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Duan SZ, Usher MG, Foley EL, Milstone DS, Brosius FC, Mortensen RM. Sex dimorphic actions of rosiglitazone in generalised peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma (PPAR-gamma)-deficient mice. Diabetologia 2010; 53:1493-505. [PMID: 20401461 PMCID: PMC2896206 DOI: 10.1007/s00125-010-1748-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [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: 12/02/2009] [Accepted: 03/11/2010] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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AIMS/HYPOTHESIS The aim of this study was to determine the dependency on peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma (PPAR-gamma) of insulin sensitisation and glucose homeostasis by thiazolidinediones using a global Ppar-gamma (also known as Pparg)-knockout mouse model. METHODS Global Mox2-Cre-Ppar-gamma-knockout (MORE-PGKO) mice were treated with rosiglitazone and analysed for insulin sensitivity and glucose metabolism. Metabolic and hormonal variables were determined. Adipose and other tissues were measured and analysed for gene expression. RESULTS Rosiglitazone induced regrowth of fat in female but not male MORE-PGKO mice, and only in specific depots. Insulin sensitivity increased but, surprisingly, was not associated with the typical changes in adipokines, plasma NEFA or tissue triacylglycerol. However, increases in alternatively activated macrophage markers, which have been previously associated with metabolic improvement, were observed in the regrown fat. Rosiglitazone improved glucose homeostasis but not insulin sensitivity in male MORE-PGKO mice, with further increase of insulin associated with an apparent expansion of pancreatic islets. CONCLUSIONS/INTERPRETATION Stimulating fat growth by rosiglitazone is sufficient to improve insulin sensitivity in female mice with 95% PPAR-gamma deficiency. This increase in insulin sensitivity is not likely to be due to changes typically seen in adipokines or lipids but may involve changes in macrophage polarisation that occur independent of PPAR-gamma. In contrast, rosiglitazone improves glucose homeostasis in male mice with similar PPAR-gamma deficiency by increasing insulin production independent of changes in adiposity. Further, the insulin-sensitising effect of rosiglitazone is dependent on PPAR-gamma in this male lipodystrophic model.
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- S. Z. Duan
- Department of Internal Medicine, Nephrology Division, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Key Laboratory of Nutrition and Metabolism, Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan Medical School, 7641 Med. Sci. II, 1150 W. Med. Ctr. Dr., Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-5622, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan Medical School, 7641 Med. Sci. II, 1150 W. Med. Ctr. Dr., Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-5622, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Vascular Research Division, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Nephrology Division, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan Medical School, 7641 Med. Sci. II, 1150 W. Med. Ctr. Dr., Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-5622, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan Medical School, 7641 Med. Sci. II, 1150 W. Med. Ctr. Dr., Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-5622, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Department of Internal Medicine, Metabolism Endocrinology and Diabetes Division, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- F C Brosius
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, USA
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Malhotra R, Lin Z, Vincenz C, Brosius FC. Hypoxia induces apoptosis via two independent pathways in Jurkat cells: differential regulation by glucose. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 2001; 281:C1596-603. [PMID: 11600423 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.2001.281.5.c1596] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Glucose uptake and metabolism inhibit hypoxia-induced apoptosis in a variety of cell types, but the underlying molecular mechanisms remain poorly understood. In the present study, we explore hypoxia-mediated cell death pathways in Jurkat cells in the presence and absence of extracellular glucose. In the absence of extracellular glucose, hypoxia caused cytochrome c release, caspase 3 and poly(ADP-ribose)polymerase cleavage, and DNA fragmentation; this apoptotic response was blocked by the caspase 9 inhibitor z-LEHD-FMK. The presence of extracellular glucose during hypoxia prevented cytochrome c release and activation of caspase 9 but did not prevent apoptosis in Jurkat cells. In these conditions, overexpression of the caspase 8 inhibitor v-FLIP prevented hypoxia-mediated cell death. Thus hypoxia can stimulate two apoptotic pathways in Jurkat cells, one dependent on cytochrome c release from mitochondria that is prevented by glucose uptake and metabolism, and the other independent of cytochrome c release and resulting from activation of the death receptor pathway, which is accelerated by glucose uptake and metabolism.
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- R Malhotra
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School and Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
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OBJECTIVE Because glucose uptake and metabolism can affect vascular smooth muscle cell function, we proposed that animals with hypertension might develop alterations in glucose transporter expression in vascular smooth muscle cells that were responsible for some of the vascular abnormalities characteristic of hypertension. DESIGN AND METHOD Male Sprague-Dawley rats (250-300 g) were left uni-nephrectomized and either implanted or not with deoxycorticosterone acetate (DOCA, 200 mg/kg) impregnated silastic. All animals were fed normal rat chow. The DOCA-implanted rats were given water supplemented to 1% NaCl and 0.2% KCl for 7, 14 or 28 days. RESULTS The insulin-response glucose transporter (GLUT4) polypeptide levels were depressed several-fold in aortae and carotid arteries from DOCA-salt hypertensive rats compared with sham rats. Uptake of the glucose analog, 2-deoxyglucose (2-DOG), was also reduced 53% in hypertensive compared with sham aortae. There were no changes in GLUT4 expression in other tissues in the DOCA-salt animals, nor were there significant changes in aortae from spontaneously hypertensive rat/stroke prone animals. As previously demonstrated, carotid arteries from DOCA-salt animals exhibited a significant increased contractile sensitivity to ergonovine. Inhibition of glucose metabolism with 2-DOG in sham arteries caused a marked enhancement of contractile responsiveness to ergonovine, whereas 2-DOG had no effect on the already enhanced contractility of DOCA-salt arteries, suggesting that reduction in glucose uptake and metabolism substantially increases the contractile response of DOCA-salt arteries. CONCLUSIONS Alterations in glucose uptake and metabolism in vascular smooth muscle cells may participate in the contractile abnormalities characteristic of certain forms of hypertension.
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- K B Atkins
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, East Lansing, Michigan 48109-0676, USA
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Mammalian peptide transporters (PEPT1 and PEPT2) play a pivotal role in the absorption of small peptides from the intestine and kidney, respectively, and in the disposition and targeting of peptide or mimetic drugs. However, there are few reports on the molecular basis of their regulation, especially in the young. The aim of this study was to determine the developmental expression of intestinal and renal oligopeptide transporters in rats from embryonic to adult ages. Intestinal segments were collected (i.e. duodenum, jejunum, ileum, and colon) along with whole kidney, and their mRNA and protein levels were measured. Expression levels of PEPT1 were maximal 3-5 d after birth in the duodenum, jejunum, and ileum, and then declined rapidly. Expression was increased transiently at d 24, most notably in the ileum. Adult protein levels were approximately 70% of that observed on d 3-5. Significant PEPT1 expression was observed in colon during the first week of life, but levels were undetectable shortly thereafter through adulthood. PEPT1 and PEPT2 expression is less regulated in rat kidney and more pronounced in older animals. Peptide transporters were also present as early as d 20 of fetal life for all tissues tested. These results are unique in providing the developmental expression of peptide transporter mRNA and protein in distinct regions of the small intestine, colon, and kidney in rat. Our findings suggest that intestinal expression of PEPT1 is induced postpartum, possibly by suckling, and again at the time of weaning, and that the colon may participate in peptide transport early in life.
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- H Shen
- College of Pharmacy and Upjohn Center for Clinical Pharmacology, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
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Heilig CW, Kreisberg JI, Freytag S, Murakami T, Ebina Y, Guo L, Heilig K, Loberg R, Qu X, Jin Y, Henry D, Brosius FC. Antisense GLUT-1 protects mesangial cells from glucose induction of GLUT-1 and fibronectin expression. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 2001; 280:F657-66. [PMID: 11249857 DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.2001.280.4.f657] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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A stable clone of rat mesangial cells expressing antisense GLUT-1 (i.e., MCGT1AS cells) was developed to protect them from high glucose exposure. GLUT-1 protein was reduced 50%, and the 2-deoxy-[(3)H]glucose uptake rate was reduced 33% in MCGT1AS. MCLacZ control cells and MCGT1 GLUT-1-overexpressing cells were used for comparisons. In MCLacZ, 20 mM D-glucose increased GLUT-1 transcription 90% vs. no increase in MCGT1AS. Glucose (8 mM) and 12 mM xylitol [a hexose monophosphate (HMP) shunt substrate] did not stimulate GLUT-1 transcription. An 87% replacement of the standard 8 mM D-glucose with 3-O-methylglucose reduced GLUT-1 transcription 80%. D-Glucose (20 mM) increased fibronectin mRNA and protein by 47 and 100%, respectively, in MCLacZ vs. no increases in MCGT1AS. Fibronectin synthesis was elevated 48% in MCGT1 and reduced 44% in MCGT1AS. We conclude that 1) transcription of GLUT-1 in response to D-glucose depends on glucose metabolism, although not through the HMP shunt, and 2) antisense GLUT-1 treatment of mesangial cells blocks D-glucose-induced GLUT-1 and fibronectin expression, thereby demonstrating a protective effect that could be beneficial in the setting of diabetes.
