Endothelial binding sites for lipoprotein lipase are not diminished in perfused hearts from diabetic rats

1996 ◽  
Vol 74 (11) ◽  
pp. 1204-1209 ◽  
Author(s):  
L Liu ◽  
D L Severson
1998 ◽  
Vol 76 (2) ◽  
pp. 242
Author(s):  
Limin Liu ◽  
David L Severson

This article was published with the wrong French abstract. The correct English and French abstracts are printed below in full. The Publisher regrets this error. Abstract : The possibility that diabetes reduces functional, heparin-releasable lipoprotein lipase (HR-LPL) activity on the coronary vasculature of perfused hearts by altering endothelial binding sites for the enzyme was examined by measuring the binding and subsequent heparin-induced release of exogenous lipoprotein lipase purified from bovine milk (mLPL). Rat hearts were first perfused with heparin (5 U/mL) for 5 min to displace endogenous HR-LPL into the perfusate. The subsequent perfusion of control hearts with 0.05-2 µg/mL mLPL resulted in a progressive increase in bound exogenous exzyme that could be released by a second heparin perfusion. Induction of an acute, insulin-deficient model of diabetes (100 mg/kg streptozotocin 4-5 days prior to heart perfusions) reduced endogenous HR-LPL activity, but the binding and heparin-induced release of mLPL (0.5 µg/mL) were the same as measured in control hearts. Therefore, diabetes does not alter low-affinity, high-capacity proteoglycan binding sites for mLPL on the endothelium of perfused hearts.Key words: diabetes, lipoprotein lipase, perfused hearts.


1995 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
Limin Liu ◽  
David L. Severson

The decrease in myocardial lipoprotein lipase (LPL) activity observed previously in acute, severe models of insulin-deficient diabetes may be a compensatory response to hypertriglyceridemia and a sustained increase in fatty acid delivery to cardiomyocytes. The administration of fructose (10% solution in the drinking water for 4 days) to rats produced hypertriglyceridemia, but heparin-releasable LPL activity from perfused hearts and total and heparin-releasable LPL activities in isolated cardiomyocytes were not reduced. The acute (4 day) induction of a mild diabetic state (60 mg/kg streptozotocin) resulted in modest hypertriglyceridemia, and a selective decrease in heparin-releasable LPL activity in perfused hearts; LPL activity in cardiomyocytes from diabetic rat hearts was not reduced. Therefore, the diabetes-induced fall in myocardial LPL activity is not secondary to hypertriglyceridemia, since fructose treatment did not change LPL activity. Perfusion of rat hearts with 100 μM lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC) released a small amount of LPL activity into the perfusate, but only if albumin was omitted from the perfusion solution. Thus, the selective reduction in heparin-releasable LPL activity in perfused diabetic hearts is probably not the consequence of displacement by LPC, a lipolytic product of the LPL-catalyzed degradation of triacylglycerol-rich lipoproteins. Circulating LPL activity in the plasma of diabetic rats was not decreased relative to control plasma enzyme activity; therefore, the reduction in heparin-releasable LPL activity is not because circulating LPL was less available for uptake by the endothelium in diabetic hearts.Key words: diabetes, lipoprotein lipase, perfused hearts, cardiomyocytes.


1994 ◽  
Vol 72 (11) ◽  
pp. 1259-1264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Limin Liu ◽  
David L. Severson

Administration of streptozotocin (100 mg/kg) to adult Sprague–Dawley rats reduced both functional (heparin releasable) lipoprotein lipase activity in perfused hearts and total and heparin-releasable lipoprotein lipase activity in isolated cardio-myocytes, and produced a hypothyroid state (decreased plasma levels of triiodothyronine and thyroxine). Administration of replacement doses of triiodothyronine (3 or 10 μg/kg for 3 days) to diabetic rats normalized heparin-releasable lipoprotein lipase activity in perfused hearts, but the depressed lipoprotein lipase activity in cardiomyocytes from diabetic hearts was unchanged by in vivo thyroid hormone treatment. However, hypothyroidism in thyroidectomized rats did not alter lipoprotein lipase activity in either perfused hearts or isolated cardiomyocytes. Therefore, thyroid hormones may interact with some other factor(s) in this acute, insulin-deficient model of diabetes to selectively regulate functional, heparin-releasable lipoprotein lipase activity in perfused hearts.Key words: diabetes, hypothyroidism, lipoprotein lipase, perfused hearts, cardiomyocytes.


