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  1. Article ; Online: Piezo1 regulates shear-dependent nitric oxide production in human erythrocytes.

    Kuck, Lennart / Peart, Jason N / Simmonds, Michael J

    American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology

    2022  Volume 323, Issue 1, Page(s) H24–H37

    Abstract: Mature circulating red blood cells (RBCs) are classically viewed as passive participants in circulatory function, given erythroblasts eject their organelles during maturation. Endogenous production of nitric oxide (NO) and its effects are of particular ... ...

    Abstract Mature circulating red blood cells (RBCs) are classically viewed as passive participants in circulatory function, given erythroblasts eject their organelles during maturation. Endogenous production of nitric oxide (NO) and its effects are of particular significance; however, the integration between RBC sensation of the local environment and subsequent activation of mechano-sensitive signaling networks that generate NO remain poorly understood. The present study investigated endogenous NO production via the RBC-specific nitric oxide synthase isoform (RBC-NOS), connecting membrane strain with intracellular enzymatic processes. Isolated RBCs were obtained from apparently healthy humans. Intracellular NO was compared at rest and following shear (cellular deformation) using semiquantitative fluorescent imaging. Concurrently, RBC-NOS phosphorylation at its serine
    MeSH term(s) Calcium/metabolism ; Diamide/metabolism ; Erythrocytes/metabolism ; Humans ; Ion Channels/metabolism ; Nitric Oxide/metabolism ; Nitric Oxide Synthase ; Sulfhydryl Compounds/metabolism
    Chemical Substances Ion Channels ; PIEZO1 protein, human ; Sulfhydryl Compounds ; Diamide (10465-78-8) ; Nitric Oxide (31C4KY9ESH) ; Nitric Oxide Synthase (EC 1.14.13.39) ; Calcium (SY7Q814VUP)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-05-13
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 603838-4
    ISSN 1522-1539 ; 0363-6135
    ISSN (online) 1522-1539
    ISSN 0363-6135
    DOI 10.1152/ajpheart.00185.2022
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  2. Article ; Online: Calcium dynamically alters erythrocyte mechanical response to shear.

    Kuck, Lennart / Peart, Jason N / Simmonds, Michael J

    Biochimica et biophysica acta. Molecular cell research

    2020  Volume 1867, Issue 11, Page(s) 118802

    Abstract: Red blood cells (RBC) are constantly exposed to varying mechanical forces while traversing the cardiovascular system. Upon exposure to mechanical stimuli (e.g., shear stress), calcium enters the cell and prompts potassium-efflux. Efflux of potassium is ... ...

    Abstract Red blood cells (RBC) are constantly exposed to varying mechanical forces while traversing the cardiovascular system. Upon exposure to mechanical stimuli (e.g., shear stress), calcium enters the cell and prompts potassium-efflux. Efflux of potassium is accompanied by a loss of intracellular fluid; thus, the volume of RBC decreases proportionately (i.e., 'Gárdos effect'). The mechanical properties of the cell are subsequently impacted due to complex interactions between cytosolic viscosity (dependent on cell hydration), the surface-area-to-volume ratio, and other molecular processes. The dynamic effects of calcium on RBC mechanics are yet to be elucidated, although accumulating evidence suggests a vital role. The present study thus examined the effects of calcium on contemporary biomechanical properties of RBC in conjunction with high-precision geometrical analyses with exposure to shear. Mechanical stimulation of RBC was performed using a co-axial Couette shearing system to deform the cell membrane; intracellular signaling events were observed via fluorescent imaging. Calcium was introduced into RBC using ionophore A23187. Increased intracellular calcium significantly impaired RBC deformability; these impairments were mediated by a calcium-induced reduction of cell volume through the Gárdos channel. Extracellular calcium in the absence of the ionophore only had an effect under shear, not at stasis. Under low shear, the presence of extracellular calcium induced progressive lysis of a sub-population of RBC; all remaining RBC exhibited exceptional capacity to deform, implying preferential removal of potentially aged cells. Collectively, we provide evidence of the mechanism by which calcium acutely regulates RBC mechanical properties.
    MeSH term(s) Biomechanical Phenomena ; Calcium/chemistry ; Erythrocyte Deformability/physiology ; Erythrocytes/chemistry ; Erythrocytes/physiology ; Hemolysis/genetics ; Humans ; Stress, Mechanical
    Chemical Substances Calcium (SY7Q814VUP)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-07-24
    Publishing country Netherlands
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 60-7
    ISSN 1879-2596 ; 1879-260X ; 1872-8006 ; 1879-2642 ; 1879-2618 ; 1879-2650 ; 0006-3002 ; 0005-2728 ; 0005-2736 ; 0304-4165 ; 0167-4838 ; 1388-1981 ; 0167-4889 ; 0167-4781 ; 0304-419X ; 1570-9639 ; 0925-4439 ; 1874-9399
    ISSN (online) 1879-2596 ; 1879-260X ; 1872-8006 ; 1879-2642 ; 1879-2618 ; 1879-2650
    ISSN 0006-3002 ; 0005-2728 ; 0005-2736 ; 0304-4165 ; 0167-4838 ; 1388-1981 ; 0167-4889 ; 0167-4781 ; 0304-419X ; 1570-9639 ; 0925-4439 ; 1874-9399
    DOI 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2020.118802
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  3. Article ; Online: Active modulation of human erythrocyte mechanics.

