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Triebel J, Bertsch T, Clapp C. Prolactin and vasoinhibin are endogenous players in diabetic retinopathy revisited. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne) 2022; 13:994898. [PMID: 36157442 PMCID: PMC9500238 DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2022.994898] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2022] [Accepted: 08/18/2022] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Diabetic retinopathy (DR) and diabetic macular edema (DME) are major causes for visual loss in adults. Nearly half of the world's population with diabetes has some degree of DR, and DME is a major cause of visual impairment in these patients. Severe vision loss occurs because of tractional retinal detachment due to retinal neovascularization, but the most common cause of moderate vision loss occurs in DME where excessive vascular permeability leads to the exudation and accumulation of extracellular fluid and proteins in the macula. Metabolic control stands as an effective mean for controlling retinal vascular alterations in some but not all patients with diabetes, and the search of other modifiable factors affecting the risk for diabetic microvascular complications is warranted. Prolactin (PRL) and its proteolytic fragment, vasoinhibin, have emerged as endogenous regulators of retinal blood vessels. PRL acquires antiangiogenic and anti-vasopermeability properties after undergoing proteolytic cleavage to vasoinhibin, which helps restrict the vascularization of ocular organs and, upon disruption, promotes retinal vascular alterations characteristic of DR and DME. Evidence is linking PRL (and other pituitary hormones) and vasoinhibin to DR and recent preclinical and clinical evidence supports their translation into novel therapeutic approaches.
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- Jakob Triebel
- Institute for Clinical Chemistry, Laboratory Medicine and Transfusion Medicine, General Hospital Nuremberg and Paracelsus Medical University, Nuremberg, Germany
- *Correspondence: Jakob Triebel,
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- Institute for Clinical Chemistry, Laboratory Medicine and Transfusion Medicine, General Hospital Nuremberg and Paracelsus Medical University, Nuremberg, Germany
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- Instituto de Neurobiología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Campus UNAM-Juriquilla, Querétaro, Mexico
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Bhattacharya S, Kalra S, Dutta D, Khandelwal D, Singla R. The Interplay Between Pituitary Health and Diabetes Mellitus - The Need for 'Hypophyseo-Vigilance'. EUROPEAN ENDOCRINOLOGY 2019; 16:25-31. [PMID: 32595766 DOI: 10.17925/ee.2020.16.1.25] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2019] [Accepted: 09/12/2019] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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The anterior and posterior hypophyseal hormones alter glucose metabolism in health and disease. Secondary diabetes may occur due to hypersecretion of anterior pituitary hormones like adrenocorticotrophic hormone in Cushing's disease and growth hormone in acromegaly. Other hormones like prolactin, gonadotropins, oxytocin and vasopressin, though not overtly associated with causation of diabetes, have important physiological role in maintaining glucose homeostasis. Hypoglycaemia is not an unusual occurrence in hypopituitarism. Many of the medications that are used for treatment of hypophyseal diseases alter glucose metabolism. Agents like pasireotide should be used with caution in the setting of diabetes, whereas pegvisomant should be given preference. Diabetes mellitus itself, on the other hand, can alter the functioning of hypothalamic pituitary axis; this is documented in both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. This review focuses on the clinically relevant interplay of hypophyseal hormones and glucose homeostasis. The authors define 'hypophyseo-vigilance' as an approach which keeps the bidirectional, multifaceted interactions between the pituitary and glucose metabolism in mind while managing diabetes and pituitary disease.
