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FREE RADICAL RESEARCH
Volume 46, Issue 2, Pages 154-163Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.3109/10715762.2011.647010
Keywords
adverse cardiac remodelling; apoptosis; fibrosis; mitogen activated protein kinase signalling; oxidative stress
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan
- promotion and Mutual Aid Corporation for Private Schools, Japan
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In order to test the hypothesis that treatment with quercetin at a dose of 10 mg/kg protects from the progression of experimental autoimmune myocarditis (EAM) to dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), we have used the rat model of EAM induced by porcine cardiac myosin. Our results identified that the post-myocarditis rats suffered from elevated endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress and adverse cardiac remodelling in the form of myocardial fibrosis, whereas the rats treated with quercetin have been protected from these changes as evidenced by the decreased myocardial levels of ER stress and fibrosis markers when compared with the vehicle-treated DCM rats. In addition, the myocardial dimensions and cardiac function were preserved significantly in the quercetin-treated rats in comparison with the DCM rats treated with vehicle alone. Interestingly, the rats treated with quercetin showed significant suppression of the myocardial endothelin-1 and also the mitogen activated protein kinases (MAPK) suggesting that the protection offered by quercetin treatment against progression of EAM involves the modulation of MAPK signalling cascade. Collectively, the present study provides data to support the role of quercetin in protecting the hearts of the rats with post myocarditis DCM.
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