The aim of the study was to char acterize a) the lipofuscin-like pigment (LFP) accumulation (an indicator of ROS production) in the rat heart during early postnatal period and b) possible antioxidative role of selenium. Experimental animals received Na 2 SeO 3 in drinking water during gravidity and up to day 15 post partum . Two fluorophores of LFP in the hearts of 1-, 4-, 7- and 15-day-old rats were evaluated by fluorescent analysis. The highest level of heart/body weight ratio in control rats was observed on day 4, in the Se-supplemented rats on day 7. Cardiac LFP content in controls increased from postnatal day 4, in the hearts of Se-supplemented rats the LFP content increased already from day 1. As compared with the Se-supplemented group the LFP content of control hearts was significantly higher on day 1 but significantly lower on day 4. LFP concentration in control hearts decreased from postnatal day 1 to 4; this decrease was followed by significant increa se until day 7 and decrease to day 15. LFP concentration in the Se-supplemented hearts was the highest on postnatal day 7; it differed from controls on day 1 and 4. Significant changes of LF P suggest an important role of ROS during critical ontogenetic period., I. Ošťádalová, Z. Charvátová, J. Wilhelm., and Obsahuje bibliografii
Mědiryt (28, 3 x 17, 6 cm): Minerva (přilba, antikizujícíí brnění, dlouhá tunika) sedí na trůně, v pravici palmový list, levicí pokládá vavřínový věnec na hlavu mladíka klečícího před ní. Je to mladý umělec, je nahý přes ramena má přehozenou volskou kůži, symbol tvrdé práce, v ruce pero, mezi ním a Minervou je kniha, vedle leží kalamář a pouzdro na malířské náčiní. Mladíka k Minervě uvádí nahý Merkur (okřídlená čapka, plášť), caduceus v levici. Na zadní straně trůnu je připevněn Minervin štít, k němuž jsou připoutané personifikace neřestí, Hloupost s oslíma ušima, spící Lenost a Závist hlodající srdce. Neřesti jsou navíc uvězněny pod Minerviným kopím, které na nich spočívá. Nad trůnem s Minervou letí Fáma se dvěma pozouny u úst. Trůn stojí pod baldachýnem před budovou, vlevo je v průhledu vidět vrch Múz, na nějž vystupuje skupina umělců. Vede je Sochařství s malou soškou, které se objímá s Malířstvím s paletou a malířskou hůlkou. Za nimi kráčí Architektura s úhelníkem a kružítkem a Blahobyt s rohem hojnosti., Vignau-Wilberg 1997#, 179., and Smysl alegorie vysvětluje dole připojený latinský text: Impigro Iuveni specioso pelle bovina Condecorat caput et lauro Palmaque Minerva, Mercurio ductore, opibus ditantur abunde Quem labor et studium ingenuas conducit ad artes, Famaque eum super Aetherea et Mortalia tollit! Invidie, segnis, Iners froenabare habenis. A(ugerius) Clutius/ Minerva zdobí snaživému jinochovi, krásnému ve volské kůži, hlavu vavřínovým věncem a palmovou ratolestí. Bohatě zahrnován poklady je pod Merkurovým dohleden veden tvrdou prací a cvikem, který odpovídá jeho nadání, k umění a sláva jej vyzdvihuje nad nebesa a zemi. Závistivče, lenochu, hlupáku, budete zkroceni pevnými okovy (obsah těchto veršů shrnuje holandské dvouverší nad výjevem).
