Repeated simulated ischemia and protection against gap junctional uncoupling

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Ischemic preconditioning increases the heart's tolerance to a subsequent longer ischemic period. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of early and delayed preconditioning on gap junction communication, connexin abundance, and phosphorylation in cultured neonatal rat cardiac myocytes. Prolonged ischemia followed 5 minutes after preconditioning in the early protocol, whereas 20 hours separated preconditioning and prolonged ischemia in the delayed preconditioning protocol. Gap junctional intercellular communication (GJIC) was assessed by Lucifer yellow dye transfer. An initial reduction in communication in response to sublethal ischemia was observed. This may be one mechanism whereby neighboring cells are protected from damaging substances produced during the first phase of subsequent regional ischemia in early preconditioning protocols. With respect to delayed preconditioning, the transient decrease in GJIC disappeared prior to prolonged ischemia, indicating that other mechanisms are responsible for delayed protection. Both early and delayed preconditioning preserved intercellular coupling after prolonged ischemia and this correlated with presence of less connexin43 dephosphorylation assessed by immunoblot.

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Sundset, R., Ytrehus, K., Zhang, Y., Saffitz, J. E., & Yamada, K. A. (2007). Repeated simulated ischemia and protection against gap junctional uncoupling. Cell Communication and Adhesion, 14(5), 239–249. https://doi.org/10.1080/15419060701821149

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