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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY
Volume 857, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ejphar.2019.172449
Keywords
Myocardial infarction; MicroRNA-155; Macrophage; Endoplasmic reticulum stress; Apoptosis
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- National Key Basic Research Development Program of China (The 973 Program) [2014CB542402]
- Natural Science Foundation of China [81670267]
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Endoplasmic reticulum stress (ERS)-induced cardiomyocyte apoptosis plays an important role in the pathological process following myocardial infarction (MI). Macrophages that express microRNA-155 (miR-155) mediate cardiac inflammation, fibrosis, and hypertrophy. Therefore, we investigated if miR-155 regulates ERS-induced cardiomyocyte apoptosis after MI using a mouse model, lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced rat bone marrow derived macrophages (BMDMs) and hypoxia-induced neonatal rat cardiomyocytes (NRCMs). In vivo, miR-155 levelswere significantly higher in the MI group compared to the sham group. MI increasedmacrophage infiltration, nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-kappa B) activation, ERS induced-apoptosis, and SOCS1 expression, all of which were attenuated by the miR-155 antagomir, with the exception of SOCS1 expression. Additionally, post-MI cardiac dysfunction was significantly improved by miR-155 inhibition. In vitro, LPS upregulated miR-155 expression in BMDMs, and the miR-155 antagomir decreased LPS-induced macrophage inflammation and NF-kappa B pathway activation, but increased expression of SOCS1. Hypoxia increased NF-kappa B pathway activation, ERS marker expression, and apoptosis in NRCMs. Interestingly, conditioned medium from LPS-induced macrophages in combination with the miR-155 antagomir decreased, while the miR-155 agomir increased, the hypoxia-induced effects in NRCM's. The miR-155 agomir effects were reversed by inhibiting the NF-kappa B pathway in cardiomyocytes. Moreover, SOCS1 knockdown in LPS-induced macrophages promoted NF-kappa B pathway activation and ERS-induced cardiomyocyte apoptosis in the hypoxia-induced NRCMs, but the SOCS1-siRNA-induced effects were markedly decreased by miR-155 antagomir treatment. These data suggest that miR-155 inhibition attenuates ERS-induced cardiomyocyte apoptosis after MI via reducing macrophage inflammation through the SOCS1/NF-kappa B pathway.
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