TY - JOUR
T1 - 17ß-Estradiol protects against the effects of a high fat diet on cardiac glucose, lipid and nitric oxide metabolism in rats
AU - Zafirovic, Sonja
AU - Obradovic, Milan
AU - Sudar-Milovanovic, Emina
AU - Jovanovic, Aleksandra
AU - Stanimirovic, Julijana
AU - Stewart, Alan J.
AU - Pitt, Samantha J.
AU - Isenovic, Esma R.
N1 - This work is supported by the grant No.173033 (to E.R.I.) from the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Republic of Serbia.
PY - 2017/5/5
Y1 - 2017/5/5
N2 - The aim of this study was to investigate the in vivo effects of estradiol (E2) on myocardial metabolism and inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) expression/activity in obese rats. Male Wistar rats were fed with a normal or a high fat (HF) diet (42% fat) for 10 weeks. Half of the HF fed rats were treated with a single dose of E2 while the other half were placebo-treated. 24h after treatment animals were sacrificed. E2 reduced cardiac free fatty acid (FFA) (p<0.05), L-arginine (p<0.01), iNOS mRNA (p<0.01), and protein (p<0.05) levels and translocation of the FFA transporter (CD36) (p<0.01) to the plasma membrane (PM) in HF fed rats. In contrast, Akt phosphorylation at Thr308 (p<0.05) and translocation of the glucose transporter GLUT4 (p<0.05) to the PM increased after E2 tretment in HF rats. Our results indicate that E2 acts via PI3K/Akt signaling pathway to partially protect myocardial metabolism by attenuating the detrimental effects of increased iNOS expression/activity in HF fed rats.
AB - The aim of this study was to investigate the in vivo effects of estradiol (E2) on myocardial metabolism and inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) expression/activity in obese rats. Male Wistar rats were fed with a normal or a high fat (HF) diet (42% fat) for 10 weeks. Half of the HF fed rats were treated with a single dose of E2 while the other half were placebo-treated. 24h after treatment animals were sacrificed. E2 reduced cardiac free fatty acid (FFA) (p<0.05), L-arginine (p<0.01), iNOS mRNA (p<0.01), and protein (p<0.05) levels and translocation of the FFA transporter (CD36) (p<0.01) to the plasma membrane (PM) in HF fed rats. In contrast, Akt phosphorylation at Thr308 (p<0.05) and translocation of the glucose transporter GLUT4 (p<0.05) to the PM increased after E2 tretment in HF rats. Our results indicate that E2 acts via PI3K/Akt signaling pathway to partially protect myocardial metabolism by attenuating the detrimental effects of increased iNOS expression/activity in HF fed rats.
KW - Estradiol
KW - Obesity
KW - Myocardial metabolism
KW - Cardiovascular diseases
KW - Inducible nitric oxide synthase
UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0303720717300771
U2 - 10.1016/j.mce.2017.02.001
DO - 10.1016/j.mce.2017.02.001
M3 - Article
SN - 0303-7207
VL - 446
SP - 12
EP - 20
JO - Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology
JF - Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology
ER -