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ArticleHypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979)2008

Endothelial dysfunction and the development of renal injury in spontaneously hypertensive rats fed a high-fat diet.

Sarah F Knight, Jeffrey E Quigley, Jianghe Yuan, Siddhartha S Roy, Ahmed Elmarakby, John D Imig

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Article in Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979), 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers.

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49 citing papers in PubMed, 113 citations in OpenAlex.

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sarah F KnightVascular Biology Center, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA, USA. saknight@mail.mcg.edu
Jeffrey E Quigley
Jianghe Yuan
Siddhartha S Roy
Ahmed Elmarakby
John D Imig
Augusta University · US

Funding

Vascular Rho-kinase Signaling in Angiotensin II hypertenP01HL074167 · NHLBI · MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA (MCG) · PI BRANDS, MICHAEL W. · 2004 to 2008
$10.5M
OXYGENASE METABOLITES AND RENAL VASCULAR ACTIVITYR01HL059699 · NHLBI · TULANE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA · PI IMIG, JOHN D · 1999 to 2011
$3.0M
OXYGENASE METABOLITES AND RENAL VASCULAR ACTIVITYR29HL059699 · NHLBI · TULANE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA · PI IMIG, JOHN D · 1998 to 1998
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NHLBI NIH HHS HL074167NHLBI NIH HHS HL59699NHLBI NIH HHS P01 HL074167NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL059699
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Obesity and hypertension have been identified as cardiovascular risk factors that contribute to the progression of end-stage renal disease. To examine the mechanisms by which a high-fat diet and hypertension contribute to endothelial dysfunction and renal injury, 8-week-old male spontaneously hypertensive rats and Wistar rats were fed a high-fat (36% fat) or a normal-fat (7% fat) diet for 10 weeks. The high-fat diet increased body weight in Wistar and hypertensive rats by 25 and 31 g, respectively. Systolic blood pressure was higher in the hypertensive rats compared with Wistar rats; however, blood pressure was unaltered by the high-fat diet. Afferent arteriole response to acetylcholine was impaired in the high-fat groups after just 3 weeks. Renal macrophage infiltration was increased in the hypertensive high-fat group compared with others, and monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 excretion was increased in both of the high-fat-fed groups. Renal PCR arrays displayed significant increases in 2 inflammatory genes in hypertensive rats fed a normal diet, 1 gene was increased in high-fat-fed Wistar rats, whereas 12 genes were increased in high-fat-fed hypertensive rats. Urinary albumin excretion was increased in the hypertensive rats compared with the Wistar rats, which was further exacerbated by the high-fat diet. Glomerular nephrin expression was reduced and desmin was increased by the high-fat diet in the hypertensive rats. Our results indicate that endothelial dysfunction precedes renal injury in normotensive and spontaneously hypertensive rats fed a high-fat diet, and hypertension with obesity induces a powerful inflammatory response and disruption of the renal filtration barrier.

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Rats, Inbred SHRAlbuminuriaAnimalsArteriolesBiomarkersBlood GlucoseBlood PressureBody WeightChemokine CCL2CholesterolCytokinesDietary FatsDose-Response Relationship, DrugEndothelium, VascularGene Expression ProfilingInflammationBiomarkersBlood GlucoseCcl2 protein, ratCcr1 protein, ratChemokine CCL2CholesterolCytokinesDietary FatsInflammation MediatorsLeptinReceptors, CCR1RNA, Messenger

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PMID18158349
PMCPMC2491336
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