Sodium/glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors improve cardiac function by reducing JunD expression in human diabetic hearts

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BACKGROUND: The pathogenesis of experimental diabetic cardiomyopathy may involve the activator protein 1 (AP-1) member, JunD. Using non-diabetic heart transplant (HTX) in recipients with diabetes, we examined the effects of the diabetic milieu (hyperglycemia and insulin resistance) on cardiac JunD expression over 12 months. Because sodium/glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2i) significantly reverse high glucose-induced AP-1 binding in the proximal tubular cell, we investigated JunD expression in a subgroup of type 2 diabetic recipients receiving SGLT2i treatment.

METHODS: We evaluated 77 first HTX recipients (40 and 37 patients with and without diabetes, respectively). Among the recipients with diabetes, 17 (45.9%) were receiving SGLT2i treatment. HTX recipients underwent standard clinical evaluation (metabolic status, echocardiography, coronary computed tomography angiography, and endomyocardial biopsy). In the biopsy samples, we evaluated JunD, insulin receptor substrates 1 and 2 (IRS1 and IRS2), peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ (PPAR-γ), and ceramide levels using real-time polymerase chain reaction and immunofluorescence. The biopsy evaluations in this study were performed at 1-4 weeks (basal), 5-12 weeks (intermediate), and up to 48 weeks (final, end of 12-month follow-up) after HTX.

RESULTS: There was a significant early and progressive increase in the cardiac expression of JunD/PPAR-γ and ceramide levels, along with a significant decrease in IRS1 and IRS2 in recipients with diabetes but not in those without diabetes. These molecular changes were blunted in patients with diabetes receiving SGLT2i treatment.

CONCLUSION: Early pathogenesis in human diabetic cardiomyopathy is associated with JunD/PPAR-γ overexpression and lipid accumulation following HTX in recipients with diabetes. Remarkably, this phenomenon was reduced by concomitant therapy with SGLT2i, which acted directly on diabetic hearts.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:127

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Metabolism: clinical and experimental - 127(2022) vom: 10. Feb., Seite 154936

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Marfella, Raffaele [VerfasserIn]
D'Onofrio, Nunzia [VerfasserIn]
Trotta, Maria Consiglia [VerfasserIn]
Sardu, Celestino [VerfasserIn]
Scisciola, Lucia [VerfasserIn]
Amarelli, Cristiano [VerfasserIn]
Balestrieri, Maria Luisa [VerfasserIn]
Grimaldi, Vincenzo [VerfasserIn]
Mansueto, Gelsomina [VerfasserIn]
Esposito, Salvatore [VerfasserIn]
D'Amico, Michele [VerfasserIn]
Golino, Paolo [VerfasserIn]
Signoriello, Giuseppe [VerfasserIn]
De Feo, Marisa [VerfasserIn]
Maiello, Ciro [VerfasserIn]
Napoli, Claudio [VerfasserIn]
Paolisso, Giuseppe [VerfasserIn]

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Clinical Trial
Diabetic cardiomyopathy
Journal Article
JunD
JunD protein, human
Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-jun
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
SGLT2i
Sodium-Glucose Transporter 2 Inhibitors

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Date Completed 22.02.2022

Date Revised 22.02.2022

published: Print-Electronic

ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT03546062

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.metabol.2021.154936

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NLM333389158