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(Hypertension. 2005;45:921.)
© 2005 American Heart Association, Inc.

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The Antioxidant Edaravone Attenuates Pressure Overload–Induced Left Ventricular Hypertrophy

Ikuko Tsujimoto; Shungo Hikoso; Osamu Yamaguchi; Kazunori Kashiwase; Atsuko Nakai; Toshihiro Takeda; Tetsuya Watanabe; Masayuki Taniike; Yasushi Matsumura; Kazuhiko Nishida; Masatsugu Hori; Mikihiko Kogo; Kinya Otsu

From the Department of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics (I.T., S.H., O.Y., K.K., A.N., T.T., T.W., M.T., K.N., M.H., K.O.) and Department of Medical Information Science (Y.M.), Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan; and First Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (I.T., M.K.) and Department of Dental Anesthesiology (K.N.), Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry, Suita, Osaka, Japan.

Correspondence to Kinya Otsu, Department of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan. E-mail kotsu{at}medone.med.osaka-u.ac.jp

	Abstract

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The free radical scavenger 3-methyl-1-phenyl-2-pyrazolin-5-one (edaravone) is used to treat patients with ischemic brain damage. We and others reported previously that in vitro and in vivo reactive oxygen species (ROS) act as second messengers to develop cardiac hypertrophy. In this study, we used an in vivo murine model of pressure overload–induced cardiac hypertrophy to examine the effects of edaravone on left ventricular hypertrophy. The animals were subjected to the transverse thoracic aorta constriction, and edaravone (10 mg/kg) was infused intraperitoneally twice daily. Seven days after the operation, we observed a significant increase in ROS production in hearts, which was eliminated by the treatment with edaravone. Pressure-overloaded hearts showed a significant increase in left ventricular weight/body weight ratio and the expression level of atrial natriuretic factor mRNA, which were attenuated by edaravone. It also reduced perivascular and intermuscular fibrosis and inhibited pressure overload–induced activation of apoptosis signal-regulating kinase 1 (ASK1) and its downstream kinases of c-Jun N-terminal protein kinase and p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase. Edaravone attenuated the hypertrophic response even when the treatment was started after the onset of cardiac hypertrophic response. These findings indicate that edaravone significantly attenuates pressure overload–induced cardiac hypertrophy mediated through its antioxidative function and subsequent inhibition of ASK1 signaling pathway.

Key Words: hypertrophy • oxidative stress • antioxidants • signal transduction • protein kinases • stress, mechanical

	Introduction

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Cardiac hypertrophy occurs in response to various extracellular stimuli to the heart. The hypertrophic response is compensatory to decrease wall stress and to maintain the structure of cardiac muscle and cardiac function. However, sustained excessive workloads cause a breakdown of the compensatory mechanism and may lead to heart failure. Epidemiological studies suggest that an increase in left ventricular mass is an independent risk factor for cardiac morbidity and mortality.¹ Therefore, a better understanding of the mechanisms of cardiac hypertrophy may lead to the development of a novel therapy to prevent cardiac hypertrophy and subsequent heart failure.

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) have been shown to act as intracellular signaling molecules in stress response in a variety of cell types, leading to apoptosis, proliferation, and transformation.² In cardiomyocytes, ROS have been found to be involved in cardiac hypertrophy in vitro³ and to mediate the hypertrophy induced by several stimuli, such as mechanical stretch,^4,5 ₁-adrenergic receptor stimulation,^6,7 endothelin-1,⁸ phenylephrine,⁸ angiotensin II,⁹ and tumor necrosis factor- (TNF-).^9,10 Similar results have been obtained with in vivo study.¹¹

Apoptosis signal-regulating kinase 1 (ASK1) is an ROS-sensitive mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase kinase kinase that activates the c-Jun N-terminal protein kinase (JNK) and p38 MAP kinase.¹² ASK1 is associated with thioredoxin as an inactive form in nonstressed cells. ROS induce the dissociation of thioredoxin from ASK1, leading to the activation of ASK1. Recently, ASK1 has been reported to be involved in cardiac hypertrophy in vitro¹³ and in vivo.¹⁴

