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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003;125:178-183
© 2003 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Cardiopulmonary Support and Physiology (CSP)

Nitrotyrosine and 8-isoprostane formation indicate free radical-mediated injury in hearts of patients subjected to cardioplegia

From the Departments of Cardiothoracic Surgery,^a Anatomy,^b and Cardiology,^c University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.

Received for publication Nov 27, 2001. Revisions requested Feb 18, 2002; revisions received Feb 25, 2002. Accepted for publication April 8, 2002. Address for reprints: Uwe Mehlhorn, MD, Professor, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Cologne, Joseph-Stelzmann-Str 9, 50924 Cologne, Germany (E-mail: uwe.mehlhorn{at}medizin.uni-koeln.de).

	Abstract

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Objective: Myocardial ischemia and reperfusion induced by cardioplegic arrest subjects the heart to free radical-mediated stress. The purpose of our study was to investigate the effect of cardioplegia-induced ischemia and reperfusion on myocardial formation and distribution of (1) nitrotyrosine as an indicator for peroxynitrite-mediated tissue injury resulting from increased nitric oxide release and (2) 8-isoprostane as an indicator for oxygen-derived free radical-mediated lipid peroxidation.
Methods: In 10 patients undergoing coronary artery operations (64 ± 6 [mean ± SD] years, 3 women and 7 men) subjected to cardiopulmonary bypass and intermittent cold blood cardioplegia, we collected transmural left ventricular biopsy specimens before and at the end of cardiopulmonary bypass. Specimens were cut at 10 µm and subjected to immunocytochemical staining against the nitric oxide-producing enzyme constitutive nitric oxide synthase, cyclic guanosine monophosphate (intracellular second messenger of nitric oxide), nitrotyrosine, and 8-isoprostane by using polyclonal antibodies. For global left ventricular function determination, we measured the fractional area of contraction using transesophageal echocardiography.
Results: Nitric oxide synthase activity in cardiac myocytes increased from 34 ± 10 gray units before cardiopulmonary bypass to 47 ± 12 gray units at the end of bypass (P = .015), and all hearts showed increased cyclic guanosine monophosphate content in both myocytes and endothelial cells at the end of bypass. The number of nitrotyrosine-positive capillaries increased from 36 ± 29/mm² before bypass to 82 ± 47/mm² at the end of bypass (P = .012), and 8-isoprostane-positive capillaries increased from 92 ± 72/mm² before bypass to 209 ± 108/mm² at the end of bypass (P = .005). The fractional area of contraction was 53% ± 12% before bypass and 56% ± 12% after bypass (P = .47) but was slightly decreased to 45% ± 14% at 4 hours after bypass (P = .121).
Conclusions: Our data show that cardioplegia-induced myocardial ischemia and reperfusion is associated with nitrotyrosine and 8-isoprostane formation mainly in the coronary endothelium, indicating injury mediated by both peroxynitrite and oxygen-derived free radicals. Because nitric oxide synthase activation was accompanied with increased cyclic guanosine monophosphate, these data suggest that direct effects of nitric oxide on cardiac myocytes, as well as nitric oxide-mediated coronary endothelial injury, might contribute to injury associated with cardioplegia and cardiopulmonary bypass.

	Introduction

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View larger version (103K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Tossios, Bloch, Krahwinkel, Mehlhorn (left to right)

We have recently shown, in patients undergoing CABG, that cardioplegia-induced myocardial ischemia and reperfusion activates the NO-producing enzyme constitutive NO synthase (constitutive NOS or NOS-III) in cardiac myocytes and endothelium, leading to increased NO release. ¹² In addition, Hayashi and colleagues ¹³ demonstrated that human myocardium produces peroxynitrite during reperfusion after cardioplegic arrest. These data suggest that peroxynitrite-mediated nitrotyrosine formation caused by NOS-III activation and NO release might contribute to ROS-induced reperfusion injury after cardioplegic arrest. However, direct evidence for cardioplegia-induced reperfusion injury by ROS is still lacking. Therefore the purpose of our study was to investigate the effect of cardioplegia-induced ischemia and reperfusion on myocardial formation and distribution of nitrotyrosine as an indicator for peroxynitrite-mediated tissue injury and 8-isoprostane as an indicator for ROS-mediated lipid peroxidation.

