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Fitts RH, Wang X, Kwok WM, Camara AKS. Cardiomyocyte Adaptation to Exercise: K+ Channels, Contractility and Ischemic Injury. Int J Sports Med 2024. [PMID: 38648799 DOI: 10.1055/a-2296-7604] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/25/2024]
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Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality, and exercise-training (TRN) is known to reduce risk factors and protect the heart from ischemia and reperfusion injury. Though the cardioprotective effects of exercise are well-documented, underlying mechanisms are not well understood. This review highlights recent findings and focuses on cardiac factors with emphasis on K+ channel control of the action potential duration (APD), β-adrenergic and adenosine regulation of cardiomyocyte function, and mitochondrial Ca2+ regulation. TRN-induced prolongation and shortening of the APD at low and high activation rates, respectively, is discussed in the context of a reduced response of the sarcolemma delayed rectifier potassium channel (IK) and increased content and activation of the sarcolemma KATP channel. A proposed mechanism underlying the latter is presented, including the phosphatidylinositol-3kinase/protein kinase B pathway. TRN induced increases in cardiomyocyte contractility and the response to adrenergic agonists are discussed. The TRN-induced protection from reperfusion injury is highlighted by the increased content and activation of the sarcolemma KATP channel and the increased phosphorylated glycogen synthase kinase-3β, which aid in preventing mitochondrial Ca2+ overload and mitochondria-triggered apoptosis. Finally, a brief section is presented on the increased incidences of atrial fibrillation associated with age and in life-long exercisers.
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- Robert H Fitts
- Biological Sciences, Marquette University, Milwaukee, United States
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- Pharmacology and Toxicology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, United States
- Cardiovascular Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, United States
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- Pharmacology and Toxicology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, United States
- Cardiovascular Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, United States
- Anesthesiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, United States
- Cancer Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, United States
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- Cardiovascular Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, United States
- Anesthesiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, United States
- Cancer Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, United States
- Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, United States
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Honorato FS, de Deus LA, Reis AL, Neves RVP, Corrêa HDL, Medeiros APB, Haberland DF, Medeiros RMV, Prestes J, Ferreira CES, Rosa TS. Could cardiac autonomic modulation be an objective method to identify hypobaric hypoxia symptoms at 25.000ft among Brazilian military airmen? Front Physiol 2022; 13:1005016. [PMID: 36406989 PMCID: PMC9669981 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2022.1005016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2022] [Accepted: 10/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2023] Open
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Hypobaric hypoxia during a flight can cause accidents, resulting in deaths. Heart rate variability may be more sensitive than self-reported hypoxia symptoms to the effects of HH. The level of physical fitness can contribute to efficient cardiac autonomic modulation. However, no studies have examined the association between fitness, heart rate variability, and the time of onset of hypobaric hypoxia symptoms. To analyze the influence of hypobaric hypoxia on cardiac autonomic function at the time of onset of the first symptoms and its association with physical fitness. Male airmen trained and belonging to the staff of the Brazilian Air Force (n = 23; 30 ± 6.7 years) participated in a flight simulation in a 25.000 ft hypobaric chamber. Heart rate variability was recorded with a Polar® cardiac monitor. Data were analyzed in the time-domain method using Kubios software. We evaluated pulse oximetry with the Mindray PM-60 oximeter. Physical fitness assessment test results were collected from the archive. At moments rest vs. hypoxia revealed a decrease in heart rate variability indices iRR and RMSSD (p < 0.001). The individual analysis of hypoxia-rest variation showed that 100% of the airmen had a negative delta for both iRR and RMSSD indices. The time of onset of hypoxia symptoms was not associated with body composition, physical fitness, oxygen saturation, and HRV indices. Also, we suggest that cardiac autonomic modulation seems to be more sensitive to the effects of hypobaric hypoxia at 25.000 ft than the self-reported subjective perception of symptoms. Further devices that alert to a hypoxic condition during a flight should consider heart rate variability allowing more time and security to reestablish control of the flight.
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- Fernando Sousa Honorato
- Graduate Program in Physical Education, Catholic University of Brasília—DF, Brasília, Brazil
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- Graduate Program in Physical Education, Catholic University of Brasília—DF, Brasília, Brazil
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- Graduate Program in Physical Education, Catholic University of Brasília—DF, Brasília, Brazil
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- Graduate Program in Physical Education, Catholic University of Brasília—DF, Brasília, Brazil
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- Graduate Program in Physical Education, Catholic University of Brasília—DF, Brasília, Brazil
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- Graduate Program in Physical Education, Catholic University of Brasília—DF, Brasília, Brazil
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Ávila RA, Rossi EM, de Carvalho GM, Krause M, Leopoldo AS, Carneiro MTWD, Dos Santos L. Moderate-intensity aerobic training reduces cardiac damage attributable to experimental iron overload in rats. Exp Physiol 2021; 106:1772-1784. [PMID: 34148259 DOI: 10.1113/ep089429] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2021] [Accepted: 06/17/2021] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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NEW FINDINGS What is the central question of this study? The current literature indicates that oxidative stress plays a major role in iron overload. Although exercise is a well-established approach to treat/prevent cardiovascular diseases, its effects on iron overload are not known. What is the main finding and its importance? Moderate-intensity aerobic training had benefits in a rodent model of iron-overload cardiomyopathy by improving the antioxidant capacity of the heart. After further confirmation by translational and clinical studies, we should consider using this non-pharmacological, highly accessible and easily executable adjuvant approach allied to other therapies to improve the quality of life of iron-overloaded patients. ABSTRACT Iron is an essential micronutrient for several life processes, but its excess can damage organs owing to oxidative stress, with cardiomyopathy being the leading cause of death in iron-overloaded patients. Although exercise has long been considered as a cardioprotective tool, its effects on iron overload are not known. This study was designed to investigate the effects of moderate-intensity aerobic training in rats previously submitted to chronic iron overload. Wistar rats received i.p. injections of iron dextran (100 mg/kg, 5 days/week for 4 weeks); thereafter, the rats were kept sedentary or exercised (60 min/day, progressive aerobic training, 60-70% of maximal speed, 5 days/week on a treadmill) for 8 weeks. At the end of the experimental period, haemodynamics were recorded and blood samples, livers and hearts harvested. Myocardial mechanics of papillary muscles were assessed in vitro, and cardiac remodelling was evaluated by histology and immunoblotting. Iron overload led to liver iron deposition, liver fibrosis and increased serum alanine aminotransferase and aspartate aminotransferase. Moreover, cardiac iron accumulation was accompanied by impaired myocardial mechanics, increased cardiac collagen type I and lipid peroxidation (TBARS), and release of creatine phosphokinase-MB to the serum. Although exercise did not influence iron levels, tissue injury markers were significantly reduced. Likewise, myocardial contractility and inotropic responsiveness were improved in exercised rats, in association with an increase in the endogenous antioxidant enzyme catalase. In conclusion, moderate-intensity aerobic exercise was associated with attenuated oxidative stress and cardiac damage in a rodent model of iron overload, thereby suggesting its potential role as a non-pharmacological adjuvant therapy for iron-overload cardiomyopathy.
