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Mitochondrial dysfunction as the cause of the failure to precondition the diabetic human myocardium
Cardiac Surgery Unit, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester LE3 9QP, UK
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Objectives: We have shown previously that human diabetic myocardium cannot be preconditioned. Here, we have investigated the basis of this cardioprotective deficit.
Methods: Right atrial sections from four patient groups–non-diabetic, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM), non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) receiving glibenclamide, and NIDDM receiving metformin–were subjected to one of the following protocols: aerobic control, simulated ischemia/reoxygenation, ischemic preconditioning before ischemia, and pharmacological preconditioning with alpha 1 agonist phenylephrine, adenosine, the mito-KATP channel opener diazoxide, the protein kinase C (PKC) activator phorbol-12-myristate-13-acetate (PMA), or the p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (p38MAPK) activator anisomycin. Cellular damage was assessed using creatine kinase leakage and 3-[4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl]-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) reduction. In mitochondrial preparations from non-diabetic and diabetic myocardium, mitochondrial membrane potential (
m) was assessed using JC-1 dye, and production of reactive oxygen species was determined.
Results: Preconditioning with ischemia, phenylephrine, adenosine, or diazoxide failed to protect diabetic myocardium. However, activation of PKC or p38MAPK was still protective. In isolated non-diabetic mitochondria, diazoxide partially depolarized m, an effect not seen in diabetic mitochondria. Furthermore, diazoxide increased superoxide production in non-diabetic but not in diabetic mitochondria.
Conclusions: Our results show that the cardioprotective deficit in diabetic myocardium arises upstream of PKC and p38MAPK. We suggest that mitochondrial dysfunction in diabetic myocardium, possibly dysfunctional mito-KATP channels, leads to impaired depolarization and superoxide production, and that this causes the inability to respond to preconditioning.
KEYWORDS Preconditioning; Diabetes; Mitochondrial membrane potential; Free radicals; mito-KATP channels
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