title: Protective effects of non-mitogenic human acidic fibroblast growth factor on hydrogen peroxide-induced damage to cardiomyocytes in vitro.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To study the protective effect of non-mitogenic human acidic fibroblast growth factor (FGF) on cardiac oxidative injury in vivo.
  
  
  METHODS
  Ventricular cardiomyocytes were isolated from 1- to 3-d-old neonatal SD mice and cultured in Dulbecco's minimum essential medium supplemented with 15% fetal bovine serum under an atmosphere of 50 mL/L CO2-95% air at 37 degrees, as well as assessed by immunocytochemical assay. We constructed the cardiomyocyte injury model by exposure to a certain concentration of H2O2. Cellular viability, superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity, leakage of maleic dialdehyde and anti-apoptosis effect were included to evaluate the cardiac protective effect of non-mitogenic human acidic FGF.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Over 50% of the cardiomyocytes beat spontaneously on the 2nd d of culture and synchronously beat after being cultured for 3 d. Forty-eight hours after plating was completed, the purity of such cultures was 95% myocytes, assessed by an immunocytochemical assay. Cellular viability dramatically decreased with the increasing of the concentration of H2O2. Non-mitogenic human acidic FGF showed significant resistance to the toxic effect of H2O2, significantly increased the cellular viability as well as the activity of SOD, and dramatically decreased the leakage of maleic dialdehyde as well as the cellular apoptosis rate.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Hydrogen peroxide shows strong cytotoxicity to the cultured cardiac myocytes, and non-mitogenic human acidic FGF shows strong cardio-protective effect when exposed to a certain concentration of H2O2.
authors.affiliation: Department of Rheumatology, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510632, Guangdong Province, China.
authors.forename: Zhuo-Feng
authors.initials: ZF
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Xiao-Kun
authors.initials: XK
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Yuan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Fan
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Li-Min
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Liang
authors.forename: Xiao-Bing
authors.initials: XB
authors.lastname: Fu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017209:Apoptosis / Q000187:drug effects; D002316:Cardiotonic Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D002470:Cell Survival / Q000187:drug effects; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D016220:Fibroblast Growth Factor 1 / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006801:Humans; D006861:Hydrogen Peroxide / Q000633:toxicity; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D008315:Malondialdehyde / Q000378:metabolism; D051379:Mice; D032383:Myocytes, Cardiac / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000494:pharmacology; D013482:Superoxide Dismutase / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D002316:Cardiotonic Agents; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D016220:Fibroblast Growth Factor 1; D008315:Malondialdehyde; D006861:Hydrogen Peroxide; D013482:Superoxide Dismutase