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Role of STAT-1 and STAT-3 in ischaemia/reperfusion injury 总被引:8,自引:0,他引:8
Stephanou A 《Journal of cellular and molecular medicine》2004,8(4):519-525
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Massimo Collino Mara Rogazzo Alessandro Pini Elisa Benetti Arianna Carolina Rosa Fausto Chiazza Roberto Fantozzi Daniele Bani Emanuela Masini 《Journal of cellular and molecular medicine》2013,17(11):1494-1505
Although recent preclinical and clinical studies have demonstrated that recombinant human relaxin (rhRLX) may have important therapeutic potential in acute heart failure and chronic kidney diseases, the effects of acute rhRLX administration against renal ischaemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury have never been investigated. Using a rat model of 1‐hr bilateral renal artery occlusion followed by 6‐hr reperfusion, we investigated the effects of rhRLX (5 μg/Kg i.v.) given both at the beginning and after 3 hrs of reperfusion. Acute rhRLX administration attenuated the functional renal injury (increase in serum urea and creatinine), glomerular dysfunction (decrease in creatinine clearance) and tubular dysfunction (increase in urinary excretion of N‐acetyl‐β‐glucosaminidase) evoked by renal I/R. These beneficial effects were accompanied by a significant reduction in local lipid peroxidation, free radical‐induced DNA damage and increase in the expression/activity of the endogenous antioxidant enzymes Mn‐ and CuZn‐superoxide dismutases (SOD). Furthermore, rhRLX administration attenuated the increase in leucocyte activation, as suggested by inhibition of myeloperoxidase activity, intercellular‐adhesion‐molecule‐1 expression, interleukin (IL)‐1β, IL‐18 and tumour necrosis factor‐α production as well as increase in IL‐10 production. Interestingly, the reduced oxidative stress status and neutrophil activation here reported were associated with rhRLX‐induced activation of endothelial nitric oxide synthase and up‐regulation of inducible nitric oxide synthase, possibly secondary to activation of Akt and the extracellular signal‐regulated protein kinase (ERK) 1/2, respectively. Thus, we report herein that rhRLX protects the kidney against I/R injury by a mechanism that involves changes in nitric oxide signalling pathway. 相似文献
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Pre‐conditions for eliminating mitochondrial dysfunction and maintaining liver function after hepatic ischaemia reperfusion 下载免费PDF全文
The liver, the largest organ with multiple synthesis and secretion functions in mammals, consists of hepatocytes and Kupffer, stem, endothelial, stellate and other parenchymal cells. Because of early and extensive contact with the external environment, hepatic ischaemia reperfusion (IR) may result in mitochondrial dysfunction, autophagy and apoptosis of cells and tissues under various pathological conditions. Because the liver requires a high oxygen supply to maintain normal detoxification and synthesis functions, it is extremely susceptible to ischaemia and subsequent reperfusion with blood. Consequently, hepatic IR leads to acute or chronic liver failure and significantly increases the total rate of morbidity and mortality through multiple regulatory mechanisms. An increasing number of studies indicate that mitochondrial structure and function are impaired after hepatic IR, but that the health of liver tissues or liver grafts can be effectively rescued by attenuation of mitochondrial dysfunction. In this review, we mainly focus on the subsequent therapeutic interventions related to the conservation of mitochondrial function involved in mitigating hepatic IR injury and the potential mechanisms of protection. Because mitochondria are abundant in liver tissue, clarification of the regulatory mechanisms between mitochondrial dysfunction and hepatic IR should shed light on clinical therapies for alleviating hepatic IR‐induced injury. 相似文献
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Ying Luo Nattayaporn Apaijai Suchan Liao Chayodom Maneechote Titikorn Chunchai Busarin Arunsak Juthipong Benjanuwattra Panat Yanpiset Siriporn C. Chattipakorn Nipon Chattipakorn 《Journal of cellular and molecular medicine》2022,26(8):2462
Growing evidence demonstrated that cell death pathways including ferroptosis, apoptosis and necroptosis contribute to cardiac ischaemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury. We hypothesized that ferroptosis, apoptosis and necroptosis contribute differently to myocardial damage during acute cardiac I/R injury. Rats underwent cardiac I/R or sham operation. I/R‐operated rats were divided into 4 groups: vehicle, apoptosis (Z‐vad), ferroptosis (Fer‐1) and necroptosis (Nec‐1) inhibition. Rats in each cell death inhibitor group were subdivided into 3 different dose regimens: low, medium and high. Infarct size, left ventricular (LV) function, arrhythmias and molecular mechanism were investigated. Cardiac I/R caused myocardial infarction, LV dysfunction, arrhythmias, mitochondrial dysfunction, mitochondrial dynamic imbalance, inflammation, apoptosis and ferroptosis. Infarct size, LV dysfunction, mitochondrial dysfunction, apoptosis and ferroptosis were all reduced to a similar extent in rats treated with Z‐vad (low and medium doses) or Fer‐1 (medium and high doses). Fer‐1 treatment also reduced mitochondrial dynamic imbalance and inflammation. No evidence of necroptosis was found in association with acute I/R injury, therefore Nec‐1 treatment could not be assessed. Apoptosis and ferroptosis, not necroptosis, contributed to myocardial damage in acute I/R injury. Inhibitors of these 2 pathways provided effective cardioprotection in rats with I/R injury though modulation of mitochondrial function and attenuated apoptosis and ferroptosis. 相似文献
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Although the liver is the only organ with regenerative capacity, various injury factors induce irreversible liver dysfunction and end‐stage liver disease. Liver resection and liver transplantation (LT) are effective treatments for individuals with liver failure, liver cirrhosis and liver cancers. The remnant or transplanted liver tissues will undergo hepatic ischaemia/reperfusion (IR), which leads to oxidative stress, inflammation, immune injury and liver damage. Moreover, systemic ischaemia induced by trauma, stroke, myocardial ischaemia, haemorrhagic shock and other injury factors also induces liver ischaemia/reperfusion injury (IRI) in individuals. Hepatic IRI can be divided into warm IRI, which is induced by liver surgery and systemic ischaemia, and cold IRI, which is induced by LT. Multiple studies have shown that melatonin (MT) acts as an endogenous free radical scavenger with antioxidant capacity and is also able to attenuate hepatic IRI via its anti‐inflammatory and antiapoptotic capacities. In this review, we discuss the potential mechanisms and current strategies of MT administration in liver surgery for protecting against warm or cold hepatic IRI. We highlight strategies to improve the efficacy and safety of MT for attenuating hepatic IRI in different conditions. After the potential mechanisms underlying the interactions between MT and other important cellular processes during hepatic IR are clarified, more opportunities will be available to use MT to treat liver diseases in the future. 相似文献
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CXCR4 attenuates cardiomyocytes mitochondrial dysfunction to resist ischaemia‐reperfusion injury 下载免费PDF全文
Wen‐Feng Cai Kai Kang Wei Huang Jia‐Liang Liang Yu‐Liang Feng Guan‐Sheng Liu De‐Hua Chang Zhi‐Li Wen Christian Paul Meifeng Xu Ronald W. Millard Yigang Wang 《Journal of cellular and molecular medicine》2015,19(8):1825-1835
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Necroptosis is a key mediator of enterocytes loss in intestinal ischaemia/reperfusion injury 下载免费PDF全文
Jiantong Shen Cai Li Wentao Deng Weifeng Liu Kexuan Liu 《Journal of cellular and molecular medicine》2017,21(3):432-443
Cell death is an important biological process that is believed to have a central role in intestinal ischaemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury. While the apoptosis inhibition is pivotal in preventing intestinal I/R, how necrotic cell death is regulated remains unknown. Necroptosis represents a newly discovered form of programmed cell death that combines the features of both apoptosis and necrosis, and it has been implicated in the development of a range of inflammatory diseases. Here, we show that receptor‐interacting protein 1/3 (RIP1/3) kinase and mixed lineage kinase domain‐like protein recruitment mediates necroptosis in a rat model of ischaemic intestinal injury in vivo. Furthermore, necroptosis was specifically blocked by the RIP1 kinase inhibitor necrostatin‐1. In addition, the combined treatment of necrostatin‐1 and the pan‐caspase inhibitor Z‐VAD acted synergistically to protect against intestinal I/R injury, and these two pathways can be converted to one another when one is inhibited. In vitro, necrostatin‐1 pre‐treatment reduced the necroptotic death of oxygen‐glucose