In the study presented here, we investigated the effects of the antioxidant 3-methyl-1-phenyl-2-pyrazolin-5-one (edaravone) on cardiac hypertrophy in an in vivo model of pressure overload–induced hypertrophy. Edaravone is known as a free radical scavenger clinically used in Japan. Edaravone is reported to prevent lipid peroxidation by scavenging free radicals produced during brain ischemia, which offers protection against ischemic and postischemic brain damage.^15–17 Pressure overload–induced hypertrophy was introduced with the transverse thoracic aorta constriction (TAC) technique. This model is widely used in the study of mice to identify molecular mechanisms for cardiac hypertrophy. We used this model to examine whether edaravone significantly attenuates cardiac hypertrophy and fibrosis induced by pressure overload.

	Materials and Methods

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Animal Experiments
This study was performed under the supervision of the animal research committee and in accordance with the guidelines for animal experiments of Osaka University and the Japanese government animal protection and management law (No. 105).

Ten-week-old male mice (C57BL6/J) were anesthetized and subjected to TAC as described previously.¹⁸ Mice were kept separate throughout all procedures. Seven days after TAC, mice were anesthetized and weighed, and results of simultaneous measurements of right and left carotid artery pressure were recorded as reported previously.¹⁹ After the measurements, hearts were excised, weighed, and frozen in liquid nitrogen for analysis.

Edaravone Treatment
Edaravone was synthesized at the Research Center of Mitsubishi Chemical Industries Ltd. Mice were injected with edaravone (3 mg/kg or 10 mg/kg IP) or an equal volume of its vehicle (saline) as a control twice daily until they were euthanized. The intraperitoneal injections of edaravone were started 3 days preoperatively or 2 days after TAC.

RNA Dot Blot Analysis
Total RNA was extracted from the ventricular apexes using TRIzol reagent (Life Technologies). Quantitative assessment of atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) was performed by means of RNA dot blot analysis as described previously.¹⁹ Radiolabeled RNA dots were quantified with Scion Image software, and the value of each dot was normalized to the GAPDH signal.

Lipid Peroxidation
Shortly after euthanizing mice, hearts were homogenized with the aid of a Teflon homogenizer in 20 mmol/L phosphate buffer, pH 7.4, with 5 mmol/L butylated hydeoxytoluene on ice. The level of malonaldehyde (MDA) in left ventricles (LVs) was determined with a BIOXYTECH LPO-586 kit (Oxis International Inc.) according to manufacturer instructions.

Measurement of Isoprostanes
Urinary content of isoprostanes, namely 8-epi-prostaglandin F₂ (8-epi-PGF₂), was quantitated by using enzyme immunoassay kit according to manufacturer instruction (Cayman Chemical). Urine samples 7 days after TAC were collected for 24 hours. All data were normalized to urinary creatinine content.

In Vitro ASK1 Kinase Assay and Western Blots
The activity of ASK1 was measured with an immune complex kinase assay as described previously.¹³ Total protein homogenates (50 µg per lane) were subjected to Western blot analysis using the antibodies against mouse p38 (N-20) and JNK1 (FL) obtained from Santa Cruz Biotechnology and phospho-p38 and phospho-JNK from Cell Signaling Technology.

Histological Analysis
Heart samples were arrested in diastole and immediately fixed with buffed 3.7% formalin, embedded in paraffin, and sectioned into 3-µm thickness. Hematoxylin-eosin or Mallory–Azan staining was performed on serial sections. The cross-sectional area of cardiomyocytes was measured by tracing their outline in each of the sections.

Statistical Analysis
Results are shown as mean±SEM. A 1-way ANOVA with the Bonferroni’s post hoc test or repeated-measures ANOVA was used for multiple comparisons. A value of P<0.05 was considered statistically significant.

