Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Nearly 200,000 patients die yearly of AMI in the US alone. AMI is caused by a sudden thrombotic obstruction to the flow in a coronary artery branch leading to myocardial ischemia (lack of oxygen) and tissue death. The most common long-term complication of AMI is the late occurrence of left ventricular dysfunction and heart failure. Limiting the extension of myocardial damage and thus preventing late occurrence of heart failure remains a current clinical challenge. Our recent innovative studies have demonstrated that potent phosphodiesterase-5 (PDE-5A) inhibitors including sildenafil citrate (Viagra) and vardenafil (Levitra) induce powerful cardioprotective effect against ischemia- reperfusioninjury (I/R) in various animal and cellular models. The purpose of this application is to further demonstrate the therapeutic effect of these drugs against myocardial infarction (MI)-induced heart failure and to develop innovative approaches for long lasting protection. We will test the following hypotheses: 1) Suppression of PDE- 5A with novel class of inhibitors or targeted gene silencing with lentiviral vector in vivo reduce post MI-induced heart failure and attenuate contractile dysfunction via inhibition of cardiomyocyte apoptosis in the heart. 2). Chronic PDE-5A inhibition suppresses oxidative/nitrosative stress by increasing the bioavailability of NO, cause inhibition of NADPH oxidase/xanthine oxidase activity, inhibit activation of redox-sensitive transcription factor, NF- thereby suppressing gene expression of proinflammatory cytokines following MI induced heart failure. 3) In vivo gene transfer of cGMP dependent protein kinases (PKGs) attenuate post MI-induced remodeling and heart failure. These studies will be the first ones to demonstrate the protective effect of PDE-5A inhibitors and novel lentiviral gene silencing approaches and associated signaling pathways in post MI-induced heart failure. We anticipate that results from these investigations will provide novel insights into expanding the utility of the PDE-5A inhibitors for other cardiovascular indications in addition to their current clinical use for treatment of erectile dysfunction and pulmonary hypertension. (PIDE

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Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) continues to be a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. AMI is caused by a sudden obstruction to the flow in a coronary artery branch leading to myocardial ischemia (lack of oxygen) and tissue death. The long-term complication of AMI is the late occurrence of left ventricular dysfunction (`weakening of the heart') and heart failure. In this proposal, we will study the effect of erectile dysfunction drugs (Viagra, Levitra and Cialis) and novel gene silencing approaches to limit the damage of the heart following AMI. We believe that knowledge derived from these studies will provide additional tools to the cardiologists for treatment of heart failure with clinically approved erectile dysfunction drugs. In addition, our investigations will open up another innovative gene silencing option to treat AMI and ventricular remodeling in patients.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
Type
Research Project (R01)
Project #
5R01HL093685-02
Application #
7655523
Study Section
Myocardial Ischemia and Metabolism Study Section (MIM)
Program Officer
Liang, Isabella Y
Project Start
2008-07-14
Project End
2013-06-30
Budget Start
2009-07-01
Budget End
2010-06-30
Support Year
2
Fiscal Year
2009
Total Cost
$373,750
Indirect Cost
Name
Virginia Commonwealth University
Department
Internal Medicine/Medicine
Type
Schools of Medicine
DUNS #
105300446
City
Richmond
State
VA
Country
United States
Zip Code
23298
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Das, Anindita; Salloum, Fadi N; Filippone, Scott M et al. (2015) Inhibition of mammalian target of rapamycin protects against reperfusion injury in diabetic heart through STAT3 signaling. Basic Res Cardiol 110:31
Salloum, Fadi N; Chau, Vinh Q; Hoke, Nicholas N et al. (2014) Tadalafil prevents acute heart failure with reduced ejection fraction in mice. Cardiovasc Drugs Ther 28:493-500
Das, Anindita; Durrant, David; Koka, Saisudha et al. (2014) Mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) inhibition with rapamycin improves cardiac function in type 2 diabetic mice: potential role of attenuated oxidative stress and altered contractile protein expression. J Biol Chem 289:4145-60
Koka, Saisudha; Das, Anindita; Salloum, Fadi N et al. (2013) Phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitor tadalafil attenuates oxidative stress and protects against myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury in type 2 diabetic mice. Free Radic Biol Med 60:80-8
Kukreja, Rakesh C (2013) Sildenafil and cardioprotection. Curr Pharm Des 19:6842-7
Das, Anindita; Salloum, Fadi N; Durrant, David et al. (2012) Rapamycin protects against myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury through JAK2-STAT3 signaling pathway. J Mol Cell Cardiol 53:858-69
Kukreja, Rakesh C (2012) Phosphodiesterase-5 and retargeting of subcellular cGMP signaling during pathological hypertrophy. Circulation 126:916-9
Salloum, Fadi N; Das, Anindita; Samidurai, Arun et al. (2012) Cinaciguat, a novel activator of soluble guanylate cyclase, protects against ischemia/reperfusion injury: role of hydrogen sulfide. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 302:H1347-54
Xi, Lei; Zhu, Shu-Guang; Das, Anindita et al. (2012) Dietary inorganic nitrate alleviates doxorubicin cardiotoxicity: mechanisms and implications. Nitric Oxide 26:274-84

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