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Aubin MC, Cardin S, Comtois P, Clément R, Gosselin H, Gillis MA, Le Quang K, Nattel S, Perrault LP, Calderone A. A high-fat diet increases risk of ventricular arrhythmia in female rats: enhanced arrhythmic risk in the absence of obesity or hyperlipidemia. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2010; 108:933-40. [PMID: 20133431 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.01281.2009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Obesity increases the incidence of cardiac arrhythmias and impairs wound healing. However, it is presently unknown whether a high-fat diet affects arrhythmic risk or wound healing before the onset of overt obesity or hyperlipidemia. After 8 wk of feeding a high-fat diet to adult female rats, a nonsignificant increase in body weight was observed and associated with a normal plasma lipid profile. Following ischemia/reperfusion injury, scar length (standard diet 0.29 +/- 0.09 vs. high-fat 0.32 +/- 0.13 cm), thickness (standard diet 0.047 +/- 0.02 vs. high-fat 0.059 +/- 0.01 cm), and collagen alpha(1) type 1 content (standard diet 0.21 +/- 0.04 vs. high-fat 0.20 +/- 0.04 arbitrary units/mm(2)) of infarcted hearts were not altered by the high-fat diet. However, the mortality rate was greatly increased 24 h postinfarction (from 5% to 46%, P < 0.01 for ischemia/reperfusion rats; from 20% to 89%, P < 0.0001, in complete-occlusion rats) in high-fat fed rats, in association with a higher prevalence of ventricular arrhythmias. Ventricular arrhythmia inducibility was also significantly increased in noninfarcted rats fed a high-fat diet. In the hearts of rats fed a high-fat diet, connexin-40 expression was absent, connexin-43 was hypophosphorylated and lateralized, and neurofilament-M immunoreactive fiber density (standard diet 2,020 +/- 260 vs. high-fat diet 2,830 +/- 250 microm(2)/mm(2)) and tyrosine hydroxylase protein expression were increased (P < 0.05). Thus, in the absence of overt obesity and hyperlipidemia, sympathetic hyperinnervation and an aberrant pattern of gap junctional protein expression and regulation in the heart of female rats fed a high-fat diet may have contributed in part to the higher incidence of inducible cardiac arrhythmias.
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- Marie-Claude Aubin
- Department of Pharmacology, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Horn AA, Aubin MC, Shi YF, Tardif JC, Carrier M, Perrault LP. 261 Chronic administration of N-acetylcysteine: impact on endothelial dysfunction of epicardial coronary arteries associated with left ventricular hypertrophy in a porcine model. Archives of Cardiovascular Diseases Supplements 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/s1878-6480(10)70263-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Aubin MC, Lajoie C, Clément R, Gosselin H, Calderone A, Perrault LP. Female Rats Fed a High-Fat Diet Were Associated with Vascular Dysfunction and Cardiac Fibrosis in the Absence of Overt Obesity and Hyperlipidemia: Therapeutic Potential of Resveratrol. J Pharmacol Exp Ther 2008; 325:961-8. [DOI: 10.1124/jpet.107.135061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Mommerot A, Aubin MC, Carrier M, Cohn WE, Perrault LP. Use of the Purified Poloxamer 407 for Temporary Coronary Occlusion in Off-Pump CABG Does Not Cause Myocardial Injury. Innovations 2007. [DOI: 10.1177/155698450700200407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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- Arnaud Mommerot
- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery and Research Center, Montreal Heart Institute and Universitέ de Montrέal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Pharmacology, Universitέ de Montrέal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery and Research Center, Montreal Heart Institute and Universitέ de Montrέal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Texas Heart Institute, Houston, TX
