Neovascularization in the retina and iris of diabetic patients is a major cause of severe visual loss. However, study of these lesions is compromised by the lack of a comparable diabetic rodent model. Because the vaso...
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Neovascularization in the retina and iris of diabetic patients is a major cause of severe visual loss. However, study of these lesions is compromised by the lack of a comparable diabetic rodent model. Because the vasoactive and angiogenic agent, angiotensin H, is involved in diabetic microvascular disease, we aimed to determine whether endothelial cell proliferation could be induced in the retinae and irides of hypertensive transgenic (mRen-2)27 rats that display an enhanced extra-renal renin-angiotensin system (RAS), including the eye. Six-week-old Ren-2, spontaneously hypertensive, and Sprague-Dawley rats received either streptozotocin or control vehicle and were studied for 36 weeks. Additional nondiabetic and diabetic Ren-2 rats were treated throughout with the angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor lisinopril (LIS) (10 mg/kg/day in drinking water). Endothelial cell proliferation was only observed in retinae and irides of diabetic Ren-2 rats and was reduced with LIS. In diabetic Ren-2, vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and VEGFR-2 mRNA were increased in retinae and irides and reduced with US. Diabetes activated ocular renin in Ren-2 but not Sprague-Dawley rats. The diabetic Ren-2 rat is a model of intraocular endothelial cell proliferation that can be attenuated by RAS blockade via VEGF-dependent pathways. RAS blockade is a potential treatment for vision-threatening diabetic microvascular complications.
Background Our purpose was to study the effects of atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) on cardiorenal functions when it is used to manage patients with heart failure who are receiving an angiotensin-converting enzyme inh...
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Background Our purpose was to study the effects of atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) on cardiorenal functions when it is used to manage patients with heart failure who are receiving an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor (ACEI) or in acute saline solution loading. Methods seventeen patients with mild to moderate heart failure were entered into protocol 1 or 2. Protocol 1 was ANP (30 ng/kg/min) infused before and after treatment with ACEi (n = 9). Protocol 2 was acute saline loading with or without coadministration of ANP (n = 8). In both protocols cardiorenal hemodynamics and urinary sodium excretion were assessed before and after each intervention. Results Protocol 1: Although ANP infusion significantly increased urinary sodium excretion to a similar extent before and after ACEI treatment, the infusion increased the glomerular filtration rate (75 +/- 16 --> 82 +/- 15 mL/min, P < .05) and renal blood flow (390 +/- 123 --> 438 +/- 140 mL/min, P < .05) only before ACEI treatment. Protocol 2: Acute saline solution loading decreased plasma renin activity (P<.05) but did not affect ANP level. Coadministration of ANP with saline solution load enhanced the increase of urinary sodium excretion (75% +/- 34% increase) compared with the acute saline solution load alone (49% +/- 33% increase) (P.05) but had no affect on renal hemodynamics. Conclusions When ANP is used in patients with mild to moderate heart failure who are on combined ACEi treatment or in acute saline solution loading, the vasodilatory effect of ANP is blunted while the natriuretic effect of ANP is preserved. The renin-angiotensin system seems to modulate the vasodilatory effect of ANP.
OBJECTIVES We sought to test the hypothesis that plasma Volume (PV) expansion in heart transplant recipients (HTRs) is caused by failure to reflexively suppress the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone (RAA) axis. BACKGROUND...
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OBJECTIVES We sought to test the hypothesis that plasma Volume (PV) expansion in heart transplant recipients (HTRs) is caused by failure to reflexively suppress the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone (RAA) axis. BACKGROUND Extracellular fluid volume expansion occurs in clinically stable HTRs who become hypertensive. We have previously demonstrated that the RAA axis is not reflexively suppressed by a hypervolemic stimulus in HTRs. METHODS Plasma volume and fluid regulatory hormones were measured in eight HTRs (57 +/- 6 years old) both before and after treatment with captopril (225 mg/day). Antihypertensive and diuretic agents were discontinued 10 days before. The HTRs were admitted to the Clinical Research Center (CRC), and, after three days of a constant diet containing 87 mEq/day of Na+, PV was measured by using the modified Evans blue dye dilution technique. After approximately four months (16 +/- 5 weeks), the same HTRs again discontinued all antihypertensive and diuretic agents;they were progressed to a captopril dose of 75 mg three times per day over 14 days, and the CRC protocol was repeated. RESULTS Captopril pharmacologically suppressed (p < 0.05) supine rest levels of angiotensin II (-65%) and aldosterone (-75%). The reductions in vasopressin and atrial natriuretic peptide levels after captopril did not reach statistical significance. The PV, normalized for body weight (ml/kg), was significantly reduced by 12% when the HTRs received captopril. CONCLUSIONS Extracellular fluid volume is expanded (12%) in clinically stable HTRs who become hypertensive. Pharmacologic suppression of the RAA axis with high-dose captopril (225 mg/day) returned HTRs to a normovolemic state. These findings indicate that fluid retention is partly engendered by a failure to reflexively suppress the RAA axis when HTRs become hypervolemic. (C) 2000 by the American College of Cardiology.