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- Cedar Superspeciality Clinics, Dwarka, New Delhi, India
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El-Kenawi A, Gatenbee C, Robertson-Tessi M, Bravo R, Dhillon J, Balagurunathan Y, Berglund A, Vishvakarma N, Ibrahim-Hashim A, Choi J, Luddy K, Gatenby R, Pilon-Thomas S, Anderson A, Ruffell B, Gillies R. Acidity promotes tumour progression by altering macrophage phenotype in prostate cancer. Br J Cancer 2019; 121:556-566. [PMID: 31417189 PMCID: PMC6889319 DOI: 10.1038/s41416-019-0542-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2019] [Revised: 07/01/2019] [Accepted: 07/18/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Tumours rapidly ferment glucose to lactic acid even in the presence of oxygen, and coupling high glycolysis with poor perfusion leads to extracellular acidification. We hypothesise that acidity, independent from lactate, can augment the pro-tumour phenotype of macrophages. METHODS We analysed publicly available data of human prostate cancer for linear correlation between macrophage markers and glycolysis genes. We used zwitterionic buffers to adjust the pH in series of in vitro experiments. We then utilised subcutaneous and transgenic tumour models developed in C57BL/6 mice as well as computer simulations to correlate tumour progression with macrophage infiltration and to delineate role of acidity. RESULTS Activating macrophages at pH 6.8 in vitro enhanced an IL-4-driven phenotype as measured by gene expression, cytokine profiling, and functional assays. These results were recapitulated in vivo wherein neutralising intratumoural acidity reduced the pro-tumour phenotype of macrophages, while also decreasing tumour incidence and invasion in the TRAMP model of prostate cancer. These results were recapitulated using an in silico mathematical model that simulate macrophage responses to environmental signals. By turning off acid-induced cellular responses, our in silico mathematical modelling shows that acid-resistant macrophages can limit tumour progression. CONCLUSIONS This study suggests that tumour acidity contributes to prostate carcinogenesis by altering the state of macrophage activation.
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- Asmaa El-Kenawi
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt.
- Department of Immunology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA.
- Department of Cancer Physiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA.
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- Department of Integrated Mathematical Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- Department of Integrated Mathematical Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- Department of Integrated Mathematical Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- Department of Anatomic Pathology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- Department of Cancer Physiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- Department of Cancer Physiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- Department of Radiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- Department of Cancer Physiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- Department of Integrated Mathematical Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
- Department of Radiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- Department of Immunology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- Department of Integrated Mathematical Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- Department of Immunology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
- Department of Breast Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- Department of Cancer Physiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
- Department of Radiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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Andreone L, Gimeno ML, Perone MJ. Interactions Between the Neuroendocrine System and T Lymphocytes in Diabetes. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne) 2018; 9:229. [PMID: 29867762 PMCID: PMC5966545 DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2018.00229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2017] [Accepted: 04/20/2018] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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It is well established that there is a fine-tuned bidirectional communication between the immune and neuroendocrine tissues in maintaining homeostasis. Several types of immune cells, hormones, and neurotransmitters of different chemical nature are involved as communicators between organs. Apart of being key players of the adaptive arm of the immune system, it has been recently described that T lymphocytes are involved in the modulation of metabolism of several tissues in health and disease. Diabetes may result mainly from lack of insulin production (type 1 diabetes) or insufficient insulin and insulin resistance (type 2 diabetes), both influenced by genetic and environmental components. Herein, we discuss accumulating data regarding the role of the adaptive arm of the immune system in the pathogenesis of diabetes; including the action of several hormones and neurotransmitters influencing on central and peripheral T lymphocytes development and maturation, particularly under the metabolic burden triggered by diabetes. In addition, we comment on the role of T-effector lymphocytes in adipose and liver tissues during diabetes, which together enhances pancreatic β-cell stress aggravating the disease.
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Fard AA, Abbasnezhad P, Makhdomi K, Salehi M, Karamdel HR, Saboory E. Association of Serum Prolactin Concentrations with Renal Failure in Diabetic Patients. ROMANIAN JOURNAL OF DIABETES NUTRITION AND METABOLIC DISEASES 2017. [DOI: 10.1515/rjdnmd-2017-0023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Background and aims: Diabetes is one of the causes of end-stage renal disease, so that about 70% of all diabetic patients have nephropathy. Prolactin is a hormone that is affected by diabetes but the interaction between diabetes and prolactin has not been understood properly. This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between changes in serum prolactin levels in diabetic patients with renal failure.
Material and methods: In this study 223 individuals were participated and after assessment of inclusion/exclusion criteria 189 individuals were evaluated. Finally, the individuals were divided into three groups: Control (C), Diabetic (D), and Diabetic Nephropathy (DN). Blood samples were collected between 8.00 a.m. and 12.00 a.m. for measurement of prolactin levels and biochemical analysis.
Results: The results showed that sodium, potassium, urea, creatinine and prolactin significantly increased in DN group compared to control individuals (P< 0.001). The prolactin levels were significantly decreased in the group of patients with diabetes (P< 0.001).
