Hydrocortisone cardioprotection in ischaemia/reperfusion injury involves antioxidant mechanisms

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BACKGROUND: Glucocorticoid (GR) and mineralocorticoid (MR) receptors are highly expressed in cardiac tissue, and both can be activated by corticosteroids. MR activation, in acute myocardial infarction (AMI), worsens cardiac function, and increase NHE activity contributing to the deleterious process. In contrast, effects of GR activation are not fully understood, probably because of the controversial scenario generated by using different doses or potencies of corticosteroids.

AIMS: We tested the hypothesis that an acute dose of hydrocortisone (HC), a low-potency glucocorticoid, in a murine model of AMI could be cardioprotective by regulating NHE1 activity, leading to a decrease in oxidative stress.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: Isolated hearts from Wistar rats were subjected to regional ischemic protocol. HC (10 nmol/L) was added to the perfusate during early reperfusion. Infarct size and oxidative stress were determined. Isolated papillary muscles from non-infarcted hearts were used to evaluate HC effect on sodium-proton exchanger 1 (NHE1) by analysing intracellular pH recovery from acute transient acidosis.

RESULTS: HC treatment decreased infarct size, improved cardiac mechanics, reduced oxidative stress after AMI, while restoring the decreased level of the pro-fusion mitochondrial protein MFN-2. Co-treatment with the GR-blocker Mifepristone avoided these effects. HC reduced NHE1 activity by increasing the NHE1 pro-inhibiting Ser648 phosphorylation site and its upstream kinase AKT. HC restored the decreased AKT phosphorylation and anti-apoptotic BCL-2 protein expression detected after AMI.

CONCLUSIONS: Our results provide the first evidence that acute HC treatment during early reperfusion induces cardioprotection against AMI, associated with a non-genomic HC-triggered NHE1 inhibition by AKT and antioxidant action that might involves mitochondrial dynamics improvement.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:54

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European journal of clinical investigation - 54(2024), 5 vom: 29. Apr., Seite e14172

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Escudero, Daiana S [VerfasserIn]
Fantinelli, Juliana C [VerfasserIn]
Martínez, Valeria R [VerfasserIn]
González Arbeláez, Luisa F [VerfasserIn]
Amarillo, María E [VerfasserIn]
Pérez, Néstor G [VerfasserIn]
Díaz, Romina G [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

AKT
Antioxidants
Cardioprotection
EC 2.7.11.1
Glucocorticoids
Hydrocortisone
Journal Article
Myocardial infarction
NHE1
Oxidative stress
Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt
Sodium-Hydrogen Exchangers
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Date Completed 17.04.2024

Date Revised 17.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/eci.14172

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NLM367840804