	Results

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Effect of Edaravone on TAC-Induced Cardiac Hypertrophy
Mice were assessed 7 days postoperatively for hemodynamic functions and hypertrophic responses. TAC induced a remarkable increase in heart size compared with the size in sham-operated mice, and this increase was attenuated by treatment with edaravone (Figure 1A). As shown in the Table, heart weight and LV weight significantly increased in the vehicle-treated TAC-operated (control-TAC) group. Treatment with edaravone (edaravone-treated TAC-operated group [edaravone-TAC]) reduced the increase in the ratio of LV weight to body weight induced by TAC (Figure 1B) and significantly inhibited the increase in cardiomyocyte size. Although the TAC procedure significantly increased pressure gradients between carotid arteries, there were no significant differences between the edaravone-TAC and control-TAC groups, nor did the 2 groups show any significant difference in systolic blood pressure. Body weight was similar for all groups (Table).

View larger version (34K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 1. Effect of edaravone on cardiac hypertrophy induced by TAC. Mice received edaravone (3 mg/kg or 10 mg/kg IP) twice daily from 3 days before TAC, were euthanized 7 days after TAC, and their hearts were removed and photographed (A). Cardiac hypertrophy was assessed in terms of the ratio of LV weight to body weight (B). *P<0.05 vs control-TAC group; P<0.05 vs vehicle-treated or edaravone-treated sham-operated groups.

View this table: [in this window] [in a new window]   Effect of Edaravone (10 mg/kg) on Characteristics of TAC-Operated Mice

To evaluate the effects of edaravone on cardiac hypertrophy, we investigated the histological phenotype of TAC-operated mice. Hematoxylin-eosin showed that the mean cross-sectional area of cardiomyocytes was significantly larger in the control-TAC group than that in the vehicle-treated sham-operated (control-sham) group (Figure 2A and 2B). Pressure overload is associated with marked changes in cardiac fetal gene expression, and ANF is used as a marker of cardiac hypertrophy.¹⁸ We examined the expression level of ANF mRNA by means of RNA dot blot analysis. The level was elevated in the hearts of control-TAC mice compared with that in the hearts of control-sham mice, and treatment with edaravone reduced this increase in hearts (Figure 2C), but the treatment had no effect on histological phenotypes or ANF mRNA expression in sham-operated mice.

View larger version (50K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 2. Evaluation of cardiac hypertrophy induced by TAC. The intraperitoneal injection of edaravone (10 mg/kg) was performed from 3 days before TAC until mice were euthanized. Hypertrophic responses were evaluated 7 days after TAC. A, Hearts were histologically examined by means of hematoxylin-eosin (HE) and Mallory–Azan stains (MA). Bar=100 µm. B, Left panel represents average value of the cross-sectional area (µm2) of 100 to 200 cardiomyocytes. Right panel represents the extent of interstitial fibrosis shown in blue in the Malloy–Azan stain. Data are expressed as mean±SEM (n=3). *P<0.05 vs all other groups. C, Effect of edaravone on ANF mRNA expression. Total RNA was isolated from hearts treated with vehicle or edaravone and analyzed for expression of ANF mRNA by RNA dot blot analysis. Expression of GAPDH was determined to verify equal loading of RNA. Bottom panel shows the quantitative analysis of dot blots. Mean values for control-sham group were normalized to 1. n=3 for each group; *P<0.05 vs all other groups.

TAC induced significant perivascular and intermuscular fibrosis, as demonstrated by Malloly–Azan staining. Edaravone treatment diminished the extent of fibrosis (Figure 2A), and the area of fibrosis was reduced from 9.5±1.3% to 6.0±0.3% by edaravone treatment (Figure 2B).

Reduction of Oxidative Stress in Heart
To estimate the antioxidant effect of edaravone, we measured the concentration of lipid peroxide in hearts, estimated in terms of MDA. MDA is used as a well-established indicator of oxidative stress in cells and tissues. The MDA concentration had significantly increased in the LV of control-TAC mice compared with that in the LV of control-sham mice (Figure 3A). Treatment with edaravone inhibited the increase in MDA level induced by TAC. Next, to investigate whether edaravone affects oxidative stress of whole body, we measured urinary level of 8-epi-PGF_2a 7 days after TAC, which has been reported to correlate with systemic level of oxidative stress. The 8-epi-PGF₂ level 7 days after TAC had not increased by TAC, and also had not decreased by the treatment of edaravone (Figure 3B). These results indicate that oxidative stress of whole body had not increased in response to pressure overload to heart.

