Publications by authors named "Chetan N Patil"

Hypertension characterized by low circulating renin activity accounts for roughly 25%-30% of primary hypertension in humans and can be modeled experimentally via deoxycorticosterone acetate (DOCA)-salt treatment. In this model, phenotypes develop in progressive phases, although the timelines and relative contributions of various mechanisms to phenotype development can be distinct between laboratories. To explore interactions among environmental influences such as diet formulation and dietary sodium (Na) content on phenotype development in the DOCA-salt paradigm, we examined an array of cardiometabolic endpoints in young adult male C57BL/6J mice during sham or DOCA-salt treatments when mice were maintained on several common, commercially available laboratory rodent "chow" diets including PicoLab 5L0D (0.

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Polycystic ovary syndrome, the most common endocrine disorder in women of reproductive age, is characterized by hyperandrogenemia, obesity, insulin resistance, and elevated blood pressure. However, few studies have focused on the consequences of pregnancy on postmenopausal cardiovascular disease and hypertension in polycystic ovary syndrome women. In hyperandrogenemic female (HAF) rats, the hypothesis was tested that previous pregnancy protects against age-related hypertension.

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Angiotensin II (ANG II) receptor (AT) is expressed in cells of the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus that express the leptin receptor () and agouti-related peptide (). expression in these cells is required to stimulate resting energy expenditure in response to leptin and high-fat diets (HFDs), but the mechanism activating AT signaling by leptin remains unclear. To probe the role of local paracrine/autocrine ANG II generation and signaling in this mechanism, we bred mice harboring a conditional allele for angiotensinogen (, encoding AGT) with mice expressing Cre-recombinase via the or promoters to cause cell-specific deletions of ( and mice, respectively).

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Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is the most common endocrine and reproductive disorder in premenopausal women, characterized by hyperandrogenemia, metabolic syndrome, and inflammation. Women who had PCOS during their reproductive years remain hyperandrogenemic after menopause. The consequence of chronic hyperandrogenemia with advanced aging has not been studied to our knowledge.

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Background: The safety of testosterone supplements in men remains unclear. In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that in young and old male spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR), long-term testosterone supplements increase blood pressure and that the mechanism is mediated in part by activation of the renin-angiotensin system.

Methods And Results: In untreated males, serum testosterone exhibited a sustained decrease after 5 months of age, reaching a nadir by 18 to 22 months of age.

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Background: Interaction of von Willebrand factor (VWF) with circulating platelets is the trigger for thrombosis in a region of arterial stenosis. These events are typically studied in vitro under conditions where platelets adhere to a VWF-coated surface. Our approach assesses platelet responses in the absence of adhesion.

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Renal ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) in male rats causes reductions in plasma testosterone, and infusion of testosterone 3 h postreperfusion is protective. We tested the hypotheses that acute high doses of testosterone promote renal injury after I/R, and that acute low-dose testosterone is protective by the following: 1) increasing renal IL-10 and reducing TNF-α; 2) its effects on nitric oxide; and 3) reducing intrarenal T-cell infiltration. Rats were subjected to renal I/R, followed by intravenous infusion of vehicle or testosterone (20, 50, or 100 μg/kg) 3 h postreperfusion.

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Four cysteine residues (Cys866, Cys917, Cys1094, and Cys1105) have direct roles in cooperatively regulating Janus kinase 2 (JAK2) catalytic activity. Additional site-directed mutagenesis experiments now provide evidence that two of these residues (Cys866 and Cys917) act together as a redox-sensitive switch, allowing JAK2's catalytic activity to be directly regulated by the redox state of the cell. We created several variants of the truncated JAK2 (GST/(NΔ661)rJAK2), which incorporated cysteine-to-serine or cysteine-to-alanine mutations.

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