Journal
HYPERTENSION
Volume 63, Issue 2, Pages 265-+Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.113.02289
Keywords
angiotensin-(1-7); apolipoprotein E; p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase
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- Forschungskommission der Heinrich-Heine-University Dusseldorf [9772478]
- German Society of Hypertension
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Apolipoprotein E-deficient (apoE(-/-)) mice fed on Western diet are characterized by increased vascular resistance and atherosclerosis. Previously, we have shown that chronic angiotensin (Ang)-(1-7) treatment ameliorates endothelial dysfunction in apoE(-/-) mice. However, the mechanism of Ang-(1-7) on vasoconstrictor response to Ang II is unknown. To examine Ang-(1-7) function, we used apoE(-/-) and wild-type mice fed on Western diet that were treated via osmotic minipumps either with Ang-(1-7) (82 mu g/kg per hour) or saline for 6 weeks. We show that Ang II-induced renal pressor response was significantly increased in apoE(-/-) compared with wild-type mice. This apoE(-/-)-specific response is attributed to reactive oxygen species-mediated p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase activation and subsequent phosphorylation of myosin light chain (MLC 20), causing renal vasoconstriction. Here, we provide evidence that chronic Ang-(1-7) treatment attenuated the renal pressor response to Ang II in apoE(-/-) mice to wild-type levels. Ang-(1-7) treatment significantly decreased renal inducible nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate subunit p47phox levels and, thus, reactive oxygen species production that in turn causes decreased p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase activity. The latter has been confirmed by administration of a specific p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase inhibitor SB203580 (5 mu mol/L), causing a reduced renal pressor response to Ang II in apoE(-/-) but not in apoE(-/-) mice treated with Ang-(17). Moreover, Ang-(1-7) treatment had no effect in Mas(-/-)/apoE(-/-) double-knockout mice confirming the specificity of Ang-(1-7) action through the Mas-receptor. In summary, Ang-(1-7) modulates vascular function via Mas-receptor activation that attenuates pressor response to Ang II in apoE(-/-) mice by reducing reactive oxygen species-mediated p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase activity.
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