A Western-Type Diet Attenuates Pulmonary Hypertension with Heart Failure and Cardiac Cachexia in Rats

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2011

Authors

Lourenço AP (Author) FMUP; Vasques-Nóvoa F (Author) Other; Fontoura D (Author) Other; Brás-Silva C (Author) FMUP; Roncon-Albuquerque R Jr (Author) FMUP; Leite-Moreira AF. (Author) FMUP

Journal

Title: Journal of Nutrition

Vol. 141

Pages: 1954-1960

ISSN: 0022-3166

Publisher: American Society for Nutritional Sciences

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FOS: Medical and Health sciences > Health sciences

CORDIS: Health sciences

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Authenticus ID: P-002-K6Q

DOI: 10.3945/jn.111.145763

Abstract (EN): Western-type diets (WD) constitute risk factors for disease but may have distinct effects in heart failure (HF) with cardiac cachexia (CC). We evaluated hemodynamic, metabolic, and inflammatory effects of short-term WD intake in pulmonary hypertension (PH) with CC. Male VVistar rats randomly received 60 mg . kg(-1) monocrotaline (M) or vehicle (C) and consumed either a 5.4-kcal . g(-1) WD (35% animal fat, 35% simple carbohydrate, 20% protein, 0.4% Na(+)) or a 2.9-kcal . g(-1) (3% vegetable fat, 60% complex carbohydrate, 16% protein, 0.25% Na(+)) normal diet (ND) for 5 wk. Mortality, energy intake, body weight (BW), metabolism, hemodynamics, histology, apoptosis, gene expression, transcription factors, and plasma cytokines were evaluated. Compared with the C-ND group, the M-ND group had PH, HF, and mortality that were significantly attenuated in M-WD. The extent of myocardial remodeling and apoptosis was higher in M-ND than in C-ND but lower in M-WD than in M-ND, while conversely, energy intake, BW, cholesterol, and TG plasma concentrations were lower in M-ND than in C-ND but higher in M-WD than in M-ND. M-ND had increased myocardial NF-kappa B transcription factor activity, endothelin-1, and cytokine overexpression and higher circulating cytokine concentrations than C-ND, which were lower in M-WD than in M-ND. PPAR alpha activity, however, was lower in M-ND, but not in M-WD, compared with the respective C groups. WD attenuated PH and CC, ameliorating survival, myocardial function, metabolism, and inflammation, through transcription factor modulation, suggesting a beneficial role in CC. J. Nutr. 141: 1954-1960, 2011.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

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