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Query: EC:3.6.1.3 (ATPase)
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The effects of an aldose reductase (AR) inhibitor, elevated glucose and other compounds were evaluated on in vitro 2-[3H] myo-inositol (MI) uptake in cultured human endothelial cells (ECs). Significant AR activity was present in ECs (1,373 +/- 170 mumol/mg.min: incubated with 28 mM glucose for 48 hr). Since Na(+)-deprivation and the addition of Ouabain (5 mM) significantly reduced MI uptake, MI incorporation into ECs might be dependent on an active transport system via Na(+)-K+ ATPase activity. MI uptake was reduced significantly (21 +/- 6, 39 +/- 7% reduction) in the presence of excess glucose (27.5, 55 mM). However, addition of the AR inhibitor (ONO-2235 100 microM) prevented the glucose mediated inhibition of MI uptake (15 +/- 5, 21 +/- 6% reduction). These results suggest that inhibition of AR might prevent glucose-mediated toxicity via an increment of MI uptake.
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PMID:Effect of glucose and an aldose reductase inhibitor on myo-inositol uptake by cultured human endothelial cells. 184 13

A myo-inositol-related defect in nerve Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase in experimental diabetes has been invoked in the pathogenesis of diabetic neuropathy, but the mechanism linking altered myo-inositol metabolism and Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase regulation in diabetic nerve is uncertain. Decreased Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase in diabetic rat nerve is normalized by aldose reductase inhibitors or dietary myo-inositol, which preserve normal nerve myo-inositol content in vivo. Decreased Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase in diabetic rabbit nerve is acutely reversed by exposure to protein kinase C agonists in vitro. This study explored the relationship between the myo-inositol-sensitive and protein kinase C-agonist-sensitive Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase defects in diabetic rat nerve. Ouabain-sensitive ATPase activity was measured in an enriched membrane fraction isolated from nondiabetic, streptozocin-induced diabetic, and myo-inositol-supplemented streptozocin-induced diabetic rats before and after the membranes were exposed to protein kinase C agonists in vitro. The decreased ouabain-sensitive ATPase activity in plasma membranes from untreated diabetic rats was increased after exposure to two structurally unrelated protein kinase C agonists; the normal ouabain-sensitive ATPase in plasma membranes from myo-inositol-supplemented diabetic rats was unaffected by protein kinase C agonists. The nonadditivity and implied equivalence of the Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase defect corrected by myo-inositol in vivo and by protein kinase C agonists in vitro are consistent with the postulated existence of a deficient myo-inositol-dependent phospholipid-derived protein kinase C agonist (presumably diacylglycerol) in diabetic nerve that regulates nerve Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase either directly or via a protein kinase C mechanism.
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PMID:Normalization of Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase activity in isolated membrane fraction from sciatic nerves of streptozocin-induced diabetic rats by dietary myo-inositol supplementation in vivo or protein kinase C agonists in vitro. 185 Jul 4

