title: Heat shock pretreatment may protect against heatstroke-induced circulatory shock and cerebral ischemia by reducing oxidative stress and energy depletion.
abstract: The mechanisms underlying the protective effects of heat shock pretreatment on heatstroke remain unclear. Here we attempted to ascertain whether the possible occurrence of oxidative stress and energy depletion exhibited during heatstroke can be reduced by heat shock preconditioning. In the present study, colonic temperature, mean arterial pressure, heart rate, striatal levels of heat shock protein 72 (HSP72), local Po2, brain temperature, cerebral blood flow, cellular ischemia and damage markers, dihydroxybenzoic acid (DHBA), lipid peroxidation, glutathione, glutathione peroxidase and reductase activities, and ATP were assayed in normothermic control rats and in heatstroke rats with or without preconditioning 16 or 96 h before initiation of heatstroke. Heatstroke was induced by exposing the anesthetized rats to a high ambient temperature (Ta = 43 degrees C) until the moment at which MAP decreased from its peak level. Sublethal heat shock pretreatment 16 h before initiation of heatstroke, in addition to increasing striatal HSP72 levels, conferred significant protection against heatstroke-induced arterial hypotension, striatal ischemia and damage, increment of hydroxyl radical formation, lipid peroxidation, glutathione oxidation, and decrement of glutathione peroxidase activity and ATP. However, at 96 h after heat shock, when striatal HSP72 expression returned to basal levels, the above responses that occurred during onset of heatstroke were indistinguishable between the two groups. These results suggest that heat shock pretreatment induces HSP72 overexpression in striatum and confers protection against heatstroke-induced striatal ischemia and damage by reducing oxidative stress and energy depletion.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Physiology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Jui-Ling
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Der-Shin
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Ke
authors.forename: Mao-Tsun
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Lin
mesh_terms: D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000378:metabolism; D002545:Brain Ischemia / Q000517:prevention & control*; D002396:Catechols / Q000378:metabolism; D002560:Cerebrovascular Circulation; D005971:Glutamates / Q000378:metabolism; D005978:Glutathione / Q000378:metabolism; D005979:Glutathione Peroxidase / Q000378:metabolism; D005980:Glutathione Reductase / Q000378:metabolism; D005990:Glycerol / Q000378:metabolism; D050884:HSP72 Heat-Shock Proteins; D018883:Heat Stroke; D006360:Heat-Shock Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D006358:Hot Temperature; D062385:Hydroxybenzoates; D007511:Ischemia; D007773:Lactates / Q000378:metabolism; D015227:Lipid Peroxidation; D008297:Male; D018384:Oxidative Stress; D010100:Oxygen / Q000378:metabolism; D019289:Pyruvic Acid / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D012769:Shock / Q000517:prevention & control*; D013696:Temperature; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D002396:Catechols; D005971:Glutamates; D050884:HSP72 Heat-Shock Proteins; D006360:Heat-Shock Proteins; D062385:Hydroxybenzoates; D007773:Lactates; C009135:2,3-dihydroxybenzoic acid; D019289:Pyruvic Acid; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate; D005979:Glutathione Peroxidase; D005980:Glutathione Reductase; D005978:Glutathione; D005990:Glycerol; D010100:Oxygen