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Protective effect of nebivolol on doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity in rats.
Archives of Medical Science : AMS 2018 October
Introduction: The cardiotoxicity of doxorubicin is incompletely understood. We investigated the prophylactic effect of nebivolol on doxorubicin-induced cardiac toxicity.
Material and methods: Thirty rats were divided into a control group, doxorubicin-treated group and nebivolol + doxorubicin-treated group. The specimens were examined using H + E and Masson's trichrome, caspase 3, endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS), inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) and tumor necrosis factor factor-α (TNF-α). The mean area percentage of collagen fiber content, caspase-3, eNOS, iNOS and TNF-α immunoactivities was measured.
Results: The doxorubicin-treated group showed marked myocyte distortion and fragmentation, congestion and cytoplasmic lysis in most fibers. These changes were less intense in the nebivolol-treated group. The mean area percentage of collagen fiber in the nebivolol-treated group was non-significantly smaller ( p = 0.07) than that in the doxorubicin-treated group. The expression of caspase-3 ( p = 0.03), eNOS ( p ≤ 0.001), iNOS ( p < 0.001) and TNF-α ( p = 0.003) immunoreactivity was improved in the nebivolol-treated group.
Conclusions: Nebivolol exerted a significant protective effect from doxorubicin toxicity. The protective effect appears to be mediated mainly through caspase-3, eNOS, iNOS and TNF-α modulation.
Material and methods: Thirty rats were divided into a control group, doxorubicin-treated group and nebivolol + doxorubicin-treated group. The specimens were examined using H + E and Masson's trichrome, caspase 3, endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS), inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) and tumor necrosis factor factor-α (TNF-α). The mean area percentage of collagen fiber content, caspase-3, eNOS, iNOS and TNF-α immunoactivities was measured.
Results: The doxorubicin-treated group showed marked myocyte distortion and fragmentation, congestion and cytoplasmic lysis in most fibers. These changes were less intense in the nebivolol-treated group. The mean area percentage of collagen fiber in the nebivolol-treated group was non-significantly smaller ( p = 0.07) than that in the doxorubicin-treated group. The expression of caspase-3 ( p = 0.03), eNOS ( p ≤ 0.001), iNOS ( p < 0.001) and TNF-α ( p = 0.003) immunoreactivity was improved in the nebivolol-treated group.
Conclusions: Nebivolol exerted a significant protective effect from doxorubicin toxicity. The protective effect appears to be mediated mainly through caspase-3, eNOS, iNOS and TNF-α modulation.
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