Short-Term Exercise Training Improves Vascular Function in Hypercholesterolemic Rabbit Femoral Artery

Chauying J. Jen；Yu-Fan Liu；Hsiun-Ing Chen

acetylcholine ； atherosclerosis ； calcium ； endothelium ； vascular dysfunction

The Chinese Journal of Physiology

48卷2期（2005 / 06 / 01）

79 - 85

英文

Chronic exercise in healthy or hypercholesteremic animals for at least two months improves their vascular functions. This study is to examine whether short-term exercise training protocols can correct early-stage vascular dysfunction induced by high-cholesterol diet feeding. Male New Zealand White rabbits were fed for 2, 4 or 6 weeks with rabbit chow with or without the addition of 2% (w/w) cholesterol. They were further divided into control and exercise groups. Animals in exercise groups ran on a leveled treadmill for the same time periods as diet intervention. At the end of experiments, femoral arteries were dissected, loaded with fura 2-AM, and mounted in a tissue flow chamber. Phenylephrine-precontracted vessel specimens were exposed to acetylcholine. The endothelial intracellular calcium elevation and vasorelaxation were determined simultaneously under an epifluorescence microscope with ratio imaging capability. En face oil red O staining was used to evaluate fatty streak formation. Our results showed that 1) high-cholesterol diet feeding for≥4 weeks caused lipid deposition, reduced the acetylcholine-evoked endothelial calcium signaling, and impaired both endothelium-dependent and endothelium-independent vascular responses in a time-dependent manner; 2) vasorelaxation at given levels of endothelial intracellular calcium elevation decreased in hypercholesterolemia; 3) concomitant exercise program had reverse effects. We conclude that high-cholesterol diet intervention for as short as 4 weeks induces vascular structural changes, impairs endothelial intracellular calcium signaling and vasodilatation in rabbit femoral arteries. Short-term exercise training in parallel completely eliminates these adverse effects so long as the diet intervention is no more than 6 weeks.

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