1. The effects of cortisol on blood pressure and the circulating components of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) were investigated in sheep fetuses during late gestation and after exogenous cortisol infusion. 2. Plas...
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1. The effects of cortisol on blood pressure and the circulating components of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) were investigated in sheep fetuses during late gestation and after exogenous cortisol infusion. 2. Plasma cortisol concentration was greater in fetuses at 140 +/- 1 days of gestation (term 145 +/- 2 days) compared to those studied earlier in gestation (128 +/- 1. days), although, because of wide inter-animal variation, no differences were observed in Mood pressure or plasma angiotensin II (AII), renin or angiotensinogen (Ao) concentrations. 3. At 129 +/- 1 days of gestation, an infusion of cortisol for 5 days (2-3 mg kg(-1) day(-1) I.V) increased plasma cortisol concentration to a value normally seen close to term. This rise in plasma cortisol was accompanied by increases in blood pressure and plasma concentrations of AII, renin and Ao. 4. When observations from all fetuses were considered, plasma cortisol concentration cor related with plasma AII and renin, and blood pressure correlated with plasma cortisol and AII concentrations. 5. Intravenous administration of an AII type 1 (AT(1))-specific receptor antagonist (3 mg kg(-1) GR138950) caused a reduction in blood pressure in all fetuses;the hypotensive response was greatest in fetuses studied near term and in the cortisol-treated fetuses. Overall, the magnitude of the hypotension induced by GR138950, and the concomitant rise in plasma renin, both correlated with the plasma cortisol concentration before GR138950 treatment. 6. These findings show that, in the sheep fetus during late gestation, the RAS becomes more important in the maintenance of resting blood pressure when plasma cortisol concentration is elevated, whether endogenously or exogenously.
Several angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs), including candesartan cilexetil, irbesartan, losartan, telmisartan, and valsartan, are currently approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment...
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Several angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs), including candesartan cilexetil, irbesartan, losartan, telmisartan, and valsartan, are currently approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of patients with hypertension. These agents share a common mechanism of action-antogonism of the angiotensin type 1 (AT(1)) receptor-and as a result, they block a number of angiotensin II effects that are relevant to the pathophysiology of cardiovascular disease, including vasoconstriction, renal sodium reabsorption, aldosterone and vasopressin secretion, sympathetic activation, and vascular and cardiac hyperplasia and hypertrophy. Unlike the angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, these new drugs block the effects of angiotensin II regardless of whether it is produced systemically in the circulation or locally via ACE- or non-ACE-dependent pathways in tissues. ARBs also block the angiotensin II-induced feedback regulation of renin release, resulting in an increase in angiotensin II levels. With the AT(1) receptor blocked, angiotensin II is available to activate the angiotensin type 2 (AT(2)) receptor, which mediates several potentially beneficial effects in the cardiovascular system, including vasodilation, antiproliferation, and apoptosis. Thus, ARBs provide a highly selective approach for regulating the effects of angiotensin II.. (C) 1999 by Excerpta Medico, Inc.
OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to evaluate whether adenosine infusion can induce production of active renin and angiotensin II in human coronary circulation. BACKGROUND Adenosine can activate angiotensin producti...
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OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to evaluate whether adenosine infusion can induce production of active renin and angiotensin II in human coronary circulation. BACKGROUND Adenosine can activate angiotensin production in the forearm vessels of essential hypertensive patients METHODS In six normotensive subjects and 12 essential hypertensive patients adenosine was infused into the left anterior descending coronary artery (1, 10, 100 and 1,000 mu g/min x 5 min each) while active renin (radioimmunometric assay) and angiotensin II (radioimmunoassay after high performance liquid chromatography purification) were measured in venous (great cardiac vein) and coronary arterial blood samples. In five out of 12 hypertensive patients adenosine infusion and plasma samples were repeated during intracoronary angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor benazeprilat (25 mu g/min) administration. Finally, in adjunctive hypertensive patients, the same procedure was applied during intracoronary sodium nitroprusside (n = 4) or acetylcholine (n = 4) RESULTS In hypertensive patients, but not in control subjects, despite a similar increment in coronary blood flow, a significant (p < 0.05) transient increase of venous active renin (from 10.7 +/- 1.4 [95% confidence interval 9.4 to 11.8] to a maximum of 13.8 +/- 2.1 [12.2 to 15.5] with a consequent drop to 10.9 +/- 1.8 [9.7 to 12.1] pg/ml), and angiotensin II (from 14.6 +/- 2.0 [12.7 to 16.5] to a maximum of 20.4 +/- 2.7 [18.7 to 22.2] with a consequent drop to 16.3 +/- 1.8 [13.9 to 18.7] pg/ml) was observed under adenosine infusion, whereas arterial values did not change. Calculated venous-arterial active renin and angiotensin II release showed a strong correlation (r = 0.78 and r = 0.71, respectively;p < 0.001) with circulating active renin. This adenosine-induced venous angiotensin II increase was significantly blunted by benazeprilat. Finally, both sodium nitroprusside and acetylcholine did not affect arterial and venous values of active r
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