Effects and possible mechanism of liraglutide on hypoxia and high glucose-induced calcium overload and apoptosis in neonatal rat cardiomyocytes in vitro
LI Yinke, SHI Qiongzhi, CHEN Chen, LIAO Xiangru, and XIE Xiangyang
Department of Pharmacy, Wuhan General Hospital of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, Wuhan 430070, China
Abstract:Objective To investigate the effect and possible mechanism of liraglutide on hypoxia and high glucose-induced calcium overload and apoptosis in neonatal rat cardiomyocytes in vitro.Methods A model of hypoxia and high glucose was established using primarily cultured neonatal rat cardiomyocytes. Then, cells were divided into six groups: normal control group, liraglutide control group, hypoxia and high glucose model group, liraglutide treatment group, GLP-1R antagonist group, and high osmolality control group. The concentration of intracellular dissociative calcium in myocardial cells was determined with fluorospectrophotometry. The levels of Ca2+-ATPase, Na+-K+-ATPase and ROS were measured with biochemical approaches. The apoptosis rate was observed by a flow cytometer. The level of μ-calpain mRNA was examined with RT-PCR method. The level of caspase-3 was measured with ELISA.Results Compared with normal control group, the levels of expression of ROS, caspase-3, and μ-calpain mRNA were significantly increased in hypoxia and high glucose model group (P<0.01), the activity of Ca2+-ATPase and Na+-K+-ATPase decreased (P<0.01), the concentration of free Ca2+ increased from 117.19±15.04 nmol/L to 508.53±26.11 nmol/L, and the apoptosis rate increased from (3.95±0.12)% to (31.03±4.30)%. Liraglutide improved the parameters mentioned above (P<0.01). However, exendin(9-39), an antagonist of GLP-1R, attenuated the protective effect of liraglutide under hypoxia and high glucose.Conclusions Liraglutide can obviously inhibit calcium influx of myocardial cells and μ-calpain up-regulation, and decrease the level of caspase-3 and cell apoptosis.
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LI Yinke, SHI Qiongzhi, CHEN Chen, LIAO Xiangru, and XIE Xiangyang. Effects and possible mechanism of liraglutide on hypoxia and high glucose-induced calcium overload and apoptosis in neonatal rat cardiomyocytes in vitro. Med. J. Chin. Peop. Armed Poli. Forc., 2017, 28(7): 678-682.
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