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| Author(s): |
Ana Elisa Teófilo Saturi de Carvalho
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Medicina (FM/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2016-08-05 |
| Examining board members: |
Jose Eduardo Krieger;
Mário Henrique de Barros;
Francisco Rafael Martins Laurindo;
Edilamar Menezes de Oliveira
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| Advisor: | Jose Eduardo Krieger; Vinícius Bassaneze |
| Abstract | |
Despite advances in recent years, the replacement of cardiomyocytes remains one of the biggest challenges in regenerative medicine. The existence of endogenous mechanisms of cardiac proliferation prompted us to seek the understanding of molecular events involved in cardiomyocyte proliferation in postnatal life. In this study, we investigated the influence of mitochondrial energy metabolism in cardiomyogenesis, and its impact on cardiac regeneration. At first, it was described for the first time the model of heart apical resection in neonatal rats, where there is a limited period the first 24 hours of life that animal is able to regenerate cardiac tissue, forming new cardiomyocytes and allowing the maintenance cardiac function in adulthood. This ability is lost seven days after birth, when repair is basically by fibrotic tissue and consequent impairment for heart function. Interestingly, data showed hypoperfusion of the apical region in both resected animals, which possibly resulted in mitochondrial damage in adulthood without affecting heart function. In order to investigate the molecular events of neonatal cardiac regeneration was performed RNA sequencing of hearts from newborn rats with 1 and 7 days of life, resected and sham, which pointed out the importance of age in the different expression of genes related to metabolism, and the intervention of resection had little influence on this. The results showed exchange of expression of enzymes isoforms from glycolytic pathway and hyperregulation of genes from beta-oxidation, oxidative phosphorylation and tricarboxylic acid cycle pathways, during postnatal maturation. However, the functional data of the metabolic activity of cardiac tissue and culture of neonatal cardiomyocytes showed that both anaerobic glycolysis and oxygen consumption related to mitochondrial oxidation were higher in 1-day-old newborns, and were reduced with cardiac development. The high rates of oxygen consumption in 1-day-old cardiomyocytes were related mainly to ATP production. These 1-day-old cardiomyocytes were able to proliferate in culture by serum stimulation. Therefore, the analysis of gene expression alone appeared to be a partial indicator of functional state of metabolism. The non-lethal inhibition of oxidative phosphorylation highlighted the importance of mitochondrial metabolism in the proliferative capacity of cardiomyocytes in postnatal life. Data suggest that the first day after birth covers a high energy demand for both terminal differentiation of cardiac cells and last robust phase of cardiomyocyte proliferation in postnatal life, and show the importance of mitochondrial metabolism in the regenerative process (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 12/10109-7 - Mitochondrial energy metabolism and cardiomyogenesis for cardiac regeneration |
| Grantee: | Ana Elisa Teófilo Saturi de Carvalho |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |