Author:
Verma Subodh,Yuen Violet G,Badiwala Mitesh,Anderson Todd J,McNeill John H
Abstract
Aldosterone antagonism has emerged as an important strategy for end-stage congestive heart failure. To evaluate the potential contribution of aldosterone towards the cardiac complications of diabetes, this study examined the effects of chronic aldosterone receptor blockade (with spironolactone) on isolated working heart function in streptozotocin (STZ) - induced diabetic rats. Wistar rats were divided into four groups: control, control spironolactone-treated, diabetic, and diabetic spironolactone-treated. Following chronic spironolactone treatment (8 weeks), cardiac function was assessed in terms of the rate of contraction (+dP/dT), rate of relaxation (dP/dT), and left ventricular developed pressure (LVDP). Untreated diabetic rats exhibited marked cardiac dysfunction when compared with age matched controls (p < 0.001). Long-term spironolactone treatment did not improve these parameters. These data demonstrate the lack of beneficial effects of aldosterone receptor blockade on isolated working heart function in diabetes.Key words: aldosterone, streptozotocin-induced diabetes, aldosterone receptor blocker, spironolactone, cardiac function.
Publisher
Canadian Science Publishing
Subject
Physiology (medical),Pharmacology,General Medicine,Physiology
Cited by
6 articles.
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