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Nicorandil Protects the Heart from Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury by Attenuating Endoplasmic Reticulum Response-induced Apoptosis Through PI3K/Akt Signaling Pathway
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Ye, Ming Yang, Jun Ding, Jia-Wang Yang, Jian Dong, Wusong Wang, Xinan |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Abstract | Background/Aims: As a vasodilatory drug used to treat angina, nicorandil has been shown to induce an infarct-limiting effect in various experimental animal models of myocardial ischemia-reperfusion (IR). There are multiple mechanisms causing the IR injury, among which, the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress and ER stress-initiated apoptosis are implicated to play an important role. However, whether ER stress is involved in nicorandil-induced cardioprotection is unknown. Methods: Post-ischemic functional recovery, lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) release and infarct size in perfused rat hearts subjected to global no-flow I/R were measured to analysis the effect of nicorandil and ER stress inducer of tunicamycin as well as phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) inhibitor of wortmannin on the I/R hearts. The I/R hearts tissue were harvested to evaluate apoptosis ratio with TUNEL assay and protein expression with western blot. Results: We showed that nicorandil ameliorated postischemic contractile recovery, as well as significantly reduced myocardial infarct size at a dose-dependent manner. Furthermore, nicorandil treatment inhibited the IR-induced apoptosis and ER stress. The beneficial effects of nicorandil were blocked by ER stress inducer, tunicamycin and specific phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) inhibitor, wortmannin. Concolusion: We conclude that the cardioprotection of nicorandil was at least in part mediated via inhibition of ER stress-induced apoptotic cell death through PI3K/Akt pathway. |
| Starting Page | 2320 |
| Ending Page | 2332 |
| Page Count | 13 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1159/000374035 |
| PubMed reference number | 25896165 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 35 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/374035 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1159/000374035 |
| Journal | Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |