PMID- 29564917 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20190708 LR - 20190708 IS - 1744-4160 (Electronic) IS - 1381-3455 (Linking) VI - 125 IP - 3 DP - 2019 Jul TI - Interactive effects of apelin, renin-angiotensin system and nitric oxide in treatment of obesity-induced type 2 diabetes mellitus in male albino rats. PG - 244-254 LID - 10.1080/13813455.2018.1453521 [doi] AB - Apelin and its receptor (APJ) are involved in the regulation of a variety of pathophysiological processes. We studied the effect of apelin treatment on obesity-induced type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and possible interaction between apelin/APJ system and renin-angiotensin system (RAS). Forty eight male albino rats were divided into two groups: control group and diabetic group. Diabetic group was subdivided into: control diabetic, apelin-treated, apelin + losartan-treated, apelin + l-NAME-treated and losartan-treated diabetic subgroup. Administration of apelin-13 yielded an improvement of IR, dyslipidaemia, inflammation, oxidative stress with significant decrease in AT1R gene expression and significant increase in ACE2 gene expression in adipose tissues. Losartan + apelin yielded a further significant decrease in ATR1 gene expression, glycaemic indices, serum TGs and TPA versus Apelin only. Adding l-NAME in subgroup (2D) reversed the effect of apelin. We suggested that the beneficial effect of Apelin is mainly mediated by NO-activated pathway and/or ACE2/Ang (1-7) dependent pathway. FAU - Sabry, Maha Mohamed AU - Sabry MM AD - a Physiology Department, Faculty of Medicine , Cairo University , Cairo , Egypt. FAU - Mahmoud, Manal Moustafa AU - Mahmoud MM AD - a Physiology Department, Faculty of Medicine , Cairo University , Cairo , Egypt. FAU - Shoukry, Heba Samy AU - Shoukry HS AD - a Physiology Department, Faculty of Medicine , Cairo University , Cairo , Egypt. FAU - Rashed, Laila AU - Rashed L AD - b Biochemistry Department, Faculty of Medicine , Cairo University , Cairo , Egypt. FAU - Kamar, Samaa Samir AU - Kamar SS AD - c Medical Histology Department, Faculty of Medicine , Cairo University , Cairo , Egypt. FAU - Ahmed, Mona Mohamed AU - Ahmed MM AD - a Physiology Department, Faculty of Medicine , Cairo University , Cairo , Egypt. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20180322 PL - England TA - Arch Physiol Biochem JT - Archives of physiology and biochemistry JID - 9510153 RN - 0 (Angiotensin II Type 1 Receptor Blockers) RN - 0 (Apelin) RN - 0 (Biomarkers) RN - 0 (Blood Glucose) RN - 0 (Enzyme Inhibitors) RN - 0 (Insulin) RN - 31C4KY9ESH (Nitric Oxide) RN - JMS50MPO89 (Losartan) RN - V55S2QJN2X (NG-Nitroarginine Methyl Ester) SB - IM MH - Angiotensin II Type 1 Receptor Blockers/administration & dosage MH - Animals MH - Apelin/*administration & dosage MH - Biomarkers/*analysis MH - Blood Glucose/analysis MH - Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental/etiology/metabolism/pathology/*prevention & control MH - Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/etiology/metabolism/pathology/*prevention & control MH - Diet, High-Fat/adverse effects MH - Drug Therapy, Combination MH - Enzyme Inhibitors/administration & dosage MH - Insulin/metabolism MH - Insulin Resistance MH - Losartan/administration & dosage MH - Male MH - NG-Nitroarginine Methyl Ester/administration & dosage MH - Nitric Oxide/*metabolism MH - Obesity/*complications/etiology/pathology MH - Rats MH - Renin-Angiotensin System/*drug effects OTO - NOTNLM OT - Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) OT - apelin OT - endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) OT - renin-angiotensin system (RAS) EDAT- 2018/03/23 06:00 MHDA- 2019/07/10 06:00 CRDT- 2018/03/23 06:00 PHST- 2018/03/23 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/07/10 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2018/03/23 06:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1080/13813455.2018.1453521 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Arch Physiol Biochem. 2019 Jul;125(3):244-254. doi: 10.1080/13813455.2018.1453521. Epub 2018 Mar 22.