Title: The role of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway in protective effect of sevoflurane postconditioning on cultured neonatal rat cardiomyocytes against anoxia/reoxygenafion injury
Abstract: Objective To evalnate the role of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (p38MAPK) signal pathway in the protective effect of sevoflurane postconditioning (S-Postcon) on cultured neonatal rat cardiomyocytes against anoxia/reoxygenation (A/R) injury. Methods Primary cultured neonatal rat cardiomyocytes were randomly divided into 7 groups: group Ⅰ normal control (C); group Ⅱ A/R; group Ⅲ S-Poatcan + A/R; group ⅣS-Postcon + SB203580 + A/R; group Ⅴ S-Postcon + DMSO + A/R; group Ⅵ SB203580 + A/R and group Ⅶ DMSO + A/R. GroupⅡ-Ⅶ were exposed to 2 h anoxia (95% N2-5% CO2) followed by 1 h reoxygenation. In group Ⅲ, Ⅳ and Ⅴ the cultured myocytes were postconditioned with 20 min 3% sevoflurane in 97% O2 alone (in group Ⅲ) or in conjunction with 5 μmol/L 5B203580 (a specific p38 MAPK inhibitor) (in group Ⅳ) or 0.1% DMSO (in group Ⅴ) followed by 40 min reoxygenation. The cardiomyocytes were reoxygenated in the presence of 5 μmol/L SB203580 in group Ⅵ or 0.1% DMSO in group Ⅶ. The LDH activity, cell survival rate and apoptotic rate were measured at the end of the experiment. The levels of phosphor-p38MAPK (p-p38MAPK) was detected by Western blotting. Results S-Postcon reduced LDH activity and apoptotic rate and increased cell survival rate and the level of p-p38MAPK as compared with group A/R (group Ⅱ). The myocardial protecfive effect of S-Posteon was eliminated by p38MAPK inhibltor-SB203580 and p-p38MAPK level was also decreased at the same time.Conclusion Sevoflurane postconditioning can attenuate anoxia/reoxygenation induced cardiomyocyte injury through activation of p38MAPK signal pathway.
Key words:
p38mitogen-activated protein kinases; Anesthetics, inhalation; Ischemie postcon-ditioning; Myocardial reperfusion injury
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-08-20
Language: en
Type: article
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