deprivation challenged intestinal epithelial cell‐6 cells, which in turn dampened the production of pro‐inflammatory cytokines (tumour necrosis factor‐α and interleukin‐1β), and suppressed high‐mobility group box‐1 (HMGB1) translocation from the nucleus to the cytoplasm and the subsequent release of HMGB1 into the supernatant, thus decreasing the activation of Toll‐like receptor 4 and the receptor for advanced glycation end products. Collectively, our study reveals a robust RIP1/RIP3‐dependent necroptosis pathway in intestinal I/R‐induced intestinal injury in vivo and in vitro and suggests that the HMGB1 signalling is highly involved in this process, making it a novel therapeutic target for acute ischaemic intestinal injury. 相似文献
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Regulation of autophagy protects against liver injury in liver surgery-induced ischaemia/reperfusion
Chenxia Hu Lingfei Zhao Fen Zhang Lanjuan Li 《Journal of cellular and molecular medicine》2021,25(21):9905-9917
Transient ischaemia and reperfusion in liver tissue induce hepatic ischaemia/reperfusion (I/R) tissue injury and a profound inflammatory response in vivo. Hepatic I/R can be classified into warm I/R and cold I/R and is characterized by three main types of cell death, apoptosis, necrosis and autophagy, in rodents or patients following I/R. Warm I/R is observed in patients or animal models undergoing liver resection, haemorrhagic shock, trauma, cardiac arrest or hepatic sinusoidal obstruction syndrome when vascular occlusion inhibits normal blood perfusion in liver tissue. Cold I/R is a condition that affects only patients who have undergone liver transplantation (LT) and is caused by donated liver graft preservation in a hypothermic environment prior to entering a warm reperfusion phase. Under stress conditions, autophagy plays a critical role in promoting cell survival and maintaining liver homeostasis by generating new adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and organelle components after the degradation of macromolecules and organelles in liver tissue. This role of autophagy may contribute to the protection of hepatic I/R-induced liver injury; however, a considerable amount of evidence has shown that autophagy inhibition also protects against hepatic I/R injury by inhibiting autophagic cell death under specific circumstances. In this review, we comprehensively discuss current strategies and underlying mechanisms of autophagy regulation that alleviates I/R injury after liver resection and LT. Directed autophagy regulation can maintain liver homeostasis and improve liver function in individuals undergoing warm or cold I/R. In this way, autophagy regulation can contribute to improving the prognosis of patients undergoing liver resection or LT. 相似文献
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Hui Liu Zongbo Zhao Tao Wu Qiu Zhang Fenying Lu Jie Gu Tingwang Jiang Jianzhong Xue 《Journal of cellular and molecular medicine》2021,25(11):5060-5069
Autophagy is closely associated with cerebral ischaemia/reperfusion injury, but the underlying mechanisms are unknown. We investigated whether Spautin-1 ameliorates cerebral ischaemia/reperfusion injury by inhibiting autophagy and whether its derived pyroptosis is involved in this process. We explored the mechanism of Spautin-1 in cerebral ischaemia/reperfusion. To answer these questions, healthy male Sprague-Dawley rats were exposed to middle cerebral artery occlusion for 60 minutes followed by reperfusion for 24 hours. We found that cerebral ischaemia/reperfusion increased the expression levels of autophagy and pyroptosis-related proteins. Treatment with Spautin-1 reduced the infarct size and water content and restored some neurological functions. In vitro experiments were performed using oxygen-glucose deprivation/reoxygenation to model PC12 cells. The results showed that PC12 cells showed a significant decrease in cell viability and a significant increase in ROS and autophagy levels. Spautin-1 treatment reduced autophagy and ROS accumulation and attenuated NLRP3 inflammasome-dependent pyroptosis. However, these beneficial effects were greatly blocked by USP13 overexpression, which significantly counteracted the inhibition of autophagy and NLRP3 inflammasome-dependent ferroptosis by Spautin-1. Together, these results suggest that Spautin-1 may ameliorate cerebral ischaemia-reperfusion injury via the autophagy/pyroptosis pathway. Thus, inhibition of autophagy may be considered as a promising therapeutic approach for cerebral ischaemia-reperfusion injury. 相似文献
