Key result
Post-MI doxycycline improves ex-vivo border zone contractility by ~64% and increases six-week wall thickness.
Why the study?
Does short-term doxycycline treatment improve border zone contractility and reduce MMP-2 levels in a large animal model of myocardial infarction?
Does short-term doxycycline treatment improve border zone contractility and reduce MMP-2 levels in a large animal model of myocardial infarction?
Absolute Event Rate: 65.3% vs 39.7%
p-value: p=<0.0001
Short-term doxycycline administration after myocardial infarction in a large animal model improves border zone contractility and wall thickness, associated with reduced intracellular MMP-2 activity.
Caution against clinical use of post-MI doxycycline; leaves open translation of ovine remodeling benefits to human trials.
Decreased contractility in the non-ischemic border zone surrounding a MI is in part due to degradation of cardiomyocyte sarcomeric components by intracellular matrix metalloproteinase-2 (MMP-2). We recently reported that MMP-2 levels were increased in the border zone after a MI and that treatment with doxycycline for two weeks after MI was associated with normalization of MMP-2 levels and improvement in ex-vivo contractile protein developed force in the myocardial border zone. The purpose of the current study was to determine if there is a sustained effect of short term treatment with doxycycline (Dox) on border zone function in a large animal model of antero-apical myocardial infarction (MI). Antero-apical MI was created in 14 sheep. Seven sheep received doxycycline 0.8 mg/kg/hr IV for two weeks. Cardiac MRI was performed two weeks before, and then two and six weeks after MI. Two sheep died prior to MRI at six weeks from surgical/anesthesia-related causes. The remaining 12 sheep completed the protocol. Doxycycline induced a sustained reduction in intracellular MMP-2 by Western blot (3649±643 MI+Dox vs 9236±114 MI relative intensity; p = 0.0009), an improvement in ex-vivo contractility (65.3±2.0 MI+Dox vs 39.7±0.8 MI mN/mm2; p<0.0001) and an increase in ventricular wall thickness at end-systole 1.0 cm from the infarct edge (12.4±0.6 MI+Dox vs 10.0±0.5 MI mm; p = 0.0095). Administration of doxycycline for a limited two week period is associated with a sustained improvement in ex-vivo contractility and an increase in wall thickness at end-systole in the border zone six weeks after MI. These findings were associated with a reduction in intracellular MMP-2 activity.
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Spaulding et al. (2018) studied Antero-apical myocardial infarction (n=14). Doxycycline vs. No doxycycline (MI control) was evaluated on Ex-vivo contractility in the myocardial border zone (mN/mm2) (p=<0.0001). Doxycycline treatment for two weeks after myocardial infarction significantly improved ex-vivo border zone contractility (65.3 vs 39.7 mN/mm2) and increased wall thickness at six weeks.
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