Chronic exposure to low doses of HgCl2 avoids calcium handling impairment in the right ventricle after myocardial infarction in rats.
Chronic exposure to low doses of HgCl2 avoids calcium handling impairment in the right ventricle after myocardial infarction in rats.
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10.1371/journal.pone.0095639
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发表时间:
2014
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影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
Vassallo PF
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作者:
Faria Tde O;Costa GP;Almenara CC;Angeli JK;Vassallo DV;Stefanon I;Vassallo PF
Right ventricle systolic dysfunction is a major risk factor for death and heart failure after myocardial infarction (MI). Heavy metal exposure has been associated with the development of several cardiovascular diseases, such as MI. The aim of this study was to investigate whether chronic exposure to low doses of mercury chloride (HgCl2) enhances the functional deterioration of right ventricle strips after MI. Male Wistar rats were divided into four groups: Control (vehicle); HgCl2 (exposure during 4 weeks- 1st dose 4.6 µg/kg, subsequent dose 0.07 µg/kg/day, i.m. to cover daily loss); MI surgery induced and HgCl2-MI groups. One week after MI, the morphological and hemodynamic measurements and isometric tension of right ventricle strips were investigated. The chronic HgCl2 exposure did not worsen the injury compared with MI alone in the morphological or hemodynamic parameters evaluated. At basal conditions, despite similar maximum isometric force at L-max, relaxation time was increased in the MI group but unaffected in the HgCl2-MI compared to the Control group. Impairment of the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) function and reduction in the sarcolemmal calcium influx were observed in MI group associated with SERCA2a reduction and increased PLB protein expression. Induction of MI in chronic HgCl2 exposed rats did not cause any alteration in the developed force at L-max, lusitropic function or −dF/dt except for a tendency of a reduction SR function. These findings could be partially explained by the normalization in the sarcolemmal calcium influx and the increase in NCX protein expression observed only in this group. These results suggest that chronic exposure to low doses of HgCl2 prevents the impaired SR function and the reduced sarcolemmal calcium influx observed in MI likely by acting on NCX, PLB and SERCA2a protein expression.
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DOI:
10.1590/1414-431x20122190
发表时间:
2013-02
期刊:
Brazilian journal of medical and biological research = Revista brasileira de pesquisas medicas e biologicas
影响因子:
--
作者:
Fioresi M;Furieri LB;Simões MR;Ribeiro RF Jr;Meira EF;Fernandes AA;Stefanon I;Vassallo DV
通讯作者:
Vassallo DV
影响因子:
8.3
作者:
Park, Sung Kyun;Lee, Sunghee;Basu, Niladri;Franzblau, Alfred
通讯作者:
Franzblau, Alfred
影响因子:
20.1
作者:
PFEFFER, MA;PFEFFER, JM;BRAUNWALD, E
通讯作者:
BRAUNWALD, E
DOI:
10.1016/s1532-0456(03)00110-8
发表时间:
2003-07-01
影响因子:
3.9
作者:
Moreira, CM;Oliveira, EM;Vassallo, DV
通讯作者:
Vassallo, DV
影响因子:
10.4
作者:
CLARKSON, TW
通讯作者:
CLARKSON, TW