S.S. Bombicino*, D.E. Iglesias, I.A. Rukavina Mikusic, A. Boveris, L.B. Valdez
BIOCELL, Vol.40, No.1, pp. 7-10, 2016, DOI:10.32604/biocell.2016.40.007
Abstract Diabetic cardiomyopathy, i.e. the ventricular dysfunction in the absence of hypertension or coronary arterial disease, is a common complication of diabetes mellitus that leads to a heightened risk of heart failure and death among diabetic patients. This contractile dysfunction could be associated to mitochondrial dysfunction, in which mitochondrial biogenesis could emerge as a compensatory mechanism triggered in response to hyperglycemia. It has been proposed that nitric oxide synthase activities with enhanced NO production are involved in this process. Alterations in the contractile response and lusitropic reserve were observed in streptozotocin diabetic rats after β-adrenergic stimuli. Additionally, tissue O2 consumption was… More >
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