Oxidative injury of coronary venular endothelial cells depletes intracellular glutathione and induces HSP 70 mRNA

1995 ◽  
Vol 268 (4) ◽  
pp. H1651-H1658 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. M. Aucoin ◽  
R. Barhoumi ◽  
D. T. Kochevar ◽  
H. J. Granger ◽  
R. C. Burghardt

Vascular endothelium is one of the first tissues exposed to reactive oxygen species produced during myocardial ischemia-reperfusion. Bovine coronary venular endothelial cells (CVEC) were evaluated for intracellular glutathione (GSH) levels and heat shock protein 70 (HSP 70) mRNA and protein during in vitro oxidative stress. CVEC were incubated with 0.01875 U/ml xanthine oxidase (XO) and 0.5 mM hypoxanthine (HX) for 30 min and then allowed to recover for 0, 1, 2, or 3 h. Relative GSH levels were determined by evaluation of monochlorobimane fluorescence. GSH fluorescence was significantly lower in CVEC treated with XO+HX for 30 min than in controls. GSH fluorescence was also decreased in heat-shocked CVEC. After oxidative stress, GSH levels were higher than in controls at 1 h, but by 2 or 3 h after treatment, GSH fluorescence fell below control values. HSP 70 mRNA was induced in CVEC by a 30-min treatment with XO+HX exposure. These data suggest that CVEC respond to oxidative stress by reducing intracellular GSH levels and inducing HSP 70 mRNA, although significant increases in HSP 70 protein were not detected at the time points tested.

2006 ◽  
Vol 290 (5) ◽  
pp. C1399-C1410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena Parfenova ◽  
Shyamali Basuroy ◽  
Sujoy Bhattacharya ◽  
Dilyara Tcheranova ◽  
Yan Qu ◽  
...  

In cerebral circulation, epileptic seizures associated with excessive release of the excitatory neurotransmitter glutamate cause endothelial injury. Heme oxygenase (HO), which metabolizes heme to a vasodilator, carbon monoxide (CO), and antioxidants, biliverdin/bilirubin, is highly expressed in cerebral microvessels as a constitutive isoform, HO-2, whereas the inducible form, HO-1, is not detectable. Using cerebral vascular endothelial cells from newborn pigs and HO-2-knockout mice, we addressed the hypotheses that 1) glutamate induces oxidative stress-related endothelial death by apoptosis, and 2) HO-1 and HO-2 are protective against glutamate cytotoxicity. In cerebral endothelial cells, glutamate (0.1–2.0 mM) increased formation of reactive oxygen species, including superoxide radicals, and induced major keystone events of apoptosis, such as NF-κB nuclear translocation, caspase-3 activation, DNA fragmentation, and cell detachment. Glutamate-induced apoptosis was greatly exacerbated in HO-2 gene-deleted murine cerebrovascular endothelial cells and in porcine cells with pharmacologically inhibited HO-2 activity. Glutamate toxicity was prevented by superoxide dismutase, suggesting apoptotic changes are oxidative stress related. When HO-1 was pharmacologically upregulated by cobalt protoporphyrin, apoptotic effects of glutamate in cerebral endothelial cells were completely prevented. Glutamate-induced reactive oxygen species production and apoptosis were blocked by a CO-releasing compound, CORM-A1 (50 μM), and by bilirubin (1 μM), consistent with the antioxidant and cytoprotective roles of the end products of HO activity. We conclude that both HO-1 and HO-2 have anti-apoptotic effects against oxidative stress-related glutamate toxicity in cerebral vascular endothelium. Although HO-1, when induced, provides powerful protection, HO-2 is an essential endogenous anti-apoptotic factor against glutamate toxicity in the cerebral vascular endothelium.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kun Liu ◽  
Fei Wang ◽  
Shuo Wang ◽  
Wei-Nan Li ◽  
Qing Ye

The aim of this study was to investigate the cardioprotective effect of mangiferin (MAF) in vitro and in vivo. Oxidative stress and inflammatory injury were detected in coronary artery ligation in rats and also in hypoxia-reoxygenation- (H/R-) induced H9c2 cells. MAF inhibited myocardial oxidative stress and proinflammatory cytokines in rats with coronary artery occlusion. The ST segment of MAF treatment groups also resumed. Triphenyltetrazolium chloride (TTC) staining and pathological analysis showed that MAF could significantly reduce myocardial injury. In vitro data showed that MAF could improve hypoxia/reoxygenation- (H/R-) induced H9c2 cell activity. In addition, MAF could significantly reduce oxidative stress and inflammatory pathway protein expression in H/R-induced H9c2 cells. This study has clarified the protective effects of MAF on myocardial injury and also confirmed that oxidative stress and inflammation were involved in the myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury (I/R) model.