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- C W Heilig
- Division of Nephrology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA.
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Dhar Malhotra J, Chen C, Rivolta I, Abriel H, Malhotra R, Mattei LN, Brosius FC, Kass RS, Isom LL. Characterization of sodium channel alpha- and beta-subunits in rat and mouse cardiac myocytes. Circulation 2001; 103:1303-10. [PMID: 11238277 DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.103.9.1303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 155] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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BACKGROUND Sodium channels isolated from mammalian brain are composed of alpha-, beta(1)-, and beta(2)-subunits. The composition of sodium channels in cardiac muscle, however, has not been defined, and disagreement exists over which beta-subunits are expressed in the myocytes. Some investigators have demonstrated beta(1) expression in heart. Others have not detected any auxiliary subunits. On the basis of Northern blot analysis of total RNA, beta(2) expression has been thought to be exclusive to neurons and absent from cardiac muscle. METHODS AND RESULTS The goal of this study was to define the subunit composition of cardiac sodium channels in myocytes. We show that cardiac sodium channels are composed of alpha-, beta(1)-, and beta(2)-subunits. Nav1.5 and Nav1.1 are expressed in myocytes and are associated with beta(1)- and beta(2)-subunits. Immunocytochemical localization of Nav1.1, beta(1), and beta(2) in adult heart sections showed that these subunits are expressed at the Z lines, as shown previously for Nav1.5. Coexpression of Nav1.5 with beta(2) in transfected cells resulted in no detectable changes in sodium current. CONCLUSIONS Cardiac sodium channels are composed of alpha- (Nav1.1 or Nav1.5), beta(1)-, and beta(2)-subunits. Although beta(1)-subunits modulate cardiac sodium channel current, beta(2)-subunit function in heart may be limited to cell adhesion.
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- J Dhar Malhotra
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0632, USA
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Magnani P, Thomas TP, Tennekoon G, DeVries GH, Greene DA, Brosius FC. Regulation of glucose transport in cultured Schwann cells. J Peripher Nerv Syst 2000; 3:28-36. [PMID: 10959235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/17/2023]
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Glucose is the major source of metabolic energy in the peripheral nerve. Energy derived from glucose is mostly utilized for axonal repolarization. One route by which glucose may reach the axon is by crossing the Schwann cells that initially surround the axons. Considering the ability of neurons to control many glial cell functions, we postulated that Schwann cell glucose transporters might be transiently regulated by axonal contact. Glucose transport was studied in a cultured, differentiated rat Schwann cell line stably expressing SV40 T antigen regulated by a synthetic mouse metallothionein promoter. 3[H]-2-deoxy-D-glucose uptake was measured in cultured cells in basal and in various experimental conditions. Glucose transporter gene expression was determined after RNA isolation from cultured cells through Northern and RNAse protection assay. In vitro, Schwann cells were found to express high-affinity, insulin-insensitive, facilitative glucose transporters and predominantly GLUT1 mRNA. Schwann cell 2-deoxyglucose uptake was increased by axolemmal membranes or forskolin but unchanged by elevated glucose levels. Regulation of Schwann cell glucose transporters by axolemma and their resistance to glucose-induced down-regulation suggest extrinsic rather than intrinsic regulation that might enhance Schwann cell vulnerability to glucotoxicity.
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- P Magnani
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor 48109-0354, USA
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Many studies have suggested that enhanced glucose uptake protects cells from hypoxic injury. More recently, it has become clear that hypoxia induces apoptosis as well as necrotic cell death. We have previously shown that hypoxia-induced apoptosis can be prevented by glucose uptake and glycolytic metabolism in cardiac myocytes. To test whether increasing the number of glucose transporters on the plasma membrane of cells could elicit a similar protective response, independent of the levels of extracellular glucose, we overexpressed the facilitative glucose transporter GLUT-1 in a vascular smooth muscle cell line. After 4 h of hypoxia, the percentage of cells that showed morphological changes of apoptosis was 30.5 +/- 2.6% in control cells and only 6.0 +/- 1.1 and 3.9 +/- 0.3% in GLUT-1-overexpressing cells. Similar protection against cell death and apoptosis was seen in GLUT-1-overexpressing cells treated for 6 h with the electron transport inhibitor rotenone. In addition, hypoxia and rotenone stimulated c-Jun-NH(2)-terminal kinase (JNK) activity >10-fold in control cell lines, and this activation was markedly reduced in GLUT-1-overexpressing cell lines. A catalytically inactive mutant of MEKK1, an upstream kinase in the JNK pathway, reduced hypoxia-induced apoptosis by 39%. These findings show that GLUT-1 overexpression prevents hypoxia-induced apoptosis possibly via inhibition of stress-activated protein kinase pathway activation.
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- Z Lin
- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School and Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0676, USA
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Ekhterae D, Lin Z, Lundberg MS, Crow MT, Brosius FC, Núñez G. ARC inhibits cytochrome c release from mitochondria and protects against hypoxia-induced apoptosis in heart-derived H9c2 cells. Circ Res 1999; 85:e70-7. [PMID: 10590251 DOI: 10.1161/01.res.85.12.e70] [Citation(s) in RCA: 144] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Ischemia induces apoptosis as well as necrosis of cardiac myocytes. We recently reported the cloning of a cDNA that encodes an apoptotic inhibitor, ARC, that is expressed predominantly in cardiac and skeletal muscle. In the present study, we examined the ability of ARC to protect rat embryonic heart-derived H9c2 cells from apoptosis induced by hypoxia, a component of ischemia. We found that H9c2 cells express ARC and that exposure to hypoxia substantially reduces ARC expression while inducing apoptosis. Transfected H9c2 cells in which cytosolic ARC protein levels remain elevated during hypoxia were significantly more resistant to hypoxia-induced apoptosis than parental H9c2 cells or H9c2 cells transfected with a control vector. Loss of endogenous ARC in the cytosol of H9c2 cells was associated with translocation of ARC from the cytosol to intracellular membranes, release of cytochrome c from the mitochondria, activation of caspase-3, poly(ADP-ribose)polymerase (PARP) cleavage, and DNA fragmentation. All of these events were inhibited in H9c2 cells overexpressing ARC when compared with control cells. In contrast, caspase inhibitors prevented PARP cleavage but not cytochrome c release, suggesting that exogenously expressed ARC acts upstream of caspase activation in this model of apoptosis. These results demonstrate that ARC can protect heart myogenic H9c2 cells from hypoxia-induced apoptosis, and that ARC prevents cytochrome c release by acting upstream of caspase activation, perhaps at the mitochondrial level.
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- D Ekhterae
- Department of Pathology and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Departments of Internal Medicineand Physiology , University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0938, USA
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Yang T, Michele DE, Park J, Smart AM, Lin Z, Brosius FC, Schnermann JB, Briggs JP. Expression of peroxisomal proliferator-activated receptors and retinoid X receptors in the kidney. Am J Physiol 1999; 277:F966-73. [PMID: 10600944 DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.1999.277.6.f966] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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The discovery that 15-deoxy-Delta12,14-prostaglandin J2 (15d-PGJ2) is a ligand for the gamma-isoform of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) suggests nuclear signaling by prostaglandins. Studies were undertaken to determine the nephron localization of PPAR isoforms and their heterodimer partners, retinoid X receptors (RXR), and to evaluate the function of this system in the kidney. PPARalpha mRNA, determined by RT-PCR, was found predominately in cortex and further localized to proximal convoluted tubule (PCT); PPARgamma was abundant in renal inner medulla, localized to inner medullary collecting duct (IMCD) and renal medullary interstitial cells (RMIC); PPARbeta, the ubiquitous form of PPAR, was abundant in all nephron segments examined. RXRalpha was localized to PCT and IMCD, whereas RXRbeta was expressed in almost all nephron segments examined. mRNA expression of acyl-CoA synthase (ACS), a known PPAR target gene, was stimulated in renal cortex of rats fed with fenofibrate, but the expression was not significantly altered in either cortex or inner medulla of rats fed with troglitazone. In cultured RMIC cells, both troglitazone and 15d-PGJ2 significantly inhibited cell proliferation and dramatically altered cell shape by induction of cell process formation. We conclude that PPAR and RXR isoforms are expressed in a nephron segment-specific manner, suggesting distinct functions, with PPARalpha being involved in energy metabolism through regulating ACS in PCT and with PPARgamma being involved in modulating RMIC growth and differentiation.
