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Zhang RR, Zhang JL, Li Q, Zhang SM, Gu XM, Niu W, Zhou JJ, Zhou LC. SEVERE BURN-INDUCED MITOCHONDRIAL RECRUITMENT OF CALPAIN CAUSES ABERRANT MITOCHONDRIAL DYNAMICS AND HEART DYSFUNCTION. Shock 2023; 60:255-261. [PMID: 37278996 PMCID: PMC10476594 DOI: 10.1097/shk.0000000000002159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2023] [Revised: 04/12/2023] [Accepted: 05/31/2023] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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ABSTRACT Mitochondrial damage is an important cause of heart dysfunction after severe burn injury. However, the pathophysiological process remains unclear. This study aims to examine the mitochondrial dynamics in the heart and the role of μ-calpain, a cysteine protease, in this scenario. Rats were subjected to severe burn injury treatment, and the calpain inhibitor MDL28170 was administered intravenously 1 h before or after burn injury. Rats in the burn group displayed weakened heart performance and decreased mean arterial pressure, which was accompanied by a diminishment of mitochondrial function. The animals also exhibited higher levels of calpain in mitochondria, as reflected by immunofluorescence staining and activity tests. In contrast, treatment with MDL28170 before any severe burn diminished these responses to a severe burn. Burn injury decreased the abundance of mitochondria and resulted in a lower percentage of small mitochondria and a higher percentage of large mitochondria. Furthermore, burn injury caused an increase in the fission protein DRP1 in the mitochondria and a decrease in the inner membrane fusion protein OPA1. Similarly, these alterations were also blocked by MDL28170. Of note, inhibition of calpain yielded the emergence of more elongated mitochondria along with membrane invagination in the middle of the longitude, which is an indicator of the fission process. Finally, MDL28170, administered 1 h after burn injury, preserved mitochondrial function and heart performance, and increased the survival rate. Overall, these results provided the first evidence that mitochondrial recruitment of calpain confers heart dysfunction after severe burn injury, which involves aberrant mitochondrial dynamics.
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- Ran-Ran Zhang
- School of Life Science, Northwest University, Xi’an, China
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Xijing Hospital, Xi’an, China
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- Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Xijing Hospital, Xi’an, China
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- Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Air Force Medical University, Xi’an, China
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- Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Air Force Medical University, Xi’an, China
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- Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Air Force Medical University, Xi’an, China
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- School of Life Science, Northwest University, Xi’an, China
- Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Air Force Medical University, Xi’an, China
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- School of Life Science, Northwest University, Xi’an, China
- Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Air Force Medical University, Xi’an, China
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Impairment of μ-calpain activation by rhTNFR:Fc reduces severe burn-induced membrane disruption in the heart. Cell Death Dis 2022; 8:10. [PMID: 35013173 PMCID: PMC8748603 DOI: 10.1038/s41420-021-00810-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2021] [Revised: 12/02/2021] [Accepted: 12/16/2021] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Stress cardiomyopathy is a major clinical complication after severe burn. Multiple upstream initiators have been identified; however, the downstream targets are not fully understood. This study assessed the role of the plasma membrane in this process and its relationship with the protease μ-calpain and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α). Here, third-degree burn injury of approximately 40% of the total body surface area was established in rats. Plasma levels of LDH and cTnI and cardiac cell apoptosis increased at 0.5 h post burn, reached a peak at 6 h, and gradually declined at 24 h. This effect correlated well with not only the disruption of cytoskeletal proteins, including dystrophin and ankyrin-B, but also with the activation of μ-calpain, as indicated by the cleaved fragments of α-spectrin and membrane recruitment of the catalytic subunit CAPN1. More importantly, these alterations were diminished by blocking calpain activity with MDL28170. Burn injury markedly increased the cellular uptake of Evans blue, indicating membrane integrity disruption, and this effect was also reversed by MDL28170. Compared with those in the control group, cardiac cells in the burn plasma-treated group were more prone to damage, as indicated by a marked decrease in cell viability and increases in LDH release and apoptosis. Of note, these alterations were mitigated by CAPN1 siRNA. Moreover, after neutralizing TNF-α with rhTNFR:Fc, calpain activity was blocked, and heart function was improved. In conclusion, we identified μ-calpain as a trigger for severe burn-induced membrane disruption in the heart and provided evidence for the application of rhTNFR:Fc to inhibit calpain for cardioprotection.