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Patients
After obtaining approval from the University of Cologne Human Ethics Committee, written informed consent was obtained from each patient during the preoperative interview. Ten patients scheduled for elective coronary artery surgery (Table 1) were included in the study. Patients were subjected to cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) at 32°C to 34°C, the aorta was crossclamped, and intermittent (every 20 minutes) cold (6°C-8°C) antegrade blood cardioplegia with hot shot before crossclamp removal (according to the method of Buckberg) was administered.

LV biopsy specimens
Before CPB initiation, we collected a transmural biopsy specimen from a fat-free area of the LV anterior wall using a 14-gauge biopsy needle (Gallini, Modena, Italy). A second LV biopsy specimen was taken at the end of the extracorporeal circulation before weaning from CPB. All LV biopsy specimens were placed in 4% paraformaldehyde for 4 hours and then rinsed in 0.1 mol/L phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) solution for 24 hours, followed by storage for 12 hours in PBS solution with 18% sucrose for cryoprotection, and frozen at -80°C. Because 4% paraformaldehyde has been shown to result in optimal fixation of cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP) on the cell's protein matrix, ¹⁵ we used this solution for immunohistochemical detection of the water-soluble cGMP.

Immunocytochemistry
Before immunohistochemical examination, 10-µm slices from the biopsy specimens were placed in a bathing solution of 3% H₂O₂ and 60% methanol PBS for 30 minutes and then permeabilized with 0.2% Triton-X 100 in 0.1 mol/L PBS. Thereafter, specimens were treated with 5% normal goat serum and 5% bovine serum albumin solution in PBS. Before each step, the sections were rinsed 3 times in PBS buffer. Incubation with primary polyclonal rabbit anti-NOS-III antibody (Biomol, Hamburg, Germany) at a dilution of 1:1500 was performed in a PBS-based solution of 0.8% bovine serum albumin and 20 mmol/L NaN₃ for 12 hours at 4°C. For cGMP detection, we used a polyclonal rabbit anti-cGMP antibody (Quartett, Hamburg, Germany) at a dilution of 1:600. After rinsing with PBS, the sections were incubated with the corresponding secondary biotinylated goat anti-rabbit antibody (Vector Laboratories, Burlingame, Calif) for 1 hour at room temperature. For nitrotyrosine staining, we used a monoclonal mouse anti-nitrotyrosine antibody (Calbiochem, San Diego, Calif) at 1:400 and a secondary goat anti-mouse antibody (DAKO, Weisloch, Germany) at 1:400; for 8-isoprostane detection, a polyclonal goat anti-8-Epi-PGF2a antibody (Oxford Biomedical Research, Oxford, Mich) at 1:1500 and a secondary rabbit anti-goat antibody (DAKO, Germany) at 1:400 was used. A streptavidin-horseradish peroxidase complex was then applied as a detection system (1:100 dilution) for 1 hour. Finally, staining was developed for 3 to 5 minutes with 3,3-diaminobenzidine tetrahydrochloride in 0.05 mol/L TRIS-HCl buffer and 0.1% H₂O₂.

NOS-III television densitometry
All LV biopsy slices were incubated and stored under identical conditions. For intensity analysis of NOS-III immunostaining in cardiomyocytes, we measured the gray values of 50 cardiomyocytes from 10 randomly selected areas. The intensity of immunostaining was reported as the mean of measured cardiomyocyte gray value minus background gray value. The background gray value was measured at a cell-free area of the slice. For staining intensity detection, a Zeiss Axiophot microscope coupled to a 3-chip CCD camera was used, and the analysis was performed by using the Optimas 6.01 image analysis program installed on a Pentium personal computer.

cGMP semiquantitative analysis
For semiquantitative analysis of myocardial cGMP content, we used a score to differentiate between no change and clearly increased cGMP content. All specimens were independently judged by 2 investigators in a blind fashion. Any disagreement between judgements was subsequently resolved by discussion.

Nitrotyrosine and 8-isoprostane quantification
Quantitative analysis was performed on 5 randomly selected fields (66,125 µm² per frame) of LV biopsy cross-sections. All immunohistochemically stained capillaries per field were counted with a Zeiss Axiophot microscope with a 40x oil immersion objective and expressed as number per square millimeter.

Statistical analysis
All data are presented as mean ± SD. Data were analyzed for statistical significance on an levels of 5% by using the 2-tailed Student t test for paired samples, as implemented in the software package SASS for Windows, version 10.0. The P values reported are not adjusted for multiple testing.