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- T Yang
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
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Malhotra R, Sadoshima J, Brosius FC, Izumo S. Mechanical stretch and angiotensin II differentially upregulate the renin-angiotensin system in cardiac myocytes In vitro. Circ Res 1999; 85:137-46. [PMID: 10417395 DOI: 10.1161/01.res.85.2.137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 142] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Pressure overload in vivo results in left ventricular hypertrophy and activation of the renin-angiotensin system in the heart. Mechanical stretch of neonatal rat cardiac myocytes in vitro causes secretion of angiotensin II (Ang II), which in turn plays a pivotal role in mechanical stretch-induced hypertrophy. Although in vivo data suggest that the stimulus of hemodynamic overload serves as an important modulator of cardiac renin-angiotensin system (RAS) activity, it is not clear whether observed upregulation of RAS genes is a direct effect of hemodynamic stress or is secondary to neurohumoral effects in response to hemodynamic overload. Moreover, it is unclear whether activation of the local RAS in response to hemodynamic overload predominantly occurs in cardiac myocytes or fibroblasts or both. In the present study, we examined the effect of mechanical stretch on expression of angiotensinogen, renin, angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE), and Ang II receptor (AT(1A), AT(1B), and AT(2)) genes in neonatal rat cardiac myocytes and cardiac fibroblasts in vitro. The level of expression of angiotensinogen, renin, ACE, and AT(1A) genes was low in unstretched cardiac myocytes, but stretch upregulated expression of these genes at 8 to 24 hours. Stimulation of cardiac myocytes with Ang II also upregulated expression of angiotensinogen, renin, and ACE genes, whereas it downregulated AT(1A) and did not affect AT(1B) gene expression. Although losartan, a specific AT(1) antagonist, completely inhibited Ang II-induced upregulation of angiotensinogen, renin, and ACE genes, as well as stretch-induced upregulation of AT(1A) expression, it did not block upregulation of angiotensinogen, renin, and ACE genes by stretch. Western blot analyses showed increased expression of angiotensinogen and renin protein at 16 to 24 hours of stretch. The ACE-like activity was also significantly elevated at 24 hours after stretch. Radioligand binding assays revealed that stretch significantly upregulated the AT(1) density on cardiac myocytes. Interestingly, stretch of cardiac fibroblasts did not result in any discernible increases in the expression of RAS genes. Our results indicate that mechanical stretch in vitro upregulates both mRNA and protein expression of RAS components specifically in cardiac myocytes. Furthermore, components of the cardiac RAS are independently and differentially regulated by mechanical stretch and Ang II in neonatal rat cardiac myocytes.
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MESH Headings
- Angiotensin II/pharmacology
- Angiotensinogen/genetics
- Animals
- Anti-Arrhythmia Agents/pharmacology
- Antisense Elements (Genetics)
- Blotting, Southern
- Cells, Cultured
- Fibroblasts/cytology
- Fibroblasts/drug effects
- Fibroblasts/metabolism
- Gene Expression/drug effects
- Gene Expression/physiology
- Heart Ventricles/cytology
- Heart Ventricles/enzymology
- Imidazoles/pharmacology
- In Vitro Techniques
- Iodine Radioisotopes
- Losartan/pharmacology
- Muscle Fibers, Skeletal/cytology
- Muscle Fibers, Skeletal/drug effects
- Muscle Fibers, Skeletal/enzymology
- Myocardial Contraction
- Myocardium/chemistry
- Myocardium/cytology
- Myocardium/enzymology
- Peptidyl-Dipeptidase A/genetics
- Pyridines/pharmacology
- RNA, Messenger/analysis
- Radioligand Assay
- Rats
- Rats, Wistar
- Receptor, Angiotensin, Type 1
- Receptors, Angiotensin/genetics
- Renin/genetics
- Renin-Angiotensin System/physiology
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Stress, Mechanical
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- R Malhotra
- Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Henry DN, Busik JV, Brosius FC, Heilig CW. Glucose transporters control gene expression of aldose reductase, PKCalpha, and GLUT1 in mesangial cells in vitro. Am J Physiol 1999; 277:F97-104. [PMID: 10409302 DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.1999.277.1.f97] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The process linking increased glucose utilization and activation of metabolic pathways leading to end-organ damage from diabetes is not known. We have previously described rat mesangial cells that were transduced to constitutively express the facilitative glucose transporter 1 (GLUT1, MCGT1 cells) or bacterial beta-galactosidase (MCLacZ, control cells). Glucose transport was rate limiting for extracellular matrix production in the MCGT1 cells. In the present work, we investigated the effect of GLUT1 overexpression in mesangial cells on aldose reductase (AR), protein kinase Calpha (PKCalpha), and native GLUT1 transcript levels, to determine whether changes in GLUT1 alone could regulate their expression in the absence of high extracellular glucose concentrations. MCGT1 cells grown in normal (8 mM) or elevated (20 mM) glucose had elevated abundance of AR, PKCalpha, and the native GLUT1 transcripts compared with control cells. AR protein levels, AR activity, sorbitol production, and PKCalpha protein content were also greater in the MCGT1 cells than in control cells grown in the same media. This is the first report of the concomitant activation of AR, PKCalpha, and GLUT1 genes by enhanced GLUT1 expression. We conclude that increased GLUT1 expression leads to a positive feedback of greater GLUT1 expression, increased AR expression and activity with polyol accumulation, and increased total and active PKCalpha protein levels, which leads to detrimental stimulation of matrix protein synthesis by diabetic mesangial cells.
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- D N Henry
- Department of Physiology, Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1101, USA
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Shen H, Smith DE, Yang T, Huang YG, Schnermann JB, Brosius FC. Localization of PEPT1 and PEPT2 proton-coupled oligopeptide transporter mRNA and protein in rat kidney. Am J Physiol 1999; 276:F658-65. [PMID: 10330047 DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.1999.276.5.f658] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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To determine the renal localization of oligopeptide transporters, Northern blot analyses were performed and polyclonal antisera were generated against PEPT1 and PEPT2, the two cloned rat H+/peptide transporters. Under high-stringency conditions, a 3.0-kb mRNA transcript of rat PEPT1 was expressed primarily in superficial cortex, whereas a 3.5-kb mRNA transcript of PEPT2 was expressed primarily in deep cortex/outer stripe of outer medulla. PEPT1 antisera detected a specific band on immunoblots of renal and intestinal brush-border membrane vesicles (BBMV) with an apparent mobility of approximately 90 kDa. PEPT2 antisera detected a specific broad band of approximately 85 kDa in renal but not in intestinal BBMV. PEPT1 immunolocalization experiments showed detection of a brush border antigen in S1 segments of the proximal tubule and in the brush border of villi from all segments of the small intestine. In contrast, PEPT2 immunolocalization was primarily confined to the brush border of S3 segments of the proximal tubule. All other nephron segments in rat were negative for PEPT1 and PEPT2 staining. Overall, our results conclusively demonstrate that although PEPT1 is expressed in early regions of the proximal tubule (pars convoluta), PEPT2 is specific for the latter regions of proximal tubule (pars recta).
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- H Shen
- College of Pharmacy and Upjohn Center for Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Michigan 48109, USA
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Myocardial ischemia/reperfusion is well recognized as a major cause of apoptotic or necrotic cell death. Neonatal rat cardiac myocytes are intrinsically resistant to hypoxia-induced apoptosis, suggesting a protective role of energy-generating substrates. In the present report, a model of sustained hypoxia of primary cultures of Percoll-enriched neonatal rat cardiac myocytes was used to study specifically the modulatory role of extracellular glucose and other intermediary substrates of energy metabolism (pyruvate, lactate, propionate) as well as glycolytic inhibitors (2-deoxyglucose and iodoacetate) on the induction and maintenance of apoptosis. In the absence of glucose and other substrates, hypoxia (5% CO2 and 95% N2) caused apoptosis in 14% of cardiac myocytes at 3 h and in 22% of cells at 6-8 h of hypoxia, as revealed by sarcolemmal membrane blebbing, nuclear fragmentation, and chromatin condensation (Hoechst staining), terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated dUTP nick end labeling (TUNEL) staining, and DNA laddering. This was accompanied by translocation of cytochrome c from the mitochondria to the cytosol and cleavage of the death substrate poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase. Cleavage of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase and DNA laddering were prevented by preincubation with the caspase inhibitors benzyloxycarbonyl-Val-Ala-Asp-fluoromethyl ketone (zVAD-fmk) and benzyloxycarbonyl-Asp-Glu-Val-Asp-fluoromethyl ketone (zDEVD-fmk), indicating activation of caspases in the apoptotic process. The caspase inhibitor zDEVD-fmk also partially inhibited cytochrome c translocation. The presence of as little as 1 mM glucose, but not pyruvate, lactate, or propionate, before hypoxia prevented apoptosis. Inhibiting glycolysis by 2-deoxyglucose or iodoacetate, in the presence of glucose, reversed the protective effect of glucose. This study demonstrates that glycolysis of extracellular glucose, and not other metabolic pathways, protects cardiac myocytes from hypoxic injury and subsequent apoptosis.