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Chayodom Maneechote Siripong Palee Siriporn C. Chattipakorn Nipon Chattipakorn 《Journal of cellular and molecular medicine》2017,21(11):2643-2653
The current therapeutic strategy for the management of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is to return blood flow into the occluded coronary artery of the heart, a process defined as reperfusion. However, reperfusion itself can increase mortality rates in AMI patients because of cardiac tissue damage and dysfunction, which is termed ‘ischaemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury’. Mitochondria play an important role in myocardial I/R injury as disturbance of mitochondrial dynamics, especially excessive mitochondrial fission, is a predominant cause of cardiac dysfunction. Therefore, pharmacological intervention and therapeutic strategies which modulate the mitochondrial dynamics balance during I/R injury could exert great beneficial effects to the I/R heart. This review comprehensively summarizes and discusses the effects of mitochondrial fission inhibitors as well as mitochondrial fusion promoters on cardiac and mitochondrial function during myocardial I/R injury. The comparison of the effects of both compounds given at different time‐points during the course of I/R injury (i.e. prior to ischaemia, during ischaemia and at the reperfusion period) are also summarized and discussed. Finally, this review also details important information which may contribute to clinical practices using these drugs to improve the quality of life in AMI patients. 相似文献
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目的:在大鼠急性心肌缺血/再灌ii(I/R)模型上,观察高铁血红素在钙激活中性蛋白酶(calpain)介导的心肌I/R损伤中的作用。并初步探讨其可能的机制。方法:64只雄性SD大鼠随机8组(n:8):假手术组(sham组)、(I/R)组、MDL28170+I/R组、单纯MDL28170组、高铁血红素+I/R组、单纯高铁血红素组、锌原卟啉Ⅸ+高铁血红素+I/R组、单纯锌原卟啉Ⅸ组。采用大鼠离体心脏Langendorff灌流技术,心脏I/R后,测定左室发展压(LVDP)、心肌梗死面积、冠脉流出液中的乳酸脱氢酶(LDH)释放量。检测calpain、血红素氧化酶(HO)、和半胱氨酸天冬氨酸蛋白酶3(caspase3)活性。Westernblot观察心肌钙蛋白酶抑制蛋白(calpastatin)蛋白表达。结果:①心肌I/R后,calpain、caspase3活性明显增高。calpain抑制剂MDL28170可抑制I/R诱导的LDH释放量增加,增高LVDP,缩小心肌梗死面积。②与单纯I/R组相比,大鼠预先给予高铁血红素后,心脏HO-1活性增加,calpain和caspase3活性下降。同时,LDH释放量减少,LVDP明显增高,心肌梗死面积缩小。③I/R组心肌calpastatin表达量明显低于对照组,高铁血红素组大鼠calpastatin表达量增高。HO-1的抑制剂锌原卟啉Ⅸ可取消高铁血红素对calpastain表达量的影响,并取消其心肌保护作用。结论:高铁血红素预处理可通过抑制calpain的激活,减轻大鼠心肌I/R损伤,其机制可能与增加calpastatin蛋白表达有关。 相似文献
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Fibroblast growth factor 2 protects against renal ischaemia/reperfusion injury by attenuating mitochondrial damage and proinflammatory signalling 下载免费PDF全文
Xiao‐Hua Tan Xiao‐Meng Zheng Li‐Xia Yu Jian He Hong‐Mei Zhu Xiu‐Ping Ge Xiao‐Li Ren Fa‐Qing Ye Saverio Bellusci Jian Xiao Xiao‐Kun Li Jin‐San Zhang 《Journal of cellular and molecular medicine》2017,21(11):2909-2925
Ischaemia‐reperfusion injury (I/RI) is a common cause of acute kidney injury (AKI). The molecular basis underlying I/RI‐induced renal pathogenesis and measures to prevent or reverse this pathologic process remains to be resolved. Basic fibroblast growth factor (FGF2) is reported to have protective roles of myocardial infarction as well as in several other I/R related disorders. Herein we present evidence that FGF2 exhibits robust protective effect against renal histological and functional damages in a rat I/RI model. FGF2 treatment greatly alleviated I/R‐induced acute renal dysfunction and largely blunted I/R‐induced elevation in serum creatinine and blood urea nitrogen, and also the number of TUNEL‐positive tubular cells in the kidney. Mechanistically, FGF2 substantially ameliorated renal I/RI by mitigating several mitochondria damaging parameters including pro‐apoptotic alteration of Bcl2/Bax expression, caspase‐3 activation, loss of mitochondrial membrane potential and KATP channel integrity. Of note, the protective effect of FGF2 was significantly compromised by the KATP channel blocker 5‐HD. Interestingly, I/RI alone resulted in mild activation of FGFR, whereas FGF2 treatment led to more robust receptor activation. More significantly, post‐I/RI administration of FGF2 also exhibited robust protection against I/RI by reducing cell apoptosis, inhibiting the release of damage‐associated molecular pattern molecule HMBG1 and activation of its downstream inflammatory cytokines such as IL‐1α, IL‐6 and TNF α. Taken together, our data suggest that FGF2 offers effective protection against I/RI and improves animal survival by attenuating mitochondrial damage and HMGB1‐mediated inflammatory response. Therefore, FGF2 has the potential to be used for the prevention and treatment of I/RI‐induced AKI. 相似文献
