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JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Volume 139, Issue 4, Pages 311-318Publisher
JAPANESE PHARMACOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jphs.2019.01.016
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Diabetic cardiomyopathy; Trimetazidine; NADPH oxidase 2; Transient receptor potential channel 3; Oxidative stress
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- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2015ZM165]
- Special Fund for Public Welfare Research and Capacity Building of Guangdong Province [2014B020210001]
- University of Nicosia Medical School
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Diabetic cardiomyopathy (DCM) is characterized by cardiac hypertrophy, fibrosis, oxidative stress and inflammation. Trimetazidine (TMZ), a potent metabolism modulator, has been shown to be cardioprotective in experimental models of ischaemia-reperfusion and type 2 diabetes-induced cardiomyopathy. The present study examined whether TMZ inhibits cardiomyopathy induced by insulindependent type 1 diabetes. Wistar rats were randomly divided into control group (vehicle alone), diabetes mellitus (DM; induced by streptozocin (STZ) injection) group and DM treated with TMZ (DM/TMZ) group. Cardiac function, histology, plasma biochemistry and molecular mechanism were assessed. STZ induced diabetes in rats as indicated by hyperglycemia, increased and decreased levels of advanced glycation end products (AGEs) and insulin respectively. Diabetic rats were characterized by left ventricular dysfunction, cardiachypertrophy and fibrosis and signs of inflammation and oxidative stress in the myocardium, which were accompanied by elevated levels of NADPH oxidase 2 (Nox2) and transient receptor potential channel 3 (TRPC3) in the heart. TMZ treatment ameliorated diabetes-associated structural and functional alterations by inhibiting Nox2 and TRPC3 without having any effects on glucose, insulin and AGEs levels. These results suggest that TMZ could be used as a therapy to treat cardiomyopathy associated with type 1 induced diabetes mellitus. (c) 2019 The Authors. Production and hosting by Elsevier B. V. on behalf of Japanese Pharmacological Society. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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