| Nitric oxide-independent stimulation of soluble guanylate cyclase reduces organ damage in experimental low-renin and high-renin models. | |
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PMID: 20613628 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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OBJECTIVES: The nitric oxide-soluble guanylate cyclase (sGC)-cGMP signal transduction pathway is impaired in different cardiovascular diseases, including pulmonary hypertension, heart failure and arterial hypertension. Riociguat is a novel stimulator of soluble guanylate cyclase (sGC). However, little is known about the effects of sGC stimulators in experimental models of hypertension. We thus investigated the cardio-renal protective effects of riociguat in low-renin and high-renin rat models of hypertension. METHODS: The vasorelaxant effect of riociguat was tested in vitro on isolated saphenous artery rings of normal and nitrate tolerant rabbits. The cardiovascular in-vivo effects of sGC stimulation were evaluated in hypertensive renin-transgenic rats treated with the nitric oxide-synthase inhibitor N-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME) (high-renin model) and in rats with 5/6 nephrectomy (low-renin model). RESULTS: In both animal models, riociguat treatment improved survival and normalized blood pressure. Moreover, in the L-NAME study part, riociguat reduced cardiac target organ damage as indicated by lower plasma ANP, lower relative left ventricular weight and lower cardiac interstitial fibrosis, and reduced renal target organ damage as indicated by lower plasma creatinine and urea, less glomerulosclerosis and less renal interstitial fibrosis. In the 5/6 nephrectomy study part, riociguat reduced cardiac target organ damage as indicated by lower plasma ANP, lower relative left ventricular weight, lower myocyte diameter and lower arterial media/lumen ratio, and reduced renal target organ damage as indicated by improved creatinine clearance and less renal interstitial fibrosis. CONCLUSION: We demonstrate for the first time that the novel sGC stimulator riociguat shows in two independent models of hypertension a potent protection against cardiac and renal target organ damage. |
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Yuliya Sharkovska; Philipp Kalk; Bettina Lawrenz; Michael Godes; Linda Sarah Hoffmann; Kathrin Wellkisch; Sandra Geschka; Katharina Relle; Berthold Hocher; Johannes-Peter Stasch |
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Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't |
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Title: Journal of hypertension Volume: 28 ISSN: 1473-5598 ISO Abbreviation: J. Hypertens. Publication Date: 2010 Aug |
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Created Date: 2010-07-21 Completed Date: 2010-11-12 Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8306882 Medline TA: J Hypertens Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 1666-75 Citation Subset: IM |
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Institute for Nutritional Science, University of Potsdam, Center for Cardiovascular Research, Charité, Berlin, Germany. |
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Animals Animals, Genetically Modified Antihypertensive Agents / pharmacology Disease Models, Animal Disease Progression Dose-Response Relationship, Drug Guanylate Cyclase / antagonists & inhibitors, metabolism* Heart / drug effects* Hypertension / chemically induced, enzymology, prevention & control* Kidney / drug effects*, pathology Longevity / drug effects Male Muscle Contraction / drug effects Muscle, Smooth, Vascular / drug effects Myocardium / pathology NG-Nitroarginine Methyl Ester / toxicity Nephrectomy Nephritis, Interstitial / chemically induced, pathology, prevention & control Nitric Oxide / metabolism* Pyrazoles / pharmacology Pyrimidines / pharmacology Rabbits Rats Rats, Wistar Renin / drug effects, physiology* Signal Transduction |
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0/Antihypertensive Agents; 0/Pyrazoles; 0/Pyrimidines; 10102-43-9/Nitric Oxide; 50903-99-6/NG-Nitroarginine Methyl Ester; 625115-55-1/riociguat; EC 3.4.23.15/Renin; EC 4.6.1.2/Guanylate Cyclase |
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