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Ioanna Andreadou Rainer Schulz Andreas Papapetropoulos Belma Turan Kirsti Ytrehus Peter Ferdinandy Andreas Daiber Fabio Di Lisa 《Journal of cellular and molecular medicine》2020,24(12):6510-6522
Redox signalling in mitochondria plays an important role in myocardial ischaemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury and in cardioprotection. Reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (ROS/RNS) modify cellular structures and functions by means of covalent changes in proteins including among others S‐nitros(yl)ation by nitric oxide (NO) and its derivatives, and S‐sulphydration by hydrogen sulphide (H2S). Many enzymes are involved in the mitochondrial formation and handling of ROS, NO and H2S under physiological and pathological conditions. In particular, the balance between formation and removal of reactive species is impaired during I/R favouring their accumulation. Therefore, various interventions aimed at decreasing mitochondrial ROS accumulation have been developed and have shown cardioprotective effects in experimental settings. However, ROS, NO and H2S play also a role in endogenous cardioprotection, as in the case of ischaemic pre‐conditioning, so that preventing their increase might hamper self‐defence mechanisms. The aim of the present review was to provide a critical analysis of formation and role of reactive species, NO and H2S in mitochondria, with a special emphasis on mechanisms of injury and protection that determine the fate of hearts subjected to I/R. The elucidation of the signalling pathways of ROS, NO and H2S is likely to reveal novel molecular targets for cardioprotection that could be modulated by pharmacological agents to prevent I/R injury. 相似文献
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Fang Hua Jun Wang Iqbal Sayeed Tauheed Ishrat Fahim Atif Donald G. Stein 《Biochemical and biophysical research communications》2009,390(3):678-1466
TIR domain-containing adaptor protein (TRIF) is an adaptor protein in Toll-like receptor (TLR) signaling pathways. Activation of TRIF leads to the activation of interferon regulatory factor 3 (IRF3) and nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB). While studies have shown that TLRs are implicated in cerebral ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury and in neuroprotection against ischemia afforded by preconditioning, little is known about TRIF’s role in the pathological process following cerebral I/R. The present study investigated the role that TRIF may play in acute cerebral I/R injury. In a mouse model of cerebral I/R induced by transient middle cerebral artery occlusion, we examined the activation of NF-κB and IRF3 signaling in ischemic cerebral tissue using ELISA and Western blots. Neurological function and cerebral infarct size were also evaluated 24 h after cerebral I/R. NF-κB activity and phosphorylation of the inhibitor of kappa B (IκBα) increased in ischemic brains, but IRF3, inhibitor of κB kinase complex-ε (IKKε), and TANK-binding kinase1 (TBK1) were not activated after cerebral I/R in wild-type (WT) mice. Interestingly, TRIF deficit did not inhibit NF-κB activity or p-IκBα induced by cerebral I/R. Moreover, although cerebral I/R induced neurological and functional impairments and brain infarction in WT mice, the deficits were not improved and brain infarct size was not reduced in TRIF knockout mice compared to WT mice. Our results demonstrate that the TRIF-dependent signaling pathway is not required for the activation of NF-κB signaling and brain injury after acute cerebral I/R. 相似文献
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Ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) is the most common cause of acute renal injury. I/R-induced reactive oxygen species (ROS) are thought to be a major factor in the development of acute renal injury by promoting the initial tubular damage. NAD(P)H:quinone oxidoreductase 1 (NQO1) is a well-known antioxidant protein that regulates ROS generation. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether NQO1 modulates the renal I/R injury (IRI) associated with NADPH oxidase (NOX)-derived ROS production in an animal model. We analyzed renal function, oxidative stress, and tubular apoptosis after IRI. NQO1−/− mice showed increased blood urea nitrogen and creatinine levels, tubular damage, oxidative stress, and apoptosis. In the kidneys of NQO1−/− mice, the cellular NADPH/NADP+ ratio was significantly higher and NOX activity was markedly higher than in those of NQO1+/+ mice. The activation of NQO1 by β-lapachone (βL) significantly improved renal dysfunction and reduced tubular cell damage, oxidative stress, and apoptosis by renal I/R. Moreover, the βL treatment significantly lowered the cellular NADPH/NADP+ ratio and dramatically reduced NOX activity in the kidneys after IRI. From these results, it was concluded that NQO1 has a protective role against renal injury induced by I/R and that this effect appears to be mediated by decreased NOX activity via cellular NADPH/NADP+ modulation. These results provide convincing evidence that NQO1 activation might be beneficial for ameliorating renal injury induced by I/R. 相似文献
