Effect of Chronic Inhibition of Nitric Oxide on Hypertension, Insulin Resistance, and Cardiovascular Remodeling in Glucose-fed Rats
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Abstract
To determine the contribution of nitric oxide (NO) in cardiovascular remodeling associated to hypertension and insulin resistance, male Sprague-Dawley rats received tap water supplemented or not (control), with 10% D-glucose (G) and/or 50 mg x kg(-1) x d(-1) L-NAME to inhibit NO synthase (G-LN or LN) for 4 weeks. Systolic blood pressure increased by 12%, 26%, and 39% with G, LN, and G-LN treatments, respectively. Hyperinsulinemia and insulin resistance (homeostasis model assessment index) occurred in G-treated rats (P < 0.05) and were further increased in G-LN (P < 0.01). Plasma adrenaline concentrations were markedly increased in all treated groups, especially in G-LN (P < 0.01), whereas noradrenaline was increased in G-treated rats only. Whereas no cardiac hypertrophy or fibrosis was detected, aortic hypertrophy occurred in LN and G-LN rats (P < 0.001) without smooth muscle hyperplasia. Superoxide anion formation was increased in the aorta of all treated groups (P < 0.01) and in the heart of LN (P < 0.05), but reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NAD(P)H) oxidase activity was not affected. In conclusion, the loss of the wide-range protective effects of NO, the increased vascular oxidative stress, and the sympathoadrenal hyperactivity are among the contributing factors leading to the exacerbation of hypertension and insulin resistance in G-LN. These factors were sufficient to cause vascular but not cardiac hypertrophy.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".