Diabetes 50:166-174, 2001
© 2001 by the American Diabetes Association, Inc.
Reduced Vasorelaxant Effect of Carbon Monoxide in Diabetes and the Underlying Mechanisms
Rui Wang,
Zunzhe Wang,
Lingyun Wu,
Salma Toma Hanna, and
Robert Peterson-Wakeman
From the Departments of Physiology (R.W., S.T.H., R.P.-W.) and Anatomy
and Cell Biology (L. W.), University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan,
Canada; and the Laboratory of Cellular Morphology (Z. W.), Weifang Medical
College, Weifang, China.
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Rui Wang, Department of
Physiology, University of Saskatchewan, 107 Wiggins Rd., Saskatoon, SK, Canada
S7N 5E5. Email:
wangrui{at}duke.usask.ca
.
Carbon monoxide (CO) is an endogenous gaseous factor that relaxes vascular
tissues by acting on both the cGMP pathway and calcium-activated K+
(KCa) channels. Whether the vascular effect of CO is altered in
diabetes had been unknown. It was found that the CO-induced relaxation of tail
artery tissues from streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats was significantly
decreased as compared with that of nondiabetic control rats. The blockade of
the cGMP pathway with ODQ (1H-[1,2,4]oxadiazolo[4,3,-a]quinoxalin-1-one)
completely abolished the CO-induced relaxation of diabetic tissues but only
partially inhibited the CO effect in normal tissues. Single-channel
conductance of KCa channels in diabetic smooth muscle cells (SMCs)
was not different from that of normal SMCs. However, the sensitivity of
KCa channels to CO in diabetic SMCs was significantly reduced. CO
(10 µmol/l) induced an 81 ± 24% increase in the mean open
probability of single KCa channels in normal SMCs but had no effect
in diabetic SMCs. Longterm culture of normal vascular SMCs with 25 mmol/l
glucose or 25 mmol/l 3-OMG (3-O-methylglucose) but not 25 mmol/l
mannitol significantly reduced the sensitivity of KCa channels to
CO. On the Other hand, the sensitivity of KCa channels to CO was
regained in diabetic SMCs that were cultured with 5 mmol/l glucose for a
prolonged period. The decreased vasorelaxant effect of CO in diabetes
represents a novel mechanism for the vascular complications of diabetes, which
could be closely related to the glycation of KCa channels in
diabetic vascular SMCs.

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