OU Yuan, et al. Urocortin-postconditioning protects heart from ischemia-reperfusion injury through interfering mitochondria-dependent apoptotic pathway. [J]. Journal of Chongqing Medical University 35(8):1187-1190(2010)
OU Yuan, et al. Urocortin-postconditioning protects heart from ischemia-reperfusion injury through interfering mitochondria-dependent apoptotic pathway. [J]. Journal of Chongqing Medical University 35(8):1187-1190(2010) DOI: 10.13406/j.cnki.cyxb.2010.08.004.
Urocortin-postconditioning protects heart from ischemia-reperfusion injury through interfering mitochondria-dependent apoptotic pathway
Objective:To investigate the effects of Urocortin-postconditioning on mitochondria-dependentapoptotic pathway.Methods: 24 Wistar rats were randomly divided into 3 groups(n=8):Control group(CON)
I/R group(I/R)
Urocortin group(UCN).The left ventricular samples in the Control group were collected as pre-ischemia controls through thoracotomy.After isolated heart Langendoff and Neely models were established
the rat hearts in the I/R group and the UCN group were continuously perfused with Krebs-Henseleit (K-H)buffersolution for 30 min
then the rat hearts were arrested by cardioplegia
St.Thomas-2 solution(STH-2)for 30min.After that
the rat hearts in the I/R group were reperfused with K-H buffer solution for 90 min.The rat hearts in the UCN group were reperfused with K-H buffer solution containing 10-8 mol/L Urocortin for 90 min.The releasing of Cyto C protein into cytosol was detected by Western blot.The expression of Caspase-3 protein in cardiomyocyte was detected by immunohistochemical assay.The apoptosis index (AI)of cardiomyocyte was detected by TUNEL.Results:Compared with Control group
the expression ofCaspase-3 and Cyto Cprotein in the I/R group and the UCN group were significantly increased(P<0.05).Caspase-3 and Cyto C protein in the UCN group were lowly expressed than those in the I/R group(0.24±0.70 vs 0.36±0.15
P<0.05
0.88±0.07 vs 1.29±0.02
P<0.05).After reperfusion
apoptosis index(AI)in the I/R group and UCN group were significantly higher than that in the Control group(P<0.05);Compared with I/R group group
AI in UCN group was decreased increased(6.77±1.12 vs 12.81±0.62
P<0.05).The expression of Caspase-3 protein had a positive correlation with Cyto C protein in cytosol(r=0.775
P<0.05)
and the apoptosis index(AI)of cardiomyocyte had a positive correlation with Cyto Cprotein in cytosol(r=0.865
P<0.05)。Conclusion:Urocortin protect hearts from ischemic-reperfusion injury through interfering mitochondria-dependent apoptotic pathway.