Abstract | BACKGROUND: METHODS: Sprague-Dawley rats were in a normoxic control group (CON-G), or rats were in a chronic nocturnal intermittent hypoxia group (HP-G, from 3 to 7% oxygen versus 21% oxygen per forty seconds cycle, nocturnally 8 h per day for 1 month), or rats were in a chronic nocturnal intermittent hypoxia group pretreated with ARB (50 mg/kg/day, S.C.) (ARB-HP-G). Echocardiography, H&E staining, TUNEL staining, and Western blotting were measured in the left ventricle. RESULTS:
Hypoxia-induced SIRT1 degradation, Fas receptors, FADD, active caspase-8 and caspase-3 (Fas/FasL apoptotic pathway) and Bax, tBid, active caspase-9 and -3 (mitochondrial apoptotic pathway) and TUNEL-positive apoptosis were reduced in ARB-HP-G when compared with HP-G. IGF-I, IGF1 receptor, p-PI3k, p-Akt, Bcl2, and Bcl-XL (IGF1/PI3K/AKT pro-survival pathway) were increased in ARB-HP-G compared to HP-G. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings suggest that the ARB may prevent cardiac Fas/FasL to mitochondrial apoptotic pathways and enhance cardiac IGF1/PI3K/AKT pro-survival pathway in the sleep apnea model associated with JNK de-activation and SIRT1 upregulation. ARB prevents chronic sleep apnea-enhanced cardiac apoptosis via enhancing survival pathways.
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Authors | Pei-Ying Pai, Yi-Yuan Lin, Shao-Hong Yu, Ching-Yuang Lin, Yi-Fan Liou, Xu-Bo Wu, James K S Wong, Chih-Yang Huang, Shin-Da Lee |
Journal | Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung
(Sleep Breath)
Vol. 26
Issue 3
Pg. 1161-1172
(09 2022)
ISSN: 1522-1709 [Electronic] Germany |
PMID | 34626328
(Publication Type: Journal Article)
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Copyright | © 2021. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG. |
Chemical References |
- Angiotensin Receptor Antagonists
- Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt
- Sirtuin 1
- Irbesartan
- Oxygen
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Topics |
- Angiotensin Receptor Antagonists
- Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors
- Animals
- Apoptosis
- Hypoxia
- Irbesartan
- Myocardium
- Oxygen
- Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt
- Rats
- Rats, Sprague-Dawley
- Sirtuin 1
- Sleep Apnea Syndromes
- Up-Regulation
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