Resveratrol prevents the development of high blood pressure in spontaneously hypertensive rats through the inhibition of enhanced expression of Giα proteins
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Resveratrol (RV), a polyphenolic component of red wine, has been shown to attenuate high blood pressure (BP) in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRs). We previously found that the enhanced expression of Giα proteins plays a role in the pathogenesis of hypertension in SHRs. In the present study, we investigated whether this RV-induced decrease in BP in SHRs can be attributed to the ability of RV to inhibit the enhanced expression of Giα proteins and the upstream signaling molecules implicated in the overexpression of Giα proteins. Administration of RV (50 mg/kg per day) to prehypertensive 2-week-old SHRs for 6 weeks prevented the development of high BP and inhibited the enhanced expression of Giα proteins, the enhanced levels of superoxide anion (O 2 − ) and NADPH oxidase activity, the enhanced activation (phosphorylation) of c-Src and growth factor receptors, as well as the enhanced levels of extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 (ERK1/2) and protein kinase B (Akt) exhibited by vascular smooth muscle cells isolated from SHRs. In conclusion, these results indicate that RV attenuates the development of high BP in SHRs through the inhibition of enhanced levels of Giα proteins, oxidative stress, and the upstream signaling molecules that contribute to the overexpression of Giα proteins. These findings suggest that RV could potentially be used as a therapeutic agent in the treatment of cardiovascular complications including hypertension.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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