Central blockade of salusin ? attenuates hypertension and hypothalamic inflammation in spontaneously hypertensive rats.
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ABSTRACT: Salusin ? is a multifunctional bioactive peptide and is considered as a promising candidate biomarker for predicting atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases. The present study was designed to investigate the roles and mechanisms of salusin ? in the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) in attenuating hypertension and hypothalamic inflammation and whether central salusin ? blockade has protective effects in essential hypertension. Normotensive Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rats and spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) were used in this study. The rats were chronic PVN infusion either specific salusin ? blocker, antisalusin ? IgG (SIgG), or control IgG (CIgG) for 2 weeks. Hypertensive rats had significantly increased salusin ? expression compared with normotensive rats. Central blockade of salusin ? attenuated hypertension, reduced circulating norepinephrine (NE) levels, and improved cardiac hypertrophy and function in hypertensive rats. Salusin ? blockade significantly reduced proinflammatory cytokines (PICs), nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-?B) activity, reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels, and altered renin-angiotensin system (RAS) components in the PVN of hypertensive rats. These findings suggest that the beneficial effects of salusin ? blockade in essential hypertension are possibly due to down-regulate of inflammatory molecules and ROS in the PVN.
SUBMITTER: Li HB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4518230 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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