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  • Title: Acute alcohol-induced protection against infarction in rabbit hearts: differences from and similarities to ischemic preconditioning.
    Author: Krenz M, Baines CP, Heusch G, Downey JM, Cohen MV.
    Journal: J Mol Cell Cardiol; 2001 Nov; 33(11):2015-22. PubMed ID: 11708845.
    Abstract:
    Recent studies reveal that brief ethanol exposure induces cardioprotection against simulated ischemia in cardiomyocytes by the activation of protein kinase C- epsilon. The present study tests the ability of ethanol to induce protection in rabbit hearts in which infarct size was the end-point and explores the signal transduction pathways involved. In isolated rabbit hearts, 50 m m ethanol infused for 5 min with 10 min of washout prior to 30 min of regional ischemia reduced infarct size (triphenyltetrazolium chloride staining) by 49%. Neither adenosine receptor blockade with 8-(p -sulfophenyl) theophylline nor the free radical scavenger N-2-mercaptopropionyl glycine inhibited the protection triggered by ethanol. In contrast, protein kinase C inhibition with chelerythrine, protein tyrosine kinase inhibition with genistein, and blockade of ATP-sensitive potassium channels (K(ATP)) with either 5-hydroxydecanoate or glibenclamide did abolish protection. Thus, transient ethanol exposure followed by washout prior to ischemia elicits a preconditioning-like effect involving protein kinase C, at least one protein tyrosine kinase, and K(ATP)channels, but neither adenosine nor free radicals.
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