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Sex Differences in Renal Inflammation and Injury in High-Fat Diet-Fed Dahl Salt-Sensitive Rats.

ABSTRACT: We examined the impact of sex on high-fat diet (HFD)-induced renal alterations in Dahl salt-sensitive and Sprague Dawley rats. In Dahl rats, HFD (60% kcal from fat for 24-26 weeks starting at weaning) significantly and equally increased blood pressure in males and females when compared with rats fed a control diet (10% kcal from fat). Male Dahl rats on HFD exhibited progressive renal histological injury and moderately increased renal macrophage infiltration at 10 and 24 weeks of feeding when compared with males on control diet. Female Dahl rats had lower grade renal injury and less macrophage infiltration (except at 17 weeks) than males regardless of diet. Male Dahl rats on both diets showed progressively increasing numbers of renal T-cells, a pattern not observed in females. HFD per se did not significantly affect renal T-cell number. Male Dahl rats had lower renal regulatory T-cells cell ratio than females at 24 weeks. Renal macrophage and T-cell infiltrations were highly correlated to final mean arterial pressure levels in males but not in females. Sprague Dawley rats fed HFD were normotensive without significant renal injury/inflammation after 24 weeks of feeding. In summary, HFD feeding fails to increase arterial blood pressure in Sprague Dawley rats but strongly promotes hypertension in both male and female Dahl salt-sensitive rats. Only Dahl males, however, exhibited blood pressure-associated renal inflammation and injury. Maintenance of regulatory T-cells ratio may protect against hypertension-associated renal injury/inflammation but not HFD-induced hypertension.

SUBMITTER: Fernandes R

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6207243 | biostudies-other | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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Sex Differences in Renal Inflammation and Injury in High-Fat Diet-Fed Dahl Salt-Sensitive Rats.

Fernandes Roxanne R Garver Hannah H Harkema Jack R JR Galligan James J JJ Fink Gregory D GD Xu Hui H

Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) 20181101 5

We examined the impact of sex on high-fat diet (HFD)-induced renal alterations in Dahl salt-sensitive and Sprague Dawley rats. In Dahl rats, HFD (60% kcal from fat for 24-26 weeks starting at weaning) significantly and equally increased blood pressure in males and females when compared with rats fed a control diet (10% kcal from fat). Male Dahl rats on HFD exhibited progressive renal histological injury and moderately increased renal macrophage infiltration at 10 and 24 weeks of feeding when com ...[more]

PMID: 30354819

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Project description:Vascular dysfunctions are observed in the arteries from hypertensive subjects. The establishment of the Dahl salt-sensitive (SS) male and female rat models to develop a reproducible hypertension with high-fat (HF) diet feeding from weaning allows addressing the question of whether HF diet-associated hypertension results in vascular dysfunction similar to that of essential hypertension in both sexes. We hypothesized that dysfunction of three distinct vascular layers, i.e., endothelial, smooth muscle, and perivascular adipose tissue (PVAT), would be present in the aorta from HF diet-fed versus control diet-fed male and female rats. Dahl SS rats were fed a control (10% kcal of fat) or HF (60%) diet from weaning for 24 wk. Male and female Dahl SS rats became equally hypertensive when placed on a HF diet. For male and female rats, the thoracic aorta exhibited medial hypertrophy in HF diet-induced hypertension versus control, but neither displayed a hyperresponsive contraction to the α-adrenergic agonist phenylephrine nor an endothelial cell dysfunction as measured by acetylcholine-induced relaxation. A beneficial PVAT function, support of stress relaxation, was reduced in the male versus female rats fed a HF diet. PVAT in the aorta of males but not in females retained the anticontractile activity. We conclude that this HF model does not display the same vascular dysfunctions observed in essential hypertension. Moreover, both male and female show significantly different vascular dysfunctions in this HF feeding model.NEW & NOTEWORTHY Although the aorta exhibits medial hypertrophy in response to HF diet-induced hypertension, it did not exhibit hyperresponsive contraction to an α-adrenergic agonist nor endothelial cell dysfunction; this was true for both sexes. Unlike other hypertension models, PVAT around aorta from (male) rats on the HF diet retained significant anticontractile activity. PVAT around aorta of the male on a HF diet was modestly more fibrotic and lost the ability to assist in arterial stress relaxation.

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Sex Differences in Renal Inflammation and Injury in High-Fat Diet-Fed Dahl Salt-Sensitive Rats.

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Sex Differences in Renal Inflammation and Injury in High-Fat Diet-Fed Dahl Salt-Sensitive Rats.

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