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- R Malhotra
- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Michigan Medical Center and the Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
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The Cl-/HCO3- exchanger (AE2 isoform) and the Na+/K(+)-ATPase at the choroid plexus are both thought to be involved in CSF secretion. However, both transport mechanisms are also postulated to have a role in CSF ion homeostasis raising questions as to which parameters control the expression of these transporters? Northern blots have been used to assess AE2 mRNA levels in rats subjected to alterations in blood pH or blood osmolality (a factor affecting CSF secretion). Six hours of alkalosis induced a 40% increase in AE2 mRNA (p < 0.01), suggesting that alterations in the expression of this transporter play a role in CSF pH homeostasis. In contrast, changes in osmolality did not affect AE2 mRNA. Western blots of Na+/K(+)-ATPase subunits were also examined to determine whether hypo and hyperkalemia affect protein levels of this transporter. There was a positive correlation between the plasma K+ concentration and both alpha 1- and beta 1 subunit protein levels suggesting a role for this transporter in CSF K+ homeostasis. As changes in plasma K+ and pH affect choroid plexus ion transporters but do not appear to alter CSF production, these results suggest the presence of compensatory mechanisms. Understanding of such mechanisms may facilitate therapeutic control of CSF production.
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- R F Keep
- Department of Surgery (Neurosurgery), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
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Brosius FC, Pisoni RL, Cao X, Deshmukh G, Yannoukakos D, Stuart-Tilley AK, Haller C, Alper SL. AE anion exchanger mRNA and protein expression in vascular smooth muscle cells, aorta, and renal microvessels. Am J Physiol 1997; 273:F1039-47. [PMID: 9435694 DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.1997.273.6.f1039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Intracellular pH (pHi) is an important regulator of vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) tone, contractility, and intracellular Ca2+ concentration. Among the multiple transport processes that regulate VSMC pHi, Na(+)-independent Cl-/HCO3- exchange is the major process that acidifies VSMCs in response to an alkaline load. Here, we characterize, in native and cultured VSMCs, the expression of the AE family of band 3-related anion exchangers, the best studied of these Cl-/HCO3- exchangers. A 4.2-kb AE2 mRNA was present in aorta and in all cultured VSMCs tested. Cultured VSMCs and aorta both expressed a approximately 165-kDa AE2 polypeptide, but a approximately 115-kDa polypeptide was the major AE2-related protein in aorta. AE3 mRNA levels in VSMCs and in arterial tissue were significantly lower than those for AE2, but AE3 or related polypeptides were readily detected by immunoblot and immunolocalization experiments. The approximately 125-kDa AE3 polypeptide was present in an immortalized aortic VSMC line, but the predominant AE3 epitope in aorta and most cultured cells was associated with a polypeptide of M(r) approximately 80 kDa. These data demonstrate the expression in native arteries and in VSMCs of products of the AE2 and AE3 genes, which may contribute to Na(+)-independent Cl-/HCO3- exchange activity in these tissues and cells.
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- F C Brosius
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor 48109-0676, USA
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Chernova MN, Humphreys BD, Robinson DH, Stuart-Tilley AK, Garcia AM, Brosius FC, Alper SL. Functional consequences of mutations in the transmembrane domain and the carboxy-terminus of the murine AE1 anion exchanger. Biochim Biophys Acta 1997; 1329:111-23. [PMID: 9370249 DOI: 10.1016/s0005-2736(97)00090-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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We have characterized mouse AE1-mediated 36Cl- influx and surface AE1 polypeptide expression in Xenopus oocytes injected with cRNA encoding two classes of loss-of-function mutants. The first arose spontaneously. Chimeric mutants constructed with a functional AE1 cDNA localized the site of spontaneous mutation to the transmembrane domain, and DNA sequencing revealed two missense mutations encoding the double-mutant polypeptide V728F/M7301. Each mutation individually produced only partial loss of AE1 transport activity, and coexpression of the individual mutants did not restore full activity. The functional changes produced by the mutations correlated with reduced fractional accumulation of polypeptides at the oocyte surface. The V728F/M7301 polypeptide expressed in mammalian cells displayed complete endoH resistance and rapid degradation. We also examined the effect on AE1 function of engineered removal of its hydrophilic carboxy-terminus. Both delta(c)890 and the internal deletion delta(c)890-917 were functionally inactive in Xenopus oocytes. Lack of transport activity correlated with lack of detectable polypeptide accumulation at the oocyte surface. Coexpression with wt AE1 of some, but not all, of these AE1 mutants partially suppressed wt AE1-mediated 36Cl- uptake. In contrast, coexpression with wt AE1 of soluble N-terminal AE1 fragments was not inhibitory.
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- M N Chernova
- Beth Israel Hospital, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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Heilig CW, Brosius FC, Henry DN. Glucose transporters of the glomerulus and the implications for diabetic nephropathy. Kidney Int Suppl 1997; 60:S91-S99. [PMID: 9285909] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Several glucose transporters have recently been identified in glomeruli, and in cultured glomerular cells. These include the facilitative glucose transporter isoforms GLUTs 1, 3 and 4, and sodium-glucose cotransport activity with characteristics of SGLT1. GLUTs 1, 3 and 4 are all high affinity, low capacity, facilitative glucose transporters which typically would be saturated at or near physiologic glucose concentrations. The SGLT transporter of mesangial cells is also a high affinity transporter which similarly could be saturated under normal glucose conditions. This suggests that in order for mesangial cells to take up excessive quantities of glucose in diabetes, changes in glucose transporter expression, translocation or activity may be required. Accordingly, recent investigations discovered positive-feedback regulation of the mesangial cell GLUT1 transporter by glucose, and a regulatory role for GLUT1 in glucose metabolism and extracellular matrix synthesis. Future investigations of glucose transporters in the pathogenesis of diabetic renal disease will now likely proceed in multiple directions, including but not limited to: (1) examination of their regulation by growth factors implicated in diabetic nephropathy, and the resultant effects on ECM synthesis; (2) determination of the mechanisms by which GLUT1 regulates the expression of aldose reductase, PKC, GLUT1, and other genes in the mesangial cell; and (3) Suppression of glucose transporters in attempts to prevent high glucose-induced diabetic glomerulosclerosis.
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- C W Heilig
- University of Rochester School of Medicine, Nephrology Unit, New York, USA
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Many clinical and laboratory studies suggest that an increase in glucose uptake and metabolism by ischemic myocardium helps protect myocardial cells from irreversible injury. We have examined whether increased sarcolemmal abundance of cardiomyocyte glucose transporters plays a role in this adaptive response. We have shown that acute myocardial ischemia in perfused rat hearts results in increased sarcolemmal abundance of the major glucose transporter, GLUT4, by causing translocation of GLUT4 molecules from an intracellular compartment to the sarcolemma. In nonischemic control hearts only 18 +/- 2.8% of GLUT4 molecules were on the sarcolemma whereas in ischemic hearts this increased to 41 +/- 9.3%. Insulin also caused translocation of GLUT4 molecules to the sarcolemma, and resulted in 61 +/- 2.6% of GLUT4 molecules on the sarcolemma. The combination of ischemia and insulin did not result in additive increases in sarcolemmal GLUT4 abundance. In more persistent or chronic ischemia, the other major myocardial glucose transporter, GLUT1, appears to play an important role. The mRNA for this transporter, which is constitutively expressed on cardiomyocyte sarcolemma, was increased 2.0-fold in regions of hibernating myocardium in humans with coronary heart disease as well as in persistently hypoxic rat neonatal cardiomyocytes in primary culture. In neither of these conditions was GLUT4 mRNA expression increased. Thus, acute myocardial ischemia increases sarcolemmal glucose transporter abundance mainly by translocating previously synthesized GLUT4 molecules from an intracellular compartment, whereas more chronic ischemia also increases GLUT1 abundance via enhanced mRNA expression. Increased GLUT1 and GLUT4 abundance may participate in the augmented glucose uptake of ischemic myocardium and therefore may help protect ischemic myocardium from irreversible injury.