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- Renata Andrade Ávila
- Department of Physiological Sciences, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Vitória, ES, Brazil.,Faculdades Integradas São Pedro (FAESA), Vitória, ES, Brazil
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- Department of Physiological Sciences, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Vitória, ES, Brazil
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- Department of Chemistry, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Vitória, ES, Brazil
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- Department of Physiological Sciences, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Vitória, ES, Brazil
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Quindry JC, Franklin BA. Cardioprotective Exercise and Pharmacologic Interventions as Complementary Antidotes to Cardiovascular Disease. Exerc Sport Sci Rev 2018; 46:5-17. [PMID: 28885265 DOI: 10.1249/jes.0000000000000134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Exercise and pharmacologic therapies to prevent and treat cardiovascular disease have advanced largely through independent efforts. Understanding of first-line drug therapies, findings from preclinical animal studies, and the need for research initiatives related to complementary cardioprotective exercise-pharma interventions are reviewed from the premise that contemporary cardioprotective therapies must include adjunctive exercise and lifestyle interventions in addition to pharmacologic agents.
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- John C Quindry
- Health and Human Performance, University of Montana, Missoula, MT
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- Health and Human Performance, University of Montana, Missoula, MT
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Bulut EC, Abueid L, Ercan F, Süleymanoğlu S, Ağırbaşlı M, Yeğen BÇ. Treatment with oestrogen-receptor agonists or oxytocin in conjunction with exercise protects against myocardial infarction in ovariectomized rats. Exp Physiol 2018; 101:612-27. [PMID: 26958805 DOI: 10.1113/ep085708] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2016] [Accepted: 03/04/2016] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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NEW FINDINGS What is the central question of this study? Could the activation of oxytocin or oestrogen receptors be protective against myocardial injury after ovariectomy? If so, would exercising have an additional ameliorating effect? What is the main finding and its importance? The results revealed that when accompanied by exercise, both oestrogen receptor agonists and oxytocin improved cardiac dysfunction, inhibited the generation of pro-inflammatory cytokines and reduced myocardial injury in ovariectomized female rats, suggesting a new approach for protecting postmenopausal women against ischaemia-induced myocardial injury. To investigate the putative protective effects of oxytocin or oestrogen receptor agonists against myocardial injury of ovariectomized sedentary or exercised rats, female Sprague-Dawley rats assigned to sham-operated control and ovariectomized (OVX) groups were kept sedentary or undertook swimming exercise for 4 weeks and were treated with saline, an oestrogen receptor (ER) β (DPN) or ERα agonist (PPT) or oxytocin. Ovariectomy increased weight gain and anxiety in sedentary rats, whereas exercise prevented weight gain. When accompanied by exercise, both ER agonists and oxytocin inhibited weight gain and anxiety; oxytocin, in the absence or presence of exercise, increased the left ventricular diastolic dimensions and ejection fraction, whereas ER agonists also increased left ventricular diameter when given to exercised rats. Upon the induction of myocardial ischaemia-reperfusion in the OVX rats, plasma creatine kinase-(muscle-brain) was depressed by PPT and oxytocin, whereas DPN, PPT and OT reduced plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 concentrations. The increased tumour necrosis factor-α concentration in OVX rats was also suppressed by exercise or DPN, PPT or oxytocin treatments, whereas the interleukin-6 concentration was diminished by all the treatments when given in conjunction with exercise. Disorganization of cardiac muscle fibres was reduced in all exercised rats. Oestrogen receptor agonists, as well as oxytocin, in conjunction with exercise may be effective new therapeutics to protect against myocardial ischaemia in postmenopausal women.
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- Erman Caner Bulut
- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Histology & Embryology, School of Medicine, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Gulhane Military Medical Academy, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Cardiology, School of Medicine, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey
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In the search for innovative solutions to treat ischemic heart disease, recent basic science and clinical approaches have focused on remote ischemic preconditioning (RIPC). Remote ischemic preconditioning involves short intervals of limb blood flow occlusion by the application of a blood pressure cuff inflated to a suprasystolic pressure. The promise of RIPC in the development of new cardioprotective therapies is founded on the premise that it is cost-effective, technically simple, and overcomes many logistical and biochemical hurdles associated with other ischemic preconditioning approaches. However, RIPC as a research subarea is still in its infancy and clinical applications for individuals at high risk of cardiovascular disease remain elusive. The thesis of the current review is that observational and mechanistic similarities between exercise-induced preconditioning and RIPC may reveal novel therapeutic links to cardioprotection. While reductionist understanding of the exercised heart is still in the formative stages, available mechanistic knowledge of exercise-induced cardioprotection is juxtaposed to RIPC and potential implications discussed. In total, additional research is needed in order to fully appreciate the mechanistic and translative connections between exercise and RIPC. Nonetheless, existing rationale are strong and suggest that RIPC approaches may be helpful in the development and application to pharmacologic interventions in those with ischemic heart disease.
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- John C Quindry
- 1 Health and Human Performance, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA
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Alánová P, Chytilová A, Neckář J, Hrdlička J, Míčová P, Holzerová K, Hlaváčková M, Macháčková K, Papoušek F, Vašinová J, Benák D, Nováková O, Kolář F. Myocardial ischemic tolerance in rats subjected to endurance exercise training during adaptation to chronic hypoxia. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2017; 122:1452-1461. [DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00671.2016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2016] [Revised: 02/13/2017] [Accepted: 02/13/2017] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Chronic hypoxia and exercise are natural stimuli that confer sustainable cardioprotection against ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury, but it is unknown whether they can act in synergy to enhance ischemic resistance. Inflammatory response mediated by tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) plays a role in the infarct size limitation by continuous normobaric hypoxia (CNH), whereas exercise is associated with anti-inflammatory effects. This study was conducted to determine if exercise training performed under conditions of CNH (12% O2) affects myocardial ischemic resistance with respect to inflammatory and redox status. Adult male Wistar rats were assigned to one of the following groups: normoxic sedentary, normoxic trained, hypoxic sedentary, and hypoxic trained. ELISA and Western blot analysis, respectively, were used to quantify myocardial cytokines and the expression of TNF-α receptors, nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB), and selected components of related signaling pathways. Infarct size and arrhythmias were assessed in open-chest rats subjected to I/R. CNH increased TNF-α and interleukin-6 levels and the expression of TNF-α type 2 receptor, NF-κB, inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS), cytosolic phospholipase A2α, cyclooxygenase-2, manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD), and catalase. None of these effects occurred in the normoxic trained group, whereas exercise in hypoxia abolished or significantly attenuated CNH-induced responses, except for NF-κB, iNOS, and MnSOD. Both CNH and exercise reduced infarct size, but their combination provided the same degree of protection as CNH alone. In conclusion, exercise training does not amplify the cardioprotection conferred by CNH. High ischemic tolerance of the CNH hearts persists after exercise, possibly by maintaining the increased antioxidant capacity despite attenuating TNF-α-dependent protective signaling. NEW & NOTEWORTHY Chronic hypoxia and regular exercise are natural stimuli that confer sustainable myocardial protection against acute ischemia-reperfusion injury. Signaling mediated by TNF-α via its type 2 receptor plays a role in the cardioprotective mechanism of chronic hypoxia. In the present study, we found that exercise training of rats during adaptation to hypoxia does not amplify the infarct size-limiting effect. Ischemia-resistant phenotype is maintained in the combined hypoxia-exercise setting despite exercise-induced attenuation of TNF-α-dependent protective signaling.
