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Protective mechanisms of NO preconditioning against NO-induced apoptosis in H9c2 cells: role of PKC and COX-2

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FREE RADICAL RESEARCH
Volume 43, Issue 8, Pages 744-752

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TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/10715760903040602

Keywords

Cardiomyocyte; ischemia; preconditioning; nitric oxide; protein kinase C; COX-2

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Cardiomyocyte apoptosis is involved in several cardiovascular diseases, including ischemia, hypertrophy and heart failure. Nitric oxide (NO) signalling is crucial in the regulation of cardiomyocyte apoptosis, capable of both inducing and preventing apoptosis depending upon the level of NO production. Growing evidence suggests that NO preconditioning has cardioprotective effects, but the mechanism remains unclear. The purpose of this study was to elucidate how NO preconditioning inhibits subsequent NO-induced apoptosis in H9c2 cells. According to the data, preconditioning with a low concentration of sodium nitroprusside (SNP, 0.3 mM) inhibited subsequent high-concentration-SNP (1.5 mM)-induced apoptosis and this effect was reversed by the protein kinase C (PKC) inhibitor chelerythrine and the cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitor rofecoxib. Low-concentration-SNP-mediated protection involved extracellular signal regulated kinase 1/2 (ERK1/2), a signal transducers and activators of transcription 1/3 (STAT1/3) activation and increased COX-2 expression. Activation of ERK1/2 and STAT1/3 was abolished by chelerythrine. However, COX-2 expression was not inhibited, implying that the COX-2-mediated protective effect occurred via a PKC-independent pathway. The results showed that low-concentration-SNP preconditioning suppresses subsequent high-concentration-SNP-induced apoptosis by ERK1/2-STAT 1/3 activation via PKC-dependent mechanisms in H9c2 cells. COX-2 also plays a role in NO-induced preconditioning, but is independent of PKC.

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