title: In vivo heat shock protects rat myocardial mitochondria.
abstract: Heat shock (HS)/stress proteins (HSP) provide protection from a variety of stresses other than HS, including oxidative stress and mitochondria have been implicated as the target of HS-related protection in stressed cultured cells. Here we investigated whether mitochondria also are targets for the HS-mediated protection in vivo. Sprague Dawley rats were exposed, or not, to HS (41 degrees C, 15 min). After a 21 h recovery period, hearts were excised and perfused with or without H2O2 (0.15 mM). Myocardial mitochondria were then isolated, and their oxygen consumption was analyzed. HS prevented H2O2-induced alterations in state 3 respiration while increasing the expression of Hsp70 and heme oxygenase (HO). Thus, in vivo HS protects rat myocardial mitochondrial respiration against the deleterious effects of oxidative injury, a protection relating to Hsp70 and/or HO and targeting state 3 respiration.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Rand Afrikaans University, Johannesburg, South Africa.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bornman
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Steinmann
authors.forename: G S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Gericke
authors.forename: B S
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Polla
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D018840:HSP70 Heat-Shock Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis; D018869:Heat-Shock Response; D006419:Heme Oxygenase (Decyclizing) / Q000096:biosynthesis; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D008297:Male; D008929:Mitochondria, Heart / Q000378:metabolism*; D018384:Oxidative Stress; D010101:Oxygen Consumption; D010477:Perfusion; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley
chemical_list: D018840:HSP70 Heat-Shock Proteins; D006419:Heme Oxygenase (Decyclizing)