Extracorporeal shock wave treatment attenuated left ventricular dysfunction and remodeling in mini-pig with cardiorenal syndrome

  • Jiunn Jye Sheu
  • , Hani E.E. Ali
  • , Ben Chung Cheng
  • , Hsin Ju Chiang
  • , Pei Hsun Sung
  • , Kuan Hung Chen
  • , Chih Chao Yang
  • , Yen Ta Chen
  • , John Y. Chiang
  • , Pao Yuan Lin
  • , Sarah Chua
  • , Han Tan Chai
  • , Sheng Ying Chung
  • , Cheuk Kwan Sun
  • , Hon Kan Yip*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This study tested the hypothesis that extracorporeal shock wave (ECSW) treatment can improve ischemia-induced left ventricular (LV) dysfunction in mini-pig with co-existing chronic kidney disease (CKD). LV ischemia in mini-pigs was induced by applying an ameroid constrictor over mid-left anterior descending artery (LAD), while model of CKD was established by right nephrectomy with partial ligation of left renal arterioles 2 weeks before LAD constriction. Thirty mini-pigs were randomlydivided into group 1 (sham-control), group 2 (LV-ischemia), group 3 (LV-ischemia + CKD), Group 4 [LV-ischemia + ECSW (applied 1200 shots at 0.1 mJ/m2/equally to 4-ischemic regions by day-90 after LAD constriction], and group 5 (LV-ischemia-CKD + ECSW). By day-180 after CKD induction, echocardiography showed that LV ejection fraction (LVEF) was highest in group 1, lowest in group 3, significantly lower in group 2 than that in groups 4 and 5, and significantly lower in group 5 than that in group 4, whereas LV-end systolic and diastolic dimensions displayed an opposite pattern (all p < 0.001). Protein expressions of oxidative-stress (NOX-1/NOX-2/oxidized protein), apoptotic (cleaved-caspase-3/cleaved-PARP/mitochondrial-Bax), fibrotic (TGF-β/Smad3), pressure/volume-overload (BNP/β-MHC), endothelial (CD31/vWF) and mitochondrial-integrity (PGC-1/mitochondrial-cytochrome-C) biomarkers exhibited a pattern identical to that of LVEF, whereas angiogenesis factors (VEGF/CXCR4/SDF-1α) showed significant progressive increase among all groups (all p < 0.0001). Microscopic findings of CD31+cells/vWF+cells/small-vessel density/sarcomerelength showed an identical pattern, whereas collagen-deposition area/fibrotic area/apoptotic nuclei expressed an opposite pattern compared to that of LVEF among all groups (all p < 0.0001). In conclusion, CKD aggravated ischemia-induced LV dysfunction and remodeling and molecular-cellular perturbations that were reversed by ECSW treatment.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)54747-54763
Number of pages17
JournalOncotarget
Volume8
Issue number33
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017

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Keywords

  • Angiogenesis
  • Cardiorenal syndrome
  • Extracorporeal shock wave
  • LV remodeling
  • Myocardial ischemia

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