There is growing evidence that methamphetamine use during pregnancy may produce detrimental cardiovascular effects in the adult offspring. Prior work demonstrated that chronic methamphetamine exposure throughout the gestational period causes adult female offspring to become hypersensitive to myocardial ischemic injury. The goal of the present study was to determine whether this methamphetamine-induced effect occurs early or late in the gestational period. Pregnant female rats were divided into 4 experimental groups. Groups 1 and 2 received subcutaneous injections of saline (group 1) or methamphetamine (5 mg/kg) (group 2) throughout the gestational period. Group 3 received methamphetamine injections on days 1-11 and saline on days 12-22, and group 4 received saline on days 1-11 and methamphetamine on days 12-22. Hearts were isolated from adult (8 weeks) female offspring and subjected to 30 min ischemia and 2 hours reperfusion on a Langendorff isolated heart apparatus. Contractile function was measured via an intraventricular balloon, and infarct size was measured by triphenyltetrazolium chloride staining. Infarcts were significantly larger in methamphetamine exposed offspring regardless of whether they had been exposed to methamphetamine during the first half or the second half of the gestational period. Prenatal exposure to methamphetamine had no effect on preischemic contractile function or postischemic recovery of contractile function. These data indicate that methamphetamine use during either the first half or second half of pregnancy increases susceptibility to myocardial infarction in adult female offspring. These data provide further evidence that prenatal exposure to methamphetamine may increase the risk of developing cardiovascular diseases during adulthood.
N6 -methyladenosine (m6 A) is an abundant mRNA modification affecting mRNA stability and protein expression. It is a highly dynamic process, and its outcomes during postnatal heart development are poorly understood. Here we studied m6 A machinery in the left ventricular myocardium of Fisher344 male and female rats (postnatal days one to ninety; P1-P90) using Western Blot. A downward pattern of target protein levels (demethylases FTO and ALKBH5, methyltransferase METTL3, reader YTHDF2) was revealed in male and female rats during postnatal development. On P1, the FTO protein level was significantly higher in males compared to females.
Glutamate is a well-characterized excitatory neurotransmitter in the central nervous system (CNS). Recently, glutamate receptors (GluRs) were also found in peripheral tissues, including the heart. However, the function of GluRs in peripheral organs remains poorly understood. In the present study, we found that N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) could increase intracellular calcium ([Ca2+]i) level in a dose-dependent manner in cultured neonatal rat cardiomyocytes. NMDA at 10-4 M increased the levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS), cytosolic cytochrome c (cyto c), and 17-kDa caspase-3, but depolarized mitochondrial membrane potential, leading to cardiomyocyte apoptosis. In addition, NMDA treatment induced an increase in ba x mRNA but a decrease in bcl-2 mRNA expression in the cardiomyocytes. The above effects of NMDA were bloc ked by the NMDA receptor antagonist (+)-5-methyl- 10,11-dihydro-5H-dibenzo[a,d]cyclohepten-5,10-imine hydrogen maleate (MK-801), and by ROS scavengers glutathione (GSH) and N-acetylcystein (NAC). These results suggest that stimulation of NMDA receptor in the cardiomyocyte may lead to apoptosis via a Ca2+, ROS, and caspase-3 mediated pathway. These findings suggest that NMDA receptor may play an important role in myocardial pathogenesis., X. Gao, X. Xu, J. Pang, C. Zhang, J. M. Ding, X. Peng, Y. Liu, J.-M. Cao., and Obsahuje bibliografii a bibliografické odkazy
We conducted an experimental study to evaluate the presence of coordinated left ventricular mechanical myocardial activity (LVMA) in two types of experimentally induced cardiac arrest: ventricular fibrillation (VF) and pulseless electrical activity (PEA). Twenty anesthetized domestic pigs were randomized 1:1 either to induction of VF or PEA. They were left in nonresuscitated cardiac arrest until the cessation of LVMA and microcirculation. Surface ECG, presence of LVMA by transthoracic echocardiography and sublingual microcirculation were recorded. One minute after induction of cardiac arrest, LVMA was identified in all experimental animals. In the PEA group, rate of LVMA was of 106±12/min. In the VF group, we identified two patterns of LVMA. Six animals exhibited contractions