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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 103, Issue 38, Pages 14104-14109Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0601600103
Keywords
nitric oxide; phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase; protein kinase Akt; stroke
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- NHLBI NIH HHS [R01 HL080187, R01 HL070274, R01 HL070274-03, R01 HL052233, R01 HL052233-12, R01 HL080187-03, R01 HL052233-11, R01 HL080187-04, R01 HL070274-05, HL070274, HL080187, R01 HL070274-04] Funding Source: Medline
- NIDDK NIH HHS [R01 DK062729-05, R01 DK062729, DK062729, R01 DK062729-04] Funding Source: Medline
- NINDS NIH HHS [P50 NS010828, P01 NS010828, F32 NS010828, NS010828] Funding Source: Medline
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The binding of thyroid hormone to the thyroid hormone receptor (TR) mediates important physiological effects. However, the transcriptional effects of TR mediated by the thyroid response element (TRE) cannot explain many actions of thyroid hormone. We postulate that TR can initiate rapid, non-TRE-mediated effects in the cardiovascular system through cross-coupling to the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (P13-kinase)/protein kinase Akt pathway. In vascular endothelial cells, the predominant TR isoform is TR alpha(1). Treatment of endothelial cells with L-3,5,3'-triiodothyronine T-3 increased the association of TR alpha(1), with the p85 alpha subunit of P13-kinase, leading to the phosphorylation and activation of Akt and endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS). The activation of Akt and eNOS by T-3 was abolished by the P13-kinase inhibitors, LY294002 and wortmannin, but not by the transcriptional inhibitor, actinomycin D. To determine the physiological relevance of this P13-kinase/Akt pathway, we administered T-3 to mice undergoing transient focal cerebral ischemia. Compared with vehicle, a single bolus infusion of T-3 rapidly increased Akt activity in the brain, decreased mean blood pressure, reduced cerebral infarct volume, and improved neurological deficit score. These neuroprotective effects of T-3 were greatly attenuated or absent in eNOS(-/-) and TR alpha(-/-)(1)beta(-/-) mice and were completely abolished in WT mice pretreated with LY294002 or a T-3 antagonist, NH-3. These findings indicate that the activation of P13-kinase/Akt pathways can mediate some of the rapid, non-TRE effects of TR and suggest that the activation of Akt and eNOS contributes to some of the acute vasodilatory and neuroprotective effects of thyroid hormone.
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