Roles of sex and insulin on microvascular exchange function

A characteristic of endothelial dysfunction, which is observed in the beginning stages of type 2 diabetes, is the alteration of the microvascular barrier, affecting the microvascular permeability. We measured the venular leakage and clearance of albumin in response to suffusion with high-dose insulin (10-7M) in the autoperfused mesentery in the adult male (AM), adult female (AF), and juvenile male (JM) rats. Insulin suffusion lead to increased venular albumin leakage by 63% in AM rats. Albumin and total protein clearance decreased with insulin treatment. In the JM rats, venular albumin leakage was increased by 103% with insulin suffusion. The total protein clearance in JM was unchanged, while the albumin clearance increased with insulin suffusion. In the AF rats, venular albumin leakage was unchanged with insulin suffusion. Insulin decreased the total protein clearance, but not the albumin clearance. We demonstrated novel data that not only can insulin result in changes in macromolecule exchange in intact, mesenteric microvasculature, but that these changes were dependent on the sex and the sexual maturity of the animal.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph. D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Medical pharmacology and physiology (MU)

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Missouri--Columbia

Year dc:date.issued

2007

Author dc:creator

• Sasaki, Rie, 1977-

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Huxley, Virginia

Statement dc:rights

• OpenAccess.

Language dc:language.iso

eng, English

DOI

https://doi.org/10.32469/10355/4733

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:mospace.umsystem.edu:10355/4733