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- F C Brosius
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School and Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Hospital, 48109-0676, USA
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Egert S, Nguyen N, Brosius FC, Schwaiger M. Effects of wortmannin on insulin- and ischemia-induced stimulation of GLUT4 translocation and FDG uptake in perfused rat hearts. Cardiovasc Res 1997; 35:283-93. [PMID: 9349391 DOI: 10.1016/s0008-6363(97)00133-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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OBJECTIVE Myocardial glucose transport is enhanced by hormonal and other stimuli such as ischemia and hypoxia which induce glucose transporter 4 (GLUT4) translocation. Whether insulin and ischemia share a common signaling mechanism is not yet known. This study investigated whether phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K), a signaling intermediate of the insulin-responsible pathway, also participates in the ischemia-induced stimulation of glucose. METHODS Isolated Langendorff-perfused Sprague-Dawley rat hearts were subjected to 100 nmol/l insulin or 15 min of no-flow ischemia with/without 1 mumol/l wortmannin, an inhibitor of PI3K. After perfusion, relative subcellular glucose transporter GLUT4 distribution was assessed by membrane fractionation and immunoblotting and compared to controls. Uptake kinetics of the glucose analog [18F]fluoro-deoxyglucose (FDG) were also studied during perfusion of rat hearts. RESULTS GLUT4 translocation to the plasma membrane (PM) was increased by insulin 1.8-fold and by ischemia 2.4-fold (P < 0.05). FDG uptake was increased by insulin 6.0-fold and by ischemia 6.2-fold (P < 0.05). Wortmannin 1 mumol/l inhibited insulin-mediated translocation of GLUT4 and increase in FDG uptake completely. However, it did not show any effect on ischemia-stimulated GLUT4 translocation or on ischemia-induced increase in FDG utilization. A significant correlation was found between relative GLUT4 translocation and FDG uptake in hearts of the insulin series (r = 0.9, P < 0.05) and of the ischemia series (r = 0.8, P < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS Our results demonstrate that wortmannin did not inhibit ischemia-induced stimulation of myocardial glucose transport, supporting the hypothesis of different signaling pathways for ischemia and insulin.
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- S Egert
- Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität, Munich, Germany.
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Brosius FC, Liu Y, Nguyen N, Sun D, Bartlett J, Schwaiger M. Persistent myocardial ischemia increases GLUT1 glucose transporter expression in both ischemic and non-ischemic heart regions. J Mol Cell Cardiol 1997; 29:1675-85. [PMID: 9220353 DOI: 10.1006/jmcc.1997.0405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Persistently ischemic myocardium exhibits increased glucose uptake which may contribute to the preservation of myocardial function and viability. Little is known about the specific molecular events which are responsible for this increase in uptake. Therefore, we investigated whether myocardial ischemia induces the gene expression of the major cardiac facilitative glucose transporters, GLUT4 and GLUT1. We determined the expression of myocardial glucose transporter mRNAs and polypeptides after 6 h of regional ischemia in a dog model by semi-quantitative Northern blotting and immunoblotting. GLUT1 but not GLUT4 expression was significantly increased in both ischemic and non-ischemic regions from the experimental hearts when compared to surgical control and normal hearts. GLUT1 mRNA expression was increased 3.4-fold and GLUT1 polypeptide expression was increased 1.7-fold in ischemic hearts when compared to normal or surgical-control hearts. There were no significant regional differences in GLUT1 expression in either normal or ischemic hearts. However, there was a tendency for GLUT1 mRNA expression to be highest in the non-ischemic regions from the 6-h ischemia hearts. These findings suggest that myocardial ischemia induces a factor or factors which stimulate GLUT1 expression in non-ischemic as well as ischemic myocardial regions. Increased GLUT1 expression may play a role in augmenting glucose uptake during ischemia.
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- F C Brosius
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, USA
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Heilig CW, Liu Y, England RL, Freytag SO, Gilbert JD, Heilig KO, Zhu M, Concepcion LA, Brosius FC. D-glucose stimulates mesangial cell GLUT1 expression and basal and IGF-I-sensitive glucose uptake in rat mesangial cells: implications for diabetic nephropathy. Diabetes 1997; 46:1030-9. [PMID: 9166676 DOI: 10.2337/diab.46.6.1030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The complications of diabetes arise in part from abnormally high cellular glucose uptake and metabolism. To determine whether altered glucose transporter expression may be involved in the pathogenesis of diabetic nephropathy, we investigated the effects of elevated extracellular glucose concentrations on facilitative glucose transporter (GLUT) expression in rat mesangial cells. GLUT1 was the only transporter isoform detected. Cells exposed to 20 mmol/l glucose medium for 3 days demonstrated increases in GLUT1 mRNA (134%, P < 0.002), GLUT1 protein (68%, P < 0.02), and V(max) (50%, P < 0.05) for uptake of the glucose analog [3H]2-deoxyglucose (3H2-DOG), when compared to cells chronically adapted to physiologic glucose concentrations (8 mmol/l). The increase in GLUT1 protein was sustained at 3 months, the latest time point tested (77% above control, P < 0.01). In contrast, hypertonic mannitol had no effect on GLUT1 protein levels. Insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I; 30 ng/ml) increased the uptake of 3H2-DOG by 28% in 8 mmol/l glucose-treated cells (P < 0.05) and by 75% in cells switched to 20 mmol/l glucose for 3 days (P < 0.005). These increases in 3H2-DOG uptake occurred despite a lack of effect of IGF-I on GLUT1 protein levels (P > 0.5 vs. control). Therefore, hyperglycemia and IGF-I treatment both lead to increases in mesangial cell glucose uptake, and hyperglycemia induces increased GLUT1 expression, which can directly lead to the pathological changes of diabetic nephropathy. The effects of high glucose and of IGF-I to stimulate 3H2-DOG uptake also appear to be additive.
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- C W Heilig
- Department of Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, USA
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Peripheral nerve depends on glucose oxidation to energize the repolarization of excitable axonal membranes following impulse conduction, hence requiring high-energy demands by the axon at the node of Ranvier. To enter the axon at this site, glucose must be transported from the endoneurial space across Schwann cell plasma membranes and the axolemma. Such transport is likely to be mediated by facilitative glucose transporters. Although immunohistochemical studies of peripheral nerves have detected high levels of the transporter GLUT1 in endoneurial capillaries and perineurium, localization of glucose transporters to Schwann cells or peripheral axons in vivo has not been documented. In this study, we demonstrate that the GLUT1 transporter is expressed in the plasma membrane and cytoplasm of myelinating Schwann cells around the nodes of Ranvier and in the Schmidt-Lanterman incisures, making them potential sites of transcellular glucose transport. No GLUT1 was detected in axonal membranes. GLUT3 mRNA was expressed only at low levels, but GLUT3 polypeptide was barely detected by immunocytochemistry or immunoblotting in peripheral nerve from young adult rats. However, in 13-month-old rats, GLUT3 polypeptide was present in myelinated fibers, endoneurial capillaries, and perineurium. In myelinated fibers, GLUT3 appeared to be preferentially expressed in the paranodal regions of Schwann cells and nodal axons, but was also present in the internodal aspects of these structures. The results of the present study suggest that both Schwann cell GLUT1 and axonal and Schwann cell GLUT3 are involved in the transport of glucose into the metabolically active regions of peripheral axons.
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- P Magnani
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical Center, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Ann Arbor, USA
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Simon JS, Deshmukh G, Couch FJ, Merajver SD, Weber BL, Van Vooren P, Tissil F, Szpirer J, Szpirer C, Alper SL, Jacob HJ, Brosius FC. Chromosomal mapping of the rat Slc4a family of anion exchanger genes, Ae1, Ae2, and Ae3. Mamm Genome 1996; 7:380-2. [PMID: 8661729 DOI: 10.1007/s003359900109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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- J S Simon
- Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, 02129, USA
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Yang T, Hassan SA, Singh I, Smart A, Brosius FC, Holzman LB, Schnermann JB, Briggs JP. SA gene expression in the proximal tubule of normotensive and hypertensive rats. Hypertension 1996; 27:541-51. [PMID: 8613200 DOI: 10.1161/01.hyp.27.3.541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Previous studies have shown that the SA gene is expressed at higher levels in the kidney of genetically hypertensive rats than in control strains and that in hybrid crosses of genetically hypertensive rats and normotensive controls, markers in or close to the SA gene cosegregate with blood pressure. The present studies examine the localization of the SA gene product in the kidney by semiquantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). cDNA was prepared from microdissected nephron segments from Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats, spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRs), and Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rats, and RT-PCR was performed using specific primers. In all three strains, SA gene mRNA was found to be abundantly expressed in proximal tubules. SA PCR product was occasionally detected at approximately 100-fold lower abundance in glomeruli, while no signal was obtained from the collecting duct, thick ascending limb of the loop of Henle, or arcuate artery. Within the proximal tubule of normotensive rats, distribution of SA mRNA was found to be strain dependent: in SD rats it was expressed at high levels in the proximal convoluted tubule, whereas in WKY rats it was restricted to the proximal straight tubule. In SHRs, SA PCR product was detected along the entire proximal tubule. Induction of hypertension by renal artery clamping (two-kidney, one-clamp Goldblatt model) did not alter the pattern of expression observed in the SD rat. These results indicate that an extension of SA gene expression to the full length of the proximal tubule accompanies spontaneous hypertension and that in nonhypertensive animals the pattern of gene product expression is more restricted but shows substantial strain variability.
