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Calcium-sensing receptors (CaSR) are G-protein coupled receptors which maintain systemic calcium haemeostasis, participate in hormone secretion, activation of iron channel, cell apoptosis, proliferation and differentiation. Previous studies have show CaSR induce apoptosis in isolated rat adult heart and in normal rat neonatal cardiomyocytes by G-protein-PLC-IP3 signaling transinduction. A few of studies had demonstrated that CaSR induce apoptosis in cultured neonatal rat cardiomyocytes during ischemia/reperfusion. Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF), as a mesenchymally derived heterodimeric glycoprotein, play vital role in mitogenesis, angiogenesis, cellular motility and growth and anti-apoptosis after postinfarction heart failure via activation of transmembrane tyrosine kinase cell surface receptor c-Met. However, little knowledge exists about whether anti-apoptotic role of HGF in preventing cardiomyocytes injury induced by ischemia/reperfusion is associated with downregulation of CaSR expression. We incubated primary neonatal rat ventricular cardiomyocytes in ischemia-mimetic solution for 2Â h, then reincubated them in normal culture medium for 24Â h to establish a model of simulated ischemia/reperfusion (I/R). Cardiomyocyte apoptosis was detected by terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated dUTP nick end labeling. The expression of CaSR mRNA was detected by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). In addition, we analyzed the expression of Caspase-3, Bcl-2 and Phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) by Western blotting. The simulated I/R enhances the expression of CaSR and cardiomyocyte apoptosis. GdCl3, a specific activator of CaSR, further increase the expression of CaSR and Cardiomyocyte apoptosis, along with upregulation of Caspase-3, downregulation of Bcl-2 and inhibiting PI3K phosphorylation. Combination of GdCl3 with LY294002 (a selective PI3K inhibitor) increased Cardiomyocytes apoptosis but did not increased CaSR expression. Treatment of HGF decreased I/R- and GdCl3-induced apoptosis by suppressing Caspase-3 and promoting Bcl-2 and PI3K phosphorylation expression in accordance with downregulation of CaSR expression. HGF exerts protective role in I/R-induced apoptosis at least in part by inhibiting CaSR expression along with promoting Bcl-2, suppressing Caspase-3 expression and stimulating PI3K phosphorylation signaling pathway.
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Yan, L., Zhu, Tb., Wang, Ls. et al. Inhibitory effect of hepatocyte growth factor on cardiomyocytes apoptosis is partly related to reduced calcium sensing receptor expression during a model of simulated ischemia/reperfusion. Mol Biol Rep 38, 2695–2701 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11033-010-0412-8
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