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- Petra Alánová
- Institute of Physiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic; and
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- Institute of Physiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic; and
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- Institute of Physiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic; and
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- Institute of Physiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic; and
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- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Physiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic; and
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- Institute of Physiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic; and
- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Physiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic; and
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- Institute of Physiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic; and
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- Institute of Physiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic; and
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- Institute of Physiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic; and
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- Institute of Physiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic; and
- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Physiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic; and
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Brown DA, Perry JB, Allen ME, Sabbah HN, Stauffer BL, Shaikh SR, Cleland JGF, Colucci WS, Butler J, Voors AA, Anker SD, Pitt B, Pieske B, Filippatos G, Greene SJ, Gheorghiade M. Expert consensus document: Mitochondrial function as a therapeutic target in heart failure. Nat Rev Cardiol 2016; 14:238-250. [PMID: 28004807 PMCID: PMC5350035 DOI: 10.1038/nrcardio.2016.203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 477] [Impact Index Per Article: 59.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Heart failure is a pressing worldwide public-health problem with millions of patients having worsening heart failure. Despite all the available therapies, the condition carries a very poor prognosis. Existing therapies provide symptomatic and clinical benefit, but do not fully address molecular abnormalities that occur in cardiomyocytes. This shortcoming is particularly important given that most patients with heart failure have viable dysfunctional myocardium, in which an improvement or normalization of function might be possible. Although the pathophysiology of heart failure is complex, mitochondrial dysfunction seems to be an important target for therapy to improve cardiac function directly. Mitochondrial abnormalities include impaired mitochondrial electron transport chain activity, increased formation of reactive oxygen species, shifted metabolic substrate utilization, aberrant mitochondrial dynamics, and altered ion homeostasis. In this Consensus Statement, insights into the mechanisms of mitochondrial dysfunction in heart failure are presented, along with an overview of emerging treatments with the potential to improve the function of the failing heart by targeting mitochondria.
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- David A Brown
- Department of Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise, Virginia Tech, 1035 Integrated Life Sciences Building, 1981 Kraft Drive, Blacksburg, Virginia 24060, USA
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- Department of Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise, Virginia Tech, 1035 Integrated Life Sciences Building, 1981 Kraft Drive, Blacksburg, Virginia 24060, USA
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- Department of Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise, Virginia Tech, 1035 Integrated Life Sciences Building, 1981 Kraft Drive, Blacksburg, Virginia 24060, USA
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital, 2799 West Grand Boulevard, Detroit, Michigan 48202, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, 12700 East 19th Avenue, B139, Aurora, Colorado 80045, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, East Carolina Diabetes and Obesity Institute, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, 115 Heart Drive, Greenville, North Carolina 27834, USA
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- National Heart &Lung Institute, National Institute of Health Research Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Royal Brompton &Harefield Hospitals, Imperial College, London, UK
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- Cardiovascular Medicine Section, Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center, 88 East Newton Street, C-8, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Health Sciences Center, T-16 Room 080, SUNY at Stony Brook, New York 11794, USA
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- University of Groningen, Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen 9713 GZ, Netherlands
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- Department of Innovative Clinical Trials, University Medical Centre Göttingen (UMG), Robert-Koch-Straße, D-37075, Göttingen, Germany
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- University of Michigan School of Medicine, 1500 East Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
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- Department of Cardiology, Charité University Medicine, Campus Virchow Klinikum, and German Heart Center Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353 Berlin, Germany
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- National and Kopodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Heart Failure Unit, Department of Cardiology, Athens University Hospital Attikon, Rimini 1, Athens 12462, Greece
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- Division of Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center, 2301 Erwin Road Suite 7400, Durham, North Carolina 27705, USA
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- Center for Cardiovascular Innovation, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 201 East Huron, Galter 3-150, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA
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Crisafulli A, Mancardi D, Marongiu E, Rastaldo R, Penna C, Pagliaro P. Preconditioning cardioprotection and exercise performance: a radical point of view. SPORT SCIENCES FOR HEALTH 2015. [DOI: 10.1007/s11332-015-0225-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Alleman RJ, Stewart LM, Tsang AM, Brown DA. Why Does Exercise "Trigger" Adaptive Protective Responses in the Heart? Dose Response 2015; 13:10.2203_dose-response.14-023.Alleman. [PMID: 26674259 PMCID: PMC4674163 DOI: 10.2203/dose-response.14-023.alleman] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Numerous epidemiological studies suggest that individuals who exercise have decreased cardiac morbidity and mortality. Pre-clinical studies in animal models also find clear cardioprotective phenotypes in animals that exercise, specifically characterized by lower myocardial infarction and arrhythmia. Despite the clear benefits, the underlying cellular and molecular mechanisms that are responsible for exercise preconditioning are not fully understood. In particular, the adaptive signaling events that occur during exercise to "trigger" cardioprotection represent emerging paradigms. In this review, we discuss recent studies that have identified several different factors that appear to initiate exercise preconditioning. We summarize the evidence for and against specific cellular factors in triggering exercise adaptations and identify areas for future study.
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- Rick J Alleman
- Department of Physiology and East Carolina Diabetes and Obesity Institute, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville NC USA
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- Department of Physiology and East Carolina Diabetes and Obesity Institute, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville NC USA
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- Department of Physiology and East Carolina Diabetes and Obesity Institute, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville NC USA
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- Department of Physiology and East Carolina Diabetes and Obesity Institute, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville NC USA
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Lira VA. Exercise-induced cardioprotection: more to k‘NO’w. Cardiology 2015; 130:172-174. [PMID: 25720747 DOI: 10.1159/000375399] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2015] [Accepted: 01/19/2015] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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- Vitor A Lira
- Department of Health and Human Physiology, Obesity Research and Education Initiative, Fraternal Order of Eagles Diabetes Research Center, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
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Cardiac physiology and clinical efficacy of dietary fish oil clarified through cellular mechanisms of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids. Eur J Appl Physiol 2014; 114:1333-56. [DOI: 10.1007/s00421-014-2876-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2013] [Accepted: 03/20/2014] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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“Roid-Rage” at the Cellular Level: Abolition of Endogenous Cardioprotection by Anabolic Steroids Reveals New Links Between the RAAS and Cardiac KATP Channels. Cardiovasc Drugs Ther 2014; 28:113-4. [DOI: 10.1007/s10557-014-6514-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Calvert JW, Lefer DJ. Role of β-adrenergic receptors and nitric oxide signaling in exercise-mediated cardioprotection. Physiology (Bethesda) 2013; 28:216-24. [PMID: 23817796 DOI: 10.1152/physiol.00011.2013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Exercise promotes cardioprotection in both humans and animals not only by reducing risk factors associated with cardiovascular disease but by reducing myocardial infarction and improving survival following ischemia. This article will define the role that nitric oxide and β-adrenergic receptors play in mediating the cardioprotective effects of exercise in the setting of ischemia-reperfusion injury.
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- John W Calvert
- Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Carlyle Fraser Heart Center, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
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Brown DA, Sabbah HN, Shaikh SR. Mitochondrial inner membrane lipids and proteins as targets for decreasing cardiac ischemia/reperfusion injury. Pharmacol Ther 2013; 140:258-66. [DOI: 10.1016/j.pharmthera.2013.07.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2013] [Accepted: 07/09/2013] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Skeletal muscle, autophagy, and physical activity: the ménage à trois of metabolic regulation in health and disease. J Mol Med (Berl) 2013; 92:127-37. [PMID: 24271008 DOI: 10.1007/s00109-013-1096-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2013] [Revised: 10/10/2013] [Accepted: 10/23/2013] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Metabolic homeostasis is essential for cellular survival and proper tissue function. Multi-systemic metabolic regulation is therefore vital for good health. A number of tissues have the task of maintaining appropriate metabolism, and skeletal muscle is the most abundant of them. Muscle possesses a remarkable plasticity and is able to rapidly adapt to changes in energetic demands by fine-tuning the balance between catabolic and anabolic processes. Autophagy is a catabolic process responsible for the degradation of protein aggregates and damaged organelles, through the autophagosome-lysosome system. Proper regulation of autophagy flux is fundamental for organism homeostasis under physiological conditions and even more in response to metabolic stress, such as during physical activity and nutritional deficits. Both deficient and excessive autophagy are harmful for health and have devastating consequences in a myriad of pathologies. The regulation of autophagy flux in various tissues, and in particular in skeletal muscle, is of great importance for health and tissue homeostasis and represents a feasible mechanism by which physical exercise exerts its beneficial effects on muscle and whole body metabolism. This review is focused on the key molecular mechanisms regulating macromolecule and organelle turnover in muscle during alterations in nutrient availability and energetic demands, as well as their involvement in disease pathogenesis.
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Krenz M, Baines C, Kalogeris T, Korthuis R. Cell Survival Programs and Ischemia/Reperfusion: Hormesis, Preconditioning, and Cardioprotection. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2013. [DOI: 10.4199/c00090ed1v01y201309isp044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Frasier CR, Moukdar F, Patel HD, Sloan RC, Stewart LM, Alleman RJ, La Favor JD, Brown DA. Redox-dependent increases in glutathione reductase and exercise preconditioning: role of NADPH oxidase and mitochondria. Cardiovasc Res 2013; 98:47-55. [PMID: 23341578 DOI: 10.1093/cvr/cvt009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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AIMS We have previously shown that exercise leads to sustainable cardioprotection through a mechanism involving improved glutathione replenishment. This study was conducted to determine if redox-dependent modifications in glutathione reductase (GR) were involved in exercise cardioprotection. Furthermore, we sought to determine if reactive oxygen species generated by NADPH oxidase and/or mitochondria during exercise were triggering events for GR modulations. METHODS AND RESULTS Rats were exercised for 10 consecutive days, after which isolated hearts were exposed to ischaemia/reperfusion (25 min/120 min). Exercise protected against infarction and arrhythmia, and preserved coronary flow. The GR inhibitor BCNU abolished the beneficial effects. GR activity was increased following exercise in a redox-dependent manner, with no change in GR protein levels. Because fluorescent labelling of GR protein thiols showed lower amounts of reduced thiols after exercise, we sought to determine the source of intracellular reactive oxygen species that may be activating GR. Subsets of animals were exercised immediately after treatment with either NADPH-oxidase inhibitors apocynin or Vas2870, or with mitoTEMPO or Bendavia, which reduce mitochondrial reactive oxygen species levels. The cardioprotective effects of exercise were abolished if animals exercised in the presence of NADPH oxidase inhibitors, in clear contrast to the mitochondrial reagents. These changes correlated with thiol-dependent modifications of GR. CONCLUSION Adaptive cardioprotective signalling is triggered by reactive oxygen species from NADPH oxidase, and leads to improved glutathione replenishment through redox-dependent modifications in GR.
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- Chad R Frasier
- Department of Physiology, Brody 6N-98, 600 Moye Blvd, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27834, USA
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Myocardial Na+/H+ exchanger-1 (NHE1) content is decreased by exercise training. J Physiol Biochem 2012; 69:305-12. [DOI: 10.1007/s13105-012-0214-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2012] [Accepted: 09/24/2012] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Uryash A, Wu H, Bassuk J, Kurlansky P, Adams JA. Preconditioning with periodic acceleration (pGz) provides second window of cardioprotection. Life Sci 2012; 91:178-85. [DOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2012.06.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2012] [Revised: 05/30/2012] [Accepted: 06/27/2012] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Frasier CR, Sloan RC, Bostian PA, Gonzon MD, Kurowicki J, LoPresto SJ, Anderson EJ, Brown DA. Short-term exercise preserves myocardial glutathione and decreases arrhythmias after thiol oxidation and ischemia in isolated rat hearts. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2011; 111:1751-9. [DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.01214.2010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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The purpose of this study was to determine if exercise (Ex) protects hearts from arrhythmias induced by glutathione oxidation or ischemia-reperfusion (I/R). Female Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into two experimental groups: sedentary controls (Sed) or short-term Ex (10 days of treadmill running). Twenty-four hours after the last session, hearts were excised and exposed to either perfusion with the thiol oxidant diamide (200 μM) or global I/R. Ex significantly delayed the time to the onset of ventricular arrhythmia after irreversible diamide perfusion. During a shorter diamide perfusion protocol with washout, Ex significantly decreased the incidence of arrhythmia, as evidenced by a delayed time to the first observed arrhythmia, lower arrhythmia scores, and lower incidence of ventricular fibrillation. Ex hearts exposed to I/R (30-min ischemia/30-min reperfusion) also showed lower arrhythmia scores and incidence of ventricular fibrillation compared with Sed counterparts. Our finding that Ex protected intact hearts from thiol oxidation was corroborated in isolated ventricular myocytes. In myocytes from Ex animals, both the increase in H2O2 fluorescence and incidence of cell death were delayed after diamide. Although there were no baseline differences in reduced-to-oxidized glutathione ratios (GSH/GSSG) between the Sed and Ex groups, GSH/GSSG was better preserved in Ex groups after diamide perfusion and I/R. Myocardial glutathione reductase activity was significantly enhanced after Ex, and this was preserved in the Ex group after diamide perfusion. Our results show that Ex protects the heart from arrhythmias after two different oxidative stressors and support the hypothesis that sustaining the GSH/GSSG pool stabilizes cardiac electrical function during conditions of oxidative stress.
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- Chad R. Frasier
- Departments of 1Physiology,
- East Carolina Diabetes and Obesity Institute, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina
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- Exercise and Sport Science, and
- East Carolina Diabetes and Obesity Institute, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina
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- Pharmacology and Toxicology,
- East Carolina Diabetes and Obesity Institute, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina
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- Departments of 1Physiology,
- Exercise and Sport Science, and
- East Carolina Diabetes and Obesity Institute, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina
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Frasier CR, Moore RL, Brown DA. Exercise-induced cardiac preconditioning: how exercise protects your achy-breaky heart. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2011; 111:905-15. [DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00004.2011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The ability of exercise to protect the heart against ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury is well known in both human epidemiological studies and experimental animal models. In this review article, we describe what is currently known about the ability of exercise to precondition the heart against infarction. Just 1 day of exercise can protect the heart against ischemia/reperfusion damage, and this protection is upheld with months of exercise, making exercise one of the few sustainable preconditioning stimuli. Exercise preconditioning depends on the model and intensity of exercise, and appears to involve heightened oxidant buffering capacity, upregulated subunits of sarcolemmal ATP-sensitive potassium channels, and adaptations to cardiac mitochondria. We review the putative mechanisms involved in exercise preconditioning and point out many areas where future research is necessary to advance our understanding of how this stimulus confers resistance against I/R damage.
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- Chad R. Frasier
- Department of Physiology, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University; and
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- Department of Integrative Physiology and Office of the Provost, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado
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- Department of Physiology, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University; and
- East Carolina Diabetes and Obesity Institute, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina; and
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Ascensão A, Oliveira PJ, Magalhães J. Exercise as a beneficial adjunct therapy during Doxorubicin treatment--role of mitochondria in cardioprotection. Int J Cardiol 2011; 156:4-10. [PMID: 21636148 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2011.05.060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2010] [Revised: 03/14/2011] [Accepted: 05/13/2011] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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One of the mostly used chemotherapeutic drugs is the highly effective anthracycline Doxorubicin. However, its clinical use is limited by the dose-related and cumulative cardiotoxicity and consequent dysfunction. It has been proposed that the etiology of this toxicity is related to mitochondrial dysfunction. The present review aimed to analyze the promising results regarding the effect of several types of physical exercise in cardiac tolerance of animals treated with acute and sub-chronic doses of Doxorubicin (DOX), highlighting the importance of cardiac mitochondrial-related mechanisms in the process. Physical exercise positively modulates some important cardiac defense systems to antagonize the toxic effects caused by DOX treatment, including antioxidant capacity, the overexpression of heat shock proteins and other anti-apoptotic proteins. An important role in this protective phenotype afforded by exercise should be attributed to mitochondrial plasticity, as related adaptations could be translated into improved cardiac function in the setting of the DOX cardiomyopathy.
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- António Ascensão
- Research Centre in Physical Activity, Health and Leisure, Faculty of Sport, University of Porto, Portugal.
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Sudhir R, Sukhodub A, Du Q, Jovanović S, Jovanović A. Ageing-induced decline in physical endurance in mice is associated with decrease in cardiac SUR2A and increase in cardiac susceptibility to metabolic stress: therapeutic prospects for up-regulation of SUR2A. Biogerontology 2011; 12:147-55. [PMID: 20972622 DOI: 10.1007/s10522-010-9306-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2010] [Accepted: 10/08/2010] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Ageing is characterized by decline in physical endurance which has been suggested to be partly due to diminished functional and adaptive reserve capacity of the heart. Ageing is associated with decrease in numbers of sarcolemmal ATP-sensitive K(+) (K(ATP)) channels, but whether this has anything to do with ageing-induced decline in physical endurance is yet to be determined. We have previously shown that the numbers of sarcolemmal K(ATP) channels are controlled by the level of expression of SUR2A, a K(ATP) channel regulatory subunit. Here, we have found that ageing decreases the level of SUR2A mRNA in the heart without affecting expression of pore-forming K(ATP) channel subunits, Kir6.1 and Kir6.2. This effect of ageing was associated with decrease in levels of fully-assembled sarcolemmal K(ATP) channels. At the same time, ageing was associated with decreased physical endurance. In order to determine whether increased expression of SUR2A would counteract ageing-induced decrease in physical endurance, we have taken advantage of mice which SUR2A levels are regulated by more efficient CMV promoter. These mice had increased resistance of cardiomyocytes to metabolic stress/hypoxia and increased physical endurance when compared to the wild type. In transgenic mice, ageing did not affect the level of SUR2A mRNA in the heart and the level of fully-assembled sarcolemmal K(ATP) channels. The effect of increased SUR2A to resistance of cardiomyocytes to hypoxia and physical endurance was retained in old mice. The magnitude of these effects was such that they were significantly increased even when compared to those in wild type young mice. We conclude that (1) the level of SUR2A expression in the heart is important factor in regulating physical endurance, (2) ageing-induced decrease in cardiac SUR2A is, at least in part, responsible for ageing-induced decline in physical fitness and (3) up-regulation of SUR2A could be a viable strategy to counteract ageing-induced decline in physical endurance.
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MESH Headings
- ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters/genetics
- ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters/metabolism
- Aging/physiology
- Animals
- Cell Hypoxia
- Cell Survival
- Cells, Cultured
- Female
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Inbred CBA
- Myocardium/cytology
- Myocardium/metabolism
- Myocytes, Cardiac/cytology
- Myocytes, Cardiac/metabolism
- Physical Endurance/physiology
- Potassium Channels, Inwardly Rectifying/genetics
- Potassium Channels, Inwardly Rectifying/metabolism
- Receptors, Drug/genetics
- Receptors, Drug/metabolism
- Stress, Physiological/physiology
- Sulfonylurea Receptors
- Up-Regulation
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- Rajni Sudhir
- Division of Medical Sciences/MACHS, Centre for Cardiovascular and Lung Biology, Ninewells Hospital & Medical School, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK
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Zingman LV, Zhu Z, Sierra A, Stepniak E, Burnett CML, Maksymov G, Anderson ME, Coetzee WA, Hodgson-Zingman DM. Exercise-induced expression of cardiac ATP-sensitive potassium channels promotes action potential shortening and energy conservation. J Mol Cell Cardiol 2011; 51:72-81. [PMID: 21439969 DOI: 10.1016/j.yjmcc.2011.03.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2011] [Revised: 02/19/2011] [Accepted: 03/14/2011] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Physical activity is one of the most important determinants of cardiac function. The ability of the heart to increase delivery of oxygen and metabolic fuels relies on an array of adaptive responses necessary to match bodily demand while avoiding exhaustion of cardiac resources. The ATP-sensitive potassium (K(ATP)) channel has the unique ability to adjust cardiac membrane excitability in accordance with ATP and ADP levels, and up-regulation of its expression that occurs in response to exercise could represent a critical element of this adaption. However, the mechanism by which K(ATP) channel expression changes result in a beneficial effect on cardiac excitability and function remains to be established. Here, we demonstrate that an exercise-induced rise in K(ATP) channel expression enhanced the rate and magnitude of action potential shortening in response to heart rate acceleration. This adaptation in membrane excitability promoted significant reduction in cardiac energy consumption under escalating workloads. Genetic disruption of normal K(ATP) channel pore function abolished the exercise-related changes in action potential duration adjustment and caused increased cardiac energy consumption. Thus, an expression-driven enhancement in the K(ATP) channel-dependent membrane response to alterations in cardiac workload represents a previously unrecognized mechanism for adaptation to physical activity and a potential target for cardioprotection.
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- Leonid V Zingman
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa, Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA.
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Galvão TFG, Matos KC, Brum PC, Negrão CE, Luz PLD, Chagas ACP. Cardioprotection conferred by exercise training is blunted by blockade of the opioid system. Clinics (Sao Paulo) 2011; 66:151-7. [PMID: 21437452 PMCID: PMC3044560 DOI: 10.1590/s1807-59322011000100026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2010] [Accepted: 10/27/2010] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVES To investigate the effect of opioid receptor blockade on the myocardial protection conferred by chronic exercise and to compare exercise training with different strategies of myocardial protection (opioid infusion and brief periods of ischemia-reperfusion) preceding irreversible left anterior descending coronary ligation. INTRODUCTION The acute cardioprotective effects of exercise training are at least partly mediated through opioid receptor-dependent mechanisms in ischemia-reperfusion models. METHODS Male Wistar rats (n = 76) were randomly assigned to 7 groups: (1) control; (2) exercise training; (3) morphine; (4) intermittent ischemia-reperfusion (three alternating periods of left anterior descending coronary occlusion and reperfusion); (5) exercise training+morphine; (6) naloxone (a non-selective opioid receptor blocker) plus morphine; (7) naloxone before each exercise-training session. Myocardial infarction was established in all groups by left anterior descending coronary ligation. Exercise training was performed on a treadmill for 60 minutes, 5 times/week, for 12 weeks, at 60% peak oxygen (peak VO₂). Infarct size was histologically evaluated. RESULTS Exercise training significantly increased exercise capacity and ΔVO2 (VO₂ peak - VO₂ rest) (p < 0.01 vs. sedentary groups). Compared with control, all treatment groups except morphine plus naloxone and exercise training plus naloxone showed a smaller infarcted area (p < 0.05). No additional decrease in infarct size occurred in the exercise training plus morphine group. No difference in myocardial capillary density (p = 0.88) was observed in any group. CONCLUSIONS Exercise training, morphine, exercise training plus morphine and ischemia-reperfusion groups had a smaller infarcted area than the control group. The effect of chronic exercise training in decreasing infarct size seems to occur, at least in part, through the opioid receptor stimulus and not by increasing myocardial perfusion.
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- Tatiana F G Galvão
- Heart Institute, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
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Veiga ECA, Antonio EL, Bocalini DS, Murad N, Abreu LC, Tucci PJF, Sato MA. Prior exercise training does not prevent acute cardiac alterations after myocardial infarction in female rats. Clinics (Sao Paulo) 2011; 66:889-93. [PMID: 21789396 PMCID: PMC3109391 DOI: 10.1590/s1807-59322011000500028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2010] [Accepted: 02/14/2011] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE This study aimed to investigate whether previous exercise training could prevent or attenuate acute cardiac alterations after myocardial infarction. METHODS Female rats were submitted to swim training (1 h/day; 5 days/week) or allowed to remain sedentary for 8 weeks. Afterwards, they were randomly assigned to left coronary artery occlusion or sham surgery. After this procedure, the rats remained sedentary for one week until euthanasia. Cardiac structural and functional analyses were performed using Doppler echocardiography. The rats that had a moderate or large infarct size were included in the evaluations. The data (mean ± SEM) were analyzed using a two-way ANOVA model followed by Tukey's post-hoc test. RESULTS After the surgery, no significant difference between the exercise and sedentary groups was observed in the left ventricular infarct sizes (34.58 ± 3.04 vs. 37.59 ± 3.07). In another group of rats evaluated with Evans blue 1 h after myocardial infarction, no siginificant difference in the area at risk was observed between the exercised and sedentary rats (49.73 ± 1.52 vs. 45.48 ± 3.49). The changes in the left ventricular fractional areas for the exercised and sedentary myocardial infarction groups (36 ± 2% and 39 ± 3%, respectively) were smaller than those for the exercise sham surgery (ES, 67 ± 1%) and sedentary sham surgery (SS, 69 ± 2%) groups. The E/A was higher in the sedentary myocardial infarction (4.4 ± 0.3) and exercised myocardial infarction (5.5 ± 0.3) rats than in the SS (2.4 ± 0.1) and ES (2.2 ± 0.1) rats. CONCLUSION Previous swim training of female rats does not attenuate systolic and diastolic function alterations after myocardial infarction induced by left coronary artery occlusion, suggesting that cardioprotection cannot be provided by exercise training in this experimental model.
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- Eduardo C A Veiga
- Department of Medicine, Cardiology division. Universidade Federal de São Paulo - Escola Paulista de Medicina, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
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Beig MI, Callister R, Saint DA, Bondarenko E, Walker FR, Day TA, Nalivaiko E. Voluntary exercise does not affect stress-induced tachycardia, but improves resistance to cardiac arrhythmias in rats. Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol 2010; 38:19-26. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.2010.05456.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Myocardial tolerance to ischemia-reperfusion injury, training intensity and cessation. Eur J Appl Physiol 2010; 111:859-68. [PMID: 21063725 DOI: 10.1007/s00421-010-1707-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/20/2010] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Training has been shown to induce cardioprotection. The mechanisms involved remain still poorly understood. Aims of the study were to examine the relevance of training intensity on myocardial protection against ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury, and to which extent the beneficial effects persist after training cessation in rats. Sprague-Dawley rats trained at either low (60% [Formula: see text]) or high (80% [Formula: see text]) intensity for 10 weeks. An additional group of highly trained rats was detrained for 4 weeks. Untrained rats served as controls. At the end of treatment, rats of all groups were split into two subgroups. In the former, rats underwent left anterior descending artery (LAD) ligature for 30 min, followed by 90-min reperfusion, with subsequent measurement of the infarct size. In the latter, biopsies were taken to measure heat-shock proteins (HSP) 70/72, vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) protein levels, and superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity. Training reduced infarct size proportionally to training intensity. With detraining, infarct size increased compared to highly trained rats, maintaining some cardioprotection with respect to controls. Cardioprotection was proportional to training intensity and related to HSP70/72 upregulation and Mn-SOD activity. The relationship with Mn-SOD was lost with detraining. VEGF protein expression was not affected by either training or detraining. Stress proteins and antioxidant defenses might be involved in the beneficial effects of long-term training as a function of training intensity, while HSP70 may be one of the factors accounting for the partial persistence of myocardial protection against I/R injury in detrained rats.
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Exercise training has been shown to reduce many risk factors related to cardiovascular disease, including high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity, and insulin resistance. More importantly, exercise training has been consistently shown to confer sustainable protection against myocardial infarction in animal models and has been associated with improved survival following a heart attack in humans. It is still unclear how exercise training is able to protect the heart, but some studies have suggested that it increases a number of classical signalling molecules. For instance, exercise can increase components of the endogenous antioxidant defences (i.e. superoxide dismutase and catalase), increase the expression of heat shock proteins, activate ATP-sensitive potassium (K(ATP)) channels, and increase the expression and activity of endothelial nitric oxide (NO) synthase resulting in an increase in NO levels. This review article will provide a brief summary of the role that these signalling molecules play in mediating the cardioprotective effects of exercise. In particular, it will highlight the role that NO plays and introduce the idea that the stable NO metabolite, nitrite, may play a major role in mediating these cardioprotective effects.
