Baojian Xue1, Yang Yu2, Terry G Beltz1, Fang Guo1, Shun-Guang Wei2,3, Alan Kim Johnson1,4,5,3. 1. Departments of Psychological and Brain Sciences (B.X., T.G.B., F.G., A.K.J.), University of Iowa, Iowa City. 2. Internal Medicine (Y.Y., S.-G.W.), University of Iowa, Iowa City. 3. François M. Abboud Cardiovascular Research Center (S.-G.W., A.K.J.), University of Iowa, Iowa City. 4. Neuroscience and Pharmacology (A.K.J.), University of Iowa, Iowa City. 5. Health and Human Physiology (A.K.J.), University of Iowa, Iowa City.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Exercise has profound effects on cardiovascular function and metabolism in both physiological and pathophysiological states. The present study tested whether voluntary exercise would protect male offspring against maternal gestational hypertension-induced hypertensive response sensitization elicited by post-weaning high-fat diet (HFD). METHODS AND RESULTS: On low-lard-fat diet, offspring of both normotensive and hypertensive dams had comparable resting blood pressure, but HFD feeding elicited an enhanced increase in blood pressure (ie, hypertensive response sensitization) in sedentary offspring of hypertensive dams when compared with sedentary offspring of normotensive dams. The HFD fed sedentary offspring of hypertensive dams displayed greater sympathetic activity, enhanced pressor responses to centrally administered ANG II (angiotensin II) or leptin, and greater mRNA expression of proinflammatory cytokines, leptin, and a marker of blood-brain barrier leakage in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus. The enhanced blood pressure and central sympathetic activity in HFD-fed sedentary offspring of hypertensive dams were significantly reduced by exercise but fell only to levels comparable to HFD-fed exercising offspring of normotensive dams. HFD-induced increases in plasma IL-6 (interleukin-6) and sympathetic activity and greater pressor responses to central TNF (tumor necrosis factor)-α in offspring from both normotensive and hypertensive dams were also maintained after exercise. Nevertheless, exercise had remarkably beneficial effects on metabolic and autonomic function, brain reactivity to ANG II and leptin and gene expression of brain prohypertensive factors in all offspring. CONCLUSIONS: Voluntary exercise plays a beneficial role in preventing maternal hypertension-induced hypertensive response sensitization, and that this is associated with attenuation of enhanced brain reactivity and centrally driven sympathetic activity.
BACKGROUND: Exercise has profound effects on cardiovascular function and metabolism in both physiological and pathophysiological states. The present study tested whether voluntary exercise would protect male offspring against maternal gestational hypertension-induced hypertensive response sensitization elicited by post-weaning high-fat diet (HFD). METHODS AND RESULTS: On low-lard-fat diet, offspring of both normotensive and hypertensive dams had comparable resting blood pressure, but HFD feeding elicited an enhanced increase in blood pressure (ie, hypertensive response sensitization) in sedentary offspring of hypertensive dams when compared with sedentary offspring of normotensive dams. The HFD fed sedentary offspring of hypertensive dams displayed greater sympathetic activity, enhanced pressor responses to centrally administered ANG II (angiotensin II) or leptin, and greater mRNA expression of proinflammatory cytokines, leptin, and a marker of blood-brain barrier leakage in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus. The enhanced blood pressure and central sympathetic activity in HFD-fed sedentary offspring of hypertensive dams were significantly reduced by exercise but fell only to levels comparable to HFD-fed exercising offspring of normotensive dams. HFD-induced increases in plasma IL-6 (interleukin-6) and sympathetic activity and greater pressor responses to central TNF (tumor necrosis factor)-α in offspring from both normotensive and hypertensive dams were also maintained after exercise. Nevertheless, exercise had remarkably beneficial effects on metabolic and autonomic function, brain reactivity to ANG II and leptin and gene expression of brain prohypertensive factors in all offspring. CONCLUSIONS: Voluntary exercise plays a beneficial role in preventing maternal hypertension-induced hypertensive response sensitization, and that this is associated with attenuation of enhanced brain reactivity and centrally driven sympathetic activity.
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blood pressure; central nervous system; exercise; gestational hypertension; high fat diet
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