Conclusion: The results of the current study indicated that serum prolactin level decreased in diabetes while it increased in diabetic nephropathy.
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- Amin Abdollahzade Fard
- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine , Urmia University of Medical Sciences . Urmia , Iran (Islamic Republic of)
- Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation Research Center , Urmia University of Medical Sciences . Urmia , Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine , Urmia University of Medical Sciences . Urmia , Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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- Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation Research Center , Urmia University of Medical Sciences . Urmia , Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine , Urmia University of Medical Sciences . Urmia , Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine , Urmia University of Medical Sciences . Urmia , Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine , Urmia University of Medical Sciences . Urmia , Iran (Islamic Republic of)
- Neurophysiology Research Center , Urmia University of Medical Sciences . Urmia , Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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Triebel J, Macotela Y, de la Escalera GM, Clapp C. Prolactin and vasoinhibins: Endogenous players in diabetic retinopathy. IUBMB Life 2011; 63:806-10. [PMID: 21913303 DOI: 10.1002/iub.518] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2011] [Accepted: 05/22/2011] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Diabetic retinopathy is a disease of the retinal microvasculature that develops as a complication of diabetes mellitus and constitutes a major cause of blindness in adults of all ages. Diabetic retinopathy is characterized by the loss of capillary cells leading to increased vasopermeability, ischemia, and hypoxia that trigger the excessive formation of new blood vessels in the retina. The influence of the pituitary gland in the pathophysiology of diabetic retinopathy was recognized nearly six decades ago, but the contribution of pituitary hormones to this disease remains unclear. Recent studies have shown that the pituitary hormone prolactin is proteolytically cleaved to vasoinhibins, a family of peptides with potent antivasopermeability, vasoconstrictive, and antiangiogenic actions that can protect the eye against the deleterious effects of the diabetic state. In this review, we summarize what is known about the changes in the circulating levels of prolactin and vasoinhibins during diabetes and diabetic retinopathy as well as the implications of these changes for the development and progression of the disease with particular attention to hyperprolactinemia in pregnancy and postpartum. We discuss the effects of prolactin and vasoinhibins that may impact diabetic retinopathy and suggest these hormones as important targets for therapeutic interventions.
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- Jakob Triebel
- Instituto de Neurobiología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Campus UNAM-Juriquilla, Querétaro, México
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Melnik BC. Milk signalling in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes. Med Hypotheses 2011; 76:553-9. [PMID: 21251764 DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2010.12.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2010] [Revised: 10/04/2010] [Accepted: 12/23/2010] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The presented hypothesis identifies milk consumption as an environmental risk factor of Western diet promoting type 2 diabetes (T2D). Milk, commonly regarded as a valuable nutrient, exerts important endocrine functions as an insulinotropic, anabolic and mitogenic signalling system supporting neonatal growth and development. The presented hypothesis substantiates milk's physiological role as a signalling system for pancreatic β-cell proliferation by milk's ability to increase prolactin-, growth hormone and incretin-signalling. The proposed mechanism of milk-induced postnatal β-cell mass expansion mimics the adaptive prolactin-dependent proliferative changes observed in pregnancy. Milk signalling down-regulates the key transcription factor FoxO1 leading to up-regulation of insulin promoter factor-1 which stimulates β-cell proliferation, insulin secretion as well as coexpression of islet amyloid polypeptide (IAPP). The recent finding that adult rodent β-cells only proliferate by self-duplication is of crucial importance, because permanent milk consumption beyond the weaning period may continuously over-stimulate β-cell replication thereby accelerating the onset of replicative β-cell senescence. The long-term use of milk may thus increase endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress and toxic IAPP oligomer formation by overloading the ER with cytotoxic IAPPs thereby promoting β-cell apoptosis. Both increased β-cell proliferation and β-cell apoptosis are hallmarks of T2D. This hypothesis gets support from clinical states of hyperprolactinaemia and progeria syndromes with early onset of cell senescence which are both associated with an increased incidence of T2D and share common features of milk signalling. Furthermore, the presented milk hypothesis of T2D is compatible with the concept of high ER stress in T2D and the toxic oligomer hypothesis of T2D and may explain the high association of T2D and Alzheimer disease.
