- 作者: Ruofeng Qiu, Anping Cai, Yugang Dong, Yingling Zhou, Danqing Yu, Yuli Huang, Dongdan Zheng, Shaoqi Rao, Yingqing Feng and Weiyi Mai
- 作者服務機構: Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
- 中文摘要: --
- 英文摘要:
Background: The effects of atorvastatin on SDF-1alpha expression under acute myocardial infarction (AMI) are still unclear. Therefore, our present study is to investigate the roles and mechanisms of atorvastatin treatment on SDF-1alpha expression in rats with AMI.
Methods: Male Sprague-Dawley rats were underwent permanent coronary artery ligation and randomly assigned into four groups as follow: blank control (B), atorvastatin (A), atorvastatin plus L-NAME (A+L-NAME), and atorvastatin plus AMD3100 (A+AMD3100). Rats underwent similar procedure but without ligation were used as group sham operated (S). Atorvastatin (10mg/Kg/d body weight) was administrated by gavage to rats in three atorvastatin treated groups, and L-NAME (40mg/Kg/d body weight) or AMD3100 (5mg/Kg/d body weight) was given to group A+L-NAME or A+AMD3100, respectively.
Results: Comparing with group B, NO production, SDF-1alpha and CXCR4 expression were significantly up-regulated in three atorvastatin treated groups at the seventh day. However, the increments of SDF-1alpha and CXCR4 expression in group A+L-NAME were reduced when NO production was inhibited by L-NAME. Anti-inflammatory and anti-apoptotic effects of atorvastatin were offset either by decrease of SDF-1alpha and CXCR4 expression (by L-NAME) or blockage of SDF-1alpha coupling with CXCR4 (by AMD3100). Expression of STAT3, a cardioprotective factor mediating SDF-1alpha/CXCR4 axis induced cardiac protection, was up-regulated most significantly in group A. The effects of atorvastatin therapy on cardiac function were also abrogated either when SDF-1alpha and CXCR4 expression was diminished or the coupling of SDF-1alpha with CXCR4 was blocked.
Conclusion: SDF-1alpha upregulation by atorvastatin in rats with AMI was, at least partially, via the eNOS/NO dependent pathway, and SDF-1alpha upregulation and SDF-1alpha coupling with CXCR4 conferred anti-inflammatory and anti-apoptotic effects under AMI setting which we speculated that ultimately contributed to cardiac function improvement. - 中文關鍵字: --
- 英文關鍵字: Acute myocardial infarction, Atorvastatin, Stromal cell derived factor-1alpha