The ability of aldose reductase inhibitors to prevent the decline in neural Na+,K(+)-ATPase activity in diabetic rats has not been confirmed by all laboratories. In this study, the efficacy of two structurally different aldose reductase inhibitors was evaluated under different experimental conditions. Na+,K(+)-ATPase activity was measured in sciatic nerves from streptozocin-induced diabetic rats fed normal rodent chow or a chow supplemented with 68% sucrose. Nerve homogenates from chow-fed rats were prepared with a Dounce tissue grinder, whereas homogenates from the sucrose-fed rats were prepared with an Ultra-Turrax disperser. In the chow-fed rats, 4 weeks of untreated diabetes resulted in an increase in neural sorbitol and fructose, a decrease in myoinositol, and a 54% decline in Na+,K(+)-ATPase activity. Sorbinil administration (20 mg/kg/day) completely prevented the rise in sorbitol and fructose and the depletion of myoinositol, but did not prevent the decline in Na+,K(+)-ATPase activity. In diabetic rats fed the sucrose diet for 4, 6, and 8 weeks, the neural sorbitol and fructose levels were elevated, the myoinositol concentration declined, and the Na+,K(+)-ATPase activity was 26 to 28% below the control. Prevention or intervention treatment with sorbinil (20 mg/kg/day) or tolrestat (50 mg/kg/day) for 4 to 6 weeks prevented the alterations in sorbitol, fructose, and myoinositol, and also prevented the decline in Na+,K(+)-ATPase activity. In conclusion, prevention and intervention therapy with aldose reductase inhibitors prevented the decline in Na+,K(+)-ATPase in sciatic nerves of sucrose-fed streptozocin-diabetic rats that were homogenized with an Ultra-Turrax disperser, but not in sciatic nerves from streptozocin-diabetic rats fed normal rodent chow that were homogenized with a Dounce tissue grinder. These findings indicate that the assessment of aldose reductase inhibitor efficacy is dramatically affected by the type of nerve preparation assayed and/or the diet.
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PMID:Adenosine triphosphatase activity in sciatic nerve tissue of streptozocin-induced diabetic rats with and without high dietary sucrose: effect of aldose reductase inhibitors. 185 65

The effect of chronic hyperglycemia and polyol pathway activation on the Schwann cell has not been resolved although injury to this cell has long been suspected in diabetic neuropathy. Hyperglycemia, resulting from galactose intoxication of four months duration, induces dose-dependent accumulations of endoneurial fluid sodium and chloride that are linked to polyol pathway activity and associated with dose-dependent increases in sciatic nerve water content, endoneurial fluid pressure and (Na+, K+)-ATPase activity. In order to understand the impact of these changes on the nerve microenvironment, cellular elements of the endoneurium were quantitatively and qualitatively assessed in rats receiving 0%, 10%, 20% or 40% galactose diets. After four months of galactose intoxication, dose-dependent changes in the size distribution of myelinated nerve fibers were apparent. A shift in size-frequency histograms of galactose-intoxicated animals towards smaller fibers was accompanied by a decrease in axon diameter and the volume fraction ratio of axon to myelinated nerve fibers. In the sciatic nerve of all 40% galactose-fed rats examined by electron microscopy, Schwann cells of myelinated fibers showed both reactive and degenerative changes. Demyelination was preceded by splitting at the intraperiod line. Remyelination was identified by axons with disproportionately thin myelin sheaths. Axonal dystrophy and degeneration were infrequently seen, but there was axonal regeneration. Dose-dependent increases in mast cell number were observed with degranulation apparent in rats receiving 20% and 40% galactose. Endothelial cell number and basal lamina thickness were increased in the endoneurial vessels of galactose-intoxicated rats. Increased cytoplasmic area and degenerative changes in pericytes were also noted. These observations indicate that significant morphologic changes accompany the hyperosmotic imbalance resulting from galactose intoxication of four months duration. Schwann cell injury and demyelination are present in a disorder linked to polyol metabolism since aldose reductase, the anabolic enzyme of the polyol pathway, is localized to this myelin-forming cell.
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PMID:Cellular pathology of the nerve microenvironment in galactose intoxication. 202 66

ATPase activity was investigated in sciatic and optic nerves of female mutant diabetic C57Bl/Ks (db/db) mice and age-matched control mice (db/m and m/m). Nerves from animals aged 50, 70, 125, 180 and 280 days were assayed in vitro for ATPase activity in the presence or absence of ouabain: the ouabain-sensitive fraction contained Na+,K(+)-ATPase. Enzymatic activity was compared within and between age-matched groups. No significant difference in Na+,K(+)-ATPase activity was detected between the diabetic and control mice, whether expressed as mumol Pi/h-1 formed per gramme wet weight or per nerve (protein content). The activity decreased by about 25% in both the sciatic and optic nerves of the oldest animals. These results were strikingly similar in all groups, regardless of the type of nerve examined, confirming that the development of neuropathy in this animal model is unrelated to the postulated derangement of Na+,K(+)-ATPase activity. Among possible explanations, a lack of polyol pathway activation was investigated by staining the sciatic nerves of animals from all groups with the peroxidase-antiperoxidase procedure using a polyclonal antiserum raised against the enzyme aldose reductase. Histological sections of all nerves were consistently negative, suggesting that these animals actually lack the enzyme involved in activating the self-perpetuating metabolic cycle leading to deranged nerve function. The db/db mouse appears to present particular biochemical changes which merit attention with a view to clarifying the pathogenesis of diabetic neuropathy.
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PMID:Diabetic neuropathy in db/db mice develops independently of changes in ATPase and aldose reductase. A biochemical and immunohistochemical study. 215 68

