Impact of the phosphatidylinositide 3-kinase signaling pathway on the cardioprotection induced by intermittent hypoxia
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Data di Pubblicazione:
2013
Citazione:
Impact of the phosphatidylinositide 3-kinase signaling pathway on the cardioprotection induced by intermittent hypoxia / G. Milano, P.M. Abruzzo, A. Bolotta, M. Marini, L. Terraneo, B. Ravara, L. Gorza, M. Vitadello, S. Burattini, D. Curzi, E. Falcieri, L.K. von Segesser, M. Samaja. - In: PLOS ONE. - ISSN 1932-6203. - 8:10(2013 Oct 04), pp. e76659.1-e76659.14. [10.1371/journal.pone.0076659]
Abstract:
BACKGROUND:
Exposure to intermittent hypoxia (IH) may enhance cardiac function and protects heart against ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury. To elucidate the underlying mechanisms, we developed a cardioprotective IH model that was characterized at hemodynamic, biochemical and molecular levels.
METHODS:
Mice were exposed to 4 daily IH cycles (each composed of 2-min at 6-8% O2 followed by 3-min reoxygenation for 5 times) for 14 days, with normoxic mice as controls. Mice were then anesthetized and subdivided in various subgroups for analysis of contractility (pressure-volume loop), morphology, biochemistry or resistance to I/R (30-min occlusion of the left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) followed by reperfusion and measurement of the area at risk and infarct size). In some mice, the phosphatidylinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) inhibitor wortmannin was administered (24 µg/kg ip) 15 min before LAD.
RESULTS:
We found that IH did not induce myocardial hypertrophy; rather both contractility and cardiac function improved with greater number of capillaries per unit volume and greater expression of VEGF-R2, but not of VEGF. Besides increasing the phosphorylation of protein kinase B (Akt) and the endothelial isoform of NO synthase with respect to control, IH reduced the infarct size and post-LAD proteins carbonylation, index of oxidative damage. Administration of wortmannin reduced the level of Akt phosphorylation and worsened the infarct size.
CONCLUSION:
We conclude that the PI3K/Akt pathway is crucial for IH-induced cardioprotection and may represent a viable target to reduce myocardial I/R injury.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Keywords:
ischemia-reperfusion injury ; improves postischemic recovery ; rat carotid-body ; up-regulation ; in-vivo ; myocardial-ischemia ; endothelial-cells ; hypobaric hypoxia ; oxidative stress ; activation
Elenco autori:
G. Milano, P.M. Abruzzo, A. Bolotta, M. Marini, L. Terraneo, B. Ravara, L. Gorza, M. Vitadello, S. Burattini, D. Curzi, E. Falcieri, L.K. von Segesser, M. Samaja
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