Author:
Zhang Lihua,Xu Rui,Ma Xiaoshan,Zhang Xia,Gong Jun,Li Zhongliang
Abstract
AbstractHypertension associated with hyperhomocysteinemia (HHcy) accounts for 75% of hypertension in China. HHcy plays a synergistic role with hypertension in vascular injury and significantly increases the incidence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. The present study aimed to explore the molecular mechanism of HHcy-induced arterial injury in hypertension. Spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) were injected intraperitoneally with DL-homocysteine (Hcy) to construct the model of hypertension associated with HHcy (HHcy + SHR). Biological network was employed to identify the material basis of arterial injury in hypertension associated with HHcy. The prediction molecules in oxidative stress and inflammation pathways were experimentally verified by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) and western blot (WB) analysis. The HHcy + SHR group significantly increased oxidative stress pathway molecules: nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate oxidase (Nox); inflammatory pathway molecules: vascular adhesion protein-1 (VAP-1), interleukin-6 (IL-6) and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-a); as well as inflammatory pathway regulatory factors: nuclear factor-κ-gene binding (NF-κB) p65 and protein kinase B (Akt1). Among them, IL-6 was also significantly increased in the HHcy group. Both oxidative stress and inflammation contributed to the arterial injury of hypertension associated with HHcy, and inflammation mechanism might play a leading role in HHcy aggravating arterial injury, at least partially through the Akt1/NF-κB p65/IL-6 signaling pathway.
Funder
jinan medical and health development
Jinan City Medical and Health Development Plan
Shandong Provincial Key Research and Development Programme Foundation
Shandong province medical and health science and technology development plan project
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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