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Cyclic mechanical deformation suppresses cytokine-induced iNOS expression in cultured neonatal rat cardiac myocytes, an effect mediated at least partially via activation of protein kinase C.
Mechanical strain suppresses cytokine-induced iNOS expression in cultured neonatal rat cardiac myocytes, an effect mediated partially via protein kinase C activation.
Hypothesis-generating for mechanical modulation of myocyte inflammation; prospective studies needed before clinical relevance.
We investigated the effects of precisely controlled mechanical strain on nitric-oxide synthase activity in cultured neonatal rat cardiac myocytes. Incubation of cardiac myocytes for 24 h with 4 ng/ml interleukin-1beta and 100 units/ml interferon-gamma stimulated an increase in nitric oxide production, inducible nitric-oxide synthase (iNOS) mRNA, and iNOS protein. Mechanical strain suppressed nitric oxide production, iNOS mRNA, and iNOS protein stimulated by cytokines in an amplitude-dependent manner. Losartan (1 microM), an angiotensin II type 1 receptor antagonist, weakly inhibited the effect of strain, suggesting that paracrine angiotensin II is not the mediator of the strain effect. In addition, cycloheximide (10 microM), a protein synthesis inhibitor, inhibited the effect of strain by 46%. Transforming growth factor-beta (1 ng/ml) suppressed iNOS mRNA expression, but anti-transforming growth factor-beta antibody (30 microg/ml) did not block the effect of strain. In contrast, staurosporine (100 nM; a nonselective protein kinase inhibitor), calphostin C (1 microM; a selective protein kinase C inhibitor), and pretreatment with phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate abolished the effect of strain. Genistein (100 microM), a tyrosine kinase inhibitor, partially inhibited the effect of strain. Thus, cyclic mechanical deformation suppresses cytokine-induced iNOS expression in cardiac myocytes, and this effect is mediated at least partially via activation of protein kinase C.
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Yamamoto et al. (1998) studied Cultured neonatal rat cardiac myocytes. Mechanical strain was evaluated on Nitric oxide production, iNOS mRNA, and iNOS protein expression. Cyclic mechanical deformation suppresses cytokine-induced iNOS expression in cultured neonatal rat cardiac myocytes, an effect mediated at least partially via activation of protein kinase C.
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