Improvement of vascular function by acute and chronic treatment with the PDE‐5 inhibitor sildenafil in experimental diabetes mellitus
Improvement of vascular function by acute and chronic treatment with the PDE‐5 inhibitor sildenafil in experimental diabetes mellitus
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10.1038/sj.bjp.0707459
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2008-03
影响因子:
7.3
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A. Schäfer;D. Fraccarollo;Stephanie Pförtsch;U. Flierl;C. Vogt;J. Pfrang;A. Kobsar;Thomas Renné;M. Eigenthaler;Georg Ertl;J. Bauersachs
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作者:
A. Schäfer;D. Fraccarollo;Stephanie Pförtsch;U. Flierl;C. Vogt;J. Pfrang;A. Kobsar;Thomas Renné;M. Eigenthaler;Georg Ertl;J. Bauersachs
Background and purposeDiabetes‐associated vascular dysfunction contributes to increased cardiovascular risk. We investigated whether the phosphodiesterase‐5 inhibitor sildenafil would improve vascular function in diabetic rats.Experimental approachMale Wistar rats were injected with streptozotocin (50 mg kg‐1, i.v.) to induce insulin‐deficient diabetes. Direct effects of sildenafil as well as modification of endothelium‐dependent and ‐independent vasorelaxation were investigatedin vitro. The effects of acute and chronic (2 week) treatmentin vivoof sildenafil on vascular function were also characterized in isolated aortic segments in organ bath chambers 4 weeks after diabetes induction.Key resultsSildenafil induced a concentration‐dependent vasorelaxation, which was attenuated by the nitric oxide (NO) synthase inhibitor, NG‐nitro‐L‐arginine. Acetylcholine‐induced endothelium‐dependent as well as endothelium‐independent relaxation induced by the NO donor, DEA‐NONOate, was significantly reduced in aortae from diabetic rats. Incubation with sildenafilin vitronormalized both endothelium‐dependent and ‐independent relaxation in aortae from diabetic rats. Acute as well as chronicin vivotreatment with sildenafil resulted in enhanced endothelium‐dependent and ‐independent vasorelaxation. Superoxide formation was increased in diabetes, associated with enhanced membrane expression of the NAD(P)H oxidase subunit gp91phoxand Rac, which were both reduced by chronic treatment with sildenafil.Conclusions and implicationsWe demonstrate that sildenafil treatment rapidly and chronically improves vascular relaxation in diabetic rats. Treatment with sildenafil might provide a similarly beneficial effect in diabetic patients.British Journal of Pharmacology(2008)153, 886–893; doi:10.1038/sj.bjp.0707459; published online 24 September 2007