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Metabolic Cycles Are Linked to the Cardiovascular Diurnal Rhythm in Rats with Essential Hypertension

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PLOS ONE
Volume 6, Issue 2, Pages -

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PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017339

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  1. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [22590226, 20890198]
  2. Naito Foundation
  3. Mochida Memorial Foundation for Medical and Pharmaceutical Research
  4. Mishima Kaiun Memorial Foundation
  5. Suzuken Memorial Foundation
  6. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [20890198, 22590226] Funding Source: KAKEN

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Background: The loss of diurnal rhythm in blood pressure (BP) is an important predictor of end-organ damage in hypertensive and diabetic patients. Recent evidence has suggested that two major physiological circadian rhythms, the metabolic and cardiovascular rhythms, are subject to regulation by overlapping molecular pathways, indicating that dysregulation of metabolic cycles could desynchronize the normal diurnal rhythm of BP with the daily light/dark cycle. However, little is known about the impact of changes in metabolic cycles on BP diurnal rhythm. Methodology/Principal Findings: To test the hypothesis that feeding-fasting cycles could affect the diurnal pattern of BP, we used spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) which develop essential hypertension with disrupted diurnal BP rhythms and examined whether abnormal BP rhythms in SHR were caused by alteration in the daily feeding rhythm. We found that SHR exhibit attenuated feeding rhythm which accompanies disrupted rhythms in metabolic gene expression not only in metabolic tissues but also in cardiovascular tissues. More importantly, the correction of abnormal feeding rhythms in SHR restored the daily BP rhythm and was accompanied by changes in the timing of expression of key circadian and metabolic genes in cardiovascular tissues. Conclusions/Significance: These results indicate that the metabolic cycle is an important determinant of the cardiovascular diurnal rhythm and that disrupted BP rhythms in hypertensive patients can be normalized by manipulating feeding cycles.

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