Differential effects of atorvastatin on autophagy in ischemic and nonischemic myocardium in Ossabaw swine with metabolic syndrome.
Differential effects of atorvastatin on autophagy in ischemic and nonischemic myocardium in Ossabaw swine with metabolic syndrome.
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10.1016/j.jtcvs.2014.07.104
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2014-12
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Sellke FW
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Sabe AA;Elmadhun NY;Sadek AA;Chu LM;Bianchi C;Sellke FW
The perioperative administration of pleiomorphic statin drugs has been implicated in improving outcomes after cardiac surgery. Adaptive autophagy is a highly conserved cellular process that allows for the elimination of dysfunctional cell components in response to stress and survival under starving conditions. We sought to investigate the effects of the statin drug atorvastatin on autophagy in ischemic and non-ischemic myocardium utilizing a clinically relevant porcine model of metabolic syndrome. Male Ossabaw swine were fed a regular diet (n= 8), a high-cholesterol diet (n= 8) or a high-cholesterol diet with supplemental atorvastatin (1.5 mg/kg daily) (n= 8). After fourteen weeks all animals underwent surgical placement of an ameroid constrictor to the circumflex coronary artery to induce chronic ischemia. Non-ischemic and ischemic myocardium was harvested six months after initiation of the diet and processed for western blotting. Western blot results demonstrate that in the non-ischemic myocardium a high cholesterol diet resulted in a statistically significant decrease in autophagy as indicated by an increase in mTOR and the accumulation of several essential autophagy markers including Beclin-1, LC3B-I, and LC3B-II. Atorvastatin supplementation prevented these changes, and resulted in an increase in autophagy as indicated by a decrease in autophagy flux marker P62. In the ischemic myocardium atorvastatin actually had the opposite effect, with a decrease in autophagy flux as indicated by an increase in p62 and an accumulation of LC3B-I, LCB-II and LAMP-2. Atorvastatin administration has differential effects on autophagy in ischemic and non-ischemic myocardium. In the setting of metabolic syndrome, atorvastatin stimulates autophagy in non-ischemic myocardium while partly inhibiting autophagy in ischemic myocardium. The differential regulation on autophagy may, in part, explain the cardioprotective effect of statins in both ischemic and non-ischemic myocardium, and these findings may have implications in the setting of cardiac surgery.