title: [The role of oxygen free radicals in the mechanisms of local and distant ischemic myocardial preconditioning].
abstract: The phenomenon of ischemic preconditioning consists in increase in myocardial tolerance to ischemia after short periods of ischemia and reperfusion of the myocardium (local preconditioning) or a distant organ (distant preconditioning). This study is dedicated to the role of oxygen free radicals (OFR) in the mechanisms of preconditioning; pharmacological inhibition of OFR with N-2-mercaptopropionylglycin, a synthetic anti-oxidant, was used. Mouse experiments demonstrated a reduction in the infarction-limiting effect of local preconditioning as a result of OFR inhibiting. This confirms the hypothesis according to which OFR play an important role in the mechanisms of launching and mediating the protective effect of local preconditioning. On the contrary, application of the same dose of N2-mercaptopropionylglycin does not lead to a significant weakening of the infarction-limiting effect of distant preconditioning caused by 20 min of ischemia and 15 min of reperfusion of the small intestine. Thus, it is unlikely that OFR participate in the realization of the effect of distant preconditioning caused by small intestinal ischemia. The authors discuss hypothetic molecular mechanisms of distant myocardial preconditioning.
authors.forename: N N
authors.initials: NN
authors.lastname: Petrishchev
authors.forename: E V
authors.initials: EV
authors.lastname: Shliakhto
authors.forename: V A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Tsyrlin
authors.forename: T D
authors.initials: TD
authors.lastname: Vlasov
authors.forename: A V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Syrenskiĭ
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Galagudza
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D019157:Ischemic Preconditioning, Myocardial; D015428:Myocardial Reperfusion Injury / Q000209:etiology / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D017382:Reactive Oxygen Species / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000378:metabolism*; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D008625:Tiopronin / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D017382:Reactive Oxygen Species; D008625:Tiopronin