2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justyna Mikuła-Pietrasik ◽  
Paweł Uruski ◽  
Krzysztof Aniukiewicz ◽  
Patrycja Sosińska ◽  
Zbigniew Krasiński ◽  
...  

Although the role of endothelium in varicose vein development is indisputable, the effect of the pathology on biological properties of endothelial cells remains unclear. Here we examined if the presence of varicose veins affects senescence of endothelial cells (HUVECs) and, if so, what will be the local and systemic outcome of this effect. Experiments showed that HUVECs subjected to serum from varicose patients display improved proliferation, increased expression of senescence marker, SA-β-Gal, and increased generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS), as compared with serum from healthy donors. Both increased SA-β-Gal activity and ROS release were mediated by TGF-β1, the concentration of which in varicose serum was elevated and the activity of which in vitro was prevented using specific neutralizing antibody. Senescent HUVECs exposed to varicose serum generated increased amounts of ICAM-1, VCAM-1, P-selectin, uPA, PAI-1, and ET-1. Direct comparison of sera from varicose and healthy donors showed that pathological serum contained increased level of ICAM-1, VCAM-1, P-selectin, uPA, and ET-1. Calendar age of healthy subjects correlated positively with serum uPA and negatively with P-selectin. Age of varicose patients correlated positively with ICAM-1, VCAM-1, and ET-1. Collectively, our findings indicate that the presence of varicose veins causes a senescence-related dysfunction of vascular endothelium, which leads to the development of local and systemic proinflammatory environment.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li-Ming Yu ◽  
Xue Dong ◽  
Jian Zhang ◽  
Zhi Li ◽  
Xiao-Dong Xue ◽  
...  

Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress and oxidative stress contribute greatly to myocardial ischemia-reperfusion (MI/R) injury. Naringenin, a flavonoid derived from the citrus genus, exerts cardioprotective effects. However, the effects of naringenin on ER stress as well as oxidative stress under MI/R condition and the detailed mechanisms remain poorly defined. This study investigated the protective effect of naringenin on MI/R-injured heart with a focus on cyclic guanosine monophosphate- (cGMP-) dependent protein kinase (PKG) signaling. Sprague-Dawley rats were treated with naringenin (50 mg/kg/d) and subjected to MI/R surgery with or without KT5823 (2 mg/kg, a selective inhibitor of PKG) cotreatment. Cellular experiment was conducted on H9c2 cardiomyoblasts subjected to simulated ischemia-reperfusion treatment. Before the treatment, the cells were incubated with naringenin (80 μmol/L). PKGIα siRNA was employed to inhibit PKG signaling. Our in vivo and in vitro data showed that naringenin effectively improved heart function while it attenuated myocardial apoptosis and infarction. Furthermore, pretreatment with naringenin suppressed MI/R-induced oxidative stress as well as ER stress as evidenced by decreased superoxide generation, myocardial MDA level, gp91phox expression, and phosphorylation of PERK, IRE1α, and EIF2α as well as reduced ATF6 and CHOP. Importantly, naringenin significantly activated myocardial cGMP-PKGIα signaling while inhibition of PKG signaling with KT5823 (in vivo) or siRNA (in vitro) not only abolished these actions but also blunted naringenin’s inhibitory effects against oxidative stress and ER stress. In summary, our study demonstrates that naringenin treatment protects against MI/R injury by reducing oxidative stress and ER stress via cGMP-PKGIα signaling. Its cardioprotective effect deserves further clinical study.


2021 ◽  
pp. 096032712110218
Author(s):  
Ai-Ping Jin ◽  
Qian-Rong Zhang ◽  
Cui-Ling Yang ◽  
Sha Ye ◽  
Hai-Juan Cheng ◽  
...  

C1q/TNF-related protein 12 (CTRP12) has been reported to play a key role in coronary artery disease. However, whether CTRP12 plays a role in the regulation of myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury is not fully understood. The goals of this work were to assess the possible relationship between CTRP12 and myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury. Here, we exposed cardiomyocytes to hypoxia/re-oxygenation (H/R) to establish an in vitro cardiomyocyte injury model of myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury. Our results showed that H/R treatment resulted in a decrease in CTRP12 expression in cardiomyocytes. The up-regulation of CTRP12 ameliorated H/R-induced cardiomyocyte injury via the down-regulation of apoptosis, oxidative stress, and inflammation. In contrast, the knockdown of CTRP12 enhanced cardiomyocyte sensitivity to H/R-induced cardiomyocyte injury. Further investigation showed that CTRP12 enhanced the levels of nuclear Nrf2 and increased the expression of Nrf2 target genes in cardiomyocytes exposed to H/R. However, the inhibition of Nrf2 markedly diminished CTRP12-overexpression-mediated cardioprotective effects against H/R injury. Overall, these data indicate that CTRP12 protects against H/R-induced cardiomyocyte injury by inhibiting apoptosis, oxidative stress, and inflammation via the enhancement of Nrf2 signaling. This work suggests a potential role of CTRP12 in myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury and proposes it as an attractive target for cardioprotection.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tao Zheng ◽  
Jun Yang ◽  
Jing Zhang ◽  
Chaojun Yang ◽  
Zhixing Fan ◽  
...  