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CaMKII/calpain interaction mediates ischemia/reperfusion injury in isolated rat hearts. Cell Death Dis 2020; 11:388. [PMID: 32439852 PMCID: PMC7242471 DOI: 10.1038/s41419-020-2605-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2019] [Revised: 05/13/2020] [Accepted: 05/14/2020] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Previous studies indicated that Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent kinase II (CaMKII), a kinase involved in the modulation of ryanodine receptor activity, activates Ca2+-regulated protease μ-calpain to promote myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury. This study was performed to explore the underlying mechanisms in CaMKII-induced calpain activation to better understand heart injury. To examine the Ca2+ paradox and ischemia/reperfusion injury, isolated rat hearts were subjected to a Ca2+-free solution for 3 min, or left coronary artery occlusion for 40 min, prior to restoration of normal perfusion. Blockade of trans-sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ flux using ryanodine and thapsigargin failed to prevent Ca2+ paradox-induced heart injury. In contrast, the Ca2+ paradox increased CaMKII auto-phosphorylation at Thr287, while the CaMKII inhibitor KN-62 and the Na+/Ca2+ exchanger inhibitor KB-R7943 alleviated heart injury and calpain activity. Intriguingly, the binding of μ-calpain large subunit calpain-1 (CAPN1) to phospho-CaMKII was blunted by both inhibitors. Thus, a Ca2+ leak via the ryanodine receptor is not an essential element in CaMKII-elicited calpain activation. In hearts receiving vector injection, ischemia/reperfusion caused elevated calpain activity and α-fodrin degradation, along with membrane integrity damage, similar to the effects noted in control hearts. Importantly, all these alterations were diminished with delivery of adeno-associated virus expressing mutant CaMKIIδC T287A. Ischemia/reperfusion increased CaMKII auto-phosphorylation and binding of CAPN1 to phospho-CaMKII, and facilitated the translocation of phospho-CaMKII and CAPN1 to the plasma membrane, all of which were reversed by injecting CaMKII mutant. Furthermore, the relocation capacity and the interaction of CaMKII with CAPN1 appeared to be dependent upon CaMKII autophosphorylation, as its mutant delivery increased the level of CaMKII, but did not increase membrane content of CaMKII and CAPN1, or their interactions. Together, CaMKII/calpain interaction represents a new avenue for mediating myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury, and CaMKII likely serves as both a kinase and a carrier, thereby promoting calpain membrane translocation and activation.
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Zhang JY, Kong LH, Lai D, Jin ZX, Gu XM, Zhou JJ. Glutamate protects against Ca(2+) paradox-induced injury and inhibits calpain activity in isolated rat hearts. Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol 2017; 43:951-9. [PMID: 27279457 DOI: 10.1111/1440-1681.12605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2015] [Revised: 04/25/2016] [Accepted: 06/02/2016] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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This study determined the effects of glutamate on the Ca(2+) paradoxical heart, which is a model for Ca(2+) overload-induced injury during myocardial ischaemia and reperfusion, and evaluated its effect on a known mediator of injury, calpain. An isolated rat heart was retrogradely perfused in a Langendorff apparatus. Ca(2+) paradox was elicited via perfusion with a Ca(2+) -free Krebs-Henseleit (KH) solution for 3 minutes followed by Ca(2+) -containing normal KH solution for 30 minutes. The Ca(2+) paradoxical heart exhibited almost no viable tissue on triphenyltetrazolium chloride staining and markedly increased LDH release, caspase-3 activity, cytosolic cytochrome c content, and apoptotic index. These hearts also displayed significantly increased LVEDP and a disappearance of LVDP. Glutamate (5 and 20 mmol/L) significantly alleviated Ca(2+) paradox-induced injury. In contrast, 20 mmol/L mannitol had no effect on Ca(2+) paradox. Ca(2+) paradox significantly increased the extent of the translocation of μ-calpain to the sarcolemmal membrane and the proteolysis of α-fodrin, which suggests calpain activation. Glutamate also blocked these effects. A non-selective inhibitor of glutamate transporters, dl-TBOA (10 μmol/L), had no effect on control hearts, but it reversed glutamate-induced cardioprotection and reduction in calpain activity. Glutamate treatment significantly increased intracellular glutamate content in the Ca(2+) paradoxical heart, which was also blocked by dl-TBOA. We conclude that glutamate protects the heart against Ca(2+) overload-induced injury via glutamate transporters, and the inhibition of calpain activity is involved in this process.
