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Dona MSI, Hsu I, Meuth AI, Brown SM, Bailey CA, Aragonez CG, Russell JJ, Krstevski C, Aroor AR, Chandrasekar B, Martinez-Lemus LA, DeMarco VG, Grisanti LA, Jaffe IZ, Pinto AR, Bender SB. Multi-omic analysis of the cardiac cellulome defines a vascular contribution to cardiac diastolic dysfunction in obese female mice. Basic Res Cardiol 2023; 118:11. [PMID: 36988733 PMCID: PMC10060343 DOI: 10.1007/s00395-023-00983-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2022] [Revised: 03/08/2023] [Accepted: 03/09/2023] [Indexed: 03/30/2023]
Abstract
Coronary microvascular dysfunction (CMD) is associated with cardiac dysfunction and predictive of cardiac mortality in obesity, especially in females. Clinical data further support that CMD associates with development of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction and that mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) antagonism may be more efficacious in obese female, versus male, HFpEF patients. Accordingly, we examined the impact of smooth muscle cell (SMC)-specific MR deletion on obesity-associated coronary and cardiac diastolic dysfunction in female mice. Obesity was induced in female mice via western diet (WD) feeding alongside littermates fed standard diet. Global MR blockade with spironolactone prevented coronary and cardiac dysfunction in obese females and specific deletion of SMC-MR was sufficient to prevent obesity-associated coronary and cardiac diastolic dysfunction. Cardiac gene expression profiling suggested reduced cardiac inflammation in WD-fed mice with SMC-MR deletion independent of blood pressure, aortic stiffening, and cardiac hypertrophy. Further mechanistic studies utilizing single-cell RNA sequencing of non-cardiomyocyte cell populations revealed novel impacts of SMC-MR deletion on the cardiac cellulome in obese mice. Specifically, WD feeding induced inflammatory gene signatures in non-myocyte populations including B/T cells, macrophages, and endothelium as well as increased coronary VCAM-1 protein expression, independent of cardiac fibrosis, that was prevented by SMC-MR deletion. Further, SMC-MR deletion induced a basal reduction in cardiac mast cells and prevented WD-induced cardiac pro-inflammatory chemokine expression and leukocyte recruitment. These data reveal a central role for SMC-MR signaling in obesity-associated coronary and cardiac dysfunction, thus supporting the emerging paradigm of a vascular origin of cardiac dysfunction in obesity.
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Affiliation(s)
- Malathi S I Dona
- Baker Heart and Diabetes Research Institute, 75 Commercial Rd Prahran, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia
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- Baker Heart and Diabetes Research Institute, 75 Commercial Rd Prahran, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia
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- Biomedical Sciences, University of Missouri, E102 Vet Med Bldg, Columbia, MO, USA
- Research Service, Harry S Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Biomedical Sciences, University of Missouri, E102 Vet Med Bldg, Columbia, MO, USA
- Research Service, Harry S Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Biomedical Sciences, University of Missouri, E102 Vet Med Bldg, Columbia, MO, USA
- Research Service, Harry S Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Biomedical Sciences, University of Missouri, E102 Vet Med Bldg, Columbia, MO, USA
- Research Service, Harry S Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Biomedical Sciences, University of Missouri, E102 Vet Med Bldg, Columbia, MO, USA
- Research Service, Harry S Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Baker Heart and Diabetes Research Institute, 75 Commercial Rd Prahran, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia
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- Research Service, Harry S Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital, Columbia, MO, USA
- Medicine, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
- Research Service, Harry S Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital, Columbia, MO, USA
- Medicine, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
- Medical Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Research Service, Harry S Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital, Columbia, MO, USA
- Medicine, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Biomedical Sciences, University of Missouri, E102 Vet Med Bldg, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Molecular Cardiology Research Institute, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
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- Baker Heart and Diabetes Research Institute, 75 Commercial Rd Prahran, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia.
- Centre for Cardiovascular Biology and Disease Research, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
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- Biomedical Sciences, University of Missouri, E102 Vet Med Bldg, Columbia, MO, USA.
- Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.
- Research Service, Harry S Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital, Columbia, MO, USA.