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery and Research Center, Montreal Heart Institute and Universitέ de Montrέal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Department of Pharmacology, Universitέ de Montrέal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Perrault LP, Aubin MC, Malo O, Thollon C, Villeneuve N, Vilaine JP, Vanhoutte PM. Status of the endothelium-derived hyperpolarizing factor pathway in coronary arteries after heterotopic heart transplantation. J Heart Lung Transplant 2007; 26:48-55. [PMID: 17234517 DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2006.10.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2006] [Revised: 09/13/2006] [Accepted: 10/19/2006] [Indexed: 10/23/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND After the first year of transplantation, the major limitation to long-term survival is the development of graft coronary vasculopathy, characterized by a pathologic activation of the endothelium with an attendant loss of its regulatory properties on homeostasis of the vascular wall. The present study was designed to evaluate the integrity of coronary vascular relaxations attributed to the endothelium-derived hyperpolarizing factor (EDHF) and to study hyperpolarization of smooth muscle cells after heterotopic heart transplantation. METHODS Six weeks after heart transplantation in a porcine model, vascular reactivity studies of control, native and allograft epicardial coronary artery rings were performed in standard organ chamber experiments. Moreover, membrane potential measurements were made with intracellular microelectrodes in rings of native and allograft coronary arteries. RESULTS There was a significant decrease in endothelium-dependent relaxations to 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT), high doses of bradykinin (BK) alone and BK plus N-omega-nitro-L-arginine (L-NNA) in rings from allograft compared to native, whereas the variation was significantly increased in response to cromakalim, a K(+)-ATP channel opener. Electrical and mechanical recordings showed no alteration in the resting membrane potential of smooth muscle cells, depolarization during contraction to prostaglandin F(2alpha) (PGF(2alpha)), or hyperpolarization in the presence of BK + L-NNA in rings of allograft vs native. CONCLUSIONS In this swine model of heart transplantation, part of the reduction in endothelium-dependent relaxations to BK may be attributed to an alteration in the activity of EDHF. This impairment of EDHF-mediated relaxations may compound the endothelial dysfunction preceding the development of coronary graft vasculopathy.
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- Louis P Perrault
- Research Center, Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Aubin MC, Carrier M, Shi YF, Tardif JC, Perrault LP. Role of probucol on endothelial dysfunction of epicardial coronary arteries associated with left ventricular hypertrophy. J Cardiovasc Pharmacol 2006; 47:702-10. [PMID: 16775511 DOI: 10.1097/01.fjc.0000211763.13894.87] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The lipid-lowering agent probucol may be efficacious, through its antioxidant properties, to limit and reverse the vascular endothelial dysfunction associated with left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH). LVH was induced by performing an aortic banding (AB) on swine, except for controls (group 1). The untreated AB group received a placebo (group 2) whereas the treated groups received probucol (1000 mg/d orally); the third group began its treatment on the day of the banding (for 60 d), the fourth began on day 30 and the fifth on day 60 after AB (both for 30 d). Hypertrophy was assessed by echocardiography and histology. Coronary vascular reactivity was evaluated in organ chambers and endothelial function by quantification of NO2/NO3 and cyclic guanosine-3',5'-monophosphate. To assess oxidative stress, hydroperoxides and angiotensin II levels as well as superoxide dismutase activity were evaluated. After treatment with probucol, a significant decrease in left ventricle/body weight ratio was observed compared with the untreated group. Dose-response curves of the probucol groups showed an improvement in endothelium-dependent relaxations, associated with increased nitric oxide bioavailability and decreased angiotensin II and hydroperoxide levels. In conclusion, the antioxidant probucol limited the development and induced the regression of LVH and the associated coronary endothelial dysfunction.