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- John W Calvert
- Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Carlyle Fraser Heart Center, Emory University School of Medicine, 550 Peachtree Street NE, Atlanta, GA 30308, USA.
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Despite a high prevalence of sudden cardiac death throughout the world, the mechanisms that lead to ventricular arrhythmias are not fully understood. Over the last 20 years, a growing body of evidence indicates that cardiac mitochondria are involved in the genesis of arrhythmia. In this review, we have attempted to describe the role that mitochondria play in altering the heart's electrical function by introducing heterogeneity into the cardiac action potential. Specifically, we have focused on how the energetic status of the mitochondrial network can alter sarcolemmal potassium fluxes through ATP-sensitive potassium channels, creating a 'metabolic sink' for depolarizing wave-fronts and introducing conditions that favour catastrophic arrhythmia. Mechanisms by which mitochondria depolarize under conditions of oxidative stress are characterized, and the contributions of several mitochondrial ion channels to mitochondrial depolarization are presented. The inner membrane anion channel in particular opens upstream of other inner membrane channels during metabolic stress, and may be an effective target to prevent the metabolic oscillations that create action potential lability. Finally, we discuss therapeutic strategies that prevent arrhythmias by preserving mitochondrial membrane potential in the face of oxidative stress, supporting the notion that treatments aimed at cardiac mitochondria have significant potential in attenuating electrical dysfunction in the heart.
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- David A Brown
- Department of Physiology, Brody School of Medicine and the East Carolina Heart Institute, East Carolina University, Room 6N-98, 600 Moye Blvd, Greenville, NC 27834, USA.
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Raeis V, Philip-Couderc P, Roatti A, Habre W, Sierra J, Kalangos A, Beghetti M, Baertschi AJ. Central Venous Hypoxemia Is a Determinant of Human Atrial ATP-Sensitive Potassium Channel Expression. Hypertension 2010; 55:1186-92. [DOI: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.109.148767] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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- Véronique Raeis
- From the Departments of Neuroscience (V.R., P.P.-C., A.R., A.J.B.), Anaesthesia (W.H.), Surgery (J.S., A.K.), and Child and Adolescent (M.B.), University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- From the Departments of Neuroscience (V.R., P.P.-C., A.R., A.J.B.), Anaesthesia (W.H.), Surgery (J.S., A.K.), and Child and Adolescent (M.B.), University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- From the Departments of Neuroscience (V.R., P.P.-C., A.R., A.J.B.), Anaesthesia (W.H.), Surgery (J.S., A.K.), and Child and Adolescent (M.B.), University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- From the Departments of Neuroscience (V.R., P.P.-C., A.R., A.J.B.), Anaesthesia (W.H.), Surgery (J.S., A.K.), and Child and Adolescent (M.B.), University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- From the Departments of Neuroscience (V.R., P.P.-C., A.R., A.J.B.), Anaesthesia (W.H.), Surgery (J.S., A.K.), and Child and Adolescent (M.B.), University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- From the Departments of Neuroscience (V.R., P.P.-C., A.R., A.J.B.), Anaesthesia (W.H.), Surgery (J.S., A.K.), and Child and Adolescent (M.B.), University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- From the Departments of Neuroscience (V.R., P.P.-C., A.R., A.J.B.), Anaesthesia (W.H.), Surgery (J.S., A.K.), and Child and Adolescent (M.B.), University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- From the Departments of Neuroscience (V.R., P.P.-C., A.R., A.J.B.), Anaesthesia (W.H.), Surgery (J.S., A.K.), and Child and Adolescent (M.B.), University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Adams JA, Wu H, Bassuk JA, Arias J, Uryash A, Jorapur V, Lamas GA, Kurlansky P. Periodic acceleration (pGz) prior to whole body ischemia reperfusion injury provides early cardioprotective preconditioning. Life Sci 2010; 86:707-15. [PMID: 20211190 DOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2010.02.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2009] [Revised: 02/22/2010] [Accepted: 02/26/2010] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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AIMS Periodic acceleration (pGz) is a method that applies repetitive sinusoidal head-to-foot motion to the horizontally positioned body. pGz adds pulses to the circulation as a function of frequency, thereby increasing shear stress to the endothelium. Pulsatile shear stress increases release of cardioprotective endothelial-derived nitric oxide prostaglandin E-2 and prostacyclin into the circulation. We investigated whether pGz may be effective as an early preconditioning strategy when applied one hour prior to whole body ischemia reperfusion injury induced by ventricular fibrillation (VF). MAIN METHODS Twenty anesthetized and paralyzed male swine were randomized to one hour of pGz and conventional mechanical ventilation [PC] or solely conventional mechanical ventilation [Control] prior to VF and resuscitation. After eight minutes of unsupported VF, cardiopulmonary resuscitation was carried out followed by defibrillation. Hemodynamics, electrocardiogram, echocardiogram, regional blood flows, and markers of global myocardial injury were measured. Protein expression of endothelial-derived nitric oxide synthase (eNOS), phosphorylated eNOS (p-eNOS), serine/threonine kinase Akt total (t-Akt), and phosphorylated (p-Akt) were determined by immunoblotting. KEY FINDINGS All animals had spontaneous return of circulation after cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and defibrillation. Preconditioned animals had less hemodynamically significant arrhythmias, less myocardial stunning, and greater regional blood flows to the brain, heart, kidneys, and ileum than Controls. Troponin I and creatine phosphokinase values in PC were 65% of the values present in Controls. In addition, preconditioned animals had higher protein expression of cardiac eNOS, p-eNOS, t-Akt, and p-Akt than Controls. SIGNIFICANCE pGz preconditioning confers early cardioprotection in a model of whole body ischemia reperfusion injury.
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- Jose A Adams
- Mt Sinai Medical Center, Division Neonatology, Miami Beach, FL 33140, USA.
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Exercise training improves functional post-ischemic recovery in senescent heart. Exp Gerontol 2009; 44:177-82. [DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2008.10.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2008] [Revised: 09/16/2008] [Accepted: 10/09/2008] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Adams JA, Wu H, Bassuk JA, Arias J, Uryash A, Kurlansky P. Periodic acceleration (pGz) acutely increases endothelial and neuronal nitric oxide synthase expression in endomyocardium of normal swine. Peptides 2009; 30:373-7. [PMID: 19022311 DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2008.10.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2008] [Revised: 10/21/2008] [Accepted: 10/22/2008] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Periodic acceleration (pGz) is a non-invasive method of increasing pulsatile shear stress to the endothelium. pGz is achieved by the sinusoidal head to foot motion to the supine body. pGz increases endogenous production of nitric oxide in whole animal models and isolated perfused vessel preparations, and is cardioprotective when applied prior to, during and after ischemia reperfusion. In part, the protective effects of pGz are attributable to nitric oxide (NO). The purpose of this investigation was to determine whether pGz up-regulates NOS isoforms in the endomyocardium. METHODS AND RESULTS Fifteen swine weight 15-20 kg, were anesthetized, instrumented to measure hemodynamics and randomized. Ten animals received 1h of pGz at 180 cycles/min and Gz+/-3.9 m/s(2) [pGz] in addition to conventional ventilatory support and five served as time controls. RESULTS pGz produced a 2.3+/-0.4 and a 6.6+/-0.1 fold significant increase in eNOS and phosphorylated eNOS, 3.6+/-1.1 fold increase in nNOS, and no significant change in iNOS. pGz also produced a 2.4+/-0.3 and 3.9+/-0.2 folds significant increase in both total(t-Akt) and phosphorylated (p-Akt) Akt. CONCLUSIONS pGz is associated with an increase in both total and phosphorylated eNOS and nNOS protein expression in endomyocardium, and induced significant increase in total and phosphorylated-Akt. The data indicates that pGz is a novel method to induce eNOS and nNOS production in the endomyocardium. Therefore, pGz may serve as a powerful non-invasive intervention to activate the beneficial cardiac effects of endothelial and neuronal NOS.
