AJP - Endocrinology and Metabolism, Vol 269, Issue 4 E709-E715, Copyright © 1995 by American Physiological Society

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Insulin resistance after hypertension induced by the nitric oxide synthesis inhibitor L-NMMA in rats

A. D. Baron, J. S. Zhu, S. Marshall, O. Irsula, G. Brechtel and C. Keech
Department of Medicine, Indiana University Medical Center, Indianapolis 46202, USA.

To explore the relationship between insulin resistance and hypertension, we examined whether acute induction of hypertension can engender insulin resistance. For this purpose we measured rates of insulin-mediated glucose uptake in awake unstressed rats with the euglycemic hyperinsulinemic (12 microns.kg-1.min-1) clamp technique during infusions of saline alone or after induction of hypertension by bolus administration of NG-monomethyl-L-arginine (L-NMMA, 30 and 15 mg/kg), a competitive inhibitor of nitric oxide synthase. Arterial pressure was approximately 20% greater with L-NMMA bolus than with saline alone. Isotopically determined steady-state rates of glucose uptake were 36 +/- 1 mg.kg-1.min-1 during saline alone and 26 +/- 2 and 19 +/- 1 mg.kg-1.min-1 with low- and high-dose L-NMMA (P < 0.001 vs. saline), respectively. To rule out that insulin resistance induced by L-NMMA was adrenergically mediated, clamp studies were repeated with alpha- and beta-blockade. Rates of glucose uptake remained approximately 20% below those observed with saline alone (P < 0.001). A significant inverse correlation was observed between the height of the blood pressure and the rate of glucose uptake (r = 0.32, P = 0.04). In conclusion, acute induction of hypertension with L-NMMA can cause marked insulin resistance. We postulate that reduced skeletal muscle perfusion and/or sympathetic nervous system activation may contribute to insulin resistance induced by L-NMMA.

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