PMID- 29753231 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20191209 LR - 20200930 IS - 1879-1484 (Electronic) IS - 0021-9150 (Linking) VI - 274 DP - 2018 Jul TI - Vascular brain-derived neurotrophic factor pathway in rats with adjuvant-induced arthritis: Effect of anti-rheumatic drugs. PG - 77-85 LID - S0021-9150(18)30231-4 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2018.05.004 [doi] AB - BACKGROUND AND AIMS: In rheumatoid arthritis, the control of both disease activity and standard cardiovascular (CV) risk factors is expected to attenuate the increased CV risk. Evidence that brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) plays a role in vascular biology led us to investigate the vascular BDNF pathway in arthritis rats as well as the interaction between endothelial nitric oxide (NO) and BDNF production. METHODS: The aortic BDNF pathway was studied in rats with adjuvant-induced arthritis, (AIA) using Western blot and immunohistochemical analysis. Control of arthritis score was achieved by administration (for 3 weeks) of an equipotent dosage of etanercept, prednisolone, methotrexate, celecoxib or diclofenac. Aortas were exposed to an NO donor or an NO synthase inhibitor and vasoreactivity experiments were performed using LM22A-4 as a TrkB agonist. RESULTS: Vascular BDNF and full length tropomyosin-related kinase B receptor (TrkB-FL) were higher in AIA than in control rats. These changes coincided with decreased endothelial immunoreactivity in BDNF and pTrkB(tyr816) and were disconnected from arthritis score. Among anti-rheumatic drugs, only prednisolone and methotrexate prevented AIA-induced vascular BDNF loss. The effect of AIA on aortic BDNF levels was reversed by an NO donor and reproduced by an NOS inhibitor. Finally, LM22A-4 induced both NO-dependent vasodilation and phosphorylation of endothelial NO synthase at serine 1177. CONCLUSIONS: Our study identified changes in the BDNF/TrkB pathway as a disease activity-independent component of AIA-associated changes in endothelial phenotype. It provides new perspectives in the understanding and management of the high CV risk reported in rheumatoid arthritis. CI - Copyright (c) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Pedard, Martin AU - Pedard M AD - INSERM UMR1093-CAPS, Universite Bourgogne Franche-Comte, UFR des Sciences de Sante, F-21000, Dijon, France; Service de Neurologie, CHRU, Dijon, France. FAU - Quirie, Aurore AU - Quirie A AD - INSERM UMR1093-CAPS, Universite Bourgogne Franche-Comte, UFR des Sciences de Sante, F-21000, Dijon, France. FAU - Totoson, Perle AU - Totoson P AD - EA4267 PEPITE, FHU INCREASE, Univ. Bourgogne Franche-Comte, F-25030, Besancon, France. FAU - Verhoeven, Frank AU - Verhoeven F AD - EA4267 PEPITE, FHU INCREASE, Univ. Bourgogne Franche-Comte, F-25030, Besancon, France. FAU - Garnier, Philippe AU - Garnier P AD - INSERM UMR1093-CAPS, Universite Bourgogne Franche-Comte, UFR des Sciences de Sante, F-21000, Dijon, France. FAU - Tessier, Anne AU - Tessier A AD - INSERM UMR1093-CAPS, Universite Bourgogne Franche-Comte, UFR des Sciences de Sante, F-21000, Dijon, France. FAU - Demougeot, Celine AU - Demougeot C AD - EA4267 PEPITE, FHU INCREASE, Univ. Bourgogne Franche-Comte, F-25030, Besancon, France. FAU - Marie, Christine AU - Marie C AD - INSERM UMR1093-CAPS, Universite Bourgogne Franche-Comte, UFR des Sciences de Sante, F-21000, Dijon, France. Electronic address: chmarie@u-bourgogne.fr. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20180502 PL - Ireland TA - Atherosclerosis JT - Atherosclerosis JID - 0242543 RN - 0 (Antirheumatic Agents) RN - 0 (Bdnf protein, rat) RN - 0 (Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor) RN - 0 (Cyclooxygenase Inhibitors) RN - 0 (Glucocorticoids) RN - 0 (Immunosuppressive Agents) RN - 31C4KY9ESH (Nitric Oxide) RN - 9007-81-2 (Freund's Adjuvant) RN - EC 1.14.13.39 (Nitric Oxide Synthase Type III) RN - EC 1.14.13.39 (Nos3 protein, rat) RN - EC 2.7.10.1 (Ntrk2 protein, rat) RN - EC 2.7.10.1 (Receptor, trkB) SB - IM EIN - Atherosclerosis. 2019 Jan;280:201. PMID: 30301567 MH - Animals MH - Antirheumatic Agents/*pharmacology MH - Aorta/*drug effects/metabolism MH - Arthritis, Experimental/chemically induced/*drug therapy/metabolism/physiopathology MH - Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor/*metabolism MH - Cyclooxygenase Inhibitors/pharmacology MH - Freund's Adjuvant MH - Glucocorticoids/pharmacology MH - Immunosuppressive Agents/pharmacology MH - Male MH - Nitric Oxide/metabolism MH - Nitric Oxide Synthase Type III/metabolism MH - Phosphorylation MH - Rats, Inbred Lew MH - Receptor, trkB/metabolism MH - Signal Transduction/drug effects MH - Vasodilation/*drug effects OTO - NOTNLM OT - Adjuvant-induced arthritis OT - Anti-rheumatic drugs OT - Vascular BDNF EDAT- 2018/05/13 06:00 MHDA- 2019/12/18 06:00 CRDT- 2018/05/13 06:00 PHST- 2017/11/27 00:00 [received] PHST- 2018/04/11 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2018/05/01 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2018/05/13 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/12/18 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2018/05/13 06:00 [entrez] AID - S0021-9150(18)30231-4 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2018.05.004 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Atherosclerosis. 2018 Jul;274:77-85. doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2018.05.004. Epub 2018 May 2.