期刊
VASCULAR PHARMACOLOGY
卷 83, 期 -, 页码 36-46出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.vph.2016.03.004
关键词
ER stress; Hypoxia; PBA; HIF-1 alpha; Apoptosis
资金
- Defence Research and Development Organisation, Ministry of Defence, Government of India
While endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress has been observed in several human diseases, few studies have reported the involvement of ER stress in chronic hypoxia (CH) induced cardiac damage. Hypoxia, such as that prevalent at high altitude (HA), forms the underlying cause of several maladies including cardiovascular diseases. While the role of hypoxia inducible factor-1 (HIF-1 alpha) in the adaptive responses to hypoxia is known, the role of the unfolded protein response (UPR) is only recently being explored in the HA pathophysiologies. The present study investigates the effect of ER stress modulation on CH mediated injury and the cardioprotective action of 4-phenylbutyric acid (PBA) in enhancing survival response under hypoxia. Here, we observed that exposure of rats, for 1,7 and 14 days CH to a simulated altitude of 7620 m, led to cardiac hypertrophy and significant protein oxidation. This induced the activation of UPR signaling mechanisms, mediated by PERK, IRE1 alpha and ATF6. By 14 days, there was a marked upregulation of apoptosis, evident in increased CHOP and caspase-3/9 activity. PBA reduced CH induced right ventricular enlargement and apoptosis. Further, in contrast to tunicamycin, PBA considerably enhanced hypoxic tolerance. An elevation in the level of antioxidant enzymes, HIF-1 alpha and its regulated proteins (HO-1, GLUT-1) was observed in the PBA administered animals, along with a concomitant suppression of UPR markers. Our study thus emphasizes upon the attenuation of ER stress by PBA as a mechanism to diminish CH induced cardiac injury and boost hypoxic survival, providing an insight into the novel relationship between the HIF-1 alpha and UPR under hypoxia. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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