View larger version (18K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 3. Effect of edaravone on TAC-induced oxidative stress. The intraperitoneal injection of edaravone (10 mg/kg) was performed from 3 days before TAC until mice were euthanized. A, One week after the operation, hearts were homogenized and subjected to a lipid peroxidation assay. Data are expressed as mean±SEM (n=4 or 5). *P<0.05 vs all other groups. B, Urinary level of 8-epi-PGF2 7 days after TAC (n=5 or 6).

Effect of Edaravone on Activity of ASK1 and Its Downstream
ASK1 kinase activity 7 days after TAC was measured by means of an immune complex assay with MAP kinase kinase 6 (MKK6) as a substrate. As shown in Figure 4A, an increase in ASK1 activity was detected in the hearts of the control-TAC group compared with that in the hearts of the control-sham group (4.3-fold increase). Edaravone treatment markedly attenuated this TAC-induced ASK1 activation. The phosphorylation level of JNK and p38 increased in control-TAC mice but was reduced in edaravone-TAC mice (Figure 4B and 4C). Edaravone had no effect on the phosphorylation levels of JNK and p38 in sham-operated mice. The total protein levels of JNK and p38 showed no significant differences among any of the groups.

View larger version (33K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 4. Effect of edaravone on ASK1, JNK, and p38 activation 7 days after TAC. The intraperitoneal injection of edaravone (10 mg/kg) was performed from 3 days before TAC until mice were euthanized. A, ASK1 activity was measured by means of an immune complex assay using histidine-tagged MKK6 as a substrate. B, The activity of JNK and p38 was assessed by immunoblotting with anti-phosphospecific antibody after TAC. The filters were reprobed with an anti–non-phosphospecific antibody. C, Densitometric analysis. Phospho-/total JNK1 or p38 in a control-sham mouse is expressed as 1. Data are presented as mean±SEM (n=3 in each group).

Effect of Edaravone on the Established Cardiac Hypertrophy
We investigated whether edaravone can effectively attenuate hypertrophic responses on established cardiac hypertrophy. We found that LVW/BW had significantly increased 2 days after TAC (Figure 5A). Then we started the treatment of edaravone 2 days after TAC and evaluated the extent of hypertrophy 7 days after TAC. LVW/BW 7 days after TAC in edaravone-TAC had significantly decreased compared with that in control-TAC, indicating that edaravone can attenuate the hypertrophic response even after hypertrophy was established (Figure 5B).

View larger version (19K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 5. Effect of edaravone on the established cardiac hypertrophy. A, LV weight/body weight ratio (LVW/BW) was evaluated before TAC (pre) or 2 days after TAC (n=5 for each time point). *P<0.05 vs LVW/BW before TAC. B, LVW/BW 7 days after TAC. Administration of edaravone (10 mg/kg) or vehicle (saline) was started 2 days after TAC. *P<0.05 vs control-TAC mice. P<0.05 vs control-sham or edaravone-sham mice.

