AAS ›› 2015, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (1): 57-62.doi: 10.16098/j.issn.0529-1356.2015.01.010

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Effect of Cyclin A2 on the proliferation of rat primary cardiomyocytes

LU Xing 1,2,4 ZHANG Jin-zhong3 GUO Zhi-kun2 CHANG Yu-qiao2 JIA Yin-ming4 XU Zhen-ping 1,2*   

  1. 1. College of Life Science and Technology, Xinxiang Medical University; 2. Key Larboratory of He’nan Province for Medical Tissue Regeneration of He’nan Porivince, Xinxiang Medical University, Henan Xinxiang 453003, China; 3. Biology Department in School of Basic Medical, He’nan Medical College, Zhengzhou 451191, China; 4. Department of Cardiology, Anyang Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, He’nan Anyang 455000, China
     
  • Received:2014-06-26 Revised:2014-10-17 Online:2015-02-06 Published:2015-02-06
  • Contact: XU Zhen-ping E-mail:zhenpingxu@126.com
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    Experimental study of cyclin A2 induced cardiomyocyte proliferation treatment of myocardial infarction

Abstract:

Objective To investigate the effect of Cyclin A2 on the proliferation of cardiomyocytes. Methods Twelve SD neonatal rats were used, cardiomyocytes were isolated from the neonatal rat heart, cultured in dish and identified by immunofluorescence. The primary cultured cardiomyocytes were divided into three groups: group 1 which cells were transduced with adenovirus expressing Cyclin A2 and eGFP, group 2 which cells were transduced with andenovirus expressing only eGFP and group 3 in which, untransduced cells were used as negative control. eGFP was employed to determine transduction efficiency. The expression of Cyclin A2, phosphorylated histone H3 (H3P), cardiac troponin -T (cTnT) were detected by immunofluorescence at day 3 after cardiomyocytes were transduced with andenovirus. Results 1. Analysis of eGFP expression showed that the transduction efficiency was (97±0.74)%. 2. cTnT, a specific marker protein for myocardial cells, was mainly found in the cytoplasm in eGFP-expressing and untransduced cells, suggesting that adenovirus/eGFP had no toxicity in the cultured cardiomyocytes. Immuno-staining results indicated that the percentage of isolated cTnT positive cells was (95±0.62)%. CyclinA2 was expressed mainly in the nucleus. H3P was also localized to the nucleus.3. In the CyclinA2 -overexpressing cells, the percentage of H3P positive cells were significantly increased compared to those untransduced or only eGFP-expressing cells (P<0.05). The experimental group showed a large number of multinucleated cells, in which the dual-core cell-based, followed by three nuclear cells. Conclusion Adenovirus vector transfection of primary cardiomyocytes has a good infection efficiency. Cyclin A2-overexpression in primary cardiomyocytes promotes to form a dual-core.

Key words: Cyclin A2, Cardiomyocyte, Proliferation, Gene transfection, Immunofluorescence, Rat