    Kuck, Lennart / Peart, Jason N / Simmonds, Michael J

    American journal of physiology. Cell physiology

    2020  Volume 319, Issue 2, Page(s) C250–C257

    Abstract: The classic view of the red blood cell (RBC) presents a biologically inert cell that upon maturation has limited capacity to alter its physical properties. This view developed largely because of the absence of translational machinery and inability to ... ...

    Abstract The classic view of the red blood cell (RBC) presents a biologically inert cell that upon maturation has limited capacity to alter its physical properties. This view developed largely because of the absence of translational machinery and inability to synthesize or repair proteins in circulating RBC. Recent developments have challenged this perspective, in light of observations supporting the importance of posttranslational modifications and greater understanding of ion movement in these cells, that each regulate a myriad of cellular properties. There is thus now sufficient evidence to induce a step change in understanding of RBC: rather than passively responding to the surrounding environment, these cells have the capacity to actively regulate their physical properties and thus alter flow behavior of blood. Specific evidence supports that the physical and rheological properties of RBC are subject to active modulation, primarily by the second-messenger molecules nitric oxide (NO) and calcium-ions (Ca
    MeSH term(s) Calcium/metabolism ; Cell Membrane/enzymology ; Cell Membrane/genetics ; Enzyme Activation/genetics ; Erythrocytes/enzymology ; Erythrocytes/metabolism ; Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic/genetics ; Humans ; Ion Channels/blood ; Ion Channels/genetics ; Mechanotransduction, Cellular/genetics ; Nitric Oxide/metabolism ; Nitric Oxide Synthase/genetics ; Nitric Oxide Synthase/metabolism
    Chemical Substances Ion Channels ; PIEZO1 protein, human ; Nitric Oxide (31C4KY9ESH) ; Nitric Oxide Synthase (EC 1.14.13.39) ; Calcium (SY7Q814VUP)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-06-24
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 392098-7
    ISSN 1522-1563 ; 0363-6143
    ISSN (online) 1522-1563
    ISSN 0363-6143
    DOI 10.1152/ajpcell.00210.2020
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  4. Article ; Online: Sex-specific behavioral, neurobiological, and cardiovascular responses to chronic social stress in mice.

    Helman, Tessa J / Headrick, John P / Vider, Jelena / Peart, Jason N / Stapelberg, Nicolas J C

    Journal of neuroscience research

    2022  Volume 100, Issue 11, Page(s) 2004–2027

    Abstract: Psychosocial stress promotes and links mood and cardiovascular disorders in a sex-specific manner. However, findings in animal models are equivocal, in some cases opposing human dimorphisms. We examined central nervous system (CNS), behavioral, endocrine, ...

    Abstract Psychosocial stress promotes and links mood and cardiovascular disorders in a sex-specific manner. However, findings in animal models are equivocal, in some cases opposing human dimorphisms. We examined central nervous system (CNS), behavioral, endocrine, cardiac, and hepatic outcomes in male or female C57Bl/6 mice subjected to chronic social stress (56 days of social isolation, with intermittent social confrontation encounters twice daily throughout the final 20 days). Females exhibited distinct physiological and behavioral changes, including relative weight loss, and increases in coronary resistance, hepatic inflammation, and thigmotaxic behavior in the open field. Males evidence reductions in coronary resistance and cardiac ischemic tolerance, with increased circulating and hippocampal monoamine levels and emerging anhedonia. Shared CNS gene responses include reduced hippocampal Maoa and increased Htr1b expression, while unique responses include repression of hypothalamic Ntrk1 and upregulation of cortical Nrf2 and Htr1b in females; and repression of hippocampal Drd1 and hypothalamic Gabra1 and Oprm in males. Declining cardiac stress resistance in males was associated with repression of cardiac leptin levels and metabolic, mitochondrial biogenesis, and anti-inflammatory gene expression. These integrated data reveal distinct biological responses to social stress in males and females, and collectively evidence greater biological disruption or allostatic load in females (consistent with propensities to stress-related mood and cardiovascular disorders in humans). Distinct stress biology, and molecular to organ responses, emphasize the importance of sex-specific mechanisms and potential approaches to stress-dependent disease.
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Anxiety/psychology ; Behavior, Animal/physiology ; Female ; Leptin ; Male ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred C57BL ; NF-E2-Related Factor 2 ; Stress, Psychological/psychology
    Chemical Substances Leptin ; NF-E2-Related Factor 2
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-09-04
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 195324-2
    ISSN 1097-4547 ; 0360-4012
    ISSN (online) 1097-4547
    ISSN 0360-4012
    DOI 10.1002/jnr.25115
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  5. Article ; Online: A gut microbiome metabolite paradoxically depresses contractile function while activating mitochondrial respiration.

    Naghipour, Saba / Fisher, Joshua J / Perkins, Anthony V / Peart, Jason N / Headrick, John P / Toit, Eugene F Du

    Disease models & mechanisms

    2023  Volume 16, Issue 5

    Abstract: Trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO) is an end-product of gut microbiome metabolism linked ...

    Abstract Trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO) is an end-product of gut microbiome metabolism linked to cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, precise cardiovascular influences of the TMAO concentrations reported in early or severe disease remain to be detailed. We investigated acute effects of TMAO on cardiac contractile, coronary and mitochondrial function. Male C57Bl/6 mouse hearts were Langendorff perfused to assess concentration-dependent effects of TMAO (1-300 µM) on left ventricular (LV) function, coronary flow and select protein expression. Effects of 10 µM and 100 µM TMAO on LV mitochondrial function were examined via respirometry. TMAO at 10-300 μM concentration-dependently depressed LV contractile function, with coronary flow paralleling changes in isovolumic pressure development. Direct coronary effects were evident at >30 µM TMAO in hearts performing minimal isovolumic work, although this response was reduced by >65%. In contrast, exposure to 10 µM or 100 μM TMAO increased mitochondrial complex I, II and maximal respiratory fluxes while appearing to reduce outer membrane integrity. Expression of phosphorylated AMPKα and total GSK-3β declined. Thus, acute exposure of mouse hearts to TMAO levels reported in advanced CVD significantly inhibits cardiac contractility and induces modest coronary constriction while paradoxically overactivating mitochondrial respiration.
    MeSH term(s) Mice ; Animals ; Male ; Gastrointestinal Microbiome ; Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3 beta ; Cardiovascular Diseases ; Mitochondria ; Respiration
    Chemical Substances trimethyloxamine (FLD0K1SJ1A) ; Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3 beta (EC 2.7.11.1)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-05-15
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 2451104-3
    ISSN 1754-8411 ; 1754-8403
    ISSN (online) 1754-8411
    ISSN 1754-8403
    DOI 10.1242/dmm.049975
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  6. Article ; Online: Stress-induced body weight loss and improvements in cardiometabolic risk factors do not translate to improved myocardial ischemic tolerance in western diet-fed mice.

    Hatton-Jones, Kyle / Cox, Amanda J / Peart, Jason N / Headrick, John P / du Toit, Eugene F

    Physiological reports

    2022  Volume 10, Issue 2, Page(s) e15170

    Abstract: ... outcomes. C57Bl/6J mice (n = 48) were subject to a combination of 22 weeks of western diet (WD) feeding and ...

