N-n-butyl haloperidol iodide (F2), a novel compound derived from haloperidol, protects against the damaging effects of ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury in vitro and in vivo. In this study, we hypothesized the myocardial protection of F2 on cardiomyocyte hypoxia/reoxygenation (H/R) injury is mediated by inhibiting autophagy in H9c2 cells. The degree of autophagy by treatment with F2 exposed to ...

The underlying mechanisms responsible for the cardioprotective effects of riboflavin remain elusive. Current study tested the hypothesis that riboflavin protects injured myocardium via epigenetic modification of LSD1. Here we showed that myocardial injury was attenuated and cardiac function was improved in riboflavin-treated mice with experimental myocardial infarction (MI), while these protect...

BACKGROUND The anti-infammatory and cardioprotective effect of acetylcholine (ACh) has been reported; nevertheless, whether and how ACh exhibits an antioxidant property against ischemia/reperfusion (I/R)-induced oxidative stress remains obscure. METHODS In the present study, H9c2 rat cardiomyocytes were exposed to hypoxia/reoxygenation (H/R) to mimic I/R injury. We estimated intracellular dif...

Angiotensin II (ANG II) increases oxidative stress and is associated with increased risk of sudden cardiac death. The cardiac Na(+) channel promoter contains elements that confer redox sensitivity. We tested the hypothesis that ANG II-mediated oxidative stress may modulate Na(+) channel current through altering channel transcription. In H9c2 myocytes treated for 48 h with ANG II (100 nmol/l) or...

Congenital heart diseases (CHDs) are the most common birth defects due to abnormal cardiac development. The T-box 20 (TBX20) gene is a member of the T‑box family of transcription factors and encodes TBX20, which is essential for early heart development. In the present study, reduced TBX20 expression was observed in CHD tissue samples compared with normal tissues, and the function of TBX20 in Ra...

Quercetin and dehydrosilybin are polyphenols which are known to behave like uncouplers of respiration in isolated mitochondria. Here we investigated whether the effect is conserved in whole cells. Following short term incubation, neither compound uncouples mitochondrial respiration in whole H9c2 cells below 50μM. However, following hypoxia, or long term incubation, leak (state IV with oligomyci...

Excess catecholamine levels are suggested to be cardiotoxic and to underlie stress-induced heart failure. The cardiotoxic effects of norepinephrine and epinephrine are well recognized. However, although cardiac and circulating dopamine levels are also increased in stress cardiomyopathy patients, knowledge regarding putative toxic effects of excess dopamine levels on cardiomyocytes is scarce. We...

ZNF667/Mipu1, a C2H2-type zinc finger transcription factor, was suggested to play an important role in oxidative stress. However, none of the target genes or potential roles of ZNF667 in cardiomyocytes have been elucidated. Here, we investigated the functional role of ZNF667 in H9c2 cell lines focusing on its molecular mechanism by which it protects the cells from apoptosis. We found that ZNF66...

miRNAs have been implicated in processing of cardiac hypoxia/reoxygenation (H/R)-induced injury. Recent studies demonstrated that miR-19a might provide a potential cardioprotective effect on myocardial disease. However, the effect of miR-19a in regulating myocardial ischemic injury has not been previously addressed. The present study was to investigate the effect of miR-19a on myocardial ischem...

The two isoforms of troponin C that are differentially expressed in slow and fast twitch skeletal muscle are encoded by single copy genes. We are analyzing the mechanisms that control their highly restricted pattern of differential expression. The structure of the human fast twitch troponin C isoform gene has been reported (Gahlmann, R. and Kedes, L. (1990) J. Biol. Chem. 265, 12520-12528). Her...