Affiliation:
1. Centre for Cardiovascular Research, Prague, Czech Republic, Department of Pathophysiology, Second Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Abstract
Hypertension is the risk factor of serious cardiovascular diseases, such as ischemic heart disease and atherosclerosis. The aim of the present study was to analyze the development of cardiac tolerance to ischemia in neonatal spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and possible protective effect of ischemic preconditioning (IP) or adaptation to intermittent high-altitude hypoxia (IHAH). For this purpose we used 1- and 10-day-old pups of SHR and their normotensive control Wistar Kyoto rats (WKY). Isolated hearts were perfused in the Langendorff mode with Krebs-Henseleit solution at constant pressure, temperature and rate. Cardiac tolerance to ischemia was expressed as a percentage of baseline values of developed force (DF) after global ischemia. IP was induced by three 3-min periods of global ischemia, each separated by 5-min periods of reperfusion. IHAH was simulated in barochamber (8 h/day, 5000 m) from postnatal day 1 to 10. Cardiac tolerance to ischemia in 1-day-old SHR was higher than in WKY. In both strains tolerance decreased after birth, and the difference disappeared. The high cardiac resistance in 1- and 10-day-old SHR and WKY could not be further increased by both IP and adaptation to IHAH. It may be concluded that hearts from newborn SHR are more tolerant to ischemia/reperfusion injury as compared to age-matched WKY; cardiac resistance decreased in both strains during the first ten days, similarly as in Wistar rats.
Publisher
Institute of Physiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Subject
General Medicine,Physiology
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