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The protective effect of activating Nrf2 / HO-1 signaling pathway on cardiomyocyte apoptosis after coronary microembolization in rats.

BACKGROUND: Myocardial apoptosis is closely related to myocardial injury caused by coronary microembolization (CME).Nuclear factor erythroid 2-like (Nrf2) has been taken into account as an inhibitor of apoptosis in various tissues. Thus, this research aims to investigate which part Nrf2/HO-1 signaling pathway plays in myocardial apoptosis process following the effect of CME on rats.

METHODS: Separate 40 rats then form them into a group of shame, a group of CME, a group of CME plus AAV-Nrf2(AAV-Nrf2 (CME) group) and a group of CME plus AAV-control (AAV-control (CME) group) stochastically and averagely. Rat CME was established by injecting into the left ventricular chamber, with or without pretreatment of adeno-associated virus Nrf2 (AAV-Nrf2). Echocardiological measurements, using Terminal-deoxynucleoitidyl Transferase Mediated Nick End Labeling (TUNEL) to stain, conducting Quantitative PCR in real time (RT-PCR) as well as Western blotting to evaluate the impacts of them functionally, morphologically and molecularly in CME.

RESULTS: Nrf2 decreased in cardiomyocytes after CME. Upregulation of Nrf2 inside an organism through AAV connect to improving the function of heart as well as attenuating myocardial apoptosis, following the restrain of proapoptotic mRNAs and proteins like caspase-3, caspase-9 and bax expressing as well as the increase of antiapoptotic mRNA and proteins like HO-1 and bcl-2 expressing.

CONCLUSION: Activation of Nrf2/HO-1 pathway can improve CME-induced cardiac dysfunction effectively and also reduce the myocardial apoptosis.

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