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- Jian-Ying Zhang
- Department of Physiology, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
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- Department of Physiology, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China.,Institute of Basic Medical Science, Xi'an Medical College, Xi'an, China
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- Department of Physiology, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
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- Department of Physiology, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
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- Department of Physiology, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
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Kong LH, Gu XM, Wu F, Jin ZX, Zhou JJ. CaMKII inhibition mitigates ischemia/reperfusion-elicited calpain activation and the damage to membrane skeleton proteins in isolated rat hearts. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2017; 491:687-692. [PMID: 28754591 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2017.07.128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2017] [Accepted: 07/22/2017] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) has been implicated in myocardial ischemia/reperfusion (IR) injury. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of CaMKII on the damage to membrane skeleton proteins, which is an important cause of IR injury. Isolated rat hearts were subjected to 45-min global ischemia/2-h reperfusion. Both KN-62 and KN-93 were used to inhibit CaMKII. Compared with controls, the hearts in the IR group exhibited remarkable myocardial injury area, LDH release, cell apoptosis and contractile dysfunction, along with an increase in the phosphorylation of CaMKII and its substrate phospholamban. Treatment with either KN-62 or KN-93 mitigated both the heart injury and the phosphorylation of CaMKII and phospholamban. The analysis of cell skeleton proteins revealed that IR injury resulted in an increase in the 150-kDa fragments resulting from the degradation of α-fodrin and dystrophin translocating from the sarcolemmal membrane to the cytosol and a decrease in the 220-kDa isoform of ankyrin-B. As expected, Evans blue dye staining showed an increase in membrane permeability or membrane rupture in the IR group. All of these alterations were alleviated by treatment with either KN-62 or KN-93. In addition, both KN-62 and KN-93 blocked the activity and membrane recruitment of calpain, a key protease responsible for destroying cell skeleton proteins during IR injury. In conclusion, our data provide evidence that damage to membrane skeleton proteins via calpain is a destructive downstream event of CaMKII activation in the setting of myocardial IR injury.
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- Ling-Heng Kong
- Department of Physiology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China; Institute of Basic Medical Science, Xi'an Medical College, Xi'an, China
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- Department of Physiology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Xi'an, China
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
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- Department of Physiology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China.
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Kovács Á, Kalász J, Pásztor ET, Tóth A, Papp Z, Dhalla NS, Barta J. Myosin heavy chain and cardiac troponin T damage is associated with impaired myofibrillar ATPase activity contributing to sarcomeric dysfunction in Ca 2+-paradox rat hearts. Mol Cell Biochem 2017; 430:57-68. [PMID: 28213770 PMCID: PMC5437149 DOI: 10.1007/s11010-017-2954-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2016] [Accepted: 01/20/2017] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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This study aimed to explore the potential contribution of myofibrils to contractile dysfunction in Ca2+-paradox hearts. Isolated rat hearts were perfused with Krebs-Henseleit solution (Control), followed by Ca2+-depletion, and then Ca2+-repletion after Ca2+-depletion (Ca2+-paradox) by Langendorff method. During heart perfusion left ventricular developed pressure (LVDP), end-diastolic pressure (LVEDP), rate of pressure development (+ dP/dt), and pressure decay (-dP/dt) were registered. Control LVDP (127.4 ± 6.1 mmHg) was reduced during Ca2+-depletion (9.8 ± 1.3 mmHg) and Ca2+-paradox (12.9 ± 1.3 mmHg) with similar decline in +dP/dt and -dP/dt. LVEDP was increased in both Ca2+-depletion and Ca2+-paradox. Compared to Control, myofibrillar Ca2+-stimulated ATPase activity was decreased in the Ca2+-depletion group (12.08 ± 0.57 vs. 8.13 ± 0.19 µmol Pi/mg protein/h), besides unvarying Mg2+ ATPase activity, while upon Ca2+-paradox myofibrillar Ca2+-stimulated ATPase activity was decreased (12.08 ± 0.57 vs. 8.40 ± 0.22 µmol Pi/mg protein/h), but Mg2+ ATPase activity was increased (3.20 ± 0.25 vs. 7.21 ± 0.36 µmol Pi/mg protein/h). In force measurements of isolated cardiomyocytes at saturating [Ca2+], Ca2+-depleted cells had lower rate constant of force redevelopment (k tr,max, 3.85 ± 0.21) and unchanged active tension, while those in Ca2+-paradox produced lower active tension (12.12 ± 3.19 kN/m2) and k tr,max (3.21 ± 23) than cells of Control group (25.07 ± 3.51 and 4.61 ± 22 kN/m2, respectively). In biochemical assays, α-myosin heavy chain and cardiac troponin T presented progressive degradation during Ca2+-depletion and Ca2+-paradox. Our results suggest that contractile impairment in Ca2+-paradox partially resides in deranged sarcomeric function and compromised myofibrillar ATPase activity as a result of myofilament protein degradation, such as α-myosin heavy chain and cardiac troponin T. Impaired relaxation seen in Ca2+-paradoxical hearts is apparently not related to titin, rather explained by the altered myofibrillar ATPase activity.
