Changes in cardiac Na+/K+-ATPase expression and activity in female rats fed a high fat diet
Abstract
The aim of this study was to investigate whether the presence of endogenous estradiol alters the effects of a high-fat (HF) diet on activity/expression of the cardiac Na+/K+-ATPase, via PI3K/IRS and RhoA/ROCK signalling cascades in female rats. For this study, female Wistar rats (8 weeks old, 150–200 g) were fed a standard diet or a HF diet (balanced diet for laboratory rats enriched with 42% fat) for 10 weeks. The results show that rats fed a HF diet exhibited a decrease in phosphorylation of the α1 subunit of Na+/K+-ATPase by 30% (p < 0.05), expression of total α1 subunit of Na+/K+-ATPase by 31% (p < 0.05), and association of IRS1 with p85 subunit of PI3K by 42% (p < 0.05), while the levels of cardiac RhoA and ROCK2 were significantly increased by 84% (p < 0.01) and 62% (p < 0.05), respectively. Our results suggest that a HF diet alters cardiac Na+/K+-ATPase expression via molecular mechanisms involving RhoA/ROCK and IRS-1/PI3K signalling in female rats.
Citation
Jovanovic , A , Obradovic , M , Sudar-Milovanovic , E , Stewart , A J , Pitt , S J , Alvantic , D , Aleksic , E & Isenovic , E R 2017 , ' Changes in cardiac Na + /K + -ATPase expression and activity in female rats fed a high fat diet ' , Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry , vol. 436 , no. 1-2 , pp. 49-58 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s11010-017-3077-y
Publication
Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry
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Peer reviewed
ISSN
0300-8177Type
Journal article
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This work is supported by the Grant Nos. 173033 and III41028 from the Ministry of Science, Republic of Serbia.Collections
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