Effects of chronic exercise on endothelial dysfunction and insulin signaling of cutaneous microvascular in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats

Abstract

Background

Abnormalities of the modulatory roles played by the endothelium and/or smooth muscle may be critical and initiating factors in the development of diabetic vascular disease. Decreased phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3-K)/Akt pathway activity and impaired nitric oxide production through this pathway may play pivotal roles in the diabetes-induced vascular dysfunction. Several findings have demonstrated that exercise training has therapeutic and protective effects in type 1 diabetes and could correct endothelial dysfunction. The molecular mechanisms, however, are only partially understood.

Method

Male Wistar rats (220 ± 10g, N = 60) were made diabetic by streptozotocin (60 mg/kg, subcutaneously). After 1 week of diabetes induction, animals were submitted to exercise training for 10 weeks on a treadmill. To characterize cutaneous microvascular responses by laser Doppler flowmetery, animals were deeply anesthetized by intraperitoneal injection of pentobarbital sodium (60 mg/kg) and placed on a heating pad. A rectal thermometer was inserted and body temperature was maintained at 37 ± 0.5°C. A tracheotomy was performed to minimize respiratory difficulties. Systemic arterial blood pressure and heart rate were measured by using a tail-cuff during assessment of cutaneous blood flow. Results (i) Acetylcholine-induced cutaneous perfusion were increased significantly by training in the diabetic groups; (ii) Cutaneous microvascular responses to sodium nitroprusside did not alter in control and diabetic animals by training; and (iii) Local microinjection of insulin increased cutaneous blood flow in trained diabetic and trained control rats compared with age-matched sedentary diabetic and sedentary control normal rats. The administration of wortmannin (PI3K inhibitor) and N^w-nitro-L-arginine (nitric oxide synthase inhibitor) before insulin, however, attenuated the increase in cutaneous blood flow in trained diabetic and normal rats.

Conclusions

Chronic exercise improved endothelium-dependent dilatation and potentiated insulin vascular function, possibly by PI3-kinase pathway in diabetic rats. Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil 14: 746-752 © 2007 The European Society of Cardiology

Keywords

Keywords:acetylcholine diabetes exercise training insulin laser Doppler flowmetery PI3-kinase sodium nitroprusside

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