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- Marie-Claude Aubin
- Research Center, Montreal Heart Institute and Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Bouchot O, Aubin MC, Carrier M, Cohn WE, Perrault LP. Temporary coronary artery occlusion during off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting with the new poloxamer P407 does not cause endothelial dysfunction in epicardial coronary arteries. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006; 132:1144-9. [PMID: 17059936 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2006.04.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2006] [Revised: 04/05/2006] [Accepted: 04/24/2006] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess the efficacy of the novel reversible thermosensitive gel poloxamer 407 for occlusion of the coronary vessel necessary for minimally invasive operations and its effects on coronary endothelium. METHODS Domestic swine were submitted to occlusion of the left anterior descending or right coronary artery using the poloxamer. The left and right internal thoracic arteries were used as grafts to perform coronary artery bypasses. Animals were humanely killed after 3 hours of perfusion (acute; n = 8) or 3 days (subacute; n = 6). The vascular reactivity of coronary artery was evaluated in response to serotonin and bradykinin. Histologic studies were performed to analyze cardiomyocyte necrosis and endothelial coverage. RESULTS The gel led to an occlusion of 7.8 +/- 2.2 minutes. Concentration-response curves of occluded coronary segments showed no difference of endothelium-dependent relaxations in both operated groups (P < .05 vs control). Histologic studies demonstrated the absence of cardiomyocyte necrosis after coronary artery occlusion in the acute group; a small infarct zone was detected in 1 animal in the subacute group, resulting from an occlusion of the first diagonal branch. The endothelial layer coverage was preserved in both groups. CONCLUSION The poloxamer 407 represents a promising technique for obtaining hemostasis at the site of anastomosis during construction of bypasses during beating heart coronary artery surgery, without damage to the endothelium or ischemic consequence.
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- Olivier Bouchot
- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Le Bocage Hospital, Dijon, France
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Aubin MC, Bouchot O, Carrier M, Cohn WE, Perrault LP. Temporary internal thoracic artery occlusion during off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting with the new poloxamer P407 does not cause endothelial dysfunction. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006; 132:685-6. [PMID: 16935129 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2006.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2006] [Accepted: 05/09/2006] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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- Marie-Claude Aubin
- Department of Pharmacology, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Aubin MC, Gendron ME, Lebel V, Thorin E, Tardif JC, Carrier M, Perrault LP. Alterations in the endothelial G-protein coupled receptor pathway in epicardial arteries and subendocardial arterioles in compensated left ventricular hypertrophy. Basic Res Cardiol 2006; 102:144-53. [PMID: 17006634 DOI: 10.1007/s00395-006-0626-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2005] [Revised: 08/02/2006] [Accepted: 08/24/2006] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The present study was designed to compare alterations of endothelium-dependent vasorelaxation in coronary epicardial arteries and subendocardial arterioles occurring in left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) secondary to 60 days of aortic banding in a porcine model. Development of LVH was documented by echocardiogram and the endothelial function of subendocardial and epicardial vessels was studied by constructing concentration-response curves in a pressure myograph and standard organ chambers, respectively. 5-HT induced relaxations were reduced (p<0.05) in both vessel types isolated from pigs with LVH. Dilations of subendocardial arterioles and epicardial vessels to UK14304 were depressed by LVH. In the presence of Nomega-nitro-L-arginine (L-NNA), EDHF solely accounts for BK-induced relaxations; it fully compensates for the loss of NO in arterioles, but only partially in epicardial arteries isolated from LVH swine. Endothelium-independent relaxations induced by SNP were not altered in both vessel types from the LVH group. In a porcine model of LVH secondary to 60 days of aortic banding, the associated coronary endothelial dysfunction preferentially involves Gi-protein mediated relaxations in arterioles and arteries but also affects Gq-protein mediated relaxations in epicardial coronary arteries.
