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Diabetic state increases fast norepinephrine-induced aortic contraction by ~38% versus controls.
The diabetic state increases the fast component of norepinephrine-induced contraction in rat aorta, likely due to increased calcium release from intracellular stores, which is reversed by insulin treatment.
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Hypothesis-generating for diabetic vascular reactivity; leaves open clinical translation or insulin effects in humans.
The fast and slow components of the mechanical response to 1 microM norepinephrine (NE) were measured in aortic rings isolated from eight spontaneously diabetic rats, six streptozocin-induced diabetic (STZ-D) rats, six STZ-D rats treated with 2.5 U insulin/day during the 4 days before being killed, and six age- and sex-matched control rats. The total contraction to NE (i.e., the sum of fast and slow components) was similar in the four groups: spontaneously diabetic, 16.53 +/- 1.72 mN; STZ-D, 15.68 +/- 1.41 mN; insulin-treated, 16.17 +/- 2.05 mN; and control, 15.27 +/- 0.96 mN (NS). The fast component, measured graphically in a total contraction in 1.35 mM Ca, was greater in spontaneously diabetic (12.61 +/- 1.07 mN, P less than 0.05) and STZ-D (12.25 +/- 0.89 mN, P less than 0.05) rats compared with control (9.14 +/- 0.74 mN) or insulin-treated (8.58 +/- 1.23 mN) rats. The same increase of the fast component was detectable after 3 min of incubation in Ca-free medium + 2 mM EGTA (control 6.54 +/- 0.47 mN, spontaneously diabetic 9.07 +/- 0.76 mN, P less than 0.05; STZ-D 8.82 +/- 0.72 mN, P less than 0.05), and it was also abolished by insulin treatment (insulin-treated 6.29 +/- 0.36 mN). We conclude that the diabetic state increases the fast component of NE-induced contraction either in the absence or presence of Ca in the medium. This suggests that such an increase depends on a larger release of Ca from intracellular stores.
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Rinaldi et al. (1992) studied Diabetes (n=26). Diabetes (spontaneous or STZ-induced) vs. Control rats and insulin-treated rats was evaluated on Fast component of mechanical response to 1 microM norepinephrine in 1.35 mM Ca (p=<0.05). The diabetic state increased the fast component of norepinephrine-induced aortic contraction compared to controls.
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