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  2. Alamandine alleviated heart failure and fibrosis in myocardial infarction mice

Alamandine alleviated heart failure and fibrosis in myocardial infarction mice

  • Biol Direct. 2022 Sep 27;17(1):25. doi: 10.1186/s13062-022-00338-6.
Kun Zhao  # 1 Tianhua Xu  # 1 Yukang Mao 1 Xiaoguang Wu 1 Dongxu Hua 1 Yanhui Sheng 2 3 Peng Li 4
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, 300 Guangzhou Road, Nanjing, 210029, Jiangsu, China.
  • 2 Department of Cardiology, The Affiliated Suzhou Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Suzhou Municipal Hospital, Gusu School, Nanjing Medical University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China. yhsheng@njmu.edu.cn.
  • 3 Department of Cardiology, Jiangsu Province Hospital, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. yhsheng@njmu.edu.cn.
  • 4 Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, 300 Guangzhou Road, Nanjing, 210029, Jiangsu, China. lipeng198610@163.com.
  • # Contributed equally.
Abstract

Alamandine (Ala) is the newest identified peptide of the renin-angiotensin system and has protective effect on myocyte hypertrophy. However, it is still unclear whether Ala can alleviate heart failure (HF). The aim of this study was to explore the effects of Ala on HF and the related cardiac fibrosis, and to probe the mechanism. HF model was induced by myocardial infarction (MI) in mice. Four weeks after MI, Ala was administrated by intraperitoneal injection for two weeks. Ala injection significantly improved cardiac dysfunction of MI mice in vivo. The cardiac fibrosis and the related biomarkers were attenuated after Ala administration in HF mice in vivo. The increases of collagen I, alpha-smooth muscle actin and transforming growth factor-beta induced by oxygen-glucose deprivation (OGD) in neonatal rat cardiac fibroblasts (NRCFs) were inhibited by Ala treatment in vitro. The biomarkers of Apoptosis were elevated in NRCFs induced by OGD, which were attenuated after treating with Ala in vitro. The enhancement of oxidative stress in the heart of MI mice or in the NRCFs treated with OGD was suppressed by treating with Ala in vivo and in vitro. These effects of Ala were reversed by tBHP, an exogenous inducer of oxidative stress in vitro. These results demonstrated that Ala could alleviate cardiac dysfunction and attenuate cardiac fibrosis via inhibition of oxidative stress.

Keywords

Alamandine; Apoptosis; Cardiac fibrosis; Heart failure; Oxidative stress.

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