    Abstract Although both diet-induced obesity and psychological stress are recognized as significant independent contributors to cardiometabolic and behavioral disorders, our understanding of how these two disorders interact and influence cardiometabolic risk and myocardial ischemic tolerance is limited. The aim of this study was to assess the combined effects of an obesogenic diet and psychological stress on cardiometabolic risk factors (body weight, dyslipidemia, insulin sensitivity) and postischemic cardiovascular outcomes. C57Bl/6J mice (n = 48) were subject to a combination of 22 weeks of western diet (WD) feeding and chronic restraint stress (CRS) for the last 4 weeks. Metabolic and behavioral changes were assessed using glucose tolerance tests and open field tests (OFTs), respectively. After 22 weeks, cardiac function and ischemic tolerance were assessed in Langendorff perfused hearts. WD feeding increased body weight and worsened blood lipids and insulin sensitivity. WD-fed mice also exhibited reduced exploratory behavior within the OFT. CRS reduced body weight and increased locomotion in both dietary groups and had differential effects on fasting glucose metabolism in the two dietary groups while not impacting non-fasting insulin. Although the WD only marginally reduced reperfusion left ventricular developed pressure recovery, CRS worsened reperfusion diastolic dysfunction in both dietary groups. Interestingly, despite WD+CRS animals exhibiting improved cardiometabolic parameters compared to the WD group, these changes did not translate to marked improvements to postischemic cardiac outcomes. In conclusion, in this study, combined WD feeding and CRS did not act synergistically to worsen cardiometabolic risk factors but instead improved them. Despite these cardiometabolic improvements, WD+CRS increased reperfusion end diastolic pressure which may be indicative of worsened ischemia/reperfusion injury.
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Body Weight ; Cardiometabolic Risk Factors ; Diet, Western/adverse effects ; Ischemia ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred C57BL ; Weight Loss
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-01-25
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2724325-4
    ISSN 2051-817X ; 2051-817X
    ISSN (online) 2051-817X
    ISSN 2051-817X
    DOI 10.14814/phy2.15170
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  7. Article ; Online: Central and cardiac stress resilience consistently linked to integrated immuno-neuroendocrine responses across stress models in male mice.

    Helman, Tessa J / Headrick, John P / Peart, Jason N / Stapelberg, Nicolas J C

    The European journal of neuroscience

    2022  Volume 56, Issue 4, Page(s) 4333–4362

    Abstract: Stress resilience, and behavioural and cardiovascular impacts of chronic stress, are theorised to involve integrated neuro-endocrine/inflammatory/transmitter/trophin signalling. We tested for this integration, and whether behaviour/emotionality, together ...

    Abstract Stress resilience, and behavioural and cardiovascular impacts of chronic stress, are theorised to involve integrated neuro-endocrine/inflammatory/transmitter/trophin signalling. We tested for this integration, and whether behaviour/emotionality, together with myocardial ischaemic tolerance, are consistently linked to these pathways across diverse conditions in male C57Bl/6 mice. This included Restraint Stress (RS), 1 h restraint/day for 14 days; Chronic Unpredictable Mild Stress (CUMS), seven stressors randomised over 21 days; Social Stress (SS), 35 days social isolation with brief social encounters in final 13 days; and Control conditions (CTRL; un-stressed mice). Behaviour was assessed via open field (OFT) and sucrose preference (SPT) tests, and neurobiology from frontal cortex (FC) and hippocampal transcripts. Endocrine factors, and function and ischaemic tolerance in isolated hearts, were also measured. Model characteristics ranged from no behavioural or myocardial changes with homotypic RS, to increased emotionality and cardiac ischaemic injury (with apparently distinct endocrine/neurobiological profiles) in CUMS and SS models. Highly integrated expression of HPA axis, neuro-inflammatory, BDNF, monoamine, GABA, cannabinoid and opioid signalling genes was confirmed across conditions, and consistent/potentially causal correlations identified for (i) locomotor activity (noradrenaline, ghrelin; FC Crhr1, Tnfrsf1b, Il33, Nfkb1, Maoa, Gabra1; hippocampal Il33); (ii) thigmotaxis (adrenaline, leptin); (iii) anxiety-like behaviour (adrenaline, leptin; FC Tnfrsf1a; hippocampal Il33); (iv) depressive-like behaviour (ghrelin; FC/hippocampal s100a8); and (v) cardiac stress-resistance (noradrenaline, leptin; FC Il33, Tnfrsf1b, Htr1a, Gabra1, Gabrg2; hippocampal Il33, Tnfrsf1a, Maoa, Drd2). Data support highly integrated pathway responses to stress, and consistent adipokine, sympatho-adrenergic, inflammatory and monoamine involvement in mood and myocardial disturbances across diverse conditions.
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Antidepressive Agents ; Behavior, Animal ; Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor/metabolism ; Depression/metabolism ; Disease Models, Animal ; Epinephrine ; Ghrelin ; Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System/metabolism ; Interleukin-33/metabolism ; Leptin/metabolism ; Male ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred C57BL ; Norepinephrine ; Pituitary-Adrenal System/metabolism ; Stress, Psychological/metabolism
    Chemical Substances Antidepressive Agents ; Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor ; Ghrelin ; Interleukin-33 ; Leptin ; Norepinephrine (X4W3ENH1CV) ; Epinephrine (YKH834O4BH)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-07-20
    Publishing country France
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 645180-9
    ISSN 1460-9568 ; 0953-816X
    ISSN (online) 1460-9568
    ISSN 0953-816X
    DOI 10.1111/ejn.15747
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  8. Article ; Online: A gut microbiome metabolite paradoxically depresses contractile function while activating mitochondrial respiration

