title: Extracellular cyclophilin A may be a potential target to protect against myocardial reperfusion injury.
abstract: Myocardial reperfusion injury is increasingly recognized as an inflammatory process, characterized by neutrophil recruitment and subsequently excessive release of pro-inflammatory factors. Recently, the extracellular cyclophilin A (CypA) has been showed to play an important role in initiation and development of inflammation by chemo trafficking of leukocytes into inflamed tissues, eliciting massive release of pro-inflammatory cytokines, and inducing production of matrix metalloproteinases. Also, the agents targeting CypA have been demonstrated to promise anti-inflammatory effects in the different experimental models of inflammatory diseases including acute lung injury, rheumatoid arthritis, and atherosclerosis. Therefore, we hypothesize that the extracellular CypA may in some way implicated in the pathogenesis of reperfusion-induced inflammatory process, and the specific inhibitors of the extracellular CypA can provide a protection against the myocardial reperfusion injury.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesiology, Plastic Surgery Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100144, China.
authors.forename: W L
authors.initials: WL
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Y J
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Yuan
authors.forename: F S
authors.initials: FS
authors.lastname: Xue
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Liao
authors.forename: Q
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Xiong
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D021984:Cyclophilin A / Q000378:metabolism*; D016207:Cytokines / Q000378:metabolism; D004790:Enzyme Induction; D006801:Humans; D018836:Inflammation Mediators / Q000378:metabolism; D020782:Matrix Metalloproteinases / Q000096:biosynthesis; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D015428:Myocardial Reperfusion Injury / Q000378:metabolism / Q000517:prevention & control*
chemical_list: D016207:Cytokines; D018836:Inflammation Mediators; D020782:Matrix Metalloproteinases; D021984:Cyclophilin A