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Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 282: H1978-H1987, 2002. First published February 7, 2002; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00929.2001
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Vol. 282, Issue 6, H1978-H1987, June 2002

Cardioprotective effect of ischemic preconditioning is preserved in food-restricted senescent rats

Pasquale Abete1, Gianluca Testa1, Nicola Ferrara3,4, Domenico De Santis1, Pina Capaccio1, Luisa Viati1, Claudio Calabrese5, Francesco Cacciatore5, Giancarlo Longobardi4, Mario Condorelli2, Claudio Napoli2,6, and Franco Rengo1,4

1 Cattedra di Geriatria and 2 Cattedra di Medicina Interna, Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica, Scienze Cardiovascolari ed Immunologiche, Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II," Naples; 3 Cattedra di Geriatria, Dipartimento delle Malattie del Metabolismo dell'Invecchiamento, Seconda Università di Napoli, Naples; 4 Centro Medico di Telese Terme, Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico, Benevento; 5 Unità Operativa Riabilitazione, ASL4 Basso Molise, Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri, Larino/Termoli, Italy; and 6 Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, California

Ischemic preconditioning (PC) has been proposed as an endogenous form of protection against-ischemia reperfusion injury. We have shown that PC does not prevent postischemic dysfunction in the aging heart. This phenomenon could be due to the reduction of cardiac norepinephrine release, and it has also been previously demonstrated that age-related decrease of norepinephrine release from cardiac adrenergic nerves may be restored by caloric restriction. We investigated the effects on mechanical parameters of PC against 20 min of global ischemia followed by 40 min of reperfusion in isolated hearts from adult (6 mo) and "ad libitum"-fed and food-restricted senescent (24 mo) rats. Norepinephrine release in coronary effluent was determined by high-performance liquid chromatography. Final recovery of percent developed pressure was significantly improved after PC in adult hearts versus unconditioned controls (85.2 ± 19% vs. 51.5 ± 10%, P < 0.01). The effect of PC on developed pressure recovery was absent in ad libitum-fed rats, but it was restored in food-restricted senescent hearts (66.6 ± 13% vs. 38.3 ± 11%, P < 0.05). Accordingly, norepinephrine release significantly increased after PC in both adult and in food-restricted senescent hearts, and depletion of myocardial norepinephrine stores by reserpine abolished the PC effect in both adult and in food-restricted senescent hearts. We conclude that PC reduces postischemic dysfunction in the hearts from adult and food-restricted but not in ad libitum-fed senescent rats. Despite the possibility of multiple age-related mechanisms, the protection afforded by PC was correlated with increased norepinephrine release, and it was blocked by reserpine in both adult and food-restricted senescent hearts. Thus caloric restriction may restore PC in the aging heart probably via increased norepinephrine release.

aging; caloric restriction; rat heart


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