    Saba Naghipour / Joshua J. Fisher / Anthony V. Perkins / Jason N. Peart / John P. Headrick / Eugene F. Du Toit

    Disease Models & Mechanisms, Vol 16, Iss

    2023  Volume 5

    Keywords cardiovascular disease ; contractility ; coronary flow ; mitochondrial respiration ; trimethylamine-n-oxide ; Medicine ; R ; Pathology ; RB1-214
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-05-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher The Company of Biologists
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  9. Article ; Online: Cardiomyoblast caveolin expression: Effects of simulated diabetes, α-linolenic acid and cell signaling pathways.

    Russell, Jake S / Griffith, Tia A / Peart, Jason N / Headrick, John P

    American journal of physiology. Cell physiology

    2020  

    Abstract: Caveolins regulate myocardial substrate handling, survival signaling and stress-resistance, however control of expression is incompletely defined. We test how metabolic features of type 2 diabetes (T2D), and modulation of cell signaling, influence ... ...

    Abstract Caveolins regulate myocardial substrate handling, survival signaling and stress-resistance, however control of expression is incompletely defined. We test how metabolic features of type 2 diabetes (T2D), and modulation of cell signaling, influence caveolins in H9c2 cardiomyoblasts. Cells were exposed to glucose (25 vs. 5 mM), insulin (100 nM) or palmitate (0.1 mM), individually or combined, and effects of adenylate cyclase (AC) activation (50 μM forskolin), focal adhesion kinase (FAK) or protein kinase C b
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-04-29
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 392098-7
    ISSN 1522-1563 ; 0363-6143
    ISSN (online) 1522-1563
    ISSN 0363-6143
    DOI 10.1152/ajpcell.00499.2019
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  10. Article ; Online: Trimethylamine

    Naghipour, Saba / Cox, Amanda J / Peart, Jason N / Du Toit, Eugene F / Headrick, John P

    Nutrition research reviews

    2020  Volume 34, Issue 1, Page(s) 125–146

    Abstract: We critically review potential involvement of trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) as a link between diet ...

    Abstract We critically review potential involvement of trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) as a link between diet, the gut microbiota and CVD. Generated primarily from dietary choline and carnitine by gut bacteria and hepatic flavin-containing mono-oxygenase (FMO) activity, TMAO could promote cardiometabolic disease when chronically elevated. However, control of circulating TMAO is poorly understood, and diet, age, body mass, sex hormones, renal clearance, FMO3 expression and genetic background may explain as little as 25 % of TMAO variance. The basis of elevations with obesity, diabetes, atherosclerosis or CHD is similarly ill-defined, although gut microbiota profiles/remodelling appear critical. Elevated TMAO could promote CVD via inflammation, oxidative stress, scavenger receptor up-regulation, reverse cholesterol transport (RCT) inhibition, and cardiovascular dysfunction. However, concentrations influencing inflammation, scavenger receptors and RCT (≥100 µm) are only achieved in advanced heart failure or chronic kidney disease (CKD), and greatly exceed pathogenicity of <1-5 µm levels implied in some TMAO-CVD associations. There is also evidence that CVD risk is insensitive to TMAO variance beyond these levels in omnivores and vegetarians, and that major TMAO sources are cardioprotective. Assessing available evidence suggests that modest elevations in TMAO (≤10 µm) are a non-pathogenic consequence of diverse risk factors (ageing, obesity, dyslipidaemia, insulin resistance/diabetes, renal dysfunction), indirectly reflecting CVD risk without participating mechanistically. Nonetheless, TMAO may surpass a pathogenic threshold as a consequence of CVD/CKD, secondarily promoting disease progression. TMAO might thus reflect early CVD risk while providing a prognostic biomarker or secondary target in established disease, although mechanistic contributions to CVD await confirmation.
    MeSH term(s) Cardiovascular Diseases ; Gastrointestinal Microbiome ; Humans ; Methylamines ; Microbiota
    Chemical Substances Methylamines ; trimethyloxamine (FLD0K1SJ1A)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-07-28
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 1003534-5
    ISSN 1475-2700 ; 0954-4224
    ISSN (online) 1475-2700
    ISSN 0954-4224
    DOI 10.1017/S0954422420000177
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