Aging increases cardiovascular disability, yet the molecular basis for increased stress susceptibility of the senescent human myocardium remains unknown. Particularly little is known about the atria, despite the exponential increase in the prevalence of atrial electrical and structural abnormalities with advancing age. Our preliminary studies in aging rodents demonstrate an age-associated loss of endogenous cardioprotection associated with reduction in mitochondrial energetic reserves and disruption of myocardial capacity for transduction of stress signals into protective responses. Deficient in defense mechanisms, the aging rodent heart can however be protected by modulation of mitochondrial membrane potential and activation of the ATP- sensitive potassium (KATP) channel. Whether aging-associated loss of endogenous cardioprotective responses also occurs in aged human atria is not clear. In pilot studies, using atrial tissue from adult and aged patients, a distinct transcriptional downregulation of genes regulating mitochondrial energetics and cardioprotective pathways, including the human KATP channel metabolic decoder subunit, was demonstrated in aging heart. We hypothesize that the increased vulnerability of the senescent human atria to injury results from an aging- associated attenuation in energetic homeostasis that sensitizes the myocardium to energetic failure, calcium overload and increased oxidants during stress. We propose to define age-related i) changes in energetic homeostasis in human atria and its functional consequences on tolerance to stress;ii) mechanisms that underlie age-related changes in energetics with focus on pathways that link energy production with energy sensing and utilization pathways;and iii) rescue senescent human atrial myocytes and mitochondria from stress-induced injury by modulation of stress responsive homeostatic pathways.
These aims will be achieved using human right atrial appendage obtained during surgery from adult (35-55 years) and elderly (65-85 years) patients. The novelty of the proposed studies is to obtain functional, molecular, genetic and proteomic information from the same human atrial tissue to characterize age-related changes in cardiac energetics, metabolic and cardioprotective signaling, protein-protein interactions and cellular physiology under baseline and stress conditions. Information on the sensitivity of human aged and adult atria to stress and cardioprotective responsiveness to KATP channel activation, mitochondrial membrane potential modulation and inhibition of mitochondrial permeability transition pore will also be determined. This comprehensive analysis of the effect of aging on atrial biology is of high clinical significance. Recognition of aging-associated specific functional defects and its rectification by homeostatic pathway modulation will identify targets that can be selected to reinstate the lost protective responsiveness of the senescent heart and thereby development of strategies to limit adverse atrial structural and electrical remodeling with stress and disability with aging. Public Health Relevance: This study will identify specific defects that underlie loss of cardioprotection in the elderly and identify therapeutic targets to prevent, slow or reverse changes that increase vulnerability of the aging atria to injury. This information is of high public health interest, since cardiovascular diseases continue to be the leading cause of disability in the elderly.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
Type
Research Project (R01)
Project #
5R01HL089542-04
Application #
8028379
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZRG1-CVS-D (03))
Program Officer
Schwartz, Lisa
Project Start
2008-03-15
Project End
2011-08-12
Budget Start
2011-03-01
Budget End
2011-08-12
Support Year
4
Fiscal Year
2011
Total Cost
$239,661
Indirect Cost
Name
Mayo Clinic, Arizona
Department
Type
DUNS #
153665211
City
Scottsdale
State
AZ
Country
United States
Zip Code
85259
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