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Publication : Vascular respiratory uncoupling increases blood pressure and atherosclerosis.

First Author  Bernal-Mizrachi C Year  2005
Journal  Nature Volume  435
Issue  7041 Pages  502-6
PubMed ID  15917810 Mgi Jnum  J:98895
Mgi Id  MGI:3580215 Doi  10.1038/nature03527
Citation  Bernal-Mizrachi C, et al. (2005) Vascular respiratory uncoupling increases blood pressure and atherosclerosis. Nature 435(7041):502-6
abstractText  The observations that atherosclerosis often occurs in non-smokers without elevated levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and that most atherosclerosis loci so far identified in mice do not affect systemic risk factors associated with atherosclerosis, suggest that as-yet-unidentified mechanisms must contribute to vascular disease. Arterial walls undergo regional disturbances of metabolism that include the uncoupling of respiration and oxidative phosphorylation, a process that occurs to some extent in all cells and may be characteristic of blood vessels being predisposed to the development of atherosclerosis. To test the hypothesis that inefficient metabolism in blood vessels promotes vascular disease, we generated mice with doxycycline-inducible expression of uncoupling protein-1 (UCP1) in the artery wall. Here we show that UCP1 expression in aortic smooth muscle cells causes hypertension and increases dietary atherosclerosis without affecting cholesterol levels. UCP1 expression also increases superoxide production and decreases the availability of nitric oxide, evidence of oxidative stress. These results provide proof of principle that inefficient metabolism in blood vessels can cause vascular disease.
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