TY - JOUR
T1 - Augmentation of ferulic acid-induced vasorelaxation with aging and its structure importance in thoracic aorta of spontaneously hypertensive rats
AU - Fukuda, Toshihiko
AU - Kuroda, Takahiro
AU - Kono, Miki
AU - Hyoguchi, Mai
AU - Tanaka, Mitsuru
AU - Matsui, Toshiro
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported in part by a grand-in-aid from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture of Japan (No. 22248014) to T.M. and by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Fellowship for Young Scientists to T.F. The authors thank Ms. MacKenzie Chee for her kind support for editing manuscript.
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© 2015 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
PY - 2015/10/1
Y1 - 2015/10/1
N2 - Aging deteriorates vascular functions such as vascular reactivity and stiffness. Thus far, various reports suggest that bioactive compounds can improve vascular functions. However, few age-related studies of natural bioactive compounds are available. The present study attempted to evaluate age-related vasorelaxation of bioactive cinnamic acids, caffeic acid, and ferulic acid using aged rat thoracic aorta. Vasorelaxation was evaluated in thoracic aorta from both 8, 18, and 40 weeks old Wistar-Kyoto rats (WKY) and spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) respectively. The result indicated that caffeic acid possessed the vasorelaxation regardless of aging in WKY and SHR. Moreover, the vasorelaxation of ferulic acid enhanced with aging in SHR. The vasorelaxation behavior was acted in an endothelium-independent manner. To access structure importance of enhanced vasorelaxation, analogues of ferulic acid were tested. In 40 weeks old SHR, 3,4-dimethoxycinnamic acid and coniferyl alcohol exhibited equivalent vasorelaxation activity with ferulic acid, providing the structural importance of methoxy-modified 3-position on the phenyl ring and 2-propenoic moiety. These results firstly demonstrated that enhanced vasorelaxation of ferulic acid with aging and 3,4-dimethoxycinnamic acid and coniferyl alcohol, along with ferulic acid, might exhibit the therapeutic potential of vasoactive power with aging.
AB - Aging deteriorates vascular functions such as vascular reactivity and stiffness. Thus far, various reports suggest that bioactive compounds can improve vascular functions. However, few age-related studies of natural bioactive compounds are available. The present study attempted to evaluate age-related vasorelaxation of bioactive cinnamic acids, caffeic acid, and ferulic acid using aged rat thoracic aorta. Vasorelaxation was evaluated in thoracic aorta from both 8, 18, and 40 weeks old Wistar-Kyoto rats (WKY) and spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) respectively. The result indicated that caffeic acid possessed the vasorelaxation regardless of aging in WKY and SHR. Moreover, the vasorelaxation of ferulic acid enhanced with aging in SHR. The vasorelaxation behavior was acted in an endothelium-independent manner. To access structure importance of enhanced vasorelaxation, analogues of ferulic acid were tested. In 40 weeks old SHR, 3,4-dimethoxycinnamic acid and coniferyl alcohol exhibited equivalent vasorelaxation activity with ferulic acid, providing the structural importance of methoxy-modified 3-position on the phenyl ring and 2-propenoic moiety. These results firstly demonstrated that enhanced vasorelaxation of ferulic acid with aging and 3,4-dimethoxycinnamic acid and coniferyl alcohol, along with ferulic acid, might exhibit the therapeutic potential of vasoactive power with aging.
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U2 - 10.1007/s00210-015-1171-9
DO - 10.1007/s00210-015-1171-9
M3 - Article
C2 - 26310777
AN - SCOPUS:84941315326
VL - 388
SP - 1113
EP - 1117
JO - Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology
JF - Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology
SN - 0028-1298
IS - 10
M1 - 1171
ER -