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Prostacyclin attenuates oxidative damage of myocytes by opening mitochondrial ATP-sensitive K⁺ channels via the EP₃ receptor

¹epartment of Internal Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo; ²Department of Pharmacology, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba; ³Department of Physiology, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Japan; and ⁴Institute of Molecular Cardiology, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky

Submitted 1 October 2004 ; accepted in final form 14 December 2004

Prostacyclin (PGI₂) and the PGE family alleviate myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury and limit oxidative damage. The cardioprotective effects of PGI₂ have been traditionally ascribed to activation of IP receptors. Recent advances in prostanoid research have revealed that PGI₂ can bind not only to IP, but also to EP, receptors, suggesting cross talk between PGI₂ and PGEs. The mechanism(s) whereby PGI₂ protects myocytes from oxidative damage and the specific receptors involved remain unknown. Thus fresh isolated adult rat myocytes were exposed to 200 µM H₂O₂ with or without carbaprostacyclin (cPGI₂), IP-selective agonists, and ONO-AE-248 (an EP₃-selective agonist). Cell viability was assessed by trypan blue exclusion after 30 min of H₂O₂ superfusion. cPGI₂ and ONO-AE-248 significantly improved cell survival during H₂O₂ superfusion; IP-selective agonists did not. The protective effect of cPGI₂ and ONO-AE-248 was completely abrogated by pretreatment with 5-hydroxydecanoate or glibenclamide. In the second series of experiments, the mitochondrial ATP-sensitive K⁺ (K_ATP) channel opener diazoxide (Dx) reversibly oxidized flavoproteins in control myocytes. Exposure to prostanoid analogs alone had no effect on flavoprotein fluorescence. A second application of Dx in the presence of cPGI₂ or ONO-AE-248 significantly increased flavoprotein fluorescence compared with Dx alone, but IP-selective agonists did not. This study demonstrates that PGI₂ analogs protect cardiac myocytes from oxidative stress mainly via activation of EP₃. The data also indicate that activation of EP₃ receptors primes the opening of mitochondrial K_ATP channels and that this mechanism is essential for EP₃-dependent protection.

flavoprotein fluorescence; IP receptor; oxidative stress; prostaglandin

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