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CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH
卷 55, 期 3, 页码 672-680出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00325-5
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preconditioning; protein kinases; ischemia
Objective: Activation of protein kinase C (PKC) isoforms is associated with the cardioprotective effect of early ischaemic preconditioning (IP). PKC consists of at least 10 different isoforms, encoded by separate genes, which mediate distinct physiological functions. Although the PKC-epsilon isoform has been implicated in preconditioning, uncertainty remains. We investigated whether preconditioning still occurs in a mouse line lacking cardiac PKC-epsilon protein due to a targeted disruption within the pkc-epsilon allele. Methods: The isolated buffer-perfused hearts from knockout mice lacking PKC-epsilon (-/-) and sibling heterozygous mice (+/-), with a normal PKC-epsilon complement, were preconditioned by 4x4 min ischaemia/6 min reperfusion. Hearts then underwent 45 min of global ischaemia followed by 1.5 h of reperfusion. Results: In PKC-epsilon (+/-) hearts ischaemic preconditioning reduced infarction volume as a percentage of myocardial volume (24.3+/-4.5 vs. 41.3+/-4.7%, P<0.001). In contrast, in PKC-epsilon (-/-) hearts preconditioning failed to diminish infarction (36.4+/-2.9 vs. 38.8+/-4.5%). Surprisingly however, although preconditioning did not reduce infaret size, it did enhance contractile recovery in PKC-epsilon (-/-) mice (43.1+/-3.9 vs. 24.9+/-5.1%, P<0.05), similar to the level seen in PKC-epsilon (-/-) hearts (35.2.+/-3.9 vs. 20.9+/-5.0%, P<0.05). Conclusions: These data suggest that PKC-epsilon is essential for the reduction in infarction that follows early ischaemic preconditioning, but is not associated with the improvement in functional recovery. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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