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- Árpád Kovács
- Division of Clinical Physiology, Institute of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, 4032, Hungary
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- Division of Clinical Physiology, Institute of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, 4032, Hungary
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- Division of Clinical Physiology, Institute of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, 4032, Hungary
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- Division of Clinical Physiology, Institute of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, 4032, Hungary
- Research Centre for Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, 4032, Hungary
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- Division of Clinical Physiology, Institute of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, 4032, Hungary
- Research Centre for Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, 4032, Hungary
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- Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, St. Boniface Hospital Albrechtsen Research Centre, Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Manitoba, 351 Tache Avenue, Winnipeg, MB, R2H 2A6, Canada
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- Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, St. Boniface Hospital Albrechtsen Research Centre, Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Manitoba, 351 Tache Avenue, Winnipeg, MB, R2H 2A6, Canada.
- Department of Cardiology, Institute of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, 22 Móricz Zs krt., Debrecen, 4032, Hungary.
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Mani H, Tanaka H, Adachi T, Ikegawa M, Dai P, Fujita N, Takamatsu T. How Does the Ca(2+)-paradox Injury Induce Contracture in the Heart?-A Combined Study of the Intracellular Ca(2+) Dynamics and Cell Structures in Perfused Rat Hearts. Acta Histochem Cytochem 2015; 48:1-8. [PMID: 25861132 PMCID: PMC4387258 DOI: 10.1267/ahc.14059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2014] [Accepted: 12/09/2014] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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The calcium (Ca2+)-paradox injury of the heart, induced by restoration of extracellular Ca2+ after its short-term depletion, is known to provoke cardiomyocyte contracture. However, undetermined is how the Ca2+-paradox provokes such a distinctive presentation of myocytes in the heart. To address this, we imaged sequential intracellular Ca2+ dynamics and concomitant structures of the subepicardial ventricular myocytes in fluo3-loaded, Langendorff-perfused rat hearts produced by the Ca2+ paradox. Under rapid-scanning confocal microscopy, repletion of Ca2+ following its depletion produced high-frequency Ca2+ waves in individual myocytes with asynchronous localized contractions, resulting in contracture within 10 min. Such alterations of myocytes were attenuated by 5-mM NiCl2, but not by verapamil, SEA0400, or combination of ryanodine and thapsigargin, indicating a contribution of non-specific transmembrane Ca2+ influx in the injury. However, saponin-induced membrane permeabilization of Ca2+ showed no apparent contracture despite the emergence of high-frequency Ca2+ waves, indicating an essential role of myocyte-myocyte and myocyte-extracellular matrix (ECM) mechanical connections in the Ca2+ paradox. In immunohistochemistry Ca2+ depletion produced separation of the intercalated disc that expresses cadherin and dissipation of β-dystroglycan located along the sarcolemma. Taken together, along with the trans-sarcolemmal Ca2+ influx, disruption of cell-cell and cell-ECM connections is essential for contracture in the Ca2+-paradox injury.
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- Hiroki Mani
- Department of Pathology and Cell Regulation, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Science
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Laboratory Medicine, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Science
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- Department of Pathology and Cell Regulation, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Science
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- Department of Pathology and Cell Regulation, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Science
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- Department of Genomic Medical Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Science
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- Department of Pathology and Cell Regulation, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Science
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Laboratory Medicine, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Science
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- Department of Pathology and Cell Regulation, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Science
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de Oliveira MAB, Brandi AC, dos Santos CA, Botelho PHH, Cortez JLL, Goissis G, Braile DM. The calcium paradox - what should we have to fear? Braz J Cardiovasc Surg 2014; 29:249-54. [PMID: 25140476 PMCID: PMC4389471 DOI: 10.5935/1678-9741.20140054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2013] [Accepted: 02/13/2014] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The calcium paradox was first mentioned in 1966 by Zimmerman et al. Thereafter gained great interest from the scientific community due to the fact of the absence of calcium ions in heart muscle cells produce damage similar to ischemia-reperfusion. Although not all known mechanisms involved in cellular injury in the calcium paradox intercellular connection maintained only by nexus seems to have a key role in cellular fragmentation. The addition of small concentrations of calcium, calcium channel blockers, and hyponatraemia hypothermia are important to prevent any cellular damage during reperfusion solutions with physiological concentration of calcium.
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- Marcos Aurélio Barboza de Oliveira
- Faculdade de Medicina de São José do Rio Preto (FAMERP), São José do
Rio Preto, SP, Brasil; Centro Universitário de Votuporanga (UNIFEV), Santa Casa
Votuporanga, Votuporanga, SP, Brazil
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- Braile Biomédiaca, Indústria Comércio e Representações, São José so Rio
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