BRUNO RODRIGUES

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  • article 30 Citação(ões) na Scopus
    Aerobic Exercise Training Delays Cardiac Dysfunction and Improves Autonomic Control of Circulation in Diabetic Rats Undergoing Myocardial Infarction
    (2012) RODRIGUES, Bruno; JORGE, Luciana; MOSTARDA, Cristiano T.; ROSA, Kaleizu T.; MEDEIROS, Alessandra; MALFITANO, Christiane; SOUZA JR., Alcione L. de; VIEGAS, Katia Apareceda da Silva; LACCHINI, Silvia; CURI, Rui; BRUM, Patricia C.; ANGELIS, Katia De; IRIGOYEN, Maria Claudia
    Background: Exercise training (ET) has been used as a nonpharmacological strategy for treatment of diabetes and myocardial infarction (MI) separately. We evaluated the effects ET on functional and molecular left ventricular (LV) parameters as well as on autonomic function and mortality in diabetics after MI. Methods and Results: Male Wistar rats were divided into control (C), sedentary-diabetic infarcted (SDI), and trained-diabetic infarcted (TDI) groups. MI was induced after 15 days of streptozotocin-diabetes induction. Seven days after MI, the trained group underwent ET protocol (90 days, 50-70% maximal oxygen consumption-VO(2)max). LV function was evaluated noninvasively and invasively; baroreflex sensitivity, pulse interval variability, cardiac output, tissue blood flows, VEGF mRNA and protein, HIF1-alpha mRNA, and Ca2+ handling proteins were measured. MI area was reduced in TDI (21 +/- 4%) compared with SDI (38 +/- 4%). ET induced improvement in cardiac function, hemodynamics, and tissue blood flows. These changes were probable consequences of a better expression of Ca2+ handling proteins, increased VEGF mRNA and protein expression as well as improvement in autonomic function, that resulted in reduction of mortality in TDI (33%) compared with SDI (68%) animals. Conclusions: ET reduced cardiac and peripheral dysfunction and preserved autonomic control in diabetic infarcted rats. Consequently, these changes resulted in improved VO(2)max and survival after MI.
  • article 13 Citação(ões) na Scopus
    Impact of myocardial infarction on cardiac autonomic function in diabetic rats
    (2013) RODRIGUES, Bruno; MOSTARDA, Cristiano T.; JORGE, Luciana; BARBOZA, Catarina A.; GRANS, Camilla F.; ANGELIS, Katia De; IRIGOYEN, Maria Claudia
    Aims: We evaluated autonomic and hemodynamic parameters and maximal oxygen consumption (VO(2)max) as possible determinants of mortality in streptozotocin (STZ) diabetic rats after myocardial infarction (MI). Method: Male Wistar rats were divided into (n=8 of each): control sham (CS), diabetes sham (DS), MI (I), and diabetes +MI (DI). MI was induced 15 days after STZ induction. VO(2)max was measured at 3 (basal), 30, 60, and 91 days after MI. Hemodynamic and autonomic parameters were evaluated 92 days after MI. Results: MI area was similar in infarcted groups (similar to 44%). Mortality rate increased in the DI (70%) compared with I (53%) group. Cardiopulmonary baroreflex, sympathetic (48%) and vagal (33%) tonus, low frequency (LF) band (57%), and LF/high frequency (HF) band ratio (53%) were reduced in DI compared with I animals. Furthermore, cardiac output (CO), peripheral vascular resistance (PVR) impairment, and VO(2)max reductions were observed in the DI compared with the I group. Conclusions: Our data suggest that the CO and PVR changes as well as VO(2)max reduction were probably associated with additional cardiac autonomic control impairment, and, consequently, increased mortality rate in diabetic rats after a chronic myocardial infarction.