We measured motor nerve conduction velocity (MNCV), Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase activity, polyol-pathway metabolites, and myo-inositol in sciatic nerves from control mice, galactose-fed (20% wt/wt diet) mice, and galactose-fed mice given the aldose reductase inhibitor ponalrestat (300-mg/kg diet). Treatments were maintained for 4 wk. Galactose feeding was associated with a 21.5% reduction in MNCV (P less than 0.001), which was almost completely prevented by ponalrestat. Galactose-fed mice showed an 81% increase in Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase (P less than 0.01), an effect completely prevented by aldose reductase inhibition. Treatment of a separate galactose-fed group with sorbinil (300 mg/kg diet) also attenuated the MNCV deficit and prevented the increased Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase activity associated with galactosemia. Accumulation of galactitol in the nerves of galactose-fed mice was prevented by aldose reductase inhibition, but there were no alterations in myo-inositol levels in the sciatic nerves of any group. These data show that exaggerated flux through the polyol pathway can cause an MNCV deficit that is unrelated to either myo-inositol levels or NA(+)-K(+)-ATPase activity.
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PMID:Coexistence of nerve conduction deficit with increased Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase activity in galactose-fed mice. Implications for polyol pathway and diabetic neuropathy. 216 66

The role of sorbitol, myo-inositol, and Na+, K(+)-adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) activity on motor nerve conduction velocity (MNCV) in streptozotocin (STZ)-diabetic rats was studied. Reduction of MNCV and Na+, K(+)-ATPase in caudal nerves appeared after 3 weeks of diabetes, and at this time treatment with aldose reductase inhibitor (ARI), ADN-138 and 1% myo-inositol supplement was begun. One percent myo-inositol supplement for 3 weeks resulted in a significant increase in myo-inositol levels in diabetic nerves, but left MNCV and sorbitol levels unchanged. In contrast, treatment with ADN-138 for 3 weeks reduced sorbitol levels in diabetic nerves and resulted in significant increases in MNCV and Na+, K(+)-ATPase in the nerves. Since ADN-138 did not restore myo-inositol levels, the increase in Na+, K(+)-ATPase levels by ADN-138 treatment was independent of myo-inositol levels. Also, nerve Na+ levels in ADN-138-treated rats were reduced and the ratio of K+ to Na+ was raised, while 1% myo-inositol supplement did not affect them. These results suggest that treatment with ADN-138 elevates MNCV through a series of processes: ARI----reduction of sorbitol level----increase in Na+, K(+)-ATPase activity----correction of K+, Na+ imbalance----increase in MNCV.
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PMID:Relation of Na+, K(+)-ATPase to delayed motor nerve conduction velocity: effect of aldose reductase inhibitor, ADN-138, on Na+, K(+)-ATPase activity. 216 92

