Oxymatrine attenuated isoproterenol-induced heart failure in rats via regulation of COX-2/PGI2 pathway
Abstract Oxymatrine (OMT) is an active constituent of traditional Chinese herb Sophora japonica Ait which has been shown to exert potent anti-inflammatory,anti-oxidant and anti-fibrosis properties. Our previous studies have demonstrated that OMT has protective effects on isoproterenol-induced heart...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy 2016-12, Vol.84, p.1359-1366 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Abstract Oxymatrine (OMT) is an active constituent of traditional Chinese herb Sophora japonica Ait which has been shown to exert potent anti-inflammatory,anti-oxidant and anti-fibrosis properties. Our previous studies have demonstrated that OMT has protective effects on isoproterenol-induced heart failure in rats through regulation of DDAH/ADMA metabolism pathway.In this study,we further investigated whether OMT could attenuate isoproterenol-induced heart failure through the regulation of COX-2/PGI2 pathway. Heart failure was induced in Sprague-Dawley rats by 5 mg/kg isoproterenol subcutaneous injection for 7 days. The rats were maintained on normal diet and randomly divided into five groups: control, isoproterenol, isoproterenol with OMT (50, 100 mg/kg), and OMT alone groups (n = 12 in each group). Serum brain natruretic peptide (BNP, a heart failure biomarker), histopathological variables, expression of Cytosolic phospholipase A2 (cPLA2 ), cyclooxygenase-1 (COX-1), cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) and Prostacyclin synthase (PGIS) were analysed. Administration of OMT significantly reduced the increased BNP in plasm of isoproterenol-induced rats, attenuated cardiac fibrosis,suppressed overexpression of myocardial COX-1 expression, up-regulated COX-2 and PGIS expression, but had no effects on isoproterenol-induced elevated protein cPLA2 . And compared with control group, any indexes in sham rats treated with OMT (100 mg/kg) alone were unaltered. These results demonstrated that OMT has cardioprotective effects on isoproterenol-induced heart failure in rats by regulating COX-2/PGI2 pathway. |
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ISSN: | 0753-3322 1950-6007 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.biopha.2016.10.070 |