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We studied the effect of N1-(2,3,4-trimethoxybenzyl)-N2-{2-[(2,3,4-trimethoxybenzyl)amino]ethyl}-1,2-ethanediamine (compound ALM-802) on the physical performance of mice after acute fatigue. The animals' performance was assessed on a treadmill. The criterion for assessing exercise tolerance was the length of the distance passed when running on a treadmill until complete fatigue. To assess the actoprotective activity of compound ALM-802, we used a method of stepwise increase in load with an initial running speed of 42 cm/sec and its subsequent increase by 5 cm/sec every 5 min. The maximum speed of movement of the treadmill belt is 77 cm/sec. Animals that received compound ALM-802 (2 mg/kg intraperitoneally), 1 day after acute fatigue, ran a distance to complete fatigue that exceeded that of control mice by 68% (387.9±60.5 and 230.6±29.6 m, respectively, p=0.023). The reference drug trimetazidine (30 mg/kg, intraperitoneally) did not have a significant effect on the distance traveled. Compound ALM-802 helps restore physical performance, i.e. exhibits significant actoprotective activity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The effect of the compound N1-(2,3,4-trimethoxy)-N2-{2-[(2,3,4-trimethoxybenzyl)amino]ethyl}-1,2-ethane-diamine (code ALM-802) on the amplitude of the Ca2+ response in the cell was studied in in vitro experiments. The concentration of intracellular calcium was assessed using a Fura-2 two-wave probe. The experiments were performed on a culture of isolated rat hippocampal neurons. The effect of compound ALM-802 on the activity of ryanodine receptors (RyR2) was studied on an isolated strip of rat myocardium. The compound ALM-802 (69.8 μM) in hippocampal neurons causes a significant decrease in the amplitude of the Ca2+ response induced by addition of KCl to the medium. Experiments performed on an isolated myocardial strip showed that compound ALM-802 (10-5 M) almost completely blocked the positive inotropic reaction of the strip to the RyR2 agonist caffeine (5×10-5 M). The data obtained indicate that the decrease in the concentration of Ca2+ ions in the cell caused by ALM-802 is due to its ability to block RyR2 located on the membrane of the sarcoplasmic reticulum, which can be associated with the antiarrhythmic activity of the compound. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In model experiments reproducing the holiday heart syndrome in rats, a discrepancy between the depolarization of the right and left atria has been revealed, which manifested by an atypical arrangement of positive and negative cardiopotentials in the cardioelectric field on the body surface during the P wave and the absence of inversion of the areas of cardioelectric potentials before the onset of P waves in lead II ECG from the limbs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The molecular mechanisms underlying the cardioprotective effect of fabomotizole were studied using the translational rat model of alcoholic cardiomyopathy developed by us. It was shown that intraperitoneal administration of fabomotizole (15 mg/kg) for 28 days to animals with alcoholic cardiomyopathy contributes to normalization of the expression of mRNA of genes of regulatory proteins СаМ (p=0.00001), Ерас1 (p=0.021), and Ерас2 (p=0.018) and receptors RyR2 (p=0.0031) and IP3R2 (p=0.006) in the myocardium of the myocardium of the left ventricle that is enhanced in control animals (p<0.05). These changes were accompanied by echocardiographically documented decrease in the degree of left ventricle remodeling and improvement of its inotropic function. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Previously, ALM-802 (N1-(2,3,4-trimethoxybenzyl)-N2-{2-[(2,3,4-trimethoxybenzyl)amino]ethyl}-1,2-ethanediamine trihydrochloride) and ALM-803 (N1-(3,4,5-trimethoxybenzyl)-N2-{2-[(3,4,5-trimethoxybenzyl) amino]ethyl}-1,2-ethanediamine trihydrochloride), which combined pharmacophores of the free fatty-acid oxidation inhibitors trimetazidine and ranolazine and the slow Ca2+-channel blocker verapamil, were synthesized by us. These compounds possessed anti-ischemic and antiarrhythmic activities. Herein, the new compound ALM-843 (N1-(3,4-dimethoxybenzyl)-N2-{2-[(3,4-dimethoxybenzyl)amino]ethyl}-1,2-ethanediamine trihydrochloride), which exhibited only antiarrhythmic activity, was prepared. The results led to the hypothesis that the antiarrhythmic activity of the linear alkoxyphenyltriazaalkanes was due to the presence of a 3,4-dimethoxyphenyl pharmacophore, which is also present in verapamil. This hypothesis was confirmed using molecular docking to show that the above alkoxyphenyltriazaalkanes bound similarly to the verapamil binding site of the voltage-gated Ca2+-channel. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cardioprotective effect of 1-({4 [(4 chlorobenzoyl)amino]phenyl}sulfonyl-L-proline (compound AL-828) was studied in rats with modeled acute myocardial infarction. The test compound was administered intragastrically in a dose of 30 mg/kg/day for 3 days prior to infarction modeling. Metalloproteinase inhibitor antibiotic doxycycline served as the reference drug and was administered in a dose of 40 mg/kg/day by the same schedule. It was shown that AL-828 similar to doxycycline significantly reduced the intensity of myocardial remodeling and maintained the inotropic function of the myocardium in the acute phase of myocardial infarction. By the 20th minute of ischemia, the end-systolic dimension of the left ventricle in control animals increased from 1.98±0.12 to 3.84±0.16 mm, while in animals treated with AL-828, this increase was significantly (p=0.007) less pronounced (from 1.84±0.07 and 2.87±0.21 mm, respectively). The ejection fraction characterizing the inotropic status of the left ventricle in animals treated with AL-828 was significantly higher (p=0.02). By its cardioprotective activity, AL-828 was not inferior to the reference drug doxycycline. It can be assumed that the cardioprotective activity of compound AL-828 is related to suppression of MMP-9 expression and/or inhibition of its activity as was previously demonstrated by us. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A group of new 1-(methoxybenzyl)-4-{2-[(methoxybenzyl)amino]ethyl}piperazines (1) were synthesized. The relationship of the structure of the triazaalkane linker and the cardiotropic activity in a series of these compounds was compared with that of previously studied linear and cyclic methoxyphenyltriazaalkanes. The most active compound in the group was 1e (1-(3,4,5-trimethoxybenzyl)-4-{2-[(3,4,5-trimethoxybenzyl)amino] ethyl}piperazine trihydrochloride) with statistically significant antiarrhythmic activity in aconitine and CaCl2 arrhythmia models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A translational rat model of chronic heart failure was employed to examine the cardioprotective effect of fabomotizole hydrochloride. Fabomotizole therapy for 28 days (15 mg/kg/day intraperitoneally) restored inotropic function of the left ventricle and increased ejection fraction from 54±3 to 65±3% (p=0.001). The inotropic function returned to normal against the background of significantly reduced myocardial expression of angiotensin (p=0.01) and glucocorticoid (p=0.03) receptors and significant increased expression of sigma-1 receptors (p=0.04). Inhibition of abnormal expression of angiotensin and glucocorticoid receptors responsible for activation of the pathological cascades underlying the postinfarction remodeling of the left ventricle as well as activation of the expression of cytoprotective sigma-1 receptors are viewed as the key features of the cardioprotective action of fabomotizole hydrochloride. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A new group of compounds – 1-(methoxybenzyl)-4-[2-((methoxybenzyl)amino)ethyl]piperazin-2,3-diones was synthesized. As compared with previously studied linear methoxyphenyltriazaalkanes, the structure of the triazaalkane linker was found to influence the cardiotropic actions of the corresponding compounds. The most effective among the new group was 1-(2,4-dimethoxybenzyl)-4{2-[2,4-dimethoxybenzyl)amino]ethyl}piperazin-2,3-dione, which had significant antiarrhythmic activity at a dose of 2 mg/kg in a calcium chloride arrhythmia model, along with activity at the level of a tendency in models of aconitin arrythmia and reperfusion ventricular fibrillation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We created a translational model of chronic heart failure in rats that developed in 3 months after reproducing experimental anterior transmural myocardial infarction. The model simulated the basic clinicodiagnostic criteria of this disease: impaired contractility and dilatation of heart ventricles, signs of venous congestion, elevated plasma content of biochemical markers, and abnormal overexpression of AT1aR and β-adrenoceptors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A new group of potential pFOX inhibitors among linear methoxyphenyltriazaalkanes were designed and synthesized. Cardiotropic activity in rodent experiments was found for most of the synthesized compounds. The most active compound N1-(2,3,4-trimethoxybenzyl)-N2-{2-[(2,3,4-trimethoxybenzyl)amino]ethyl}-1,2-ethanediamine trihydrochloride (LM-1) combined anti-ischemic, antiarrhythmic, and antifibrillatory activities (1 mg/kg, i.v.) and low toxicity (LD50 = 119 mg/kg, mice, i.p.) and was selected for development as a potential cardiotropic drug. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Series of benzylidene and benzyl derivatives of 1,2,5-trimethyl-, 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidyl-, and tropylamines were synthesized and screened for anti-ischemic activity in rats. The lead compound was identified as 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-N-(3,4,5-trimethoxybenzyl)piperidin-4-amine, the anti-ischemic activity of which was statistically significantly greater than that of the reference drug trimetazidine in a myocardial subendocardial ischemia model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We created a translational model of chronic heart failure in rats that developed in 3 months after reproducing experimental anterior transmural myocardial infarction. The model simulated the basic clinicodiagnostic criteria of this disease: impaired