S. Yasuda et Wyw. Lew, ENDOTHELIN-1 AMELIORATES CONTRACTILE DEPRESSION BY LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDEIN CARDIAC MYOCYTES, American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology, 42(3), 1997, pp. 1403-1407
Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) induces cardiac depression by activating nitr
ic oxide pathways to increase guanosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cG
MP), a second messenger of nitric oxide. Endothelin-1 (ET-1) may inter
act with nitric oxide pathways. We hypothesized that ET-1 modulates LP
S-induced contractile depression in cardiac myocytes. Adult rabbit car
diac myocytes exposed to LPS (10 ng/ml) developed decreased cell short
ening after 6 h, with an increase in cardiac cGMP levels [606 +/- 36 (
SE) fmol/mg protein] compared with control myocytes (360 +/- 26 fmol/m
g protein, P < 0.05). LPS effects were completely blocked by coincubat
ion with the nitric oxide synthase inhibitor N-G-monomethyl-L-arginine
(1 mM). Coincubation with ET-1 (10 nM) attenuated the contractile dep
ression and increase in cGMP with LPS (482 +/- 28 fmol/mg protein, P <
0.05 vs. LPS alone). ET-1 alone did not alter cGMP levels (350 +/- 30
fmol/mg protein). ET-1 effects on contractile function were blocked b
y BQ-123 (10 mu M), a selective ET-1 type A receptor antagonist. We co
nclude that ET-1 ameliorates LPS-induced contractile depression in car
diac myocytes by attenuating LPS effects on nitric oxide-cGMP pathways
.