Cardioprotection by PI3K-mediated signaling is required for anti-arrhythmia and myocardial repair in response to ischemic preconditioning in infarcted pig hearts
| Autor: | Jiahong Wang, Lan Zhao, Qin Wang, Jianhua Yao, Qunlin Gong, Shaoheng Zhang, Nannan Chen, Hao Wang, Feng Su, Jinhui Tang, Ming Zhong, Jian Yan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A
medicine.medical_specialty Swine Morpholines Myocardial Infarction Connexin Pathology and Forensic Medicine Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases Internal medicine Animal mortality medicine Animals Myocardial infarction Ischemic Preconditioning Molecular Biology Protein kinase B PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway Phosphoinositide-3 Kinase Inhibitors Cardioprotection business.industry Myocardium Cell Biology medicine.disease Chromones Heart failure Cardiology Ischemic preconditioning business Signal Transduction |
| Zdroj: | Laboratory Investigation. 95:860-871 |
| ISSN: | 0023-6837 |
| Popis: | Although the phosphatidyl-inositol-3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt pathway is essential for conferring cardioprotection in response to ischemic preconditioning (IP), the role of PI3K/Akt signaling in the infarcted heart for mediating the anti-arrhythmic effects in response to IP remains unclear. We explored the involvement of PI3K/Akt in the IP-like effect of connexin 43 and proangiogenic factors with particular regard to its role in protecting against ischemia-induced arrhythmia, heart failure, and myocardial remodeling. Groups of pigs were administered phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) or LY294002 solution. Before induction of myocardial infarction (MI), pigs were grouped according to whether or not they underwent IP. Next, all animals underwent MI induction by ligation of the left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery. Myocardial tissues from the pig hearts at 7 days after MI were used to assess myocardium myeloperoxidase and reaction oxygen species, infarct size, collagen content, blood vascular density, expression of Akt, connexin 43, and proangiogenic growth factors, using spectrophotometer, histology, immunohistochemistry, real-time RT-PCR, and western blot. At 7 days after MI, IP significantly reduced animal mortality and malignant ventricular arrhythmia, myocardial inflammation, infarct size, and collagen content, and improved cardiac function and remodeling; use of the PI3K inhibitor LY294002 diminished these effects. In parallel with a decline in Akt expression and phosphorylation by MI, LY294002 injection resulted in significant suppression of connexin 43 and proangiogenic factor expression, and a reduction of angiogenesis and collateral circulation. These findings demonstrate that the cardioprotective effects of IP on antiventricular arrhythmia and myocardial repair occur through upregulation of PI3K/Akt-mediated connexin 43 and growth factor signaling. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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