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Myocardial immunostaining for NOS-III, cGMP, nitrotyrosine, and 8-isoprostane is depicted in Figure 1. Compared with before CPB (Figure 1, upper line), NOS-III activity and cGMP content were increased in both cardiac myocytes and endothelial cells at the end of CPB (Figure 1, lower line). Nitrotyrosine and 8-isoprostane activity increased mainly in myocardial capillaries (Figure 1).

View larger version (77K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Fig. 1. NOS-III activity and cGMP content were increased in both cardiac myocytes and endothelial cells at the end of CPB (lower image line) compared with before CPB (upper image line). Nitrotyrosine and 8-isoprostane activity increased mainly in coronary endothelial cells.

View larger version (13K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Fig. 2. At the end of CPB, NOS-III activity, as determined by using television densitometry, was increased compared with that before CPB. Bars represent mean values, with whiskers indicating corresponding SDs (n = 9).

View larger version (12K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Fig. 3. The number of nitrotyrosine-positive capillaries in human myocardium subjected to blood cardioplegia and reperfusion was increased at the end of CPB compared with before CPB, indicating injury induced by peroxynitrite, which was caused by increased NO release. Bars represent mean values, with whiskers indicating corresponding SDs (n = 6).

View larger version (15K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Fig. 4. The number of 8-isoprostane-positive capillaries in human myocardium subjected to blood cardioplegia and reperfusion was increased at the end of CPB compared with before CPB, indicating oxygen-derived free radical-mediated lipid peroxidation. Bars represent mean values, with whiskers indicating corresponding SDs (n = 5).

	Discussion

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Ischemia-reperfusion injury involves both cardiac myocytes and coronary endothelial cells and appears to be a major factor contributing to perioperative myocardial damage. ¹⁶ Although the pathophysiology of ischemia-reperfusion injury is not yet fully understood, recent studies suggest that ROS mediate the reperfusion injury that characterizes metabolic, structural, and functional myocardial damage associated with experimental coronary occlusion and reperfusion. ^1-3 Specifically, the role of NO and its ROS peroxynitrite (NO₃^-) has been studied extensively; however, the various studies have yielded conflicting data showing both protective, as well as deleterious, NO effects during reperfusion. Cardioprotective NO effects include reduction of neutrophil and platelet accumulation, inhibition of the release of cytotoxic mediators from neutrophils, direct cytoprotective effects on both endothelial cells and cardiomyocytes, ¹⁶ and potential infarct size reduction. ¹⁷ However, increased NO release has been suggested to contribute to reperfusion injury through peroxynitrite-mediated membrane nitration, DNA synthesis inhibition, ¹⁸ mitochondrial function inhibition, ¹⁹ ribonucleotide reductase inhibition, ²⁰ and cytokine-induced myocardial contractile dysfunction. ²¹ These data suggest that high NO levels during reperfusion might be as deleterious as NO absence, and thus the role of NO in ischemia and reperfusion might be dose dependent.

Our and other groups' recent experimental work showed that myocardial ischemia acts as the stimulus for NOS-III activation, probably by inducing a conformational change of the enzyme, resulting in increased NO release as indicated by increased intracellular cGMP, NO's intracellular second messenger. ^22,23 Similarly, we have demonstrated, in patients undergoing CABG, that cardioplegic arrest is associated with NOS-III activation and increased cGMP in both cardiac myocytes and endothelial cells, indicating increased NO formation. ¹² To further elucidate the pathophysiology of NO in ischemia and reperfusion, we intended to investigate whether the increased NO release caused by NOS-III activation results in myocardial tyrosine nitration as direct evidence for tissue injury. In the present study the number of nitrotyrosine-positive capillaries was significantly increased after cardioplegia (Figure 3), indicating peroxynitrite formation in the myocardium. This is in agreement with recent work by Hayashi and colleagues, ¹³ who demonstrated transcoronary peroxynitrite production during reperfusion in patients subjected to cardioplegic arrest. These data suggest that peroxynitrite-mediated nitrotyrosine formation caused by NOS-III activation and increased NO release contributes to ROS-induced myocardial injury after cardioplegic arrest and CPB.

