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Increased expression and altered subcellular distribution of PKC-delta in chronically hypoxic rat myocardium: involvement in cardioprotection.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  15576445     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
We examined the role of protein kinase C (PKC) in the cardioprotective mechanism induced by long-term adaptation to chronic intermittent hypoxia. Adult male Wistar rats were exposed to hypobaric hypoxia of 7,000 m for 8 h/day, 5 days/wk; the total number of exposures was 24-32. A control group was kept under normoxic conditions. Western blot analysis of PKC isoforms-delta and -epsilon was performed in the cytosol and three particulate fractions of left ventricular myocardium. Infarct size was determined in open-chest animals subjected to 20-min coronary artery occlusion and 3-h reperfusion. The PKC inhibitors chelerythrine (1 or 5 mg/kg) or rottlerin (selective for PKC-delta isoform; 0.3 mg/kg) were administered intravenously as a single bolus 15 min before ischemia. Chronic hypoxia had no effect on the expression and distribution of PKC-epsilon. The relative amount of PKC-delta increased in the cytosol and nuclear-cytoskeletal, mitochondrial, and microsomal fractions of chronically hypoxic myocardium by 100%, 212%, 237%, and 146%, respectively, compared with corresponding normoxic values. Chronic hypoxia decreased the size of myocardial infarction (normalized to the area at risk) by about one-third on the average (P < 0.05). Both doses of chelerythrine tended to reduce infarction in controls, and only the high dose completely abolished the improvement of ischemic tolerance in hypoxic hearts (P < 0.05). Rottlerin attenuated the infarct size-limiting effect of chronic hypoxia (P < 0.05), and it had no effect in controls. These results suggest that chronic intermittent hypoxia-induced cardioprotection in rats is partially mediated by PKC-delta; the contribution of other isoforms remains to be determined.
Authors:
Jan Neckár; Irena Marková; Frantisek Novák; Olga Nováková; Ondrej Szárszoi; Bohuslav Ost'ádal; Frantisek Kolár
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't     Date:  2004-12-02
Journal Detail:
Title:  American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology     Volume:  288     ISSN:  0363-6135     ISO Abbreviation:  Am. J. Physiol. Heart Circ. Physiol.     Publication Date:  2005 Apr 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2005-03-17     Completed Date:  2005-04-20     Revised Date:  2009-11-19    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  100901228     Medline TA:  Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  H1566-72     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Videnska 1083, 142 20 Prague 4, Czech Republic.
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Animals
Anoxia / metabolism*
Blood Pressure
Chronic Disease
Enzyme Inhibitors / pharmacology
Heart Rate
Heart Ventricles / enzymology
Hematocrit
Male
Myocardial Infarction / metabolism*
Myocardial Reperfusion Injury / metabolism*
Myocardium / enzymology*
Protein Kinase C / antagonists & inhibitors,  metabolism*
Protein Kinase C-delta
Protein Kinase C-epsilon
Rats
Rats, Wistar
Chemical
Reg. No./Substance:
0/Enzyme Inhibitors; EC 2.7.1.-/Prkcd protein, rat; EC 2.7.1.-/Prkce protein, rat; EC 2.7.11.13/Protein Kinase C; EC 2.7.11.13/Protein Kinase C-delta; EC 2.7.11.13/Protein Kinase C-epsilon

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