TY - JOUR
T1 - Remote ischemic preconditioning confers late protection against myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury in mice by upregulating interleukin-10
AU - Cai, Zheqing P.
AU - Parajuli, Nirmal
AU - Zheng, Xiaoxu
AU - Becker, Lewis
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by Public Health Service grants HL88071 (to Z.P. Cai) and HL65608 (to L.C. Becker) from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health.
PY - 2012/7
Y1 - 2012/7
N2 - Remote ischemic preconditioning (RIPC) induces a prolonged late phase of multi-organ protection against ischemia-reperfusion (IR) injury. In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that RIPC confers late protection against myocardial IR injury by upregulating expression of interleukin (IL)-10. Mice were exposed to lower limb RIPC or sham ischemia. After 24 h, mice with RIPC demonstrated decreased myocardial infarct size and improved cardiac contractility following 30-min ischemia and 120-min reperfusion (I-30/R-120). These effects of RIPC were completely blocked by anti-IL-10 receptor antibodies. In IL-10 knockout mice, RIPC cardioprotection was lost, but it was mimicked by exogenous IL-10. Administration of IL-10 to isolated perfused hearts increased phosphorylation of the protein kinase Akt and limited infarct size after I-30/R-120. In wild-type mice, RIPC increased plasma and cardiac IL-10 protein levels and caused activation of Akt and endothelial nitric oxide synthase in the heart at 24 h, which was also blocked by anti-IL-10 receptor antibodies. In the gastrocnemius muscle, RIPC resulted in immediate inactivation of the phosphatase PTEN and activation of Stat3, with increased IL-10 expression 24 h later. Myocyte-specific PTEN inactivation led to increased Stat3 phosphorylation and IL-10 protein expression in the gastrocnemius muscle. Taken together, these results suggest that RIPC induces late protection against myocardial IR injury by increasing expression of IL-10 in the remote muscle, followed by release of IL-10 into the circulation, and activation of protective signaling pathways in the heart. This study provides a scientific basis for the use of RIPC to confer systemic protection against IR injury.
AB - Remote ischemic preconditioning (RIPC) induces a prolonged late phase of multi-organ protection against ischemia-reperfusion (IR) injury. In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that RIPC confers late protection against myocardial IR injury by upregulating expression of interleukin (IL)-10. Mice were exposed to lower limb RIPC or sham ischemia. After 24 h, mice with RIPC demonstrated decreased myocardial infarct size and improved cardiac contractility following 30-min ischemia and 120-min reperfusion (I-30/R-120). These effects of RIPC were completely blocked by anti-IL-10 receptor antibodies. In IL-10 knockout mice, RIPC cardioprotection was lost, but it was mimicked by exogenous IL-10. Administration of IL-10 to isolated perfused hearts increased phosphorylation of the protein kinase Akt and limited infarct size after I-30/R-120. In wild-type mice, RIPC increased plasma and cardiac IL-10 protein levels and caused activation of Akt and endothelial nitric oxide synthase in the heart at 24 h, which was also blocked by anti-IL-10 receptor antibodies. In the gastrocnemius muscle, RIPC resulted in immediate inactivation of the phosphatase PTEN and activation of Stat3, with increased IL-10 expression 24 h later. Myocyte-specific PTEN inactivation led to increased Stat3 phosphorylation and IL-10 protein expression in the gastrocnemius muscle. Taken together, these results suggest that RIPC induces late protection against myocardial IR injury by increasing expression of IL-10 in the remote muscle, followed by release of IL-10 into the circulation, and activation of protective signaling pathways in the heart. This study provides a scientific basis for the use of RIPC to confer systemic protection against IR injury.
KW - Interleukin-10
KW - Phosphatase and tensin homologue deleted on chromosome ten
KW - Remote ischemic preconditioning
KW - Reperfusion injury
KW - Stat3
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U2 - 10.1007/s00395-012-0277-1
DO - 10.1007/s00395-012-0277-1
M3 - Article
C2 - 22752341
AN - SCOPUS:84862768130
SN - 0300-8428
VL - 107
JO - Basic Research in Cardiology
JF - Basic Research in Cardiology
IS - 4
M1 - 277
ER -