Journal
CLINICAL SCIENCE
Volume 120, Issue 7-8, Pages 321-333Publisher
PORTLAND PRESS LTD
DOI: 10.1042/CS20100311
Keywords
aortic ring; endothelial dysfunction; endothelin-1; NADPH oxidase; red wine polyphenol
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- Comision Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnologia [AGL2007-66108/ALI, SAF2007-62731, SAF2008-03948, SAF2010-22066-C02-01]
- Junta de Andalucia, Proyecto de Excelencia [P06-CTS-01555]
- Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spain [RD06/0009]
- Spanish Ministry of Science and Education
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RWPs (red wine polyphenols) exert antihypertensive effects and improve endothelial function by reducing the plasma levels of ET-1 (endothelin-1) and the subsequent vascular production of O(2)(center dot-) (superoxide anion). Our present study was designed to evaluate whether RWPs act directly in the vascular wall improving endothelial dysfunction and O(2)(center dot-) production induced by ET-1 and to analyse the compounds responsible for these protective effects. We incubated rat isolated aortic rings in the presence or absence of ET-1 (10 nM) and RWPs (10(-4) to 10(-2) g/l) or catechin (0.2 mu M), epicatechin (10 mu M) and resveratrol (0.1 mu M). ET-1 reduced the relaxant responses to acetylcholine, increased intracellular 02 - production, NADPH oxidase activity and protein expression of NADPH oxidase subunit p47(phox). All these changes were prevented by RWPs. The preventive effects of RWPs were unaffected by co-incubation with either ICI-182780, an ER (oestrogen receptor) antagonist, or GW9662, a PPAR gamma (peroxisome-proliferator-activated receptor gamma) antagonist. RWPs inhibited the phosphorylation of the mitogen-activated protein kinase, ERK1/2 (extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2), a key regulator of p47(phox) expression in response to ET-1. When the isolated polyphenols were tested, at the concentrations found in 10-2 g/l RWPs, only epicatechin prevented endothelial dysfunction and all biochemical changes induced by ET-1 in the vascular wall. Taken together, these results indicate that RWPs prevent ET-1-induced vascular O(2)(center dot-) production by reducing overexpression of p47(phox) and the subsequent increased NADPH oxidase activity, leading to improvement in endothelial function. The effects of RWPs appear to be independent of ER and PPAR gamma activation and are related to ERK1/2 inhibition.
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