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Borghi F, Silva C, da Silva PC, Ferrucci DL, Morais CL, Conceição-Vertamatti AG, Carvalho HF, Fonseca MDC, Vieira AS, Grassi-Kassisse DM. The influence of hypertensive environment on adipose tissue remodeling measured by fluorescence lifetime imaging in spontaneously hypertensive rats. Mol Cell Endocrinol 2020; 506:110758. [PMID: 32057944 DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2020.110758] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2019] [Revised: 02/10/2020] [Accepted: 02/10/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
Abstract
There is a lack of information correlating low adiposity with hypertension experienced by Spontaneous Hypertensive Rats (SHR) or overweight and normotension in Wistar-Kyoto (WKY). We aimed to investigate this lipodystrophy phenomenon by measuring fluorescence lifetime (FLIM), optical redox ratio (ORR), serum levels of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) and/or hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid (HPT) hormones axes between Wistar, WKY and SHR before and after establishment of hypertension. Under high blood pressure, we evaluated serum adipokines. Brown adipose tissue was characterized as lower ORR and shorter FLIM compared to white adipose tissue. HPT axis showed a crucial role in the SHR adipose tissue configuration by attenuating whitening. The increased adiposity in WKY may act as a preventive agent for hypertension, since SHR, with low adiposity, establishes the disease. The hypertensive environment can highlight key adipokines that may result in new therapeutic approaches to the treatment of adiposity dysfunctions and hypertension.
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- Filipy Borghi
- LABEEST, Laboratory of Stress Study, Department of Structural and Functional Biology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas, UNICAMP, 13083-862, Campinas, SP, Brazil
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- LABEEST, Laboratory of Stress Study, Department of Structural and Functional Biology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas, UNICAMP, 13083-862, Campinas, SP, Brazil
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- LABEEST, Laboratory of Stress Study, Department of Structural and Functional Biology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas, UNICAMP, 13083-862, Campinas, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Structural and Functional Biology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas, UNICAMP, 13083-862, Campinas, SP, Brazil
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- LABEEST, Laboratory of Stress Study, Department of Structural and Functional Biology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas, UNICAMP, 13083-862, Campinas, SP, Brazil
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- LABEEST, Laboratory of Stress Study, Department of Structural and Functional Biology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas, UNICAMP, 13083-862, Campinas, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Structural and Functional Biology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas, UNICAMP, 13083-862, Campinas, SP, Brazil
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- Brazilian Biosciences National Laboratory (LNBio), Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), 13083-970, Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Structural and Functional Biology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas, UNICAMP, 13083-862, Campinas, SP, Brazil
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- LABEEST, Laboratory of Stress Study, Department of Structural and Functional Biology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas, UNICAMP, 13083-862, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
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Bardsley EN, Davis H, Buckler KJ, Paterson DJ. Neurotransmitter Switching Coupled to β-Adrenergic Signaling in Sympathetic Neurons in Prehypertensive States. Hypertension 2018; 71:1226-1238. [PMID: 29686017 PMCID: PMC5959210 DOI: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.118.10844] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2018] [Revised: 01/18/2018] [Accepted: 03/26/2018] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
Abstract
Single or combinatorial administration of β-blockers is a mainstay treatment strategy for conditions caused by sympathetic overactivity. Conventional wisdom suggests that the main beneficial effect of β-blockers includes resensitization and restoration of β1-adrenergic signaling pathways in the myocardium, improvements in cardiomyocyte contractility, and reversal of ventricular sensitization. However, emerging evidence indicates that another beneficial effect of β-blockers in disease may reside in sympathetic neurons. We investigated whether β-adrenoceptors are present on postganglionic sympathetic neurons and facilitate neurotransmission in a feed-forward manner. Using a combination of immunocytochemistry, RNA sequencing, Förster resonance energy transfer, and intracellular Ca2+ imaging, we demonstrate the presence of β-adrenoceptors on presynaptic sympathetic neurons in both human and rat stellate ganglia. In diseased neurons from the prehypertensive rat, there was enhanced β-adrenoceptor-mediated signaling predominantly via β2-adrenoceptor activation. Moreover, in human and rat neurons, we identified the presence of the epinephrine-synthesizing enzyme PNMT (phenylethanolamine-N-methyltransferase). Using high-pressure liquid chromatography with electrochemical detection, we measured greater epinephrine content and evoked release from the prehypertensive rat cardiac-stellate ganglia. We conclude that neurotransmitter switching resulting in enhanced epinephrine release, may provide presynaptic positive feedback on β-adrenoceptors to promote further release, that leads to greater postsynaptic excitability in disease, before increases in arterial blood pressure. Targeting neuronal β-adrenoceptor downstream signaling could provide therapeutic opportunity to minimize end-organ damage caused by sympathetic overactivity.
