinology and Neuropsychopharmacology Section, Translational Addiction Medicine Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program and National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Division of Intramural Clinical and Biological Research, National Institutes of Health, 251 Bayview Blvd, Suite 200, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA; Neurobiology of Addiction Section, Integrative Neuroscience Research Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program, National Institutes of Health, 251 Bayview Blvd, Suite 200, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
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- Clinical Psychoneuroendocrinology and Neuropsychopharmacology Section, Translational Addiction Medicine Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program and National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Division of Intramural Clinical and Biological Research, National Institutes of Health, 251 Bayview Blvd, Suite 200, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
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- Clinical Psychoneuroendocrinology and Neuropsychopharmacology Section, Translational Addiction Medicine Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program and National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Division of Intramural Clinical and Biological Research, National Institutes of Health, 251 Bayview Blvd, Suite 200, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA; Center on Compulsive Behaviors, Intramural Research Program, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Clinical Psychoneuroendocrinology and Neuropsychopharmacology Section, Translational Addiction Medicine Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program and National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Division of Intramural Clinical and Biological Research, National Institutes of Health, 251 Bayview Blvd, Suite 200, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
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- Office of Research Services, Division of Library Services, National Institutes of Health, Building 10, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Clinical Psychoneuroendocrinology and Neuropsychopharmacology Section, Translational Addiction Medicine Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program and National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Division of Intramural Clinical and Biological Research, National Institutes of Health, 251 Bayview Blvd, Suite 200, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
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- Stress & Addiction Neuroscience Unit, Integrative Neuroscience Research Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program and National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Division of Intramural Clinical and Biological Research, National Institutes of Health, 251 Bayview Blvd, Suite 200, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA.
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- Clinical Psychoneuroendocrinology and Neuropsychopharmacology Section, Translational Addiction Medicine Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program and National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Division of Intramural Clinical and Biological Research, National Institutes of Health, 251 Bayview Blvd, Suite 200, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA.
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Sarmiento X, Guardiola JJ, Soler M. [Alcohol and acute respiratory distress syndrome: casuality or causality?]. Med Clin (Barc) 2012. [PMID: 23177306 DOI: 10.1016/j.medcli.2012.09.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Alcohol has been considered an important risk factor for the development of pneumonia since the last century. Nevertheless, it was not thought that it had relevant effects on lung structure and functions until recently. Recent studies have shown that the risk for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is 2-4 times higher among alcoholic patients with sepsis or trauma, and that alcoholism can play a roll in more than 50% of cases in the pathogenesis of this syndrome. Although alcoholism per se does not cause acute lung injury it predisposes to pulmonary dysfunction after inflammatory stress, that is present in clinical situations that cause ARDS leading to its development and complicating its outcome. Recent investigations in animals and humans with alcohol abuse have uncovered several alterations currently known as the "alcoholic lung". This revision discusses the association between alcohol abuse and lung injury/ARDS and tries to explain the physiopathology along with possible treatments.
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- Xavier Sarmiento
- Servicio de Medicina Intensiva, Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Barcelona, España.
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Prout M, Martin GS, Drexler K, Brown LAS, Guidot DM. Alcohol abuse and acute lung injury: can we target therapy? Expert Rev Respir Med 2010; 1:197-207. [PMID: 20477184 DOI: 10.1586/17476348.1.2.197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Recent studies have revealed an important but previously unrecognized association between alcohol abuse and the risk of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). This devastating form of lung injury strikes individuals of any age following insults, such as major trauma or sepsis, and even with state-of-the-art medical care it has a mortality as high as 50%. Although the precise incidence is unknown, it is estimated that 200,000 individuals develop ARDS each year in the USA alone. Alcohol abuse independently increases the risk approximately two- to fourfold and, therefore, causes tens of thousands of excess deaths annually. When one couples these grim estimates with the well-recognized association between alcohol abuse and severe lung infections, such as bacterial pneumonia and tuberculosis, it is apparent that alcohol-related lung diseases are a major public health problem. Exciting new studies reveal that the alcoholic lung is characterized by discrete changes in cellular function within the lower airways, mediated via oxidant stress and altered signaling pathways and, in experimental models, is highly amenable to targeted therapies. Furthermore, these therapies are already used clinically for other conditions and could readily be tested in clinical studies of alcoholics at high risk for ARDS and/or with severe lung infections. This article focuses on the epidemiology and pathophysiology of alcohol-induced lung dysfunction and discusses potential new treatments that are suggested by recent experimental findings.