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- Bodo C Melnik
- Department of Dermatology, Environmental Medicine and Health Theory, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany.
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Arnold E, Rivera JC, Thebault S, Moreno-Páramo D, Quiroz-Mercado H, Quintanar-Stéphano A, Binart N, Martínez de la Escalera G, Clapp C. High levels of serum prolactin protect against diabetic retinopathy by increasing ocular vasoinhibins. Diabetes 2010; 59:3192-7. [PMID: 20823101 PMCID: PMC2992782 DOI: 10.2337/db10-0873] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Increased retinal vasopermeability (RVP) occurs early in diabetes and is crucial for the development of sight-threatening proliferative diabetic retinopathy (DR). The hormone prolactin (PRL) is proteolytically processed to vasoinhibins, a family of peptides that inhibit the excessive RVP related to DR. Here, we investigate the circulating levels of PRL in association with DR in men and test whether increased circulating PRL, by serving as a source of ocular vasoinhibins, can reduce the pathological RVP in diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Serum PRL was evaluated in 40 nondiabetic and 181 diabetic men at various stages of DR. Retinal vasoinhibins were measured in rats rendered hyperprolactinemic by placing two anterior pituitary grafts under the kidney capsule and in PRL receptor-null mice. RVP was determined in hyperprolactinemic rats subjected to the intraocular injection of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) or made diabetic with streptozotocin. RESULTS The circulating levels of PRL increased in diabetes and were higher in diabetic patients without retinopathy than in those with proliferative DR. In rodents, hyperprolactinemia led to vasoinhibin accumulation within the retina; genetic deletion of the PRL receptor prevented this effect, indicating receptor-mediated incorporation of systemic PRL into the eye. Hyperprolactinemia reduced both VEGF-induced and diabetes-induced increase of RVP. This reduction was blocked by bromocriptine, an inhibitor of pituitary PRL secretion, which lowers the levels of circulating PRL and retinal vasoinhibins. CONCLUSIONS Circulating PRL influences the progression of DR after its intraocular conversion to vasoinhibins. Inducing hyperprolactinemia may represent a novel therapy against DR.
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- Edith Arnold
- Neurobiology Institute, National University of Mexico (UNAM), Campus UNAM-Juriquilla, Juriquilla, Queretaro, Mexico
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- Neurobiology Institute, National University of Mexico (UNAM), Campus UNAM-Juriquilla, Juriquilla, Queretaro, Mexico
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- Neurobiology Institute, National University of Mexico (UNAM), Campus UNAM-Juriquilla, Juriquilla, Queretaro, Mexico
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- Association for the Prevention of Blindness (APEC), Hospital “Dr. Luis Sanchez Bulnes,” Mexico City, Mexico
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- Association for the Prevention of Blindness (APEC), Hospital “Dr. Luis Sanchez Bulnes,” Mexico City, Mexico
- Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, Colorado
- Department of Opthalmology, School of Medicine, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado
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- INSERM U845, University Paris-Descartes, Faculty of Medicine, Paris, France
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- Neurobiology Institute, National University of Mexico (UNAM), Campus UNAM-Juriquilla, Juriquilla, Queretaro, Mexico
- Corresponding author: Carmen Clapp,
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Clapp C, Thebault S, Jeziorski MC, Martínez De La Escalera G. Peptide hormone regulation of angiogenesis. Physiol Rev 2009; 89:1177-215. [PMID: 19789380 DOI: 10.1152/physrev.00024.2009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 121] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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It is now apparent that regulation of blood vessel growth contributes to the classical actions of hormones on development, growth, and reproduction. Endothelial cells are ideally positioned to respond to hormones, which act in concert with locally produced chemical mediators to regulate their growth, motility, function, and survival. Hormones affect angiogenesis either directly through actions on endothelial cells or indirectly by regulating proangiogenic factors like vascular endothelial growth factor. Importantly, the local microenvironment of endothelial cells can determine the outcome of hormone action on angiogenesis. Members of the growth hormone/prolactin/placental lactogen, the renin-angiotensin, and the kallikrein-kinin systems that exert stimulatory effects on angiogenesis can acquire antiangiogenic properties after undergoing proteolytic cleavage. In view of the opposing effects of hormonal fragments and precursor molecules, the regulation of the proteases responsible for specific protein cleavage represents an efficient mechanism for balancing angiogenesis. This review presents an overview of the actions on angiogenesis of the above-mentioned peptide hormonal families and addresses how specific proteolysis alters the final outcome of these actions in the context of health and disease.
