Affiliation:
1. Department of Pharmacology, University of South Alabama School of Medicine, Mobile, Alabama 36688
Abstract
Cellular sodium excess is cytotoxic because it increases both the intracellular osmotic load and intracellular calcium concentration ([Ca2+]i). Because sodium levels rise during hypoxia, it is thought to contribute to hypoxic injury. Thus the present study tested the hypothesis that taurine-linked reductions in [Na+]i reduce hypoxia-induced cell injury. Taurine depletion was achieved by exposing isolated neonatal cardiomyocytes to medium containing the taurine analog β-Alanine. As predicted, the β-Alanine-treated cell exhibited less hypoxia-induced necrosis and apoptosis than the control, as evidenced by less swelling, shrinkage, TdT-mediated dUTP nick end labeling staining, and accumulation of trypan blue. After 1 h of chemical hypoxia, [Na+]i was 3.5-fold greater in the control than the taurine-deficient cell. Although more taurine was lost from the control cell than from the β-Alanine-treated cell during hypoxia, the combined taurine and sodium osmotic load was lower in the β-Alanine-treated cell. Taurine deficiency also reduced the degree of hypoxia-induced calcium overload. Thus the observed resistance against hypoxia-induced necrosis and apoptosis is probably related to an improvement in sodium and calcium handling.
Publisher
American Physiological Society
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