In addition to peroxynitrite, other ROS, including hydroxyl radical (OH^-), superoxide radical (O₂^-), and hydrogen peroxide (H₂O₂), have been suggested to be involved in ischemia-reperfusion injury. ^1-3 One novel marker for ROS-mediated membrane lipid oxidation is 8-isoprostane, the stable end product of arachidonic acid oxidation. ^8,11 Investigators have determined 8-isoprostane as a marker of oxidative stress in urine ¹ or blood ²⁴ of patients subjected to percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty with acute myocardial infarction; however, myocardial 8-isoprostane formation and distribution caused by cardioplegia have not been studied. In the present study the number of 8-isoprostane-positive capillaries in human myocardium was significantly increased at the end of CPB (Figure 4). These data provide direct evidence for the contribution of ROS-mediated membrane lipid oxidation to ischemia-reperfusion injury in patients subjected to intermittent cold-blood cardioplegia. Interestingly, 8-isoprostane and nitrotyrosine formation were mainly confined to coronary endothelium, and only little staining was observed in cardiac myocytes (Figure 1). This is probably because of the high cardiac myocyte superoxide dismutase concentration, ²⁵ resulting in only little myocyte ROS, and thus 8-isoprostane, as well as nitrotyrosine, formation, even in the presence of increased NO as NO, requires O₂^- to form NO₃^-. ¹⁶

Functional implications
The functional correlate of ROS-mediated tissue injury is myocardial stunning. ^2,3 Recent experimental studies have shown that peroxynitrite production caused by increased NO release is associated with irreversible cardiac function impairment ²⁶ and higher mortality after coronary occlusion ²⁷ and might be involved in cardiac apoptosis initiation. ¹⁰ Gupte and Okada ²⁸ recently demonstrated that ROS mediate LV dysfunction through peroxynitrite production that can be attenuated by NOS inhibition. In addition, 8-isoprostane has been shown to induce coronary vasoconstriction associated with lactate production and contractile dysfunction. ²⁹ This coronary vasoconstriction persisted even after removal of the ROS stimulus and might thus contribute to the no-reflow phenomenon during reperfusion. ³⁰ In the present study global LV ejection fraction, as measured by means of FAC, was unchanged at 10 to 15 minutes after separation from CPB but was slightly decreased at 4 hours after CPB. Because these patients received continuous infusion of 3.9 ± 1.0 µg·min^-1·kg^-1 dopamine after CPB, this mild LV dysfunction could reflect the functional ischemia-reperfusion injury associated with the structural LV myocardial changes we observed. However, other factors, including changed loading conditions or decreased endogenous catecholamines, could also have affected LV performance.

Limitations of the study
Because we did not include a treatment group (ie, addition of a radical scavenger or NOS inhibitor) in our study, the present findings have to be regarded as preliminary observations. Furthermore, ROS are only one aspect in the mutifactorial process of ischemia-reperfusion injury, which involves several factors, such as physical, metabolic, and immunologic components. Thus the immunohistochemical changes we observed might not be causally related to injury directly caused by ischemia and reperfusion. Further studies will have to show that pharmacologic interventions can decrease the tissue content of ROS-induced changes and that this will be associated with improved cardiac performance to prove the clinical relevance of ROS. In addition, the data of the present study do not allow us to separate changes induced by CPB from those caused by cardioplegia and reperfusion. Thus CPB itself could have been the source of some or all ROS-mediated changes we observed. However, this is unlikely because we have previously shown that LV NOS-III and cGMP were not activated when using continuous antegrade coronary perfusion with normothermic CPB blood enriched with the ß-blocker esmolol, a nonischemic myocardial protection method during aortic crossclamping. ¹² Together with the experimental data from our and other groups, ^22,23 these data suggest that ischemia acts as a stimulus for NOS-III activation. Future studies are required to further elucidate the effect of CPB, cardioplegia, and reperfusion on NOS activity regulation and ROS formation, as well as their effects on tissues.

In conclusion, the data of the present study for the first time provide direct evidence for ROS-induced myocardial injury after ischemia and reperfusion in patients subjected to cardioplegia and CPB. These findings suggest a rational basis for investigation of ROS scavengers, selective NOS inhibition, or both as adjuncts to reperfusion strategies. Specifically, direct myocardial nitrotyrosine and 8-isoprostane detection in the experimental setting might be used to provide a rational basis for dose selection before clinical evaluation of antioxidant reperfusion strategies.

	Acknowledgments

 
We thank Martin Hellmich, PhD, Department for Medical Statistics, Informatics, and Epidemiology, University of Cologne for statistical advice.

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