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- Matthew Prout
- Emory University School of Medicine, The Department of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA.
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Renin and aldosterone but not the natriuretic peptide correlate with obsessive craving in medium-term abstinent alcohol-dependent patients: a longitudinal study. Alcohol 2008; 42:375-81. [PMID: 18486430 DOI: 10.1016/j.alcohol.2008.03.128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2008] [Revised: 02/26/2008] [Accepted: 03/06/2008] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Both animal and human studies suggest that volume-regulating hormones could play a role in alcohol dependence as well as in alcohol craving. The role of the volume-regulating hormones, renin, aldosterone, and the N-terminal pro B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) in alcohol craving was therefore evaluated in the present study. Twenty-five actively drinking alcohol-dependent patients satisfied the inclusion criteria and were enrolled into the study. The volume-regulating hormones, renin, aldosterone, and the NT-proBNP, and craving measurements--Obsessive-Compulsive Drinking Scale (OCDS) and Penn Alcohol Craving Scale (PACS)--were performed at baseline and after 12 weeks. Sixteen patients remained totally abstinent for the entire 12 weeks and were available for the second assessments. At baseline, no correlations between hormones and craving scores were found with either the 25 patients initially enrolled or the 16 abstinent patients. At 12 weeks, a significant increase of renin and a significant decrease of aldosterone were observed. Aldosterone showed a significant direct correlation with the obsessive OCDS subscore (r=0.59, P=.016) and a trend toward a significant direct correlation with the PACS score (r=0.48, P=.057). Renin demonstrated a significant direct correlation with the obsessive OCDS subscore (r=0.51, P=.041) and with the PACS score (r=0.56, P=.025). The NT-proBNP never correlated with craving measurements. In conclusion, the renin-aldosterone axis could play a role in craving in medium-term abstinent patients and thereby leading to the hypothesis that alcohol craving could be influenced by the fluid volume intake.
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Effect of acetaldehyde upon cathepsin G and chymase. NRAS implications. Dig Dis Sci 2008; 53:1311-5. [PMID: 17932768 DOI: 10.1007/s10620-007-0013-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2007] [Accepted: 09/03/2007] [Indexed: 12/09/2022]
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Hypertension is commonly observed in alcoholics. Both the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) and the non-renin-angiotensin system (NRAS) have been implicated in the dynamics of blood pressure maintenance. In bilaterally nephrectomized rats, acetaldehyde has been reported to enhance the generation of the rate-limiting angiotensin I (ANG I) in the plasma, and in humans it inhibits the activity of several angiotensinases (A, B, and M) in the serum, thereby promoting a hypertensive set of reactions. We report here the results of a study on the effect of acetaldehyde upon cathepsin G and mast cell chymase. Acetaldehyde enhanced cathepsin G activity at all of the concentrations tested between 11.2 and 223.5 mM in a statistically significant manner. Since cathepsin G is one of several enzymes transforming ANG I into ANG II and is also capable of cleaving ANG II directly from angiotensinogen, we suggest that alcoholism, which will generate exogenous acetaldehyde from ingested alcohol, may be a contributory factor for an elevated cathepsin G activity and, consequently, hypertension via the NRAS. Chymase activity also is elevated in the presence of 440 mM acetaldehyde and diminished in the presence of 27 mM acetaldehyde. Since both enzymes also degrade ANG II, the degradative effects of each enzyme on ANG II may neutralize one another.