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- Carmen Clapp
- Instituto de Neurobiología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Querétaro, Mexico.
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Clapp C, Thebault S, Arnold E, García C, Rivera JC, de la Escalera GM. Vasoinhibins: novel inhibitors of ocular angiogenesis. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 2008; 295:E772-8. [PMID: 18544641 DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.90358.2008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [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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Disruption of the quiescent state of blood vessels in the retina leads to aberrant vasopermeability and angiogenesis, the major causes of vision loss in diabetic retinopathy. Prolactin is expressed throughout the retina, where it is proteolytically cleaved to vasoinhibins, a family of peptides (including the 16-kDa fragment of prolactin) with potent antiangiogenic, vasoconstrictive, and antivasopermeability actions. Ocular vasoinhibins act directly on endothelial cells to block blood vessel growth and dilation and to promote apoptosis-mediated vascular regression. Also, vasoinhibins prevent retinal angiogenesis and vasopermeability associated with diabetic retinopathy, and inactivation of endothelial nitric oxide synthase via protein phosphatase 2A is among the various mechanisms mediating their actions. Here, we discuss the potential role of vasoinhibins both in the maintenance of normal retinal vasculature and in the cause and prevention of diabetic retinopathy and other vasoproliferative retinopathies.
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- Carmen Clapp
- Instituto de Neurobiología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Campus UNAM-Juriquilla, Apartado Postal 1-1141, Querétaro, Qro., Mexico, 76001.
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The incidence of DM is rapidly growing among Americans. DM will rival cancer and heart disease in terms of cost and suffering. The National Institute of Health is tripling the research dollars that are spent on diabetic-related research in an attempt to combat this disease. Urologists are on the front line in the diagnosis and treatment of the complications of DM. The complications of DM that we reviewed in this article, diabetic cystopathy and diabetic ED, can occur in the early stage of DM and often progress in a silent fashion. More awareness and interest are needed to improve our understanding of diabetic complications in urology. Exciting new approaches in the treatment of diabetic cystopathy and ED are being investigated.
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- Katsumi Sasaki
- Department of Urology, Division of Female Urology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Suite 700 Kaufmann Building, 3471 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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The pathophysiology of diabetes mellitus is complex and not fully understood. However, it emerges as an abnormal metabolic condition associated with a systemic damage to the vascular bed. Cumulative evidence also reveals that the endocrine system is not intact in patients with diabetes mellitus. It is not clear whether the changes observed in the endocrine system represent a primary defect or reflect the effects of the impaired insulin action and abnormal carbohydrate and lipid metabolism on the hormonal milieu. Review of the literature reveals that the function of the entire endocrine system including the functions of hormones from the hypothalamus, pituitary, adrenal, thyroid, parathyroid, the vitamin D system, the gonads, and the endocrine function of the adipose tissue, is impaired. Good metabolic control and insulin treatment may reverse some of these abnormalities. It remains unanswered as to what extent these changes in the endocrine system contribute to the vascular pathologies observed in individuals affected by diabetes mellitus and whether part of the abnormalities observed in the endocrine system reflect a basic cellular defect in the diabetic syndrome.
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- Hisham Alrefai
- Division of Endocrinology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
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Although the overall incidence of erectile dysfunction in the general population between the ages of 40 and 70 years is 52%, men with diabetes mellitus have impotence at an earlier age and with a significantly higher prevalence, ranging as high as 75%. Numerous advances have been made in understanding the physiologic and biochemical mechanisms controlling penile erection. Improved clinical techniques for the diagnosis and treatment of impotence, including dynamic vascular testing, intracavernosal pharmacotherapy, and microsurgical revascularization, have allowed us to enter a new and exciting era in the quest for a more complete understanding of erectile dysfunction.
