Effects of Bauhinia championii flavones on adjusting autophagy against myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury / 中国药理学通报

ABSTRACT

Aim To study the effects of Bauhinia championii flavones ( BCF ) on adjusting autophagy a-gainst myocardial ischemia reperfusion injury. Meth-ods 120 SD rats were randomly divided into control, model, 3-MA (15 mg·kg-1 ) and BCF (10, 20 mg ·kg-1) groups (n=8). 30min. ischemia, ischemia/reperfusion 1h. or 3h, while myocardial ischemia reperfusion model was established by ligating left ante-rior descending coronary artery. The contents of crea-tine kinase-MB ( CK-MB) , inducible nitric oxide syn-thase ( iNOS ) and total antioxidative capacity ( T-AOC ) in serum were determined according to the ultra-violet spectrophotometer colorimetric method. The pro-tein expression of LC3-Ⅱ, Beclin-1 and mTOR was observed by Western blot. Results Compared with model group, BCF dose-dependently improved T-AOC, decreased CK-MB and iNOS ( P < 0. 05 ) . Meanwhile, BCF down-regulated the protein expression of LC3-Ⅱand Beclin-1 , and up-regulated mTOR pro-tein expression ( P < 0. 05 ) . Compared with 3-MA group, BCF reduced the contents of CK-MB and iN-OS, increased the level of T-AOC. It raised LC3-Ⅱand Beclin-1 protein expression at 30min. of ischemia, and then declined the protein expression of LC3-Ⅱand Beclin-1 . BCF descended the protein expression of mTOR all over the time ( P <0. 05 ) . Conclusion Autophagy occurs in ischemia then improves in ische-mia/reperfusion period. BCF could promote the occur-ring of autophagy at 30min. of ischemia in the short term and inhibit the excessive expression of autophagy with the increase of time in reperfusion period. BCF pretreatment reduce myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury may by promoting the occurrence of autophagy during ischemia period and inhibit them in reperfusion.