Overexpression of human heme oxygenase-1 attenuates endothelial cell sloughing in experimental diabetes
- 1 December 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physiological Society in American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology
- Vol. 287 (6), H2468-H2477
- https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpheart.01187.2003
Abstract
Heme oxygenase (HO)-1 represents a key defense mechanism against oxidative injury. Hyperglycemia produces oxidative stress and various perturbations of cell physiology. The effect of streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetes on aortic HO activity, heme content, the number of circulating endothelial cells, and urinary 8-epi-isoprostane PGF2α(8-Epi) levels in control rats and rats overexpressing or underexpressing HO-1 was measured. HO activity was decreased in hyperglycemic rats. Hyperglycemia increased urinary 8-Epi, and this increase was augmented in rats underexpressing HO-1 and diminished in rats overexpressing HO-1. The number of detached endothelial cells and O2−formation increased in diabetic rats and in hyperglycemic animals underexpressing HO-1 and decreased in diabetic animals overexpressing HO-1 compared with controls. These data demonstrate that HO-1 gene transfer in hyperglycemic rats brings about a reduction in O2−production and a decrease in endothelial cell sloughing. Upregulation of HO-1 decreases oxidant production and endothelial cell damage and shedding and may attenuate vascular complications in diabetes.Keywords
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