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. 2000 Aug 18;87(4):309-15.
doi: 10.1161/01.res.87.4.309.

Ischemic preconditioning activates phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase upstream of protein kinase C

H Tong  1 , W Chen, C Steenbergen, E Murphy
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Ischemic preconditioning activates phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase upstream of protein kinase C

H Tong et al. Circ Res. .

Abstract

The present study is designed to test whether phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3-kinase) has a role in the signaling pathway in ischemic preconditioning (PC) and whether it is proximal or distal to protein kinase C (PKC). Before 20 minutes of global ischemia, Langendorff-perfused rat hearts were perfused for 20 minutes (control); preconditioned with 4 cycles of 5-minute ischemia and 5-minute reflow (PC); treated with either wortmannin (WM) or LY 294002 (LY), each of which is a PI3-kinase inhibitor, for 5 minutes before and throughout PC; treated with 1,2-dioctanoyl-sn-glycerol (DOG), an activator of PKC for 10 minutes (DOG); treated identically to the DOG group except with WM added 10 minutes before and during perfusion with DOG; or treated with either WM or LY for 25 minutes. Recovery of left ventricular developed pressure (LVDP; percentage of initial preischemic LVDP), measured after 30 minutes of reflow, was improved by PC (72+/-2% versus 36+/-4% in control; P<0.001), and this was blocked by WM and LY (41+/-4% and 43+/-5%, respectively; P<0.05 compared with PC). DOG addition improved postischemic LVDP (67+/-6%; P<0.001 compared with control), but in contrast to its effect on PC, WM did not completely eliminate the protective effect of DOG (52+/-4%; P>0.05 compared with DOG; P<0.05 compared with control). PC induced phosphorylation of protein kinase B and translocation of PKC epsilon, and it increased NO production, and these effects were blocked by WM, which suggests a role for PI3-kinase in PC upstream of PKC and NO.

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