Metalloproteinases damage the insulin receptor to cause insulin resistance in spontaneously hypertensive rats.
Metalloproteinases damage the insulin receptor to cause insulin resistance in spontaneously hypertensive rats.
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金属蛋白酶损伤胰岛素受体,导致自发性高血压大鼠胰岛素抵抗。
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10.1161/hypertensionaha.107.108902
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2008
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Bohlen,HGlenn
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The elegant study by Delano and Schmid-Schönbein1 points to a potentially very important overlap of an insulin resistance mechanism with hypertension in the spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR). Their investigation will likely be important to both the obese and hypertensive populations. With the national and international emphasis on obesity and its attendant cardiovascular problems, there is a tendency to forget that essential hypertension affects about the same percentage of humans as does serious obesity and an even higher percentage of the population than does type 2 diabetes mellitus. Obesity leading to insulin resistance and, in severe situations, type 2 diabetes mellitus, does have a genetic predisposition that the patient’s lifestyle can mitigate. However, hypertension even in the lean population has an established genetic basis and often develops despite every attempt to avoid inappropriate lifestyle issues. There is obviously an overlap of the obese and hypertensive genetic populations and likely a sharing of some mechanisms to cause many of their common vascular and cardiac pathologies. The existence of insulin resistance in the SHR came to attention in 1988 by a study by Horl et al. 2 At the time, this seemed rather unusual, because the SHR is generally quite lean, and the dependence of insulin resistance on some degree of obesity was a common concept. In 1991, Reaven and Chang3 and Reaven4 questioned whether the insulin resistance leads to hypertension or vice versa in the SHR and hypertensive humans. The interest in hypertension and insulin resistance since 1988 has generated 200 articles dealing with various issues of insulin resistance in the SHR with something of the order of 5000 articles on insulin resistance and blood pressure abnormalities in humans and animals. We in clinical and basic sciences have been so well informed on this issue that we collectively take insulin resistance and some degree of hypertension as an expected relationship. What we often question is which of these abnormalities occurs first. This question is partially addressed in the study by Delano and Schmid-Schönbein1 in the context that elevated arterial pressure may be the first step in the activation of matrix-degrading metalloproteinases (matrix metalloproteinase [MMP]-9) that appears to be quite important in the cascade to insulin resistance. The Figure presents a hypothetical scheme of hypertension leading to an inflammatory state associated with increased oxygen radical generation and metalloproteinase release. The assumption of hypertension leading to this status is highlighted as a question mark, because the links in this process are both complicated and, likely, interactive. 5 For example, the source of oxygen radicals in hypertension may start with increased NADPH oxidase activity but progress to uncoupling of endothelial NO synthase as endothelial cells are compromised. 6 In either or both scenarios, oxygen radicals can act as vasoconstrictors for vascular muscle and injury agents for endothelial cells to limit NO and other endothelial-dependent vasodilators. However, it now appears that oxygen radical issues are only part of the scheme leading to elevated vascular resistance. It is particularly important to learn from the study by Delano and Schmid-Schönbein1 that part of the inflammatory process is cell surface receptor damage by MMP-9. Although the emphasis of the study is the insulin receptor, it is reasonable to suspect that many cell surface proteins could be vulnerable to damage and, consequently, disturbing regulation of endothelial and vascular muscle cell functions. This may lead to an understanding as to why there …