• Lei-Lei Ma, Fei-Jiang Zhang, Fei-Juan Kong, Ling-Bo Qian, Hong Ma, Jian-An Wang, and Min Yan.
• Department of Anesthesiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
• Shock. 2013 Sep 1;40(3):217-21.

AbstractRecent studies have demonstrated that volatile anesthetic postconditioning confers myocardial protection against ischemia-reperfusion injury through activation of the reperfusion injury salvage kinase (RISK) pathway. As RISK has been shown to be impaired by ventricular hypertrophy, we investigate whether anesthetic-induced cardiac protection was maintained in rat hearts with ventricular hypertrophy. Transverse aortic constriction operation was performed on male Sprague-Dawley rats to induce left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy, then sham-operated or hypertrophied rat hearts were subjected to 40 min of global ischemia and 2 h of reperfusion. The isolated hearts received 3% sevoflurane for 10 min or six cycles of 10-s ischemia/10-s reperfusion after reperfusion. The hemodynamics, infarct size, PTEN (phosphatase and tensin homolog deleted on chromosome ten), phosphorylated Akt, phosphorylated extracellular regulated protein kinase (ERK) 1/2, and phosphorylated glycogen synthase kinase 3β (GSK3β) were determined. We found the myocardial expression of PTEN, phosphorylated Akt, ERK1/2, and phosphorylated GSK3β did not significantly differ between sham-operated and transverse aortic constriction-control groups. Both sevoflurane and ischemic postconditioning significantly improved LV hemodynamics, reduced infarct size, and increased the phosphorylation of Akt, ERK1/2, and their downstream target of GSK3β in the sham-operated rat hearts. In contrast, neither sevoflurane nor ischemic postconditioning improved LV hemodynamic, reduced infarct size, and increased the phosphorylated Akt, ERK1/2, and GSK3β in hypertrophied myocardium. All the results above indicate that ventricular hypertrophy abrogated sevoflurane-induced cardioprotection against ischemia-reperfusion injury by alteration of RISK/GSK3β signals.

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