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Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry

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ISSN (Print): 1568-0266
ISSN (Online): 1873-4294

Sex Hormones, Metabolic Syndrome and Kidney

Author(s): G. Banos, V. Guarner, M. El Hafidi and I. Perez-Torres

Volume 11, Issue 13, 2011

Page: [1694 - 1705] Pages: 12

DOI: 10.2174/156802611796117577

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Abstract

In the metabolic syndrome (MS), a condition that associates three or more pathologies such as hypertension, central obesity, type II diabetes, insulin resistance and dyslipidemias, the kidneys are severely affected. The pathological alterations in the kidneys, associated with MS, may be modified by sex hormone levels. In general, estrogens are a protection against the development of cardiovascular and renal diseases in humans and experimental models, but androgens may have an opposite effect. Among the metabolic systems that can be modulated by sex hormones in the kidney, the more important are: renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system, arachidonic acid metabolism, nitric oxide system and renal extracellular matrix proteins. These are metabolic pathways normally associated, in order to maintain the most efficient functioning of renal hemodynamics. There is a close interrelationship between sex hormones and some pathways involved in the metabolic syndrome; also pathways can modulate each other. The circulating concentrations of hormones may determine the degree of overall pathological alterations in the syndrome.

Keywords: sclerosis, infiltration of inflammatory cells, nitric oxide system, arachidonic acid metabolism, renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system, cardiovascular and renal diseases, estrogens, dyslipidemias, insulin resistance, type II diabetes, central obesity, hypertension, kidney, sex hormones, Metabolic syndrome


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