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Phosphatidylinositol 3‐kinase and ERK1/2 are not involved in adenosine A 1 , A 2A or A 3 receptor‐mediated preconditioning in rat ventricle strips
Author(s) -
Button Laura,
Mireylees Stewart E.,
Germack Renee,
Dickenson John M.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
experimental physiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.925
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1469-445X
pISSN - 0958-0670
DOI - 10.1113/expphysiol.2005.030635
Subject(s) - cardioprotection , wortmannin , cgs 21680 , adenosine , protein kinase b , endocrinology , kinase , medicine , pharmacology , adenosine receptor , chemistry , agonist , biology , signal transduction , receptor , microbiology and biotechnology , ischemia
Mitogen‐activated protein kinase kinase (MEK)/extracellular signal‐regulated kinase 1 and 2 (ERK1/2) and phosphatidylinositol 3‐kinase (PI3‐kinase)/protein kinase B (PKB; also known as Akt) are important antiapoptotic signalling pathways which have recently been implicated in cardioprotection. However, at present the involvement of ERK1/2 and PI3‐kinase/PKB in adenosine receptor‐mediated cardioprotection is poorly understood. In this study we used isolated rat right ventricular strips, contracted by electrical‐field stimulation, in order to investigate the role of ERK1/2 and PI3‐kinase/PKB in adenosine receptor‐induced cardioprotection. Ventricle strips were pretreated for 2 min with the agonists adenosine (non‐selective), CPA (A 1 selective), CGS 21680 (A 2A selective) and Cl‐IB‐MECA (A 3 selective) before 30 min hypoxia followed by 30 min reoxygenation. Each agonist significantly improved posthypoxic percentage contraction recovery compared to control strips. Similarly hypoxic preconditioning (10 min hypoxia followed by 20 min reoxygenation) significantly improved posthypoxic percentage contraction recovery compared to non‐preconditioned strips. The selective adenosine receptor antagonists DPCPX (A 1 ), ZM 241385 (A 2A ) and MRS 1220 (A 3 ) attenuated cardioprotection induced by CPA, CGS 21680 and Cl‐IB‐MECA, respectively. Pre‐incubation (30 min) of ventricle strips with the MEK1 inhibitor PD 98059 (50 μ m ) or the PI3‐kinase inhibitor wortmannin (100 n m ) significantly reduced posthypoxic percentage contraction recovery induced by hypoxic preconditioning. In contrast, PD 98059 and wortmannin had no significant effect on cardioprotection induced by CPA, Cl‐IB‐MECA or CGS 21680. Overall these data indicate that although selective A 1 , A 2A and A 3 adenosine receptor agonists induce preconditioning in rat right ventricular strips the effects are independent of ERK1/2‐ and PI3‐kinase‐dependent pathways. In contrast ERK1/2 and PI3‐kinase‐dependent pathways do appear to be involved in early hypoxic preconditioning.