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Aragonez CG, Beer VJ, Tharp DL, Bowles DK, Laughlin MH, Merkus D, Duncker DJ, Bender SB. Differential impact of severe familial hypercholesterolemia on regional skeletal muscle and organ blood flows during exercise: effects of PDE5 inhibition. FASEB J 2019. [DOI: 10.1096/fasebj.2019.33.1_supplement.lb457] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Christian G Aragonez
- Biomedical SciencesUniversity of MissouriColumbiaMO
- ResearchHarry S Truman Memorial VA HospitalColumbiaMO
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- Experimental CardiologyErasmus MC, ThoraxcentreRotterdamNetherlands
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- Biomedical SciencesUniversity of MissouriColumbiaMO
- Medical Pharmacology & PhysiologyUniversity of MissouriColumbiaMO
- Dalton Cardiovascular Research CenterUniversity of MissouriColumbiaMO
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- Biomedical SciencesUniversity of MissouriColumbiaMO
- Medical Pharmacology & PhysiologyUniversity of MissouriColumbiaMO
- Dalton Cardiovascular Research CenterUniversity of MissouriColumbiaMO
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- Experimental CardiologyErasmus MC, ThoraxcentreRotterdamNetherlands
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- Experimental CardiologyErasmus MC, ThoraxcentreRotterdamNetherlands
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- Biomedical SciencesUniversity of MissouriColumbiaMO
- Dalton Cardiovascular Research CenterUniversity of MissouriColumbiaMO
- ResearchHarry S Truman Memorial VA HospitalColumbiaMO
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Aragonez CG, de Beer VJ, Tharp DL, Bowles DK, Laughlin MH, Merkus D, Duncker DJ, Bender SB. Differential impact of severe familial hypercholesterolemia on regional skeletal muscle and organ blood flows during exercise: Effects of PDE5 inhibition. Microcirculation 2019; 26:e12539. [PMID: 30821858 DOI: 10.1111/micc.12539] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2018] [Revised: 01/22/2019] [Accepted: 02/25/2019] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
Abstract
OBJECTIVE Swine with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) exhibit attenuated exercise-induced systemic vasodilation that is restored by phosphodiesterase 5 (PDE5) inhibition. Whether the impacts of FH and PDE5 inhibition to impair and restore exercise-induced vasodilation, respectively, results from tissue-specific or generalized effects remains unclear. Thus, we hypothesized that FH induces generalized impairment of skeletal muscle vasodilation that would be alleviated by PDE5 inhibition. METHODS Systemic vascular responses to exercise were assessed in chronically instrumented normal and FH swine before and after PDE5 inhibition with EMD360527. Skeletal muscle and organ blood flows and conductances were determined via the microsphere technique. RESULTS As previously reported, vs normal swine, FH swine have pronounced elevation of total cholesterol and impaired exercise-induced vasodilation that is restored by PDE5 inhibition. Blood flows to several, not all, skeletal muscle vascular beds were severely impaired by FH associated with reduced blood flow to many visceral organs. PDE5 inhibition differentially impacted skeletal muscle and organ blood flows in normal and FH swine. CONCLUSIONS These data indicate that FH induces regional, not generalized, vasomotor dysfunction and that FH and normal swine exhibit unique tissue blood flow responses to PDE5 inhibition thereby adding to accumulating evidence of vascular bed-specific dysfunction in co-morbid conditions.
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Affiliation(s)
- Christian G Aragonez
- Biomedical Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri.,Research Service, Harry S Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital, Columbia, Missouri
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- Division of Experimental Cardiology, Department of Cardiology, Thoraxcenter, Cardiovascular Research School COEUR, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Biomedical Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
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- Biomedical Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri.,Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri.,Medical Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
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- Biomedical Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri.,Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri.,Medical Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
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- Division of Experimental Cardiology, Department of Cardiology, Thoraxcenter, Cardiovascular Research School COEUR, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Division of Experimental Cardiology, Department of Cardiology, Thoraxcenter, Cardiovascular Research School COEUR, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Biomedical Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri.,Research Service, Harry S Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital, Columbia, Missouri.,Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
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