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Joshi PC, Guidot DM. The alcoholic lung: epidemiology, pathophysiology, and potential therapies. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 2007; 292:L813-23. [PMID: 17220370 DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.00348.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Epidemiological evidence gathered only in the past decade reveals that alcohol abuse independently increases the risk of developing the acute respiratory distress syndrome by as much as three- to fourfold. Experimental models and clinical studies are beginning to elucidate the mechanisms underlying this previously unrecognized association and are revealing for the first time that chronic alcohol abuse causes discrete changes, particularly within the alveolar epithelium, that render the lung susceptible to acute edematous injury in response to sepsis, trauma, and other inflammatory insults. Recent studies in relevant animal models as well as in human subjects are identifying common mechanisms by which alcohol abuse targets both the alveolar epithelium and the alveolar macrophage, such that the risks for acute lung injury and pulmonary infections are inextricably linked. Specifically, chronic alcohol ingestion decreases the levels of the antioxidant glutathione within the alveolar space by as much as 80-90%, and, as a consequence, impairs alveolar epithelial surfactant production and barrier integrity, decreases alveolar macrophage function, and renders the lung susceptible to oxidant-mediated injury. These changes are often subclinical and may not manifest as detectable lung impairment until challenged by an acute insult such as sepsis or trauma. However, even otherwise healthy alcoholics have evidence of severe oxidant stress in the alveolar space that correlates with alveolar epithelial and macrophage dysfunction. This review focuses on the epidemiology and the pathophysiology of alcohol-induced lung dysfunction and discusses potential new treatments suggested by recent experimental findings.
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- Pratibha C Joshi
- Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Atlanta, Georgia GA 30033, USA.
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Jänkälä H, Eriksson PCJ, Eklund K, Sarviharju M, Härkönen M, Mäki T. Effect of chronic ethanol ingestion and gender on heart left ventricular p53 gene expression. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 2006; 29:1368-73. [PMID: 16131843 DOI: 10.1097/01.alc.0000175043.67463.e5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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BACKGROUND Although the beneficial effects of mild to moderate ethanol consumption have been implied with respect to heart, alcohol abuse has proven to be a major cause of nonischemic cardiomyopathy in Western society. However, the biochemical and molecular mechanisms, which mediate the pathologic cardiac effects of ethanol, remain largely unknown. The aim of the present study was to explore the effects of chronic ethanol exposure on cardiac apoptosis and expression of some of the genes associated with cardiac remodeling in vivo. METHODS Alcohol-avoiding Alko Non Alcohol rats of both sexes were used. The ethanol-exposed rats (females, n=6; males, n=8) were given 12% (v/v) ethanol as the only available fluid from age of three to 24 months of age. The control rats (females, n=7; males, n=5) had only water available. At the end of the experiment, free walls of left ventricles of hearts were immediately frozen. Cytosolic DNA fragmentation, reflecting apoptosis, was measured using a commercial quantitative sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay kit, and mRNA levels were analyzed using a quantitative reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction method. RESULTS Ethanol treatment for two years increased cardiac left ventricular p53 mRNA levels significantly (p=0.014) compared with control rats. The gene expression was also dependent on the gender (p=0.001), so that male rats had higher left ventricular p53 mRNA levels than female rats. However, no significant differences in levels of DNA fragmentation were detected. CONCLUSIONS Chronic ethanol exposure in vivo induces rat cardiac left ventricular p53 gene expression. Expression of p53 is also gender-dependent, males having higher p53 mRNA levels than females. This preliminary finding suggests a role for the p53 gene in ethanol-induced cardiac remodeling. The results might also have some relevance for the known gender-dependent differences in propensity to cardiovascular disease.
