Perivascular adipose tissue remodeling impairs vasoreactivity in thermoneutral-housed rats
Henckel, M.; Chun, J. H.; Knaub, L.; Pott, G.; James, G.; Hunter, K.; Shandas, R.; Walker, L.; Reusch, J.; Keller, A.
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ObjectiveVascular pathology, characterized by impaired vasoreactivity and mitochondrial respiration, differs between the sexes. Housing rats under thermoneutral (TN) conditions causes vascular dysfunction and perturbed metabolism. We hypothesized that perivascular adipose tissue (PVAT), a vasoregulatory adipose depot with brown adipose tissue (BAT) phenotype, remodels to a white adipose (WAT) phenotype in rats housed at TN, driving diminished vasoreactivity in a sex-dependent manner. MethodsMale and female Wistar rats were housed at either room temperature (RT) or TN. Endpoints included changes in PVAT morphology, vasoreactivity in vessels with intact PVAT or transferred to PVAT of the oppositely-housed animal, vessel stiffness, vessel mitochondrial respiration and cellular signaling. ResultsRemodeling of PVAT was observed in rats housed at TN; animals in this environment showed PVAT whitening and displayed diminished aortae vasodilation (p<0.05), different between the sexes. Juxtaposing PVAT from RT rats onto aortae from TN rats in females corrected vasodilation (p<0.05); this did not occur in males. In aortae of all animals housed at TN, mitochondrial respiration was significantly diminished in lipid substrate experiments (p<0.05), and there was significantly less expression of peNOS (p<0.001). ConclusionsThese data are consistent with TN-induced remodeling of PVAT, notably associated with sex-specific blunting of vasoreactivity, diminished mitochondrial respiration, and altered cellular signaling.
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