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* Department of Surgery and
Department of Internal Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN 37614; and
Animal Model Research Center, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
TLRs play a critical role in the induction of innate and adaptive immunity. However, TLRs have also been reported to mediate the pathophysiology of organ damage following ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury. We have reported that TLR4–/– mice show decreased myocardial injury following I/R; however, the protective mechanisms have not been elucidated. We examined the role of the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway in TLR4–/– cardioprotection following I/R injury. TLR4–/– and age-matched wild-type (WT) mice were subjected to myocardial ischemia for 45 min, followed by reperfusion for 4 h. Pharmacologic inhibitors of PI3K (wortmannin or LY294002) were administered 1 h before myocardial I/R. Myocardial infarct size/area at risk was reduced by 51.2% in TLR4–/– vs WT mice. Cardiac myocyte apoptosis was also increased in WT vs TLR4–/– mice following I/R. Pharmacologic blockade of PI3K abrogated myocardial protection in TLR4–/– mice following I/R. Specifically, heart infarct size/area at risk was increased by 98% in wortmannin and 101% in LY294002-treated TLR4–/– mice, when compared with control TLR4–/– mice. These data indicate that protection against myocardial I/R injury in TLR4–/– mice is mediated through a PI3K/Akt-dependent mechanism. The mechanisms by which PI3K/Akt are increased in the TLR4–/– myocardium may involve increased phosphorylation/inactivation of myocardial phosphatase and tensin homolog deleted on chromosome 10 as well as increased phosphorylation/inactivation of myocardial glycogen synthase kinase-3
. These data implicate innate immune signaling pathways in the pathology of acute myocardial I/R injury. These data also suggest that modulation of TLR4/PI3K/Akt-dependent signaling pathways may be a viable strategy for reducing myocardial I/R injury.
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1 This work was supported in part by National Institutes of Health R01 HL071837 to (C.L.). This work was also supported in part by National Institutes of Health GM53552 (to D.L.W.); East Tennessee State University Research Development Committee grant (to T.H.); and National Gongguan Project of China (NGGPOC) 2001BA710B (to X.G.).
2 Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Chuanfu Li, Department of Surgery, East Tennessee State University, Campus Box 70575, Johnson City, TN 37614-0575. E-mail address: Li{at}ETSU.EDU
3 Abbreviations used in this paper: I/R, ischemia/reperfusion; GSK, glycogen synthase kinase; IA/RA, infarct area vs risk area; PTEN, phosphatase and tensin homolog deleted on chromosome 10; RA/LV, risk area vs left ventricle; TTC, triphenyltetrazolium chloride; WT, wild type.
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