Norepinephrine mediates heart block during severe hypoglycemia in male rats.

Autor: Nuibe EH; Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Diabetes, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA., Chambers ME; Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Diabetes, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA., Reno-Bernstein CM; Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Diabetes, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Physiological reports [Physiol Rep] 2024 Aug; Vol. 12 (16), pp. e70010.
DOI: 10.14814/phy2.70010
Abstrakt: Hypoglycemia is common in people with type 1 diabetes. Sometimes, severe hypoglycemia can be fatal. The underlying mechanisms by which severe hypoglycemia can lead to death are unclear. The sympathetic nervous system is thought to be proarrhythmic. We hypothesized that norepinephrine is the main mediator of severe hypoglycemia-induced fatal cardiac arrhythmias. To test this hypothesis, adult, non-diabetic Sprague-Dawley rats were subjected to hyperinsulinemic-severe hypoglycemic clamps (3 h, 10-15 mg/dL) during two different experiments: (1) intracerebroventricular (ICV) norepinephrine (n = 26) or artificial cerebrospinal fluid (aCSF) (n = 20) infusion or (2) blockade of norepinephrine release by intraperitoneal reserpine (n = 20) or control (n = 29). In experiment 1, brain norepinephrine infusion during severe hypoglycemia led to a 2.5-fold increase in third-degree heart block and a 24% incidence of ST elevation compared to no ST elevation in aCSF controls. In experiment 2, reserpine successfully reduced plasma and cardiac norepinephrine levels. During severe hypoglycemia, reserpine completely prevented second and third-degree heart block and T wave increases, a marker of myocardial infarction, compared to controls. In conclusion, norepinephrine increases while reserpine, used to reduce norepinephrine nerve terminal release, reduces heart block and markers of myocardial infarction during severe hypoglycemia.
(© 2024 The Author(s). Physiological Reports published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of The Physiological Society and the American Physiological Society.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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