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- Title
Reactive Oxygen Species and Endothelial Function - Role of Nitric Oxide Synthase Uncoupling and Nox Family Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide Phosphate Oxidases.
- Authors
Montezano, Augusto C.; Touyz, Rhian M.
- Abstract
The healthy endothelium prevents platelet aggregation and leucocyte adhesion, controls permeability to plasma components and maintains vascular integrity. Damage to the endothelium promotes endothelial dysfunction characterized by: altered endothelium-mediated vasodilation, increased vascular reactivity, platelet aggregation, thrombus formation, increased permeability, leucocyte adhesion and monocyte migration. Molecular processes contributing to these phenomena include increased expression of adhesion molecules, synthesis of pro-inflammatory and pro-thrombotic factors and increased endothelin-1 secretion. Decreased nitric oxide bioavailability and increased generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) are among the major molecular changes associated with endothelial dysfunction. A critical source of endothelial ROS is a family of non-phagocytic nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) oxidases, including the prototypic Nox2-based NADPH oxidases, Nox1, Nox4 and Nox5. Other possible sources include mitochondrial electron transport enzymes, xanthine oxidase, cyclooxygenase, lipoxygenase and uncoupled nitric oxide synthase (NOS). Cross-talk between ROS-generating enzymes, such as mitochondrial oxidases and Noxs, is increasingly implicated in cellular ROS production. The present review discusses the importance of endothelial ROS in health and disease and focuses on the major ROS-generating systems in the endothelium, namely uncoupled endothelial nitric oxide synthase and NADPH oxidases.
- Subjects
VASCULAR endothelium; BLOOD platelet aggregation; LEUCOCYTES; VASODILATION; MONOCYTES; NAD+ synthase
- Publication
Basic & Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology, 2012, Vol 110, Issue 1, p87
- ISSN
1742-7835
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1742-7843.2011.00785.x