Abstract
Diabetes has emerged as a major threat to worldwide health. The increasing incidence of diabetes in young individuals is particularly worrisome given that the disease is likely to evolve over a period of years. In 1972, the existence of a diabetic cardiomyopathy was proposed based on the experience with four adult diabetic patients who suffered from congestive heart failure in the absence of discernible coronary artery disease, valvular or congenital heart disease, hypertension, or alcoholism. The exact mechanisms underlying the disease are unknown; however, there is growing evidence that excess generation of highly reactive free radicals, largely due to hyperglycemia, causes oxidative stress, which further exacerbates the development and progression of diabetes and its complications. Hyperglycemiainduced oxidative stress is a major risk factor for the development of micro-vascular pathogenesis in the diabetic myocardium, which results in myocardial cell death, hypertrophy, fibrosis, abnormalities of calcium homeostasis and endothelial dysfunction. In this review, we provide the emergence of experimental evidence supporting antioxidant supplementation as a cardioprotective intervention in the setting of diabetic cardiomyopathy.
Keywords: Antioxidants, apoptosis, curcumin, diabetic cardiomyopathy, edaravone, fibrosis, hypertrophy, oxidative stress, resveratrol, tempol
Cardiovascular & Hematological Agents in Medicinal Chemistry
Title: Diabetic Cardiomyopathy and Oxidative Stress: Role of Antioxidants
Volume: 9 Issue: 4
Author(s): Rajarajan A. Thandavarayan, Vijayasree V. Giridharan, Kenichi Watanabe and Tetsuya Konishi
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Keywords: Antioxidants, apoptosis, curcumin, diabetic cardiomyopathy, edaravone, fibrosis, hypertrophy, oxidative stress, resveratrol, tempol
Abstract: Diabetes has emerged as a major threat to worldwide health. The increasing incidence of diabetes in young individuals is particularly worrisome given that the disease is likely to evolve over a period of years. In 1972, the existence of a diabetic cardiomyopathy was proposed based on the experience with four adult diabetic patients who suffered from congestive heart failure in the absence of discernible coronary artery disease, valvular or congenital heart disease, hypertension, or alcoholism. The exact mechanisms underlying the disease are unknown; however, there is growing evidence that excess generation of highly reactive free radicals, largely due to hyperglycemia, causes oxidative stress, which further exacerbates the development and progression of diabetes and its complications. Hyperglycemiainduced oxidative stress is a major risk factor for the development of micro-vascular pathogenesis in the diabetic myocardium, which results in myocardial cell death, hypertrophy, fibrosis, abnormalities of calcium homeostasis and endothelial dysfunction. In this review, we provide the emergence of experimental evidence supporting antioxidant supplementation as a cardioprotective intervention in the setting of diabetic cardiomyopathy.
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A. Thandavarayan Rajarajan, V. Giridharan Vijayasree, Watanabe Kenichi and Konishi Tetsuya, Diabetic Cardiomyopathy and Oxidative Stress: Role of Antioxidants, Cardiovascular & Hematological Agents in Medicinal Chemistry 2011; 9 (4) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/187152511798120877
DOI https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/187152511798120877 |
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