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- L S Hakim
- Department of Urology, University of Miami School of Medicine, Florida, USA
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The first rodent longevity study with the insulin-sensitizing nutrient chromium picolinate has reported a dramatic increase in both median and maximal lifespan. Although the observed moderate reductions in serum glucose imply a decreased rate of tissue glycation reactions, it is unlikely that this alone can account for the substantial impact on lifespan; an effect on central neurohormonal regulation can reasonably be suspected. Recent studies highlight the physiological role of insulin as a modulator of brain function. I postulate that aging is associated with a reduction of effective insulin activity in the brain, and this contributes to age-related alterations of hypothalamic functions that result in an 'older' neurohormonal milieu; consistent with this possibility, diabetes leads to changes of hypothalamic regulation analogous to those seen in normal aging. Conversely, promoting brain insulin activity with chromium picolinate may help to maintain the hypothalamus in a more functionally youthful state; increased hypothalamic catecholamine activity, sensitization of insulin-responsive central mechanisms regulating appetite and thermogenesis, and perhaps trophic effects on brain neurons may play a role in this regard. Since both the pineal gland and thymus are dependent on insulin activity, chromium may aid their function as well. Thus, the longevity effect of chromium picolinate may depend primarily on delay or reversal of various age-related changes in the body's hormonal and neural milieu. A more general strategy of hypothalamic 'rejuvenation' is proposed for extending healthful lifespan.
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- F E Kaiser
- Department of Medicine, St. Louis University School of Medicine, MO 63104
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Impotence is a highly prevalent condition occurring in 10 million American men over the age of 18 years. Alterations in vascular supply, hormonal changes with age, neurological dysfunction and the use of a variety of medications may combine and contribute to impotence. Impotence should not be considered a normal part of the aging process. Careful attention to evaluation for the aetiology of impotence will lead to making appropriate therapeutic choices.
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- J E Morley
- Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, St Louis VA Medical Center, Missouri
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Lorenzi M. The blood-brain barrier in diabetes mellitus. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 1990; 274:381-90. [PMID: 2239434 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4684-5799-5_24] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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- M Lorenzi
- Eye Research Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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Grino M, Guillaume V, Caraty A, Conte-Devolx B, Joanny P, Boudouresque F, Pesce G, Steinberg J, Peyre G, Dutour A. Circulating blood glucose and hypothalamic-pituitary secretion. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 1990; 274:391-406. [PMID: 2239435 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4684-5799-5_25] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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- M Grino
- Laboratoire de Neuroendocrinologie Expérimentale, INSERM U 297, Faculté de Médecine, Marseille, France
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Diabetes mellitus (DM), associated with very subtle disorders, affects, either directly or indirectly, various functions of the reproductive system. Adequate, regular, and timely therapy may prevent or delay these disorders. The T synthesis disorder is caused by molecular changes at the level of Leydig cells and may lead to other disorders in all target organs and tissues. The close correlation between Leydig and Sertoli cells function, i.e., between spermatogenesis and second sex glands function, results in certain anomalies in diabetic patients' spermiograms. Parallel lesions associated with DM, through CNS (hypothalamus-hypophysis), and endocrine profile are indirectly intensified or induced by these disorders, which reflect dysfunction of homeostatic balance in carbohydrate metabolism. Sexual dysfunction in all its forms (reduced erection, impotence, and other libido dissociations) is an accompanying phenomenon of the diabetic disease. However, manifestations of these disorders are related to the regulation of carbohydrate metabolism and to the duration of disease. The duration of disease is not necessarily correlated with sexual dysfunction. Even carbohydrate metabolism remains within normal range in addition to other lesions, diabetes leads gradually but progressively to premature aging of body cells.
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- D Dinulovic
- University of Belgrade, Medicine School, Clinic of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Yugoslavia
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Impotence occurs commonly with advancing age. Approximately one half of impotent males over 50 years of age have a vascular cause for their impotence. Vascular impotence is often the harbinger of vascular disease in other organs of the body. Hypogonadism occurs in up to one fourth of older men. The relationship of hypogonadism to impotence is uncertain. Medications and neurologic diseases (both central and peripheral) are other major causes of impotence. The treatment of impotence has been revolutionized with the widespread availability of vacuum tumescent devices. The alterations in female sexuality with advancing age have been less well studied. Hysterectomies and bilateral oophorectomies are most probably done more often than necessary in the United States and may alter sexuality. There is some evidence supporting a role for estrogens and testosterone in the regulation of female libido. Physicians need to be more aware of the rapid changes in our understanding of human sexuality and aging.