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- Heidi Jänkälä
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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Guidot DM, Hart CM. Alcohol abuse and acute lung injury: epidemiology and pathophysiology of a recently recognized association. J Investig Med 2005; 53:235-45. [PMID: 16042957 DOI: 10.2310/6650.2005.53506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Alcohol is the most commonly used and abused drug in the United States. The deleterious health effects of alcohol can be attributed both to its acute intoxicating effects, which result in temporary impairment of judgment and motor skills, and to its more chronic and toxic effects on the liver, pancreas, heart, and brain, all of which may result in irreversible organ damage. Although recognized for more than a century as a major risk factor for pneumonia, alcohol abuse was until recently perceived to have no significant effects on lung structure and/or function. However, within the past decade, epidemiologic studies have revealed that alcohol abuse independently increases the risk of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) two- to fourfold in patients with sepsis or trauma and may play a role in ARDS pathogenesis in as many as half of all patients with the syndrome. Although alcohol abuse alone does not cause acute lung injury, it renders the lung susceptible to dysfunction in response to the inflammatory stresses of sepsis, trauma, and other clinical conditions recognized to cause ARDS. Recent investigations in both animal models of chronic ethanol ingestion and in human subjects with a history of alcohol abuse have explored this previously unrecognized connection between alcohol and acute lung injury and have uncovered multiple derangements, which we now characterize as the "alcoholic lung." This review summarizes the epidemiologic association between alcohol abuse and acute lung injury and the recent experimental findings that are unraveling the underlying pathophysiology.
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- David M Guidot
- Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Decatur, GA 30033, USA.
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Bechara RI, Pelaez A, Palacio A, Joshi PC, Hart CM, Brown LAS, Raynor R, Guidot DM. Angiotensin II mediates glutathione depletion, transforming growth factor-beta1 expression, and epithelial barrier dysfunction in the alcoholic rat lung. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 2005; 289:L363-70. [PMID: 15908476 DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.00141.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Alcohol abuse markedly increases the risk of sepsis-mediated acute lung injury. In a rat model, ethanol ingestion alone (in the absence of any other stress) causes pulmonary glutathione depletion, increased expression of transforming growth factor-beta1 (TGF-beta1), and alveolar epithelial barrier dysfunction, even though the lung appears grossly normal. However, during endotoxemia, ethanol-fed rats release more activated TGF-beta1 into the alveolar space where it can exacerbate epithelial barrier dysfunction and lung edema. Ethanol ingestion activates the renin-angiotensin system, and angiotensin II is capable of inducing oxidative stress and TGF-beta1 expression. We determined that lisinopril, an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor that decreases angiotensin II formation, limited lung glutathione depletion, and treatment with either lisinopril or losartan, a selective angiotensin II type 1 receptor blocker, normalized TGF-beta1 expression. The glutathione precursor procysteine also prevented TGF-beta1 expression, suggesting that TGF-beta1 may be induced indirectly by angiotensin II-mediated oxidative stress and glutathione depletion. Importantly, lisinopril treatment normalized barrier function in alveolar epithelial cell monolayers from ethanol-fed rats, and treatment with either lisinopril or losartan normalized alveolar epithelial barrier function in ethanol-fed rats in vivo, as reflected by lung liquid clearance of an intratracheal saline challenge, even during endotoxemia. In parallel, lisinopril treatment limited TGF-beta1 protein release into the alveolar space during endotoxemia. Together, these results suggest that angiotensin II mediates oxidative stress and the consequent TGF-beta1 expression and alveolar epithelial barrier dysfunction that characterize the alcoholic lung.
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- Rabih I Bechara
- Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center Pulmonary Section, Decatur, GA 30033, USA
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Bechara RI, Brown LAS, Eaton DC, Roman J, Guidot DM. Chronic ethanol ingestion increases expression of the angiotensin II type 2 (AT2) receptor and enhances tumor necrosis factor-alpha- and angiotensin II-induced cytotoxicity via AT2 signaling in rat alveolar epithelial cells. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 2003; 27:1006-14. [PMID: 12824823 DOI: 10.1097/01.alc.0000071932.56932.53] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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BACKGROUND Alcohol abuse increases the risk of acute lung injury in critically ill patients. We have shown that alveolar epithelial cell (AEC) apoptosis in response to inflammatory mediators, including tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), parallels endotoxin-mediated acute lung injury in ethanol-fed rats. Although angiotensin II mediates TNF-alpha-induced apoptosis of AECs in vitro, its role in ethanol-mediated susceptibility to AEC apoptosis is unknown. METHODS Adult male rats were fed the Lieber-DeCarli diet for 6 weeks. AECs were isolated, and TNF-alpha- and angiotensin II-induced cytotoxicity (by terminal transferase-mediated dUTP nick end labeling staining) was determined with or without the addition of the angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor (lisinopril) or a selective blocker of the angiotensin II type 1 receptor (AT(1)) or type 2 receptor (AT(2)). Finally, the relative expression of the AT(1) and AT(2) receptors in AECs was determined by Western blot analysis. RESULTS TNF-alpha-induced cytotoxicity, but not angiotensin II-induced cytotoxicity, was prevented by lisinopril, indicating that de novo angiotensin II synthesis is required for TNF-alpha-induced apoptosis in these cells. Both TNF-alpha- and angiotensin II-induced cytotoxicity in AECs from control-fed and ethanol-fed rats were inhibited by the selective AT(2) blocker, PD123319, but not by the selective AT(1) blocker, losartan. In parallel, ethanol ingestion doubled AT(2) expression in AECs (by Western blot) but had no significant effect on AT(1) receptor expression. CONCLUSIONS Chronic ethanol ingestion increases AT(2) expression in the alveolar epithelium and enhances TNF-alpha- and angiotensin II-induced cytotoxicity, both of which act via AT(2). Together, these findings suggest that selective AT(2) receptor inhibition could limit the development of acute lung injury in alcoholic patients.
