ハイパーホモシステインエミアは,酸化ストレスによる酸化酸化酸化酸化酸化酸化物の生物利用性を損なうことにより,心臓基質の代謝を変化させます
Nobuhiro Suematsu1, Caroline Ojaimi, Shintaro Kinugawa
1Department of Physiology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA.
Circulation
|January 4, 2007
まとめ
ハイパーホモシステイン血症 (HHcy) は,酸化ストレスを増やし,心筋の代謝を変化させることで,心臓の機能を損なう. アスコルビック酸や他の抗酸化物質は,正常な心臓機能を回復させることができ,関連する心臓疾患の新たな治療目標を示唆します.
科学分野:
- 心血管生理学 心血管の生理学
- メタボリック研究
- 酸化ストレス生物学 生物学
背景:
- ハイパーホモシステイン血症 (HHcy) は,血管疾患と酸化ストレスに関連しています.
- HHcyが心機能と心筋の代謝に与える特定の影響は,依然としてほとんど特徴づけられていない.
研究 の 目的:
- HHcyの心臓機能,NOの生物利用度,および犬のモデルにおける心筋基板利用に対する影響を調査する.
- HHcy誘発の心臓の変異における酸化ストレスの役割を調査する.
主な方法:
- L-ホモシステインと食中のメチオニンの静脈注入により,意識のある犬の急性および慢性HHcyを誘発します.
- 血液動力学,NO依存冠動脈血管拡張,および心筋基板の吸収 (グルコース,乳酸,自由脂肪酸) の評価.
- 鍵となるタンパク質 (Nox2, eNOS, SOD-1) のために,心筋の酸素消費とウエスタン・ブロット分析に関するインビトロ研究.
主要な成果:
- HHcyは血動力学を大幅に変化させなかったが,NO依存性血管拡張を減少させ,抗酸化物質によって回復した.
- 心臓のグルコースと乳酸の吸収は増加し,自由脂肪酸の吸収はHHcy.下で減少した.
- HHcyは心筋の酸素消費を減少させ,抗酸化物質によって効果が逆転し,Nox2を増加させ,ENOSとSOD-1の発現を減少させた.
結論:
- HHcyは,血液動力学的変化とは関係なく,超酸化物生成を通じてNOの生物利用性を低下させることで,心臓基板の利用と代謝を直接変化させます.
- これらの発見は,HHcyに関連した心臓機能不全における酸化ストレスが果たす重要な役割を強調し,疾患進行における心臓代謝の変化の評価を提案しています.
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