The activity of Na-K-ATPase in the kidney is increased by experimental diabetes. Because the kidney is rich in myo-inositol and abnormal inositol metabolism has been implicated in early neural complications of diabetes, we studied the effect of myo-inositol supplementation on Na-K-ATPase activity in renal medullary and cortical homogenates of Sprague-Dawley rats made diabetic with streptozotocin. Myo-inositol (650 mg/kg) was administered by gavage daily for 1 and 2 weeks after induction of diabetes. Medullary Na-K-ATPase (mumol/mg protein/h) was increased at 1 week by approximately 60% in diabetic rats versus control (25.9 +/- 0.07 vs 16.3 +/- 0.7; P less than .01). This increase was completely prevented by myo-inositol supplementation, despite persistent hyperglycemia. At 2 weeks, similar results were seen; medullary Na-K-ATPase activity was increased by 50% in diabetic rats compared with control, and once again myo-inositol prevented this increase. Sorbinil, the aldose reductase inhibitor, was also administered by gavage (20 mg/kg) for 2 weeks and partially prevented the increase in medullary Na-K-ATPase activity (20.0 +/- 0.9; P less than .05). At both 7 and 14 days, Na-K-ATPase activity in the cortex of untreated diabetic rats was also significantly increased compared with nondiabetic control rats and the increase was prevented by myo-inositol or Sorbinil. Myo-inositol or Sorbinil did not reduce Na-K-ATPase activity of nondiabetic control rats, nor did they prevent the increase in medullary Na-K-ATPase in compensatory hypertrophy following uninephrectomy. Myo-inositol content of outer medulla was about five to six times that of cortex, but was unaltered by the diabetic state.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Effect of myo-inositol on renal Na-K-ATPase in experimental diabetes. 217 Aug 18

Nerve conduction slowing, a hallmark of both experimental and human diabetic neuropathy, is improved or corrected by aldose reductase inhibitors such as sorbinil. Recent animal experiments attribute acutely reversible nerve conduction slowing in diabetes to a myo-inositol (MI)-related defect in the nerve Na-K-ATPase (which generates the transmembrane sodium and potassium potentials necessary for nerve impulse conduction and the sodium gradient necessary for sodium-dependent uptake of substrates). This MI-related abnormality in Na-K-ATPase function is currently viewed as a cyclic, metabolic defect involving sequential alteration of Na-dependent MI uptake, MI content, MI incorporation into membrane phospholipids, and phospholipid-dependent Na-K-ATPase function in peripheral nerve. Aldose reductase inhibitors have been shown to normalize both nerve MI content and nerve Na-K-ATPase activity. These observations suggest that the acute effects of aldose reductase inhibitors on nerve conduction in both diabetic animals and patients may be mediated by correction of an underlying MI-related nerve Na-K-ATPase defect. Furthermore, this sorbinil-corrected Na-K-ATPase defect in diabetic nerve may contribute to other biochemical, functional, and structural abnormalities present in patients with diabetic peripheral neuropathy.
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PMID:A sodium-pump defect in diabetic peripheral nerve corrected by sorbinil administration: relationship to myo-inositol metabolism and nerve conduction slowing. 242 Nov 35

1. The effects of a six week period of streptozotocin-induced diabetes on tissue catecholamines and on in vivo noradrenaline turnover were assessed in rats. 2. Noradrenaline concentrations measured in heart ventricle, terminal ileum, vas deferens, spleen and adrenal tissue from the diabetic rats were all found to be elevated compared to those found in control rat tissues. The adrenaline contents of the adrenal glands were also raised in these animals. 3. Noradrenaline turnover in heart ventricle, terminal ileum and vas deferens was estimated from the decline in tissue content of the amine following inhibition of its synthesis with alpha-methyl-p-tyrosine. Turnover was found to be increased in all three tissues. 4. The involvement of the polyol pathway in the above changes was investigated by examining the effects of continuous treatment with an aldose reductase inhibitor, Statil (ICI 128436) or dietary myo-inositol supplementation. Either treatment was found to prevent or reduce the increases in tissue noradrenaline and in its turnover. Myo-inositol treatment also partially prevented the rise in adrenal adrenaline. 5. It is concluded that the elevation of tissue catecholamines and of noradrenaline turnover by diabetes was related to myo-inositol depletion secondary to excessive sorbitol synthesis. Possible mechanisms for the observed increase in noradrenaline turnover could involve Na+, K+-ATPase depression.
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PMID:Tissue noradrenaline and the polyol pathway in experimentally diabetic rats. 250 23


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