Nitric oxide mediates the antiapoptotic effect of insulin in myocardial ischemia-reperfusion -: The roles of PI3-kinase, akt, and endothelial nitric oxide synthase phosphorylation
Nitric oxide mediates the antiapoptotic effect of insulin in myocardial ischemia-reperfusion -: The roles of PI3-kinase, akt, and endothelial nitric oxide synthase phosphorylation
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DOI:
10.1161/01.cir.0000012529.00367.0f
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发表时间:
2002-03-26
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37.8
通讯作者:
Ma, XL
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作者:
Gao, F;Gao, E;Ma, XL
Background-Recent evidence from cultured endothelial cell studies suggests that phosphorylation of endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) through the PI3-kinase-Akt pathway increases NO production. This study was designed to elucidate the signaling pathway involved in the antiapoptotic effect of insulin in vivo and to test the hypothesis that phosphorylation of eNOS by insulin may participate in the cardioprotective effect of insulin after myocardial ischemia and reperfusion.Methods and Results-Male Sprague-Dawley rats were subjected to 30 minutes of myocardial ischemia and 4 hours of reperfusion. Rats were randomized to receive vehicle, insulin, insulin plus wortmannin, or insulin plus L-NAME. Treatment with insulin resulted in 2.6-fold and 4.3-fold increases in Akt and eNOS phosphorylation and a significant increase in NO production in ischemic/reperfused myocardial tissue. Phosphorylation of Akt and eNOS and increase of NO production by insulin were completely blocked by wortmannin, a PI3-kinase inhibitor. Pretreatment with L-NAME, a nonselective NOS inhibitor, had no effect on Akt and eNOS phosphorylation but significantly reduced NO production. Moreover, treatment with insulin markedly reduced myocardial apoptotic death (P