The blood vessel, linchpin of diabetic lesions
| Autor: | Mouna Chakir, Gérard E. Plante, Jude Alfred |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Pathology Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism Aorta Thoracic Vascular permeability Diabetes Mellitus Experimental Microcirculation Capillary Permeability Endocrinology Internal medicine medicine.artery medicine Animals Thoracic aorta Endothelial dysfunction Aorta business.industry Vascular disease Vasa Vasorum Anatomy medicine.disease medicine.anatomical_structure Vasa vasorum Blood Vessels Rabbits business Diabetic Angiopathies Blood vessel |
| Zdroj: | Metabolism. 48:406-409 |
| ISSN: | 0026-0495 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/s0026-0495(99)90094-x |
| Popis: | The morbidity and mortality associated with diabetes mellitus are essentially related to the vascular lesions that develop over time in this condition. Both the macrocirculation and microcirculation are involved, and as a consequence, vital organs such as the brain, retina, heart, and kidney and the limbs become damaged. Because microalbuminuria represents the earliest and probably most sensitive indication of endothelial dysfunction in diabetes mellitus, the results of pharmacologic intervention with angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, which treat glomerular hypertension were the first indication of potential beneficial effects in reducing diabetic nephroplasty. The nature of endothelial dysfunction related to diabetes is probably not homogeneous, since microcirculation networks are affected at different periods and with variable intensity. This appears to be the case for the aorta, the heart, segments of the digestive tract, the skin, and the skeletal muscle, the largest consumer of insulin. Although the aorta and large arteries contain a small portion of the total blood volume, their distribution of blood flow (pulse pressure) to peripheral organs may affect endothelial function in the microcirculation. Changes in the structure of conduit arteries, partly responsible for the alteration in compliance characteristics, could well be related to the way these arteries are fed by the vasa vasorum system. This report describes a new in vitro approach to examine capillary permeability in normal and alloxan-induced diabetic rabbits. Preliminary results indicate that the size of terminal arterioles of the vasa vasorum (increased diameter) and the capillary permeability to albumin (markedly enhanced) in this specialized network are profoundly affected in the thoracic aorta obtained from diabetic animals. Albumin extravasation into the interstitial fluid compartment of the aorta is likely to lead to structural and physicochemical changes: in fact, removal of interstitial macromolecules via lymphatic drainage is poor in the blood vessel wall of large arteries. This experimental approach is likely to be useful in the exploration of medications affecting the structure and function of conduit vessels. |
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