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- Rabih I Bechara
- Atlanta VAMC, the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30033, USA.
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Bechara RI, Brown LAS, Eaton DC, Roman J, Guidot DM. Chronic Ethanol Ingestion Increases Expression of the Angiotensin II Type 2 (AT2) Receptor and Enhances Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha- and Angiotensin II-Induced Cytotoxicity Via AT2 Signaling in Rat Alveolar Epithelial Cells. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 2003. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2003.tb04428.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Kim SD, Bieniarz T, Esser KA, Piano MR. Cardiac structure and function after short-term ethanol consumption in rats. Alcohol 2003; 29:21-9. [PMID: 12657373 DOI: 10.1016/s0741-8329(02)00296-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Using an animal model of alcoholism, we investigated whether 4 months of ethanol consumption was associated with a preclinical stage of alcoholic cardiomyopathy (ACM), as well as activation of the renin-angiotensin system and natriuretic peptides (NPs). In other forms of cardiovascular disease, the latter peptide systems have been used as markers of left ventricular (LV) remodeling and dysfunction. Rats were fed either a liquid ethanol or control diet, and serial blood samples were collected at baseline, as well as at 2 and 4 months, for plasma renin activity (PRA), angiotensin II (ANG II), atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP), and brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels. Serial echocardiography (echo) was performed at the same time points, and isolated heart studies were performed to assess ex vivo contractility at 4 months. In both groups at 4 months, there were significant and similar increases in end-diastolic and end-systolic echo dimensions and LV mass. At 4 months, however, a significant decrease was found in the relative wall thickness in the ethanol-fed group compared with findings for the control group. In both groups at 4 months, significant and similar time-dependent decreases were shown in BNP and ANP levels compared with baseline values. No differences were found in NP gene expression or tissue levels. In both groups at 4 months, significant and similar increases were found in ANG II levels compared with baseline values. Over time, in both groups, PRA levels were unchanged. In this study, the only cardiac structural feature characteristic of a preclinical ACM was a decrease in relative wall thickness.
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- Shann D Kim
- School of Kinesiology, University of Illinois at Chicago, 901 West Roosevelt Road (M/C 194), Chicago, IL 60608, USA.
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Kokavec A, Crowe SF. The consequences of imbibing alcohol in the absence of adequate nutrition: the salt and water hypothesis. Med Hypotheses 2001; 57:667-72. [PMID: 11918423 DOI: 10.1054/mehy.2001.1339] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Alcohol can have an effect on almost every cell in the human body and it is becoming increasingly clear that when alcohol is consumed the prior nutritional status of the individual may be an important factor for long-term health. The salt and water hypothesis integrates the biochemical findings from the current alcohol literature and proposes a mechanism by which alcohol consumption prior to food intake may cause a transient alteration in the functioning of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis due to an alcohol-induced impairment in electrolyte regulation.