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- J E Morley
- Department of Medicine, St. Louis University Medical Center, Missouri
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Forsberg L, Höjerback T, Olsson AM, Rosen I. Etiologic aspects of impotence in diabetes. SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF UROLOGY AND NEPHROLOGY 1989; 23:173-5. [PMID: 2799292 DOI: 10.3109/00365598909180837] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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An investigation of 37 diabetics with impotence (15) or erectile difficulties (22) is presented. On average two significant abnormalities per patient were found. Ranked in order of incidence, the causes were as follows: 1) Combination of neuropathy and psychosocial factors, 2) combination of neuropathy and vascular disease, 3) peripheral neuropathy only, 4) combination of hormonal imbalance and psychosocial factors, 5) combination of three or more defects, and 6) penile vascular disease or psychosocial problems only, or hormonal imbalance combined with peripheral neuropathy.
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- L Forsberg
- Department of Diagnostic Radiology, University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
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Studies relating to pathogenetic mechanisms resulting in impotence in diabetic subjects have been reviewed. Erectile dysfunction was reported to occur in 50 to 75 percent of diabetic patients and the prevalence appeared to increase with age. Contributions of vascular, endocrine, and neurologic system alterations result in this disturbing condition, but a detailed analysis of all the parameters was not found in any individual study. In our review of 301 veterans presenting to a sexual dysfunction clinic, the clinical and hormonal alterations in the diabetic patients closely resemble those seen in nondiabetic impotent subjects. Atherosclerotic vascular changes play an important predisposing role in the development of impotence. A difference exists between the prevalences of associated medical conditions in diabetic patients taking insulin, compared with those receiving oral agents or receiving dietary management. The high prevalence of impotence in diabetic patients seems to be due to the high prevalence of its vascular complications. Considering the availability of useful therapeutic approaches, it is mandatory to evaluate all diabetic men for the presence of impotence.
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- F E Kaiser
- Department of Medicine, Sepulveda Veterans Administration Medical Center, California 91343
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Rousseau P. Impotence in elderly men. Postgrad Med 1988; 83:212-9. [PMID: 3283714 DOI: 10.1080/00325481.1988.11700270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Impotence in not a concomitant of aging. A diligent search must be undertaken to determine the cause, which may be endocrine, pharmacologic, vascular, neurologic, psychological, or miscellaneous (eg, chronic illness). Many therapies are available for elderly impotent men. Some are based on pharmacology (eg, testosterone supplementation, thyroid replacement, self-injection), some on surgery (eg, vascular reconstruction), and some on a prosthesis (semirigid, inflatable, or mechanical). In choosing the type of treatment, the physician must consider the patient's underlying medical condition, activities of daily living, social life, and partner's expectations in addition to the cause of the impotence.
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- J E Morley
- Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Sepulveda VA Medical Center, California 91343
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- J E Morley
- Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center, Sepulveda Veterans Administration Medical Center, California 91343
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Coiro V, Davoli C, Volpi R, Sorini E, Voltini E, Rossi G, Delsignore R, Gnudi A, Chiodera P. The GABAergic control of prolactin release is not affected by insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus: evidence from studies with sodium valproate. ACTA DIABETOLOGICA LATINA 1986; 23:51-5. [PMID: 3012924 DOI: 10.1007/bf02581354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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In order to evaluate the influence of the GABAergic system in the regulation of PRL secretion in patients with IDDM, serum PRL levels were measured in 7 diabetics and in 7 normal men with sodium valproate (400 mg per os), a drug capable of increasing cerebral GABA concentrations. A significant decrease of serum PRL concentrations was observed between 30 and 120 min after sodium valproate administration in both control and diabetic subjects. The time course and magnitude of the sodium valproate effect were similar in all subjects. These data confirm the inhibitory control of the GABAergic system on PRL secretion in man as evidenced by the GABAergic drug sodium valproate. It is suggested that this system is not altered in diabetic patients.
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