Author(s):  
Burton B. Silver ◽  
Ronald S. Nelson

Some investigators feel that insulin does not enter cells but exerts its influence in some manner on the cell surface. Ferritin labeling of insulin and insulin antibody was used to determine if binding sites of insulin to specific target organs could be seen with electron microscopy.Alloxanized rats were considered diabetic if blood sugar levels were in excess of 300 mg %. Test reagents included ferritin, ferritin labeled insulin, and ferritin labeled insulin antibody. Target organs examined were were diaphragm, kidney, gastrocnemius, fat pad, liver and anterior pituitary. Reagents were administered through the left common carotid. Survival time was at least one hour in test animals. Tissue incubation studies were also done in normal as well as diabetic rats. Specimens were fixed in gluteraldehyde and osmium followed by staining with lead and uranium salts. Some tissues were not stained.


1996 ◽  
Vol 19 (12) ◽  
pp. 1570-1573 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazuhiko TSUTSUMI ◽  
Yasuhide INOUE ◽  
Chieko YOSHIDA

1992 ◽  
Vol 70 (9) ◽  
pp. 1271-1279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Rodrigues ◽  
Janice E. A. Braun ◽  
Michael Spooner ◽  
David L. Severson

The objective of this investigation was to test the hypothesis that the diabetes-induced reduction in lipoprotein lipase activity in cardiac myocytes may be due to hypertriglyceridemia. Administration of 4-aminopyrazolopyrimidine (50 mg/kg) to control rats for 24 h reduced plasma triacylglycerol levels and increased the heparin-induced release of lipoprotein lipase into the incubation medium of cardiac myocytes. The acute (3–5 days) induction of diabetes by streptozotocin (100 mg/kg) produced hypertriglyceridemia and reduced heparin-releasable lipoprotein lipase activity in cardiac myocytes. Treatment of diabetic rats with 4-aminopyrazolopyrimidine resulted in a fall in plasma triacylglycerol content and increased heparin-releasable lipoprotein lipase activity. Administration of Triton WR-1339 also resulted in hypertriglyceridemia, but the heparin-induced release of lipoprotein lipase from control cardiac myocytes was not reduced in the absence of lipolysis of triacylglycerol-rich lipoproteins. Treatment with Triton WR-1339 did, however, increase the heparin-induced release of lipoprotein lipase from diabetic cardiac myocytes. Preparation of cardiac myocytes with 0.9 mM oleic acid resulted in a decrease in both total cellular and heparin-releasable lipoprotein lipase activities. These results suggest that the diabetes-induced reduction in heart lipoprotein lipase activity may, at least in part, be due to an inhibitory effect of free fatty acids, derived either from lipoprotein degradation or from adipose tissue lipolysis, on lipoprotein lipase activity in (and (or) release from) cardiac myocytes.Key words: diabetes, plasma triacylglycerols, cardiac myocytes, lipoprotein lipase.


1983 ◽  
Vol 245 (4) ◽  
pp. E379-E383 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. B. Miller

Isolated perfused hearts from control Bio-Breeding/Worcester (BB/W) rats and spontaneously diabetic BB/W rats were studied to determine whether metabolic abnormalities that are expressed in alloxan-diabetic rats in the regulation of enzymes involved in glycogen metabolism could be observed in this non-chemically induced insulin-deficient rat. Perfusion of hearts from control rats with 10(-8) M insulin for 10 min resulted in activation of glycogen synthase (30% synthase I without insulin to 44% synthase I with insulin). Perfusion of hearts from BB/W diabetic rats demonstrated a lack of acute synthase activation with insulin and a 45% decrease in synthase phosphatase activity. Perfusion of hearts from BB/W diabetic rats with 0.28 microM epinephrine for 1 min resulted in a greater activation of phosphorylase (44% phosphorylase a) than that observed in BB/W control hearts (31% phosphorylase a) perfused under the same conditions. Epinephrine produced similar changes in cyclic AMP accumulation, protein kinase activation, and phosphorylase kinase activation in perfused hearts of BB/W control and diabetic rats. Further, phosphorylase phosphatase activities were not changed by epinephrine or insulin deficiency. These studies further document metabolic abnormalities in the BB/W diabetic rat that are attributable to insulin deficiency in a non-chemically induced model for insulin-dependent diabetes.


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