	Discussion

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In this study, we demonstrated that administration of the antioxidant edaravone resulted in the suppression of cardiac hypertrophy induced by pressure overload. In vitro studies have indicated that ROS are involved in cardiac hypertrophy induced by G-protein–coupled receptor (GPCR) agonists such as angiotensin II and cytokines such as TNF-.⁹ In an in vivo murine model of pressure overload, we were able to show that pressure overload–induced oxidative stress in hearts and the resultant cardiac hypertrophy were attenuated by treatment with the antioxidant mercaptopropinonyl glycine.¹¹ However, for clinical use, an antioxidant with high accessibility to tissue or relatively slow clearance is needed. Edaravone was proven to have an inhibitory effect on a water-soluble and a lipid-soluble peroxyl radical–induced peroxidation system and to have sufficient accessibility to tissue, including hearts, so that it can effectively scavenge ROS in heart.¹⁷ Edaravone has already been used in Japan as an antioxidant in the treatment of patients with ischemic brain damage. It was found in animal experiments that the dose for intraperitoneal injection of edaravone needed to obtain a comparable serum concentration with intravenous injection of the drug for maximum efficacy without causing any side effects is 10x more than that with intravenous injection. This dose of intraperitoneally administered edaravone (10 mg/kg) was proven effective for reducing the MDA contents of hearts effectively after TAC. In addition, we demonstrated that edaravone effectively attenuated hypertrophic responses in established hypertrophied heart (Figure 5). This finding is very important in the clinical setting because the patient would already have hypertrophy at the initiation of treatment. Together, edaravone may be a potential new therapeutic agent for the prevention and treatment of cardiac hypertrophy.

Edaravone attenuated pressure overload–induced cardiac hypertrophy without lowering systemic systolic blood pressure (Table). On the other hand, vascular ROS induced by angiotensin II infusion has been reported to activate MAP kinase²⁰ and to increase vascular resistance.²¹ In this study, we did not observe any changes of activation levels of extracellular signal-regulated kinase in aorta after TAC (data not shown). This suggests that vascular ROS production had not increased by pressure overload and that edaravone resulted in no change in vascular tone via suppression of ROS induction.

In this study, the extent of fibrosis increased in TAC-operated mice. Because it has been reported that ROS are involved in angiotensin II–induced proliferation in cardiac fibroblasts,²² edaravone may be able to attenuate fibrosis in hypertrophied hearts by directly affecting the oxidative stress of fibroblasts. We did not perform the TUNEL assay in this study, but we reported previously that pressure overload in murine heart leads to an increase in TUNEL-positive cardiomyocytes.²³ Because ROS produced by TAC were involved in the mechanism of apoptosis after TAC,²⁴ edaravone may have a beneficial effect on cardiomyocyte apoptosis and intermuscular fibrosis.

In a previously reported study, we used isolated neonatal cardiomyocytes to demonstrate that a constitutively active mutant of ASK1 induced cardiomyocyte hypertrophy, whereas its dominant-negative mutant inhibited cardiomyocyte hypertrophy induced by the GPCR agonists.¹³ These in vitro findings suggest ASK1 is involved in the development of cardiomyocyte hypertrophy. However, the in vivo role of ASK1 in cardiac hypertrophy is controversial. Izumiya et al showed that hypertrophic responses were attenuated in ASK1^–/– mice infused with angiotensin II. On the other hand, we have shown previously that hypertrophic responses induced by TAC did not differ between ASK1^–/– and control mice.²³ This apparent discrepancy might be explained by the difference in activation pattern of downstream kinases of ASK1 such as p38 and JNK. In the former study, activations of p38 and JNK were attenuated, whereas JNK activation, but not p38, was diminished in the latter study. JNK and p38 activation appears to be necessary for ASK1-mediated cardiac hypertrophy. This hypothesis was supported by the report presented here that edaravone produced a marked inhibition in the activation levels of ASK1, JNK, and p38 to attenuate TAC-induced hypertrophy. However, it is curious that TAC activated p38 in an ASK1-independent manner in ASK1^–/– mouse hearts but mainly in an ROS-dependent and probably ASK1-dependent manner in wild-type mice. This might reflect a compensatory response to ASK1 ablation. Another possibility is that another ROS-sensitive signaling pathway than ASK1 may be involved in TAC-induced cardiac hypertrophy.

In conclusion, the antioxidant edaravone was shown to significantly attenuate pressure overload–induced LV hypertrophy mediated through its antioxidant function and subsequent ASK1 inhibition. In addition, this study suggests the potential therapeutic value of long-term edaravone treatment for preventing the pathogenesis of cardiac hypertrophy.

	Acknowledgments

 
This work was supported by a grant-in-aid for scientific research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan to K.O. (16590683).

Received February 8, 2005; first decision February 23, 2005; accepted March 3, 2005.

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