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- A Kokavec
- School of Psychological Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia
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Kokavec A, Crowe SF. The effect of a moderate level of white wine consumption on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis before and after a meal. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 2001; 70:243-50. [PMID: 11701194 DOI: 10.1016/s0091-3057(01)00606-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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The nutritional status of the individual at the time of alcohol consumption may mediate the rate of alcohol absorption and metabolism, thus influencing the systemic effect of alcohol on the body. The aim in the present investigation was to assess the effect of moderate white wine consumption on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis under variable nutritional conditions. Seven males aged between 19 and 22 years participated in all aspects of the current investigation. The experimental procedure for the fasting trial required participants to ingest either 4 standard units of alcohol (40 g) or the equivalent amount of placebo over a 135-min period before consuming food for 45 min. Alternatively, in the feeding trial, food was consumed for 45 min prior to participants ingesting either 4 standard units of alcohol (40 g) or the equivalent amount of placebo over a 135-min period. Blood alcohol, salivary cortisol, and salivary dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEAS) levels were assessed at 45-min intervals during the 180-min experimental periods. The results demonstrated a significant alcohol-induced decrease in salivary cortisol irrespective of nutritional status and a significant decrease in salivary DHEAS when alcohol is consumed alone under fasting conditions only. It was concluded that moderate white wine consumption may promote a transient alteration in the functioning of the HPA axis.
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- A Kokavec
- School of Psychological Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora 3083, Australia
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Guillaume P, Jankowski M, Gianoulakis C, Gutkowska J. Effect of chronic ethanol consumption on the atrial natriuretic system of spontaneously hypertensive rats. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 1996; 20:1653-61. [PMID: 8986218 DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.1996.tb01712.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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There is a lot of discussion on the effects of ethanol (ETOH) on blood pressure (BP). It has been suggested that chronic moderate ETOH consumption prevents the development of age-dependent hypertension in humans and spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR). However, the mechanism mediating this effect is unknown. In the present studies, we hypothesized the implication of atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP), a BP-lowering hormone, on the antihypertensive effect of moderate ETOH consumption. A 20% v/v solution of alcohol was given as drinking fluid to SHR and normotensive Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rats for up to 32 weeks. This treatment prevented, at least in part, the age-dependent increase of BP in SHR and WKY rats. The lower BP was associated with significantly lower levels of circulating atrial natriuretic peptide in both groups. After chronic ETOH administration, total ANP content and concentration were higher in the left and right atria of SHR and WKY rats than in water-treated controls. Despite the ETOH-induced increase in atrial ANP content, there was no significant change in atrial ANP mRNA, suggesting decreased atrial release. Chronic ETOH treatment significantly reduced ANP mRNA in the ventricles of SHR but not of WKY rats. Correspondingly, ventricular ANP content and concentration were lowered by ETOH in SHR only. Chronic ETOH administration induced a significant increase of plasma arginine vasopressin and a significant decrease of plasma aldosterone in SHR but not in WKY rats. Thus, chronic ETOH treatment prevented the age-dependent elevation of BP in both SHR and WKY rats and altered the activity of heart ANP as well as of the aldosterone and plasma arginine vasopressin systems.
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- P Guillaume
- Laboratory of Cardiovascular Biochemistry, Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal, Québec, Canada
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Palatini P, Canali C, Graniero GR, Rossi G, de Toni R, Santonastaso M, dal Follo M, Zanata G, Ferrarese E, Mormino P, Pessina AC. Relationship of plasma renin activity with caffeine intake and physical training in mild hypertensive men. HARVEST Study Group. Eur J Epidemiol 1996; 12:485-91. [PMID: 8905310 DOI: 10.1007/bf00144001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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UNLABELLED To study the relationship between plasma renin activity (PRA) and coffee consumption, cigarette smoking, alcohol intake and physical activity habits. SETTING The multicentre HARVEST trial, involving 17 Hospital Centres in Northeast Italy. SUBJECTS 351 borderline to mild hypertensive men (mean age +/- SEM 22.7 +/- 0.47 years), never treated for hypertension. INTERVENTIONS Office and 24-hour blood pressure measurement, supine and standing PRA levels, and urinary catecholamines output. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES PRA levels according to coffee intake and physical activity status. RESULTS Coffee intake showed a major effect on PRA. Supine PRA levels were 40% higher in the subjects abstaining from coffee (n = 94) than in the coffee drinkers and was similar in the moderate (n = 223) and heavy (n = 34) drinkers. A weaker negative association was found between coffee use and PRA on standing. Office and whole-day blood pressure and heart rate, and urinary catecholamines did not differ according to coffee intake. Supine PRA was lower in the subjects performing regular physical activity than in the inactive subjects. Office and whole-day diastolic blood pressure and heart rate, and urinary norepinephrine were lower in the active than in the sedentary men. No relationship was found between PRA measured either in the supine or the upright posture and tobacco or alcohol use. In a multiple linear regression model supine PRA was negatively correlated with age, coffee consumption and physical activity habits. CONCLUSIONS Chronic coffee intake and physical training showed an inverse relationship with PRA in mild hypertensive men, while tobacco and alcohol use were unrelated to PRA.