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- Emma N Bardsley
- From the Wellcome Trust OXION Initiative in Ion Channels and Disease, Burdon Sanderson Cardiac Science Centre, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
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- From the Wellcome Trust OXION Initiative in Ion Channels and Disease, Burdon Sanderson Cardiac Science Centre, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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- From the Wellcome Trust OXION Initiative in Ion Channels and Disease, Burdon Sanderson Cardiac Science Centre, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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- From the Wellcome Trust OXION Initiative in Ion Channels and Disease, Burdon Sanderson Cardiac Science Centre, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
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Berg T. β- and α 2-Adrenoceptor Control of Vascular Tension and Catecholamine Release in Female Normotensive and Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats. Front Neurol 2017; 8:130. [PMID: 28424658 PMCID: PMC5380753 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2017.00130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2016] [Accepted: 03/20/2017] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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As in humans, young, female, spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) have a lower blood pressure than male SHR. In male, normotensive rats (WKY), α2- and β1+2-adrenoceptors (AR) reciprocally controlled catecholamine release and vascular smooth muscle tension. This interaction was malfunctioning in male SHR. The present study analyzed if a favorable shift in the α2/β1+2AR interaction may represent an antihypertensive protection in females. Female SHR (early hypertension, 12–14 weeks) and age-matched WKY were infused with tyramine (15 min) to stimulate norepinephrine (NE) release through the reuptake transporter, consequently preventing reuptake. Presynaptic control of vesicular release was therefore reflected as differences in overflow to plasma. The released NE increased total peripheral vascular resistance (TPR). The results showed that β1>2AR facilitated tyramine-stimulated NE release in both strains, also in the presence of α2AR-antagonist (L-659,066). βAR-antagonist (atenolol-β1, ICI-118551-β2, nadolol-β1+2) had no effect on the increased secretion of epinephrine after L-659,066 in WKY, but β1>2AR-antagonist augmented the L-659,066-induced increase in the secretion of epinephrine in SHR. Nadolol increased the TPR response to tyramine with a greater effect in WKY than SHR, whereas β1or2-selective antagonists did not. One βAR-subtype may therefore substitute for the other. When both β1+2AR were blocked, α2AR-antagonist still reduced the TPR response in WKY but not SHR. Thus, α2/β1+2AR reciprocally controlled catecholamine release, with a particular negative β1AR-influence on α2AR-auto-inhibition of epinephrine secretion in SHR. Moreover, in these female rats, β1/2AR-independent α2AR-mediated vasoconstriction was seen in WKY but not SHR, but β1/2AR-mediated vasodilation downregulated adrenergic vasoconstriction, not only in WKY but also in SHR.
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- Torill Berg
- Division of Physiology, Department of Molecular Medicine, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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Procino G, Carmosino M, Milano S, Dal Monte M, Schena G, Mastrodonato M, Gerbino A, Bagnoli P, Svelto M. β3 adrenergic receptor in the kidney may be a new player in sympathetic regulation of renal function. Kidney Int 2016; 90:555-67. [PMID: 27206969 PMCID: PMC4996630 DOI: 10.1016/j.kint.2016.03.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2016] [Revised: 03/04/2016] [Accepted: 03/10/2016] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
Abstract
To date, the study of the sympathetic regulation of renal function has been restricted to the important contribution of β1- and β2-adrenergic receptors (ARs). Here we investigate the expression and the possible physiologic role of β3-adrenergic receptor (β3-AR) in mouse kidney. The β3-AR is expressed in most of the nephron segments that also express the type 2 vasopressin receptor (AVPR2), including the thick ascending limb and the cortical and outer medullary collecting duct. Ex vivo experiments in mouse kidney tubules showed that β3-AR stimulation with the selective agonist BRL37344 increased intracellular cAMP levels and promoted 2 key processes in the urine concentrating mechanism. These are accumulation of the water channel aquaporin 2 at the apical plasma membrane in the collecting duct and activation of the Na-K-2Cl symporter in the thick ascending limb. Both effects were prevented by the β3-AR antagonist L748,337 or by the protein kinase A inhibitor H89. Interestingly, genetic inactivation of β3-AR in mice was associated with significantly increased urine excretion of water, sodium, potassium, and chloride. Stimulation of β3-AR significantly reduced urine excretion of water and the same electrolytes. Moreover, BRL37344 promoted a potent antidiuretic effect in AVPR2-null mice. Thus, our findings are of potential physiologic importance as they uncover the antidiuretic effect of β3-AR stimulation in the kidney. Hence, β3-AR agonism might be useful to bypass AVPR2-inactivating mutations.
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- Giuseppe Procino
- Department of Biosciences, Biotechnologies and Biopharmaceutics, University of Bari, Bari, Italy.
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- Department of Sciences, University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy
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- Department of Biosciences, Biotechnologies and Biopharmaceutics, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Sciences, University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy
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- Department of Biosciences, Biotechnologies and Biopharmaceutics, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Biosciences, Biotechnologies and Biopharmaceutics, University of Bari, Bari, Italy; Institute of Biomembranes and Bioenergetics, National Research Council, Bari, Italy; National Institute of Biostructures and Biosystems (INBB), Rome, Italy
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