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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-HEART AND CIRCULATORY PHYSIOLOGY
卷 283, 期 3, 页码 H990-H995出版社
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.01003.2001
关键词
heart failure; apoptosis
资金
- NHLBI NIH HHS [HL-49090-07] Funding Source: Medline
It has been proposed that the hemodynamic deterioration associated with heart failure (HF) may be due in part to ongoing loss of viable cardiac myocytes through apoptosis. Hypoxia has been shown to promote apoptosis in normal cardiomyocytes. Adaptation and maladaptations inherent to heart failure can modify the susceptibility of cells to different stress factors. We hypothesized that HF modifies the threshold of cardiomyocytes to hypoxia-induced apoptosis. Cardiomyocytes were isolated from 18 human hearts explanted at the time of cardiac transplantation due to either ischemic cardiomyopathy (ICM) (n=9) or idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (IDC) (n=9). Tissue from five normal donor hearts (NL) for whom no suitable recipient was available was used as control. Cardiomyocytes were incubated for 3 h under normoxic (95% air-5% CO2) or hypoxic (95% N-2-5% CO2) conditions. Expression of caspase-3 and DNA fragmentation factor-45 (DFF45)/inhibitor of caspase-3-activated DNase (ICAD) was detected by Western blot analysis. Three hours of hypoxia did not affect the expression of these proteins in NL cardiomyocytes. In contrast, hypoxia led to cleavage of caspase- 3 and DFF45/ICAD both in ICM and IDC. In conclusion, failing cardiomyocytes exhibit increased susceptibility to hypoxia-induced apoptosis.
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