RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 THROMBOPOIETIN RECEPTOR AGONISTS PROTECT HUMAN CARDIAC MYOCYTES FROM INJURY BY ACTIVATION OF CELL SURVIVAL PATHWAYS
JF Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
JO J Pharmacol Exp Ther
FD American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
SP jpet.114.221747
DO 10.1124/jpet.114.221747
A1 John E. Baker
A1 Jidong Su
A1 Stacy Koprowski
A1 Anuradha Dhanasekaran
A1 Tom P Aufderheide
A1 Garrett J Gross
YR 2014
UL http://jpet.aspetjournals.org/content/early/2014/12/16/jpet.114.221747.abstract
AB Thrombopoietin confers immediate protection against injury caused by ischemia/reperfusion in the rat heart. Eltrombopag is a small molecule agonist of the thrombopoietin receptor; the physiological target of thrombopoietin. However, the ability of eltrombopag and thrombopoietin to protect human cardiac myocytes against injury and the mechanisms underlying myocyte protection are not known. Human cardiac myocytes (n= 6-10/group) were treated with eltrombopag (0.1- 30.0 µM) or thrombopoietin ( 0.1 - 30.0 ng/ml) and then subjected to 5 hours of hypoxia (95% N2/5%CO2) and 16 hours of reoxygenation to determine their ability to confer resistance to myocardial injury. The thrombopoietin receptor (c-Mpl) was detected in unstimulated human cardiac myocytes by western blotting. Eltrombopag and thrombopoietin confer immediate protection to human cardiac myocytes against injury from hypoxia/reoxygenation by decreasing necrotic and apoptotic cell death in a concentration-dependent manner with an optimal concentration of 3 µM for eltrombopag and 1.0 ng/ml for thrombopoietin. The extent of protection conferred with eltrombopag is equivalent to that of thrombopoietin. Eltrombopag and thrombopoietin activate multiple pro-survival pathways; inhibition of JAK-2, src kinase, Akt/PI3 kinase, p44/42 MAPK and p38 MAPK abolished cardiac myocyte protection by eltrombopag and thrombopoietin. Eltrombopag and thrombopoietin may represent important and potent agents for immediately and substantially increasing protection of human cardiac myocytes, and may offer long-lasting benefit through activation of pro-survival pathways during ischemia.