title: Amiodarone offsets the cardioprotective effects of ischaemic preconditioning against ischaemia/reperfusion injury.
abstract: Both ischaemic preconditioning (IPC) and amiodarone protect against myocardial ischaemia. We examined whether a combination of IPC and amiodarone demonstrated an additive protective effect in isolated rat hearts (n = 40). The controls (group I) were subjected to ischaemia/ reperfusion injury; group II was subjected to cycles of IPC prior to ischaemia/ reperfusion injury; group III was subjected to ischaemia in the presence of amiodarone (10(-10) mol/1); and group IV was subjected to IPC followed by ischaemia in the presence of amiodarone (10(-10) mol/l). Amiodarone produced the best preserved left ventricular end-systolic pressure and dP/dtmax, less developed ventricular stiffness, the shortest arrhythmia duration, and the smallest infarct size among the groups. All of the myocardial protective effects against ischaemia/reperfusion injury were diminished or abolished when IPC and amiodarone were applied sequentially.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Korea University College of Medicine, Guro Hospital, Seoul, South Korea.
authors.forename: E H
authors.initials: EH
authors.lastname: Koo
authors.forename: Y C
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: S H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Lim
authors.forename: H Z
authors.initials: HZ
authors.lastname: Kim
mesh_terms: D000638:Amiodarone / Q000494:pharmacology*; D000818:Animals; D000889:Anti-Arrhythmia Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000187:drug effects; D002316:Cardiotonic Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D006339:Heart Rate / Q000187:drug effects; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D019157:Ischemic Preconditioning, Myocardial / Q000379:methods; D008297:Male; D015428:Myocardial Reperfusion Injury / Q000378:metabolism / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D015221:Potassium Channels / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley
chemical_list: D000889:Anti-Arrhythmia Agents; D002316:Cardiotonic Agents; D015221:Potassium Channels; C117780:mitochondrial K(ATP) channel; D000638:Amiodarone