title: Pharmacological preconditioning with resveratrol: an insight with iNOS knockout mice.
abstract: Resveratrol, a natural antioxidant and polyphenol found in grapes and wine, has been found to pharmacologically precondition the heart through the upregulation of nitric oxide (NO). To gain further insight of the role of NO in resveratrol preconditioning, mouse hearts devoid of any copies of inhibitory NO synthase (iNOS) (iNOS knockout) and corresponding wild-type hearts were perfused with 10 microM resveratrol for 15 min followed by 25 min of ischemia and 2 h of reperfusion. Control experiments were performed with wild-type and iNOS knockout hearts that were not treated with resveratrol. Resveratrol-treated wild-type mouse hearts displayed significant improvement in postischemic ventricular functional recovery compared with those of nontreated hearts. Both resveratrol-treated and nontreated iNOS knockout mouse hearts resulted in relatively poor recovery in ventricular function compared with wild-type resveratrol-treated hearts. Myocardial infarct size was lower in the resveratrol-treated wild-type mouse hearts compared with other group of hearts. In concert, a number of apoptotic cardiomyocytes was lower in the wild-type mouse hearts treated with resveratrol. Cardioprotective effects of resveratrol was abolished when the wild-type mouse hearts were simultaneously perfused with aminoguanidine, an iNOS inhibitor. Resveratrol induced the expression of iNOS in the wild-type mouse hearts, but not in the iNOS knockout hearts, after only 30 min of reperfusion. Expression of iNOS remained high even after 2 h of reperfusion. Resveratrol-treated wild-type mouse hearts were subjected to a lower amount of oxidative stress as evidenced by reduced amount of malonaldehyde content in these hearts compared with iNOS knockout and untreated hearts. The results of this study demonstrated that resveratrol was unable to precondition iNOS knockout mouse hearts, whereas it could successfully precondition the wild-type mouse hearts, indicating an essential role of iNOS in resveratrol preconditioning of the heart.
authors: Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut 06030-1110, USA.
authors: Gembu
authors: G
authors: Imamura
authors: Alberto A
authors: AA
authors: Bertelli
authors: Aldo
authors: A
authors: Bertelli
authors: Hajime
authors: H
authors: Otani
authors: Nilanjana
authors: N
authors: Maulik
authors: Dipak K
authors: DK
authors: Das
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017209:Apoptosis / Q000187:drug effects; D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors / Q000494:pharmacology; D015870:Gene Expression / Q000187:drug effects; D006146:Guanidines / Q000494:pharmacology; D006321:Heart / Q000503:physiopathology; D019194:Ischemic Preconditioning / Q000379:methods*; D007700:Kinetics; D008297:Male; D008315:Malondialdehyde / Q000378:metabolism; D051379:Mice; D018345:Mice, Knockout; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000473:pathology; D015428:Myocardial Reperfusion Injury / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000517:prevention & control; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology; D009569:Nitric Oxide / Q000502:physiology; D019001:Nitric Oxide Synthase / Q000172:deficiency* / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology; D052247:Nitric Oxide Synthase Type II; D018384:Oxidative Stress; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000032:analysis; D000077185:Resveratrol; D013267:Stilbenes / Q000627:therapeutic use*
chemical_list: D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors; D006146:Guanidines; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D013267:Stilbenes; D009569:Nitric Oxide; D008315:Malondialdehyde; D019001:Nitric Oxide Synthase; D052247:Nitric Oxide Synthase Type II; C496317:Nos2 protein, mouse; D000077185:Resveratrol; C004479:pimagedine