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白藜芦醇甙对大鼠心脏缺血/再灌注损伤的保护作用 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
本文利用冠脉结扎/放松方法和Langendorff灌注技术,建立在体和离体大鼠心脏缺血/再灌注(ischemia/reperfusion,I/R)损伤模型,探讨白藜芦醇甙(polydatin)对大鼠I/R心肌损伤的保护作用及其机制.观察白藜芦醇甙对缺血和再灌注心律失常、心肌梗死面积、心脏收缩功能、心肌超氧化物歧化酶(superoxide dismutase,SOD)活性、丙二醛(malondialdehyde,MDA)含量、NO含量以及一氧化氮合酶(nitric oxide synthase,NOS)活性的影响.结果显示:与对照组相比,白藜芦醇甙组大鼠缺血和再灌注心律失常明显降低(P<0.05,P<0.01);心肌梗死面积显著减少(P相似文献
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Chennian Xu Jian Wang Zhenge Fan Shuang Zhang Rui Qiao Yu Liu Jian Yang Lifang Yang Huishan Wang 《Journal of cellular and molecular medicine》2021,25(13):6455-6459
Although reperfusion is the most effective therapy for patients with acute myocardial infarction, reperfusion injury limits the therapeutic effects of early reperfusion. Oxidative stress plays a crucial role in myocardial ischaemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury. Melatonin, a circulating hormone, is well-known as an antioxidant in cardiovascular diseases. In this short communication, we show that melatonin significantly improves post-ischaemic cardiac function, reduces infarct size and decreases oxidative stress. Furthermore, melatonin markedly increases AMPK activation and Nrf2 nuclear translocation. Nevertheless, these melatonin-induced changes are abrogated by compound C. In addition, ML-385, an Nrf2 inhibitor, also withdraws the antioxidative effects of melatonin but has little effect on AMPK activation. In conclusion, our results demonstrate that melatonin alleviates myocardial I/R injury by inhibiting oxidative stress via the AMPK/Nrf2 signalling pathway. 相似文献
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Lin28a protects against cardiac ischaemia/reperfusion injury in diabetic mice through the insulin‐PI3K‐mTOR pathway 下载免费PDF全文
Shuang Li Xietian Pan Xiaotian Zhang Di Zhu Congye Li Rongqing Zhang Erhe Gao Haichang Wang 《Journal of cellular and molecular medicine》2015,19(6):1174-1182
The insulin‐PI3K‐mTOR pathway exhibits a variety of cardiovascular activities including protection against I/R injury. Lin28a enhanced glucose uptake and insulin‐sensitivity via insulin‐PI3K‐mTOR signalling pathway. However, the role of lin28a on experimental cardiac I/R injury in diabetic mice are not well understood. Diabetic mice underwent 30 min. of ischaemia followed by 3 hrs of reperfusion. Animals were randomized to be treated with lentivirus carrying lin28a siRNA (siLin28a) or lin28a cDNA (Lin28a) 72 hrs before coronary artery ligation. Myocardial infarct size (IS), cardiac function, cardiomyocyte apoptosis and mitochondria morphology in diabetic mice who underwent cardiac I/R injury were compared between groups. The target proteins of lin28a were examined by western blot analysis. Lin28a overexpression significantly reduced myocardial IS, improved LV ejection fraction (LVEF), decreased myocardial apoptotic index and alleviated mitochondria cristae destruction in diabetic mice underwent cardiac I/R injury. Lin28a knockdown exacerbated cardiac I/R injury as demonstrated by increased IS, decreased LVEF, increased apoptotic index and aggravated mitochondria cristae destruction. Interestingly, pre‐treatment with rapamycin abolished the beneficial effects of lin28a overexpression. Lin28a overexpression increased, while Lin28a knockdown decreased the expression of IGF1R, p‐Akt, p‐mTOR and p‐p70s6k after cardiac I/R injury in diabetic mice. Rapamycin pre‐treatment abolished the effects of increased p‐mTOR and p‐p70s6k expression exerted by lin28a overexpression. This study indicates that lin28a overexpression reduces IS, improves cardiac function, decreases cardiomyocyte apoptosis index and alleviates cardiomyocyte mitochondria impairment after cardiac I/R injury in diabetic mice. The mechanism responsible for the effects of lin28a is associated with the insulin‐PI3K‐mTOR dependent pathway. 相似文献