Protective effects of lovastatin on hypoxia/reoxygenation cardiomyocyte injury by regulating Akt pathway
Objective To investigate the protective effect of lovastatin on cardiomyocyte injury induced by hypoxia/reoxygenation and the regulation of protein kinase B(Akt)signal pathway.Methods Rat cardiomyocytes H9c2 were cultured in vitro,and divided into control group,model group,inhibitor group,combined group and experimental-L,-M,-H groups.Control group was cultured with normal medium,and the other 6 groups were treated with hypoxia/reoxygenation.Experimental-L,-M,-H groups were supplemented with 1,2 and 5 μmol·L-1 lovastatin,respectively;inhibitor group was supplemented with 1 μmol·L-1 LY294002;combined group was supplemented with 5 μmol·L-1 lovastatin and 1 pmol·L-1 LY294002.The cell viability was determined by thiazole blue assay,the apoptosis rate was determined by flow cytometry,and the expression level of phosphorylated Akt(p-Akt)was determined by Western blot.Results The cell viabilities of experimental-H,inhibitor,combined,model and control groups were(64.38±7.10)%,(21.64±1.32)%,(51.89±2.25)%,(47.18±6.66)%and(100.00±7.69)%;the cell apoptosis rates were(13.67±1.42)%,(38.52±2.42)%,(21.12±2.27)%,(20.42±3.33)%and(4.93±0.40)%;the relative protein expression levels of p-Akt were 0.54±0.04,0.04±0.01,0.25±0.03,0.20±0.01 and 0.45±0.02,respectively.The differences of above indicators were statistically significant between the experimental-H group and the model group,as well as between the combined group and the experimental-H and inhibitor groups(all P<0.05).Conclusion Lovastatin can protect against hypoxia/reoxygenation cardiomyocyte injury by activating the Akt signaling pathway.
lovastatinrat cardiomyocyte H9c2hypoxia/reoxygenationprotein kinase B signaling pathway