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- Marie-Claude Aubin
- Research Center, Montreal Heart Institute and Université de Montréal, Montreal (QC), Canada
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Stevens LM, Fortier S, Aubin MC, El-Hamamsy I, Maltais S, Carrier M, Perrault LP. Effect of tetrahydrobiopterin on selective endothelial dysfunction of epicardial porcine coronary arteries induced by cardiopulmonary bypass. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2006; 30:464-71. [PMID: 16884906 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcts.2006.06.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2006] [Revised: 05/18/2006] [Accepted: 06/02/2006] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND We hypothesized that cardiopulmonary bypass induces a selective alteration of the coronary arterial endothelial cell signal transduction which could be explained by a state of depletion and/or decreased activity of endogenous tetrahydrobiopterin (BH(4)). The aim of this study was to assess the effects of cardiopulmonary bypass and BH(4) on the endothelial function of epicardial coronary arteries in a swine model of cardiopulmonary bypass. METHODS Swine underwent 90 min of cardiopulmonary bypass alone (N=19) or in association with a brief cardioplegic arrest with (N = 6) or without (N = 5) in vivo BH(4) administration, followed by a 60-min period following weaning from cardiopulmonary bypass and were compared to a control group (N = 7). Endothelium-dependent relaxations of epicardial coronary artery rings were studied using standard organ chamber experiments in the presence or absence of in vitro BH(4) or superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase. RESULTS Cardiopulmonary bypass caused a statistically significant reduction of endothelium-dependent relaxations to serotonin (p < 0.0001), bradykinin (p < 0.001), UK14304 (p < 0.0001) and calcium ionophore (p < 0.01) in epicardial porcine coronary arteries. In vitro and in vivo BH(4) supplementation improved endothelium-dependent relaxations to serotonin and bradykinin, which were left unchanged by SOD-catalase administration. Cardiopulmonary bypass was associated with a decrease in nitric oxide availability (p = 0.002) and increased oxidative stress (p < 0.001), which were both restored by in vivo BH(4) administration (p < 0.001). CONCLUSION Treatment with BH(4) improves the endothelial dysfunction of porcine epicardial coronary arteries, restores nitric oxide availability and reduces the oxidative stress associated with cardiopulmonary bypass.
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- Louis-Mathieu Stevens
- Research Center, Montreal Heart Institute, 5000 Belanger Street, Montreal, Que. H1T 1C8, Canada
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Desjardins F, Aubin MC, Carrier M, Perrault LP. Decrease of Endothelin Receptor Subtype ETB and Release of COX-Derived Products Contribute to Endothelial Dysfunction of Porcine Epicardial Coronary Arteries in Left Ventricular Hypertrophy. J Cardiovasc Pharmacol 2005; 45:499-508. [PMID: 15897775 DOI: 10.1097/01.fjc.0000159641.36900.14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Alterations in the regulation of coronary circulation play a major role in the enhanced susceptibility to ischemic injury of the myocardium in left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH). The present study was designed to assess the role of endothelium-dependent contracting factors and endothelin receptors in the coronary endothelial dysfunction in LVH, occurring 2 months after aortic banding in a swine model. Hemodynamic and morphologic analyses were performed in LVH and control groups. Vascular reactivity studies were performed in rings from control and aortic banding groups to assess the contribution of endothelin (ET-1) receptor subtypes to the contraction induced by ET-1 and IRL-1620 (an ETB receptor agonist), with and without endothelium. The effects of cyclooxygenase (COX)-derived products induced by ET-1, serotonin (5-HT), and bradykinin (BK) were evaluated, with or without indomethacin (a COX antagonist). ET-1 receptor density was assessed by confocal microscopy and Western blot experiments. The wall-to-lumen ratio, determined in digital planimetry, was increased in the LVH group with no significant changes in coronary perfusion pressures. There was a significant increase in contractions to ET-1 in the LVH group, which were reduced by exposure to indomethacin and daltroban (thromboxane A2 [TXA2] receptor antagonist). Relaxations to 5-HT and BK were improved by indomethacin in the LVH group. There was no significant change in ETA receptor density (3.113 +/- 0.389 vs 3.594 +/- 0.314) but a decrease in ETB receptor density (6.435 +/- 0.265 vs 4.588 +/- 0.089; P < 0.001) in the LVH group. The coronary endothelial dysfunction of swine epicardial coronary arteries in LVH secondary to 2 months of aortic banding involves both relaxing and contracting factors. ETA receptors and COX-derived products are preferentially implicated in the increased contractions to ET-1. Strategies aimed at decreasing ET-1 effects with ET-1 antagonists selective for ETA receptors could improve the coronary endothelial dysfunction in LVH.
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- Fanny Desjardins
- Research Center, Department of Pharmacology, Montreal Heart Institute and University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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