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KMID : 0811719980020030331
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Korean Journal of Physiology & Pharmacology
1998 Volume.2 No. 3 p.331 ~ p.343
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Cardioprotective Effects of Low Dose Bacterial Lipopolysaccharide May Not Be Directly Associated with Prostacyclin Production
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Chang-Hyun Moon
Ji Young Kim/Soo Hwan Lee/Eun Joo Baik
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Abstract
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Sublethal dose of bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) would induce protection against cardiac ischemic/reperfusion (I/R) injury. This study examines the following areas: 1) the temporal induction of the cardio-protection produced by LPS; and 2) the relations between a degree of protection and the myocardial prostacyclin (PGI2) production. Rats were administered LPS (2 mg/kg, i.v.), and hearts were removed 1, 4, 8, 14, 24, 48, 72,and 96 h later. Using Langendorff apparatus, haemodynamic differences during 25 min of global ischemia/30 min reperfusion were investigated. The concentration of PGI2 in aliquots of the coronary effluent was determined by radioimmunoassay as its stable hydrolysis product 6?keto?PGF1α and lactate dehydrogenase release were measured as an indicative of cellular injury. LPS-induced cardiac protection against I/R injury appeared 4 h after LPS treatment and remained until 96 h after treatment. PGI2 release increased 2-3 fold at the beginning of reperfusion compared to basal level except in hearts treated with LPS for 48 and 72 h. In hearts removed 48 and 72 h after LPS treatment, basal PGI2 was increased. To determine the enzymatic step in relation to LPS-induced basal PGI2 production, we examined prostaglandin H synthase (PGHS) protein expression, a rate limiting enzyme of prostaglandin production, by using Western blot analysis. LPS increased PGHS protein expression in hearts at 24, 48, 72, 96 h after LPS treatment. Induction of PGHS expression appeared in both isotypes of PGHS, a constitutive PGHS-1 and an inducible PGHS-2. To identify the correlationship between PGI2 production and the cardioprotective effect against I/R injury, indomethacin was administered in vivo or in vitro. Indomethacin did not inhibit LPS-induced cardioprotection, which was not affected by the duration of LPS treatment. Taken together, our results suggest that PGI2 might not be the major endogenous mediator of LPS-induced cardioprotection.
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KEYWORD
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Bacterial lipopolysaccharide, Cardioprotection, Ischemia, Reperfusion, Heart, Prostacyclin,
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