Introduction of apoptosis by high proinsulin and glucose in cultured human umbilical vein endothelial cells is mediated by reactive oxygen species

Diabetologia
X L DuP Rösen

Abstract

There is much evidence that diabetes and hyperglycaemia contribute to the impairment of endothelial function and induce severe changes in the proliferation, the adhesive and synthetic properties of endothelial cells. Induction of apoptosis could represent one mechanism to prevent the new accumulation of those vascular defects and to allow generation of vascular endothelium. In this study, we demonstrate that high concentrations of glucose or proinsulin induce apoptosis in human umbilical endothelial cells by three independent methods (DNA fragmentation, fluorescence activated cell sorting analysis, and morphology). The number of apoptotic cells was increased by glucose (30 mmol/l or proinsulin (100 nmol/l) from less than 10% to about 30%. Activation of protein kinase C (PKC) largely prevented the induction of apoptosis, whereas inhibition of PKC further increased the number of apoptotic cells. Similar changes as induced by glucose were also observed after incubation of the cells with the non-metabolisable 3-O-methylglucose. These findings indicate that hyperglycaemic conditions stimulate the induction of apoptosis in endothelial cells by a mechanism which is independent from the formation of diacylglycerol and the activation of...Continue Reading

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