of high frequency (VFhigh group), four of low frequency (VFlow group) (334±12 vs. 125±32/min, p<0.001). A time from cardiac arrest induction to asystole (19.2±7.2 vs. 7.3±2.2 vs. 8.3±5.5 min, p=0.003), cessation of LVMA (11.3±5.6 vs. 4.4±0.4 vs. 7.4±2.9 min, p=0.027) and cessation of microcirculation (25.3±12.6 vs. 13.4±2.4 vs. 23.2±8.7 min, p=0.050) was significantly longer in VFlow group than in VFhigh and PEA group, respectively. Thus, LVMA is present in both VF and PEA type of induced cardiac arrest and moreover, VF may exhibit various patterns of LVMA., R. Skulec, D. Astapenko, R. Cerna Parizkova, B. Furst, M. Bilska, T. Parizek, T. Hovanec, N. Pinterova, J. Knor, J. Dudakova, A. Truhlar, V. Radochova, Z. Zadak, V. Cerny., and Obsahuje bibliografii
a1_The purpose of the present study was to compare the ontogenetic development of the activity of myocardial energy-supplying enzymes in two mammalian species, differing significantly in their level of maturation at birth. The animals were investigated during the late prenatal period and 2, 7, 14, 21, 25, 30, 63, 120 and 730 days after birth in the rat and 2, 21, 84 and 175 days in the guinea-pig. The following enzymes were assayed in the right and left ventricular myocardium: lactate dehydrogenase (LDH, lactate uptake and/or formation), triose phosphate dehydrogenase (TPDH, carbohydrate metabolism), glycerol phosphate dehydrogenase (GPDH, glycerol-P shuttle)), hexokinase (HK, glucose phosphorylation), malate dehydrogenase (MDH, tricarboxylic cycle), citrate synthase (CS, tricarboxylic cycle) and hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase (HOADH, fatty acid breakdown). The rat heart, highly immature at birth, exhibits three different developmental patterns of energy-supplying enzymes, identical in both ventricles: (i) two mitochondrial enzymes of aerobic metabolism (CS, HOADH) and GPDH have a relatively low activity at the end of prenatal life; thereafter their activity steadily increases, approaching the adult levels between the 3rd and 4th postnatal weeks. A significant decrease was observed between the 4th and 24th months. (ii) MDH and LDH: prenatal values were significantly higher as compared with the 2nd postnatal day; after this period the activities increased up to adulthood (4 months) and decreased during senescence. (iii) The activities of HK and TPDH are characterized by only moderate changes during development. HK differs from all other enzymes by the highest prenatal values, which exceed even adult values. In contradiction to the rat heart, the developmental differences in more mature guinea-pig heart were significantly less pronounced., a2_The only ontogenetic differences observed were the lower activities of enzymes connected with aerobic metabolism at the end of the prenatal period. Our results point to possible differences in the development of adaptive metabolic pathways in animals with different levels of maturation at birth., A. Bass, M. Stejskalová, A. Stieglerová, B. Ošťádal, M. Šamánek., and Obsahuje bibliografii
The effects of chronic diazepam treatment (10 mg/kg/day for 180 days) on the fractional distribution and fatty acid composition of heart phospholipids were studied in male Wistar rats. It was found that diazepam treatment increased the content of phosphatidylcholine and cardiolipin in the heart and slightly increased its phosphatidylcholine fraction. There were no significant changes in fatty acid composition after diazepam treatment in heart phospholipids, with the exception of significant decrease of 20:3n-6 and 20:5n-3 fatty acids. Our findings suggest that diazepam, probably through peripheral benzodiazepine binding sites, altered the content of heart cardiolipin and caused changes in the flux of oxidative phosphorylation in the heart.
Pískovcová socha (174 cm): mladý muž (krátké vousy, dlouhé vlasy) v podlasané tunice, v levici drží srdce, u nohy mu leží pes., Denkstein, Drobná, Kybalová 1958#,, Poche 1965#, 124-125., Baťková 1998#, 343-346., Kořán 1999#, 128., and Socha patří do souboru, který byl původně umístěn v zahradě vily Amerika (Praha, Nové Město, Muzeum Antonína Dvořáka, Ke Karlovu 20), od roku 1909 jsou sochy uloženy v Lapidáriu Národního muzea v Praze.
Kresba perem a štětcem (196 x 123 mm). Oblečená ženská figura, v pravé ruce drží srdce, v levé šíp., Volrábová 2007#, 130-131., and Námět je určen jako personifikace lásky s otazníkem. Kresba by mohla představovat boží lásku (dívka drží srdce probodnuté šípem), světská láska bývá zpravidla zobrazována jako Venuše s Amorem, případně v doprovodu dalších postav - alegorických zobrazení muk lásky (spoutaný milenec...)