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- T Yang
- Department of Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 48109-0676, USA
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Brosius FC, Nguyen K, Stuart-Tilley AK, Haller C, Briggs JP, Alper SL. Regional and segmental localization of AE2 anion exchanger mRNA and protein in rat kidney. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 1996. [DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.1996.270.3.f556-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Pages F461–F468: F. C. Brosius III, K. Nguyen, A. K. Stuart-Tilley, C. Haller, J. P. Briggs, and S. L. Alper. “Regional and segmental localization of AE2 anion exchanger mRNA and protein in rat kidney.” The last portion of the legend to Fig. 6 (p. F465) should read as follows: “ B: immunoblot of mouse kidney microsomes prepared with high concentrations of protease inhibitors. All lanes were loaded with 25 μg protein from medulla ( lanes 1 and 4), cortex ( lanes 2 and 5), and whole kidney ( lanes 3 and 6). Blots were visualized with ECL.” Also, in the accompanying section of text in the results (p. 465, column 2), at the paragraph beginning “Membranes prepared...”, the second sentence should read as follows: “Maximal levels of 170-kDa AE2 polypeptide were present in medulla (Fig. 6B, lane 1), whereas cortex (Fig. 6B, lane 2) contained lower levels of AE2.”
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Brosius FC, Nguyen K, Stuart-Tilley AK, Haller C, Briggs JP, Alper SL. Regional and segmental localization of AE2 anion exchanger mRNA and protein in rat kidney. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 1996. [DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.1996.270.1.f244-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Pages F461–F468: F. C. Brosius III, K. Nguyen, A. K. Stuart-Tilley, C. Haller, J. P. Briggs, and S. L. Alper. “Regional and segmental localization of AE2 anion exchanger mRNA and protein in rat kidney.” The last portion of the legend to Fig. 6 (p. F465) should read as follows: “B: immunoblot of mouse kidney microsomes prepared with high concentrations of protease inhibitors. All lanes were loaded with 25 μg protein from medulla ( lanes 1 and 4), cortex ( lanes 2 and 5), and whole kidney ( lanes 3 and 6). Blots were visualized with ECL.” Also, in the accompanying section of text in the results (p. 465, column 2), at the paragraph beginning “Membranes prepared...”, the second sentence should read as follows: “Maximal levels of 170-kDa AE2 polypeptide were present in medulla (Fig. 6B, lane 1), whereas cortex (Fig. 6B, lane 2) contained lower levels of AE2.”
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Brosius FC, Nguyen K, Stuart-Tilley AK, Haller C, Briggs JP, Alper SL. Regional and segmental localization of AE2 anion exchanger mRNA and protein in rat kidney. Am J Physiol 1995; 269:F461-8. [PMID: 7485530 DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.1995.269.4.f461] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Chloride/base exchange activity has been detected in every mammalian nephron segment in which it has been sought. However, in contrast to the Cl-/HCO3- exchanger AE1 in type A intercalated cells, localization of AE2 within the kidney has not been reported. We therefore studied AE2 expression in rat kidney. AE2 mRNA was present in cortex, outer medulla, and inner medulla. Semiquantitative polymerase chain reaction of cDNA from microdissected tubules revealed AE2 cDNA levels as follows [copies of cDNA derived per mm tubule (+/- SE)]: proximal convoluted tubule, 688 +/- 161; proximal straight tubule, 652 +/- 189; medullary thick ascending limb, 1,378 +/- 226; cortical thick ascending limb, 741 +/- 24; cortical collecting duct, 909 +/- 71; and outer medullary collecting duct, 579 +/- 132. AE2 cDNA was also amplified in thin limbs and in inner medullary collecting duct. AE2 polypeptide was detected in all kidney regions. AE2 mRNA and protein were also detected in several renal cell lines. The data are compatible with the postulated roles of AE2 in maintenance of intracellular pH and chloride concentration and with its possible participation in transepithelial transport.
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- F C Brosius
- Renal Division, Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Michigan, USA
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Marcus RG, England R, Nguyen K, Charron MJ, Briggs JP, Brosius FC. Altered renal expression of the insulin-responsive glucose transporter GLUT4 in experimental diabetes mellitus. Am J Physiol 1994; 267:F816-24. [PMID: 7977785 DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.1994.267.5.f816] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Because the insulin-responsive glucose transporter, GLUT4, is expressed in renal vascular and glomerular cells, we determined the effects of experimental diabetes mellitus on GLUT4 expression and glucose uptake by these tissues. Quantitative reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction studies of microdissected afferent microvessels and renal glomeruli showed that, after 1 wk of diabetes, GLUT4 mRNA was decreased to 26 and 34% of control values, respectively. GLUT4 immunoblots of renal glomerular and microvessel samples showed that GLUT4 polypeptide was decreased to 51% of control values. These results were confirmed by indirect immunofluorescence, which showed decreased GLUT4 expression in glomerular cells and in vascular smooth muscle cells of the afferent microvasculature of diabetic animals. Uptake of the glucose analogue, 2-deoxyglucose, was also depressed in microvessels of diabetic rats to 57% of control values, supporting the conclusion that fewer total glucose transporters were available for glucose uptake into diabetic renal glomerular and microvascular cells. Thus both GLUT4 expression and glucose uptake by glomerular and microvascular cells are decreased in diabetic animals. These results have led us to suggest a mechanism by which decreased renal GLUT4 expression could contribute to glomerular hyperfiltration and hypertension seen in early diabetes.
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- R G Marcus
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor 48109-0676
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Sun D, Nguyen N, DeGrado TR, Schwaiger M, Brosius FC. Ischemia induces translocation of the insulin-responsive glucose transporter GLUT4 to the plasma membrane of cardiac myocytes. Circulation 1994; 89:793-8. [PMID: 8313568 DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.89.2.793] [Citation(s) in RCA: 147] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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BACKGROUND Acute myocardial ischemia is accompanied by an increase in glucose uptake and metabolism, which appears to be important in protecting myocardial cells from irreversible ischemic injury. Because insulin augments myocardial glucose uptake by inducing the translocation of glucose transporters from an intracellular compartment to the plasma membrane, we hypothesized that acute ischemia would trigger a similar translocation. METHODS AND RESULTS We used a subcellular fractionation method to separate intracellular membrane and plasma membranes from control, ischemic, and hypoxic Langendorff-isolated perfused rat hearts and determined the expression of the major myocardial glucose transporter, GLUT4, in these separated membrane fractions. We found that translocation of GLUT4 molecules occurred in ischemic, hypoxic, and insulin-treated hearts and in hearts that underwent ischemia plus insulin treatment. The percentages of GLUT4 molecules present on the plasma membrane in the different conditions were as follows: control, 18.0 +/- 2.8%; ischemia, 41.3 +/- 9.4%; hypoxia, 31.1 +/- 2.9%; insulin, 61.1 +/- 2.6%; and ischemia plus insulin, 66.8 +/- 5.7%. Among the statistically significant differences in these values were the difference between control and ischemia and the difference between ischemia alone and insulin plus ischemia. CONCLUSIONS Ischemia causes substantial translocation of GLUT4 molecules to the plasma membrane of cardiac myocytes. A combination of insulin plus ischemia stimulates an even greater degree of GLUT4 translocation. GLUT4 translocation is likely to mediate at least part of the increased glucose uptake of ischemic myocardium and may be a mechanism for the cardioprotective effect of insulin during acute myocardial ischemia.
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- D Sun
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor
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Chen M, Schnermann J, Smart AM, Brosius FC, Killen PD, Briggs JP. Cyclic AMP selectively increases renin mRNA stability in cultured juxtaglomerular granular cells. J Biol Chem 1993; 268:24138-44. [PMID: 8226960] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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This study was undertaken to examine the regulation of renin release and gene expression in primary cultures of juxtaglomerular granular (JGG) cells. JGG cells, isolated from mouse kidney, demonstrated high purity and showed regulated renin release in vitro. Changes in steady-state renin mRNA levels were assessed by quantitative polymerase chain reaction techniques, with polymerase chain reaction amplification efficiency monitored by co-amplification of experimental samples with a dilution series of cDNA for a mutant template. When the cells were incubated in the presence or absence of forskolin, isoproterenol, or 8-bromo-cAMP plus 3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine for 24 h or cholera toxin for 12 h, renin mRNA levels were increased 3.9-, 4.4-, 5.1-, and 3.3-fold, respectively (all, p < 0.05). A significant increase in renin mRNA levels was observed 8 h after treatment with forskolin, but no change was detectable at 4 h. Cycloheximide did not prevent the increase in renin mRNA by isoproterenol. When RNA synthesis was inhibited by incubation with actinomycin D (5 micrograms/ml), renin mRNA levels declined with a half-life of 3.0 +/- 0.8 h. Treatment with forskolin increased renin mRNA half-life to 10.8 +/- 2.7 h (p < 0.025). The half-life of beta-actin, endothelin-1, or the facilitative glucose transporter-1 (GLUT-1) mRNA expressed in the same cells was not altered, although the steady-state levels of GLUT-1 mRNA increased 2.2-fold after treatment with forskolin. These data demonstrate that cAMP increases renin release and mRNA levels in JGG cells in vitro, that the stimulatory effect of cAMP on renin mRNA is delayed but does not require new protein synthesis, and that the increased renin mRNA levels induced by cAMP are due in part to a selective increase in renin mRNA stability.
