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BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 494, Issue 3-4, Pages 556-568Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2017.10.056
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Ginsenosides; H9c2 cardiomyocytes; Apoptosis; Hypoxia and reoxygenation
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- American Diabetes Association [1-17-IBS-296]
- NIH [R01AG049835, P01HL051971, P20GM104357]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81473104]
- Taishan Scholar Program of Shandong Province [tshw201502046]
- Yantai ShuangBai Scholar Program
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Ginsenosides have been studied extensively in recent years due to their therapeutic effects in cardiovascular diseases. While most studies examined the different ginsenosides individually, few studies compare the therapeutic effects among the different types. This study examined how effective protopanaxadiol, protopanaxatriol ginsenosides Rh2, Rg3, Rh1, and Rg2 of the ginsenoside family are in protecting H9c2 cardiomyocytes from damage caused by hypoxia/reoxygenation. In the current study, a model of myocardial ischemia and reperfusion was induced in H9c2 cardiomyocytes by oxygen deprivation via a hypoxia chamber followed by reoxygenation. Our data show that structures similar to that of protopanaxadiol, which lacked the hydroxide group at C6, were more effective in lowering apoptosis than structures similar to protopanaxatriol with a hydroxide group at C6. As the compounds increased in size and complexity, the cardioprotective effects diminished. In addition, the S enantiomer proved to be more effective in cardioprotection than the R enantiomer. Furthermore, the immunoblotting analysis demonstrated that ginsenosides activate AMPK but suppress JNK signaling pathways during hypoxia/reoxygenation. Thus, ginsenosides treatment attenuated hypoxia/reoxygenation-induced apoptosis via modulating cardioprotective AMPK and inflammation-related INK signaling pathways. (C) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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