Although miR-327 had a protective effect on cardiomyocytes as described previously, the potential mechanism still needs further exploration. The aim of this study was to investigate the role and mechanism of miR-327 on oxidative stress in myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury (MI/RI) process. Oxidative stress and cardiomyocytes injury were detected in rat model of MI/RI, hypoxia/reoxygenation (H/R), and tert-butyl hydroperoxide (TBHP) model of H9c2 cells. In vitro, downregulation of miR-327 inhibited both H/R- and TBHP-induced oxidative stress, and suppressed apoptosis. Meanwhile, fibroblast growth factor 10(FGF10) was enhanced by miR-327 knocked down, followed by the activation of p-PI3K and p-Akt, and the translocation of Nrf2. However, miR-327 overexpression performed with opposite effects. Consistent with the results in vitro, downregulation of miR-327 attenuated reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation as well as intrinsic apoptosis, and alleviated I/R injury. In conclusion, inhibition of miR-327 improved antioxidative ability and myocardial cell survival via regulating the FGF10/Akt/Nrf2 pathway.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Lin Zhao ◽  
Liting Cheng ◽  
Yongquan Wu

Reperfusion therapy is the most important method for treating acute myocardial infarction. However, myocardial ischemia reperfusion injury (MIRI) can offset the benefit of reperfusion therapy and worsen the outcome. In both ischemia and reperfusion, autophagy remains problematic. Activating molecule in Beclin1-regulated autophagy (Ambra1) is an important protein in autophagy regulation, and its function in MIRI remains unclear. Thus, we used H9C2 cells to investigate the function of Ambra1 in MIRI and the underlying mechanisms involved. Hypoxia and reoxygenation of H9C2 cells were used to mimic MIRI in vitro. During hypoxia, autophagy flux was blocked, then recovered in reoxygenation. Ambra1 overexpression increased autophagy in the H9C2 cells, as the LC3B II/I ratio increased, and alleviated cellular necrosis and apoptosis during hypoxia and reoxygenation. This effect was counteracted by an autophagy inhibitor. Knocking down Ambra1 can block autophagy which P62 sediment/supernatant ratio increased while the ratio of LC3B II/I decreased, and worsen outcomes. Ambra1 enhances autophagy in H9C2 cells by improving the stability and activity of the ULK1 complex. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are an important cause of MIRI. ROS were reduced when Ambra1 was overexpressed and increased when Ambra1 was knocked down, indicating that Ambra1 can protect against hypoxia and reoxygenation injury in H9C2 cells by promoting autophagy and reducing ROS.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Shan ◽  
Zhi-Yang Lv ◽  
Meng-Jiao Yin ◽  
Jing Chen ◽  
Jie Wang ◽  
...  

This study was conducted to estimate the protective effect of Cyanidin-3-glucoside (C3G) on myocardial ischemia-reperfusion (IR) injury and to explore its mechanism. The rats were subjected to left anterior descending ligation and perfusion surgery. In vitro experiments were performed on H9c2 cells using the oxygen-glucose deprivation/reoxygenation (OGD/R) model. The results showed the administration of C3G reduced the infarction area, mitigated pathological alterations, inhibited ST segment elevation, and attenuated oxidative stress and ferroptosis-related protein expression. C3G also suppressed the expressions of USP19, Beclin1, NCOA4, and LC3II/LC3I. In addition, treatment with C3G relieved oxidative stress, downregulated LC3II/LC3I, reduced autophagosome number, downregulated TfR1 expression, and upregulated the expressions of FTH1 and GPX4 in OGD/R-induced H9c2 cells. C3G could inhibit the protein levels of USP19 and LC3II. C3G promoted K11-linked ubiquitination of Beclin1. Further evidence that C3G reduced ferroptosis and ameliorated myocardial I/R injury was demonstrated with the ferroptosis promoter RSL3. Taken together, C3G could be a potential agent to protect myocardium from myocardial I/R injury.


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