contractility and dilatation of heart ventricles, signs of venous congestion, elevated plasma content of biochemical markers, and abnormal overexpression of AT1aR and β-adrenoceptors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the study of the sequence of depolarization of the atrial subepicardium of rats in the short-term alcohol consumption model (the "Holiday heart" syndrome), the localization of the sources of atrial arrhythmias was determined for the first time. The difference in the excitation of the right and left atria was discovered: the right atrium is activated anterogradely from the sinoatrial node, whereas the left atrium is activated retrogradely from the ectopic focus located in the left auricular appendage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Original translational rat model of chronic heart failure provoked by experimental anterior transmural myocardium infarction was employed to examine the preventive action of anxiolytic Afobazole (15 mg/kg/day administered intraperitoneally during the first 15 days after coronary occlusion) on the development of the heart failure assessed in 3 months after infarction. Afobazole prevented the development of pathologic remodeling of the myocardium, maintained its inotropic function, and decreased the plasma level of brain natriuretic peptide known as a biochemical marker of chronic heart failure. In the myocardium, Afobazole down-regulated overexpression of the genes induced in chronic heart failure and assessed by corresponding RNA levels, which code angiotensin (AT1A-R), vasopressin (V1A-R), and glucocorticoid (GR) receptors as well as Epac2 protein. The revealed biochemical changes are consistent with the data on cardioprotective action of Afobazole. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The expression of Epac proteins (exchange protein directly activated by cAMP) and calmodulin (CaM) was assessed by the content of the corresponding mRNA in biopsy specimens of cardiac atrium, left ventricle, and thoracic aorta of rats with alcoholic cardiomyopathy. In the myocardium, overexpression of Еpac1, Ерас2, and СаМ mRNA was found. The content of Epac2 mRNA in the left ventricle was elevated by 2.9 times (p=0.000001), in the left atrium by 3.2 times (p=0.00001), in the right atrium by 3 times (p=0.00001). In contrast to the myocardial tissue, the content of CaM mRNA in the thoracic aorta was not increased, but showed a tendency to decrease, when compared to the control values, while the level of Epac1 and Epac2 mRNA was increased. The assumption is made that regulatory proteins Epac and CaM can play a key role in arrhythmogenesis development under conditions of alcoholic cardiomyopathy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using a translation model of alcoholic cardiomyopathy in rats we showed the presence of an additional abnormal excitation focus in the area of the pulmonary vein lacunae in the left atrium and enhanced heterogeneity of the atrium depolarization pattern. These changes can determine electric instability of the myocardium and induce malignant heart rhythm disturbances including, sudden cardiac death. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The new MMP-9 inhibitor 1-{4-[(4-chlorobenzoyl)amino]phenyl}sulfonyl-L-proline, with a theoretical inhibition constant of IC50 = 4 × 105 M, was constructed on the basis of structural requirements for selective inhibitors of gelatinases. This constructed compound and its close structural analogs were synthesized and these substances were found to have low toxicity, (LD50 > 300 mg/kg). The new inhibitor given p.o. at a dose of 20 mg/kg/day on the background of acute myocardial infarction significantly decreased the content of immunoreactive MMP-9 in plasma in rats, to the level obtained with doxycycline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Chronotopography of atrial subepicardium depolarization has been studied in a rat model of alcoholic cardiomyopathy. Formation of independent sources of initial atrial activity has been detected in the right and left atria. These sources induced the formation of several depolarization fronts that propagated autonomously, and this can be regarded as the cause of atrial arrhythmia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Echocardiography in control narcotized rats ( n = 12) revealed that acute single-stage ligation of coronary artery induced a rapid and significant decrease in systolic function of the heart, which attained minimum to postischemic minutes 10-20 and then gradually restored during 60 min after coronary occlusion. Matrix proteinase inhibitor doxycycline (40 mg/kg/day intragastrically for 3 days prior to the experiment) prevented dramatic impairment of systolic function in the left ventricle during first 20 min of ischemia and then all the indices characterizing the state of pumping function of the left ventricle in the experimental (doxycycline) group ( n = 9) surpassed the control. Thus, matrix proteinase inhibitor doxycycline prevented early postischemic remodeling of the heart during the most acute phase of experimental myocardial infarction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]