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- M Chen
- Department of Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109
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Chen M, Todd-Turla K, Wang WH, Cao X, Smart A, Brosius FC, Killen PD, Keiser JA, Briggs JP, Schnermann J. Endothelin-1 mRNA in glomerular and epithelial cells of kidney. Am J Physiol 1993; 265:F542-50. [PMID: 8238383 DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.1993.265.4.f542] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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To examine the question of the tubular localization of renal endothelin-1 (ET-1) mRNA, cDNA generated by reverse transcription of isolated rat tubule RNA was amplified by polymerase chain reaction using rat ET-1-specific oligonucleotides. Product identity was determined by restriction enzyme digestion or direct product sequencing. ET-1 mRNA was found to increase in renal tissue in a corticomedullary direction. High levels of ET-1 mRNA were found in dissected glomeruli and in juxtaglomerular cells in short-term primary culture. Among tubule segments, ET-1 mRNA was most abundant in inner medullary collecting ducts (IMCD), but products were also found with cDNA derived from proximal convoluted and straight tubules, thick ascending limbs, and outer medullary collecting ducts. In kidneys of untreated, homozygous Brattleboro rats, the increase of ET-1 mRNA along the corticomedullary axis as well as the preponderance of tubular ET-1 mRNA in IMCD was not observed. Our data show that ET-1 mRNA is present in all nephron segments studied and that its expression may be dependent on the functional state of the kidney. Our results are consistent with the proposal that ET-1 modifies tubular function in an autocrine or paracrine fashion.
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- M Chen
- Department of Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48104
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Cao X, Brosius FC. Direct sequencing of double-stranded PCR products isolated from conventional agarose gels. Biotechniques 1993; 15:384-6. [PMID: 8217145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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- X Cao
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor 48109
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Garner WL, Rodriguez JL, Thomson PD, Brosius FC, Smith DJ. Control of hemorrhage during renal failure with triglycyl-lysine-vasopressin. Ann Plast Surg 1993; 31:78-81. [PMID: 8357224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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A 35-year-old man with chronic renal failure developed toxic epidermal necrolysis due to combination antibiotic therapy for a community acquired pneumonia. During wound care for his toxic epidermal necrolysis, he developed massive bleeding, a 4 to 6 unit blood loss at each dressing change, due to uremia-associated platelet dysfunction and thrombocytopenia. After failure of standard therapy, the man was treated with intravenous triglycyl-lysine-vasopressin, a selective peripheral vasoconstrictor. Transfusion requirements stopped during treatment. This man went on to full recovery with complete wound healing. Triglycyl-lysine-vasopressin effectively reduced skin blood loss in this man with toxic epidermal necrolysis and an intrinsic hemostatic defect, and may be useful in other patients with cutaneous blood loss.
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- W L Garner
- Department of Surgery, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor
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Alaniz C, Brosius FC, Palmieri J. Pharmacologic management of adult idiopathic nephrotic syndrome. Clin Pharm 1993; 12:429-439. [PMID: 8403814] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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The pathophysiology, clinical features, complications, and pharmacologic management of adult idiopathic nephrotic syndrome are reviewed. Loss of plasma proteins in the urine is the primary process leading to the nephrotic syndrome, which is characterized by hypoalbuminemia, hyperlipidemia, and edema. The four principal causes, or subclasses, of adult idiopathic nephrotic syndrome are membranous nephropathy (MN), minimal change disease (MCD), focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), and membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (MPGN); definitive diagnosis requires histologic examination of a renal biopsy specimen. Treatment of nephrotic syndrome may be directed at the specific cause of the proteinuria, the proteinuria itself, or the complications induced by the syndrome. The four subclasses of nephrotic syndrome vary in their response to therapy. Corticosteroids, alone or in combination with cytotoxic agents, and cyclosporine have been used to induce partial or complete remission in patients with MN, MCD, and FSGS; combinations of corticosteroids, cytotoxic agents, platelet inhibitors, and anticoagulants have been used to treat patients with MPGN. Treatment of proteinuria involves dietary protein restriction with the possible addition of an angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitor or a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug. Management of the complications of nephrotic syndrome encompasses the use of diuretics; a low-cholesterol, low-fat diet; lipid-lowering agents; and anticoagulants. Patients with nephrotic syndrome are in a constant state of flux with respect to fluid status, organ function, and critical protein balance. Treatment is based on the histologic subclass of the disease.
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- C Alaniz
- Department of Pharmacy Services, University of Michigan Hospitals, Ann Arbor 48109-0008
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Brosius FC, Briggs JP, Marcus RG, Barac-Nieto M, Charron MJ. Insulin-responsive glucose transporter expression in renal microvessels and glomeruli. Kidney Int 1992; 42:1086-92. [PMID: 1453596 DOI: 10.1038/ki.1992.391] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The insulin-responsive glucose transporter (GLUT4) is expressed at high levels in fat and skeletal muscle, which account for the majority of insulin-stimulated glucose uptake. However, GLUT4 is also expressed at lower levels in kidney and several other tissues. We have used a variety of protein and mRNA detection techniques to determine the sites of renal GLUT4 expression. Indirect immunofluorescence experiments with two specific anti-peptide antisera detected GLUT4 in the smooth muscle cells of the rat renal microvasculature, in renal glomerulus, and in cultured glomerular mesangial and epithelial cells. PCR amplification of cDNA derived from microdissected renal glomeruli, microvessels and tubules corroborated this distribution of GLUT4, and Northern blotting demonstrated GLUT4 mRNA in cultured glomerular mesangial cells. Both the immunofluorescence and PCR data suggested that GLUT4 is most highly expressed in renal microvessels. Our results show that certain renal cells, such as renal microvascular smooth muscle cells, express the insulin-responsive glucose transporter and therefore may demonstrate altered glucose uptake and metabolism in diabetes mellitus.
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- F C Brosius
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor
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Brosius FC. Molecular and cellular aspects of diabetes mellitus: applications to diabetic nephropathy. Semin Nephrol 1992; 12:554-62. [PMID: 1475550] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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- F C Brosius
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor
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Lorenz JN, Schnermann J, Brosius FC, Briggs JP, Furspan PB. Intracellular ATP can regulate afferent arteriolar tone via ATP-sensitive K+ channels in the rabbit. J Clin Invest 1992; 90:733-40. [PMID: 1522228 PMCID: PMC329924 DOI: 10.1172/jci115945] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Studies were performed to assess whether ATP-sensitive K+ (KATP) channels on rabbit preglomerular vessels can influence afferent arteriolar (AA) tone. K+ channels with a slope conductance of 258 +/- 13 (n = 7) pS and pronounced voltage dependence were demonstrated in excised patches from vascular smooth muscle cells of microdissected preglomerular segments. Channel activity was markedly reduced by 1 mM ATP and in a dose-dependent fashion by glibenclamide (10(-9) M to 10(-6) M), a specific antagonist of KATP channels. 10(-5) M diazoxide, a K+ channel opener, activated these channels in the presence of ATP, and this effect was also blocked by glibenclamide. To determine the role of these KATP channels in the control of vascular tone, diazoxide was tested on isolated perfused AA. After preconstriction from a control diameter of 13.1 +/- 1.1 to 3.5 +/- 2.1 microns with phenylephrine (PE), addition of 10(-5) M diazoxide dilated vessels to 11.2 +/- 0.7 microns, which was not different from control. Further addition of 10(-5) M glibenclamide reconstricted the vessels to 5.8 +/- 1.5 microns (n = 5; P less than 0.03). In support of its specificity for KATP channels, glibenclamide did not reverse verapamil induced dilation in a separate series of experiments. To determine whether intracellular ATP levels can effect AA tone, studies were conducted to test the effect of the glycolytic inhibitor 2-deoxy-D-glucose. After preconstriction from 13.4 +/- 3.2 to 7.7 +/- 1.3 microns with PE, bath glucose was replaced with 6 mM 2-deoxy-D-glucose. Within 10 min, the arteriole dilated to a mean value of 11.8 +/- 1.4 microns (n = 6; NS compared to control). Subsequent addition of 10(-5) M glibenclamide significantly reconstricted the vessels to a diameter of 8.6 +/- 0.5 micron (P less than 0.04). These data demonstrate that KATP channels are present on the preglomerular vasculature and that changes in intracellular ATP can directly influence afferent arteriolar tone via these channels.
