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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-5-20
pubmed:abstractText
Oxidative stress plays an important role in cardiac diseases, which has been well demonstrated, whereas the role of reductive stress has been poorly investigated. We and others have shown previously that heat shock protein 27 (Hsp27) plays a role as an antioxidant. To investigate whether overexpression of Hsp27 could lead to reductive stress and result in cardiomyopathy, we generated transgenic mice with different expression levels of Hsp27. We observed that transgenic mice with high levels of Hsp27 developed cardiomyopathy. The myopathic hearts were under reductive stress, which was evidenced by an increased ratio of reduced glutathione/oxidized glutathione and a decreased level of reactive oxygen species. In addition, upregulated glutathione peroxidase 1 and decreased iron content were revealed in the myopathic hearts. More importantly, inhibition of glutathione peroxidase 1 significantly attenuated the development of cardiomyopathy. The data indicate that the Hsp27-induced cardiomyopathy could be attributed to, at least in part, upregulation of glutathione peroxidase 1. Our findings suggest that reductive stress plays an important role in the development of cardiomyopathy and that Hsp27 may serve as a potential target for the treatment of patients with cardiomyopathy.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
1524-4563
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
55
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1412-7
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:20439823-Analysis of Variance, pubmed-meshheading:20439823-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:20439823-Biological Markers, pubmed-meshheading:20439823-Blood Pressure Determination, pubmed-meshheading:20439823-Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic, pubmed-meshheading:20439823-Disease Models, Animal, pubmed-meshheading:20439823-Echocardiography, pubmed-meshheading:20439823-Female, pubmed-meshheading:20439823-Ferritins, pubmed-meshheading:20439823-Gene Expression Regulation, pubmed-meshheading:20439823-Glutathione Peroxidase, pubmed-meshheading:20439823-HSP27 Heat-Shock Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:20439823-Heart Function Tests, pubmed-meshheading:20439823-Immunohistochemistry, pubmed-meshheading:20439823-Male, pubmed-meshheading:20439823-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:20439823-Mice, Transgenic, pubmed-meshheading:20439823-Myocytes, Cardiac, pubmed-meshheading:20439823-Oxidative Stress, pubmed-meshheading:20439823-Random Allocation, pubmed-meshheading:20439823-Reference Values, pubmed-meshheading:20439823-Up-Regulation
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Involvement of reductive stress in the cardiomyopathy in transgenic mice with cardiac-specific overexpression of heat shock protein 27.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Geriatrics, First Affiliated Hospital With Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't