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Obesity lowers hyperglycemic threshold for impaired in vivo endothelial nitric oxide function
Authors:Bohlen H G  Nase Geoffrey P
Institution:Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, Indiana University Medical School, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, USA. gbohlen@iupui.edu
Abstract:Obesity is a risk for type II diabetes mellitus and increased vascular resistance. Disturbances of nitric oxide (NO) physiology occur in both obese animals and humans. In obese Zucker rats, we determined whether a protein kinase C-beta II (PKC-beta II) mechanism may lower the resting NO concentration (NO]) and predispose endothelial NO abnormalities at lower glucose concentrations than occur in lean rats. NO was measured with microelectrodes touching in vivo intestinal arterioles. At rest, the NO] in obese Zucker rats was 60 nm less than normal or about a 15% decline. After local blockade of PKC-beta II with LY-333531, the NO] increased approximately 90 nm in obese rats but did not change in lean rats. In lean rats, administration of 300 mg/dl D-glucose for 45 min depressed endothelium-dependent dilation; only 200 mg/dl was required in obese animals. These various observations indicate that resting NO] is depressed in obese rats by a PKC-beta II mechanism and the hyperglycemic threshold for endothelial NO suppression is reduced to 200 mg/dl D-glucose.
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