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- J N Lorenz
- Department of Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109
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Simon DI, Brosius FC, Rothstein DM. Sulfadiazine crystalluria revisited. The treatment of Toxoplasma encephalitis in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Arch Intern Med 1990; 150:2379-84. [PMID: 2241449 DOI: 10.1001/archinte.150.11.2379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Toxoplasma gondii encephalitis is an important opportunistic infection in the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, estimated to occur in 20,000 to 40,000 patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in the United States by 1991. The combination of sulfadiazine and pyrimethamine is regarded as the treatment of choice. Acute renal failure due to crystal deposition in the urinary tract was well described 30 to 40 years ago and is likely to resurface as a clinical entity if appropriate prophylactic measures are not taken. We describe two cases of sulfadiazine-induced crystalluria and renal failure in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, review the pertinent literature, and discuss the pathogenesis. Recommendations are made for the prophylaxis and treatment of sulfadiazine-related renal toxic reaction. Physicians using this "new" drug must be aware of the potential danger of sulfonamide-induced injury to the urinary tract.
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- D I Simon
- Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, Mass
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Brosius FC, Alper SL, Garcia AM, Lodish HF. The major kidney band 3 gene transcript predicts an amino-terminal truncated band 3 polypeptide. J Biol Chem 1989; 264:7784-7. [PMID: 2542243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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We have characterized multiple transcripts from the band 3 gene expressed in rat and mouse kidney. In each species, the major transcript lacks sequence from the first three exons of the band 3 gene. The murine transcript predicts a kidney band 3 polypeptide with a truncated amino terminus, lacking the first 79 amino acids of erythroid band 3. When expressed in Xenopus oocytes this truncated band 3 functions in anion transport.
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- F C Brosius
- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142
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Brosius FC, Alper SL, Garcia AM, Lodish HF. The major kidney band 3 gene transcript predicts an amino-terminal truncated band 3 polypeptide. J Biol Chem 1989. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)83108-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 134] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Using low-stringency hybridization to the rat brain glucose transporter (GT), a 2489-base-pair cDNA clone was isolated from a rat soleus lambda gt10 cDNA library. It encodes a 509-amino acid protein whose sequence and predicted membrane structure is very similar to those of the rat brain and liver GTs. The muscle GT-like protein is 65% identical in amino acid sequence to the rat brain GT and 52% identical to the rat liver GT; the major differences are in the NH2- and COOH-terminal hydrophilic segments. This GT-like mRNA is expressed predominately in tissues where glucose transport is sensitive to insulin, including striated muscle, cardiac muscle, and adipose tissue; low-level expression is also detected in smooth muscle and kidney mRNA. This GT-like cDNA is the fourth member of the mammalian GT-related gene family identified to date. We propose that it encodes an insulin-sensitive GT.
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- M J Charron
- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA 02142
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This case report describes two episodes of pneumonia caused by Bordetella bronchiseptica in a patient with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. There was discrepancy between the in vitro sensitivity testing of the organism and subsequent clinical response to several antimicrobial agents. Human infection with B bronchiseptica is almost always associated with severe underlying disease and contact with an appropriate animal reservoir.
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To evaluate the mechanisms for a low fractional excretion of Na (FENa less than or equal to 1.0) in acute renal failure (ARF) of a sustained nature, causes were determined independent of FENa in 41 patients without volume depletion, obstruction, vasculitis or glomerulonephritis. The 16 patients (39%) with low FENa had lower incidence of preexisting azotemia, lower peak serum creatinine, but higher incidence of renal ischemia and earlier testing (by 1.7 days). Seven of ten such patients converted to high FENa on repeat, whereas FENa remained high in 15 of 17 patients with initially high values. The initial FENa was a direct function of time from the onset of ARF. Low FENa in acute but sustained renal failure is therefore best explained by milder insults; earlier determinations, and/or super-imposed renal ischemia.
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Brosius FC, Schwartz DE, Gleason WL, Maron B, Jones M, Roberts WC. Left atrial-to-right atrial shunt without atrial septal defect or precordial murmur. Pulmonary varix and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Chest 1982; 81:91-4. [PMID: 6459214 DOI: 10.1378/chest.81.1.91] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Brosius FC, Roberts WC. Comparison of degree and extent of coronary narrowing by atherosclerotic plaque in anterior and posterior transmural acute myocardial infarction. Circulation 1981; 64:715-22. [PMID: 7273371 DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.64.4.715] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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In 54 necropsy patients with transmural acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and coronary arterial thrombi, histologic sections of coronary arteries that contained the thrombi were examined by video-planimetry to determine if the amount of luminal narrowing caused by thrombi was comparable to that produced by underlying atherosclerotic plaques, and to determine the amount of luminal narrowing by plaques immediately proximal and distal to the thrombi. The 54 coronary arteries in the 54 patients were narrowed 33-98% (mean 81%) by atherosclerotic plaque alone in cross-sectional area at the site of the thrombus (occlusive in 47 and nonocclusive in seven), from 26-98% (mean 75%) within the 2-cm segment proximal to the thrombus, and from 43-98% (mean 79%) within the 2-cm segment distal to the thrombus. Of the 54 arteries, 52 (96%) were narrowed 76-98% in cross-sectional area by atherosclerotic plaque alone at or immediately proximal or distal to the thrombus and 26 (48%) were narrowed 91-98% by plaque alone. The thrombi were 0.1--6.0 mm2 (mean 1.4 mm2) in cross-sectional area and the underlying atherosclerotic plaques were 3.0-21.0 mm2 (mean 8.7 mm2). Thus, among necropsy patients with transmural AMI, coronary thrombi occur at sites already severely narrowed by atherosclerotic plaques.
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Brosius FC, Roberts WC. Coronary artery disease in the Hurler syndrome. Qualitative and quantitative analysis of the extent of coronary narrowing at necropsy in six children. Am J Cardiol 1981; 47:649-53. [PMID: 6781324 DOI: 10.1016/0002-9149(81)90550-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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The amount of cross-sectional area luminal narrowing in each 5 mm segment of each of the four major epicardial coronary arteries (right, left main, left anterior descending and left circumflex) is described at necropsy in six children (aged 3 to 16 years) with the Hurler syndrome. In five patients at least one of the four major coronary arteries was narrowed 76 to 100 percent, and in four of these five patients all four major arteries were narrowed to this extent. Of the 24 major coronary arteries in the six patients, 17 (71 percent) were narrowed 76 to 100 percent at some point. A total of 182 segments were examined from the 24 major coronary arteries, and the extent of narrowing was as follows: 96 to 100 percent, 14 (8 percent); 76 to 95 percent, 61 (34 percent); 51 to 75 percent, 59 (32 percent); 26 to 50 percent, 39 (21 percent) and 0 to 25 percent, 9 (5 percent). By applying a score of 1 to 4 to each 5 mm segment according to its category of narrowing (1 = 0 to 25 percent; 2 = 26 to 50 percent; 3 = 51 to 75 percent and 4 = 76 to 100 percent), the 182 segments had a total score of 570 and a mean score of 3.2, indicating that each segment was narrowed an average of about 67 percent in cross-sectional area. Thus, narrowing of the major epicardial coronary arteries at necropsy is usually diffuse and severe in the Hurler syndrome, which is the cause of the most severe coronary narrowing in childhood.
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Brosius FC, Waller BF, Roberts WC. Radiation heart disease. Analysis of 16 young (aged 15 to 33 years) necropsy patients who received over 3,500 rads to the heart. Am J Med 1981; 70:519-30. [PMID: 6782873 DOI: 10.1016/0002-9343(81)90574-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 318] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Certain clinical and necropsy findings are described in 16 young (aged 15 to 33 years) patients who received greater than 3,500 rads to the heart five to 144 months before death. All 16 had some radiation-induced damage to the heart: 15 had thickened pericardia (five of whom had evidence of cardiac tamponade); eight had increased interstitial myocardial fibrosis, particularly in the right ventricle; 12 had fibrous thickening of the mural endocardium and 13 of the valvular endocardium. Except for valvular thickening, the changes were more frequent in the right side of the heart than in the left, presumably because of higher radiation doses to the anterior surface of the heart. In six of the 16 study patients and in one of 10 control subjects, one or more major epicardial coronary arteries were narrowed from 76 to 100 percent in cross-sectional area by atherosclerotic plaque; one patient had a healed myocardial infarct at necropsy and one died suddenly. In 10 patients and in the 10 control subjects, the four major epicardial coronary arteries were examined quantitatively: 6 percent of the 469 five millimeter segments of coronary artery from the patients were narrowed from 76 to 100 percent (controls = 0.2 percent, p = 0.06) and 22 percent were narrowed from 51 to 75 percent (controls = 12 percent). The proximal portion of the arteries in the patients had significantly more narrowing than the distal portions. The arterial plaques in the patients were largely composed of fibrous tissue; the media were frequently replaced by fibrous tissue, and the adventitia were often densely thickened by fibrous tissue. In five patients, there was focal thickening (with or without luminal narrowing) of the intramural coronary arteries. Thus, radiation to the heart may produce a wide spectrum of functional and anatomic changes but particularly damage to the pericardia and the underlying epicardial coronary arteries.
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