TY - JOUR
T1 - Mast Cells Are the Trigger of Small Vessel Disease and Diastolic Dysfunction in Diabetic Obese Mice
AU - Guimbal, Sarah
AU - Cornuault, Lauriane
AU - Rouault, Paul
AU - Hollier, Pierre Louis
AU - Chapouly, Candice
AU - Bats, Marie Lise
AU - Imbault, Julien
AU - Gadeau, Alain Pierre
AU - Couffinhal, Thierry
AU - Renault, Marie Ange
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021/4/1
Y1 - 2021/4/1
N2 - Objective: Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction is a major health care issue which has been difficult to manage to date, due to its complex and not well understood pathophysiology. Specifically, if a wealth of literature focuses on heart failure with preserved ejection fraction cardiac component, very little information can be found on its vascular component. Our goal is to unravel the critical role of cardiac small vessel disease in the pathophysiology of diastolic dysfunction. Approach and Results: To do so, we used leptin receptor deficient (Leprdb/db) female mice, a recognized model of diastolic dysfunction. In these mice, the increased end-diastolic pressure signing diastolic dysfunction is associated with vascular leakage, endothelial cell activation, and leucocyte infiltration. Strikingly, a RNA sequencing analysis of the cardiac vascular fraction of both Leprdb/dband control mice confirmed endothelial dysfunction and systemic inflammation, but above all, revealed a strong increase in several mast cell markers (notably FceR1a [high affinity immunoglobulin epsilon receptor subunit α], tryptase, and chymase). We then confirmed this accumulation of activated mast cells in the heart of Leprdb/dbmice via histology. Importantly, we found that both mast cell degranulation inhibition and specific histamine blockade reduced vascular leakage, leucocyte infiltration, and subsequently end-diastolic pressure in Leprdb/dbmice. This demonstrated, for the first time, that mast cells, via histamine release, participate in the development of cardiac small vessel disease leading to diastolic dysfunction. Conclusions: Cardiac small vessel disease is a key mechanism of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction pathophysiology that can be targeted to prevent the occurrence of diastolic dysfunction, by using both mast cell stabilizers and antihistaminic drugs.
AB - Objective: Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction is a major health care issue which has been difficult to manage to date, due to its complex and not well understood pathophysiology. Specifically, if a wealth of literature focuses on heart failure with preserved ejection fraction cardiac component, very little information can be found on its vascular component. Our goal is to unravel the critical role of cardiac small vessel disease in the pathophysiology of diastolic dysfunction. Approach and Results: To do so, we used leptin receptor deficient (Leprdb/db) female mice, a recognized model of diastolic dysfunction. In these mice, the increased end-diastolic pressure signing diastolic dysfunction is associated with vascular leakage, endothelial cell activation, and leucocyte infiltration. Strikingly, a RNA sequencing analysis of the cardiac vascular fraction of both Leprdb/dband control mice confirmed endothelial dysfunction and systemic inflammation, but above all, revealed a strong increase in several mast cell markers (notably FceR1a [high affinity immunoglobulin epsilon receptor subunit α], tryptase, and chymase). We then confirmed this accumulation of activated mast cells in the heart of Leprdb/dbmice via histology. Importantly, we found that both mast cell degranulation inhibition and specific histamine blockade reduced vascular leakage, leucocyte infiltration, and subsequently end-diastolic pressure in Leprdb/dbmice. This demonstrated, for the first time, that mast cells, via histamine release, participate in the development of cardiac small vessel disease leading to diastolic dysfunction. Conclusions: Cardiac small vessel disease is a key mechanism of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction pathophysiology that can be targeted to prevent the occurrence of diastolic dysfunction, by using both mast cell stabilizers and antihistaminic drugs.
KW - endothelial cells
KW - heart failure
KW - histamine
KW - inflammation
KW - mast cells
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U2 - 10.1161/ATVBAHA.121.315900
DO - 10.1161/ATVBAHA.121.315900
M3 - Article
C2 - 33567863
AN - SCOPUS:85103607079
SN - 1079-5642
VL - 41
SP - E193-E207
JO - Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology
JF - Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology
IS - 4
ER -