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- Jose A Adams
- Mount Sinai Medical Center, Division of Neonatology 3-BLUM, 4300 Alton Road, Miami Beach, FL 33140, USA.
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Deo SH, Barlow MA, Gonzalez L, Yoshishige D, Caffrey JL. Repeated arterial occlusion, delta-opioid receptor (DOR) plasticity and vagal transmission within the sinoatrial node of the anesthetized dog. Exp Biol Med (Maywood) 2008; 234:84-94. [PMID: 18997098 DOI: 10.3181/0808-rm-242] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Brief interruptions in coronary blood flow precondition the heart, engage delta-opioid receptor (DOR) mechanisms and reduce the damage that typically accompanies subsequent longer coronary occlusions. Repeated short occlusions of the sinoatrial (SA) node artery progressively raised nodal methionine-enkephalin-arginine-phenylalanine (MEAP) and improved vagal transmission during subsequent long occlusions in anesthetized dogs. The DOR type-1 (DOR-1) antagonist, BNTX reversed the vagotonic effect. Higher doses of enkephalin interrupted vagal transmission through a DOR-2 mechanism. The current study tested whether the preconditioning (PC) protocol, the later occlusion or a combination of both was required for the vagotonic effect. The study also tested whether evolving vagotonic effects included withdrawal of competing DOR-2 vagolytic influences. Vagal transmission progressively improved during successive SA nodal artery occlusions. The vagotonic effect was absent in sham animals and after DOR-1 blockade. After completing the PC protocol, exogenously applied vagolytic doses of MEAP reduced vagal transmission under both normal and occluded conditions. The magnitude of these DOR-2 vagolytic effects was small compared to controls and repeated MEAP challenges rapidly eroded vagolytic responses further. Prior DOR-1 blockade did not alter the PC mediated, progressive loss of DOR-2 vagolytic responses. In conclusion, DOR-1 vagotonic responses evolved from signals earlier in the PC protocol and erosion of competing DOR-2 vagolytic responses may have contributed to an unmasking of vagotonic responses. The data support the hypothesis that PC and DOR-2 stimulation promote DOR trafficking, and down regulation of the vagolytic DOR-2 phenotype in favor of the vagotonic DOR-1 phenotype. DOR-1 blockade may accelerate the process by sequestering newly emerging receptors.
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- Shekhar H Deo
- University of North Texas Health Science Center, Department of Integrative Physiology, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA
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Martínez A, Arias J, Bassuk JA, Wu H, Kurlansky P, Adams JA. Adrenomedullin is increased by pulsatile shear stress on the vascular endothelium via periodic acceleration (pGz). Peptides 2008; 29:73-8. [PMID: 18054815 DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2007.10.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2007] [Revised: 10/24/2007] [Accepted: 10/25/2007] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Periodic acceleration (pGz) is produced by a platform which moves the supine body repetitively in a headward to footward direction. The imparted motion produces pulsatile shear stress on the vascular endothelium. Pulsatile shear stress on the vascular endothelium has been shown to elicit production of a host of cardioprotective, cytoprotective mediators. The purpose of this study was to ascertain if pGz also enhances production of adrenomedullin (AM) in normal healthy swine. Twelve pigs (weight range 20-30 kg) were anesthetized, intubated and placed on conventional mechanical ventilation. All animals were secured to the motion platform. In one group (pGz) (n=7) was activated for 1h, and monitored for an additional 3h. A control group (CONT) (n=5) served as time control. Arterial blood gases, hemodynamic measurements, and serum for AM, interleukin 4, 6 and thromboxane B(2) (TBXB2) were measured at baseline, immediately after pGz, and 3h after pGz had been discontinued. There was no significant change from baseline value in IL-4, IL-6 or TBXB2. Mean arterial blood pressure decreased in pGz-treated animals from 115+/-10 at baseline to 90+/-8 after 60 min of pGz (p<0.01). AM levels increase from 776+/-176 pg/ml baseline to 1160+/-68 pg/ml immediately after pGz, and remained elevated to 1584+/-160 pg/ml, 3h after pGz (p<0.01 vs. BL). This is the first report of AM-enhanced production using a non-invasive method of increasing pulsatile shear stress on the vascular endothelium. pGz increases production of AM in normal healthy swine. These changes are independent of IL-4, IL-6 or TBXB2 production.
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- Alfredo Martínez
- Department of Cellular, Molecular, and Developmental Neurobiology, Instituto Cajal, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
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Paquette A, Wang D, Gauthier MS, Prud'homme D, Jankowski M, Gutkowska J, Lavoie JM. Specific adaptations of estrogen receptor alpha and beta transcripts in liver and heart after endurance training in rats. Mol Cell Biochem 2007; 306:179-87. [PMID: 17668153 DOI: 10.1007/s11010-007-9568-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2007] [Accepted: 07/12/2007] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Estrogens exert their biological roles mainly through estrogen receptors (ER) that function as ligand-activated transcription factors. ER content in a cell is regulated by many factors and is decisive for estrogen action. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the influence of an 8-wk endurance training program on ER expression in the liver, right atrium (RA), and left ventricle (LV) of intact and ovariectomized (Ovx) rats. We measured ERalpha and ERbeta mRNA content by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). We found an important increase in ERalpha mRNA levels in the liver (300%; P < 0.01) and in ERbeta mRNA levels in the RA (200%; P < 0.05), and a marked decrease in ERalpha (80%; P < 0.01) and ERbeta (40%; P < 0.05) transcripts content in the LV of intact rats after endurance training. On the other hand, ERalpha mRNA levels were depressed by 50% (P < 0.01) in the liver, and increased by 60% (P < 0.01) in LV of Ovx rats after exercise training. These results first indicate that endurance training is associated with modifications of ER transcripts levels in the liver, LV, and RA of female rats. More specifically, these effects are tissue and isoform-specific and the direction of the response (increase or decrease) is different in intact and Ovx rats. It is suggested that some of the adaptations to endurance training in liver and heart may be mediated by an ER-dependent mechanism.
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- Amélie Paquette
- Département de kinésiologie, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, Succ. centre-ville, Montreal, QC, Canada H3C 3J7
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