Key result
The combination of polydatin and vitamin C synergistically attenuated doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity in rats by improving antioxidative effects and energy metabolism.
Why the study?
Does the combination of polydatin and vitamin C attenuate doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity in rats?
Does the combination of polydatin and vitamin C attenuate doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity in rats?
The combination of polydatin and vitamin C synergistically protects against doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity in rats by reducing oxidative stress and improving energy metabolism.
Hypothesis-generating for polydatin-vitamin C in doxorubicin cardiotoxicity; human trials needed before any clinical consideration.
The purpose of this study was to assess the synergistic effect of polydatin and vitamin C on attenuating cardiotoxicity induced by doxorubicin ( DOX ) in rats. Polydatin could significantly increase the activity of superoxide dismutase ( SOD ) and the heart rate, attenuate myocardial pathological damage, decrease malondialdehyde ( MDA ) content, slightly increase arterial pressure and glutathione peroxidase ( GSH ‐Px) activity, reduce intervals of QRS , QT , and ST , and lower free fatty acid ( FFA ) content. The combination of polydatin and vitamin C could significantly increase arterial pressure and heart rate, decrease QRS interval and slightly reduce ST and QT intervals, significantly attenuate myocardial pathological damage, increase the activities of GSH ‐Px,T‐ SOD , Na + K + ‐ ATP ase, and Ca 2+ Mg 2+ ‐ ATP ase, elevate phosphocreatine ( PC r) and adenosine triphosphate ( ATP ) contents, slightly increase adenosine diphosphate ( ADP ) and total adenine nucleotide ( TAN ) contents and PC r/ ATP , and significantly decrease the contents of MDA and FFA , when compared with those in the DOX group. Meanwhile, the improvement effects on FFA content, the activities of ATP ase and SOD , and contents of ATP and TAN in combination group were more obvious than those in polydatin group, and the improvement effects on arterial pressure, heart rate, interval of QRS , GSH ‐Px activity, and MDA , ADP , and PC r contents in combination group were slightly obvious when compared with those in polydatin group. In addition, the mRNA expression levels of AMPK ‐α2 and PPAR ‐α were slightly improved in combination group. The results illustrate that the combination of polydatin and vitamin C has the ability to enhance the myocardial protective effects by its antioxidative effect and improve energy metabolism.
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Wang et al. (2016) studied Doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity. Polydatin and vitamin C vs. Doxorubicin alone and polydatin alone was evaluated on Cardiotoxicity markers (antioxidant enzymes, ECG intervals, energy metabolism). The combination of polydatin and vitamin C synergistically attenuated doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity in rats by improving antioxidative effects and energy metabolism.
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