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Watson JD, Jennings DB, Sarda IR, Pang SC, Lawson B, Wigle DA, Flynn TG. The antidiuretic effect of pneumadin requires a functional arginine vasopressin system. REGULATORY PEPTIDES 1995; 57:105-14. [PMID: 7659786 DOI: 10.1016/0167-0115(95)00024-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Pneumadin is an antidiuretic decapeptide, recently isolated from rat and human lung. Bolus intravenous injection of 5 nmol of pneumadin into water-loaded rats caused a rapid and significant antidiuresis and a reduction in Na+ and Cl- excretion. Pneumadin administration did not alter mean arterial pressure, right atrial pressure, heart rate or haematocrit. Bolus intravenous injection of 20 nmol of pneumadin into non-water-loaded rats caused a significant increase in arginine vasopressin (AVP) within 10 min. Pneumadin administration also increased circulating atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) but did not alter aldosterone or plasma renin activity levels. Injection of pneumadin into water-loaded Brattleboro rats, which genetically lack circulating AVP, did not change urine flow, confirming that the pneumadin induced antidiuresis is AVP dependent. Radioactive pneumadin was cleared from the circulation with a t1/2 beta of 480.3 s. Radioactive pneumadin, isolated from plasma, eluted at an altered position on reverse phase HPLC, which indicated that the peptide was modified in vivo. This modification was also observed when synthetic pneumadin was incubated in rat plasma in vitro. Purification and sequencing of the modified synthetic peptide indicated that the modification is not a proteolytic cleavage. These results indicate that pneumadin injected into the rat caused an antidiuresis by altering circulating AVP levels.
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- J D Watson
- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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Adult male golden hamsters were maintained on powdered Purina chow and tap water, and were permitted continuous access to either a 15% or a 30% ethanol solution (v/v); after an initial 4-5 weeks of ethanol availability, hamsters had stabilized their intakes and were deriving an average of 1.25 and 1.96 g/day of absolute ethanol from the 15% and 30% solutions, respectively. When salt was added to the diet in increasing concentrations ranging from 4% to 10% over a period of 40 days, hamsters reduced chow-derived calories by up to 35%, increased tap water consumption by up to 50%, and increased consumption of ethanol solutions by up to 100%; when unadulterated Purina chow was reinstated, intakes of chow-derived calories, tap water, and ethanol solutions returned to baseline levels. Hamsters that were continuously maintained on unadulterated Purina chow, but with chow-derived calories matched to that of animals on the salt-adulterated diet, significantly increased their ethanol intake, but not their tap water intake; the increase in their ethanol intake was only about half as large as that of hamsters that had salt added to the diet, but the increase persisted even after ad lib feeding was reinstated. The results indicate that the addition of salt to the diet of hamsters produces large increases in ethanol consumption; furthermore, the increased ethanol intake is not simply the result either of a nonselective increase in fluid consumption or of the reduction in food intake that accompanies the addition of salt to the diet. Results are related to the possible role of the renin-angiotensin system in the control of ethanol consumption in the golden hamster.
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- D DiBattista
- Brock University, Department of Psychology, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
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