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Effects of valsartan therapy on protein glycoxidation.

Abstract
Several lines of evidence suggest that both advanced glycation end products (AGEs) and oxidation processes play key roles in the physiology of aging and age-related pathologies, leading to irreversible proteins modifications in both tissues and the extracellular matrix. Such an accelerated accumulation of these modifications has been reported to be present in several age-related chronic diseases, such as atherosclerosis, diabetes, arthritis, and neurodegenerative diseases. The current literature reveals that the specific inhibition of AGEs may constitute an innovative therapeutic goal. In experimental animals, the use of sartans significantly reduces blood pressure and kidney pentosidine content, improving both histologic renal damage and proteinuria. In this study, 12 subjects who were affected by diabetes mellitus and hypertension were subjected to oral antihypertensive therapy with valsartan (class of sartans) with timed sampling of plasma and urine pentosidine, N(epsilon)-(carboxymethyl)lysine (CML), malondialdehyde, and isoprostanes levels, respectively, at baseline and after both 3 and 6 months, with parallel ongoing evaluation of glycemic control and blood pressure levels. Valsartan elicited a good antihypertensive effect with a 30% decrease in plasma pentosidine levels (P < .05) after 3 months of therapy, followed by a slight increase after 6 months. Urinary pentosidine concentrations exhibited a 40% decrease after 3 months (215 +/- 19 vs 129 +/- 23 nmol/24 h) and a further significant reduction after 6 months of therapy (105 +/- 24 nmol/24 h). Plasma CML levels showed a progressive decrease after 3 months (23.15 +/- 3.215 vs 19.88 +/- 1.684 micromol/mL) and achieved a further slight reduction after 6 months of therapy (19.48 +/- 1.339 micromol/mL); for urinary CML, a statistically significant reduction was gained after the sixth month of therapy (48.51 +/- 5.70 vs 30.30 +/- 2.77 micromol/24 h after 3 months and 27.02 +/- 4.13 micromol/24 h after 6 months; F = 7.62, P < .005). Plasma and urinary concentrations of malondialdehyde were slightly modified by valsartan treatment; the mean levels after both 3 and 6 months did not significantly differ from baseline. Urinary 15-F2t-isoprostanes (2.96 +/- 0.45 ng/24 h) levels displayed a progressive decrease after both 3 (2.27 +/- 0.31 ng/24 h) and 6 months (1.70 +/- 0.23 ng/24 h) with statistical significance achieved only at the end of the study (P < .05). The present data suggest interesting in vivo antiglycation and antioxidation effects of this angiotensin II receptor antagonist with reductions in plasma and urinary pentosidine, plasma CML, and urinary isoprostanes levels. The present study supports an antagonistic role of valsartan in the production of AGEs precursors through the chelation of transition metals and an antioxidant activity that scavenges reactive oxygen species. This property of valsartan may broaden the scope of newly developed pharmacologic inhibitors of advanced glycoxidation.
AuthorsFiammetta Monacelli, Alessia Poggi, Daniela Storace, Arianna Durante, Nicola Traverso, Giorgio Luciano Viviani, Patrizio Odetti
JournalMetabolism: clinical and experimental (Metabolism) Vol. 55 Issue 12 Pg. 1619-24 (Dec 2006) ISSN: 0026-0495 [Print] United States
PMID17142134 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
Chemical References
  • Antihypertensive Agents
  • Glycation End Products, Advanced
  • Proteins
  • Tetrazoles
  • 8-epi-prostaglandin F2alpha
  • Malondialdehyde
  • N(6)-carboxymethyllysine
  • Valsartan
  • Arginine
  • Dinoprost
  • pentosidine
  • Valine
  • Lysine
Topics
  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Antihypertensive Agents (pharmacology)
  • Arginine (analogs & derivatives, metabolism)
  • Dinoprost (analogs & derivatives, urine)
  • Female
  • Glycation End Products, Advanced (metabolism)
  • Glycosylation
  • Humans
  • Hypertension (drug therapy, metabolism)
  • Lysine (analogs & derivatives, metabolism)
  • Male
  • Malondialdehyde (analysis)
  • Middle Aged
  • Oxidation-Reduction
  • Proteins (metabolism)
  • Tetrazoles (pharmacology, therapeutic use)
  • Valine (analogs & derivatives, pharmacology, therapeutic use)
  • Valsartan

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