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(Circulation. 1998;98:1422-1430.)
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"Apoptotic" Myocytes in Infarct Area in Rabbit Hearts May Be Oncotic Myocytes With DNA Fragmentation

Analysis by Immunogold Electron Microscopy Combined With In Situ Nick End-Labeling

Michiya Ohno, MD; Genzou Takemura, MD, PhD; Atsuko Ohno, MD; Jun Misao, MD; Yukihiro Hayakawa, MD; Shinya Minatoguchi, MD, PhD; Takako Fujiwara, MD, PhD; ; Hisayoshi Fujiwara, MD, PhD

From the Second Department of Internal Medicine, Gifu University School of Medicine (M.O., G.T., A.O., J.M., Y.H., S.M., H.F.), Gifu, Japan, and the Department of Food Science, Kyoto Women's University (T.F.), Kyoto, Japan.

Correspondence to Hisayoshi Fujiwara, MD, PhD, Second Department of Medicine, Gifu University School of Medicine, 40 Tsukasa-machi, Gifu 500, Japan.

Background—Modes of cell death have been defined morphologically as apoptosis and oncosis. Infarcted myocytes have been reported to show apoptosis, as revealed by DNA fragmentation by DNA ladder and by in situ terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase–mediated dUTP nick end-labeling (TUNEL) at the light microscopic level. We investigated whether TUNEL-positive infarcted myocytes have apoptotic or oncotic ultrastructures by using electron microscopic TUNEL, which can simultaneously observe the ultrastructure and DNA fragmentation of the same myocytes.

Methods and Results—Thirty rabbits were divided into 5 groups (n=6 each) that were subjected to a sham operation or to 30-minute ischemia followed by 0-minute, 30-minute, 2-hour, or 4-hour reperfusion of a coronary artery. In the 2- and 4-hour reperfusion groups only, DNA electrophoresis showed a ladder pattern, and the light microscopic TUNEL finding was positive in the nuclei of myocytes localized in the infarcted area (6±2% and 11±3%, respectively). Electron microscopic TUNEL showed that nuclei with a significant accumulation of immunogold particles (indicating an electronic microscopic TUNEL–positive result) were observed only in the infarcted myocytes with irreversibly oncotic ultrastructures that were found in the hearts of the 2- and 4-hour reperfusion groups (41±3% and 83±4%, respectively). Irreversibly oncotic myocytes (indicated by swelling, inhomogeneously clumped chromatin in nuclei, dense bodies in mitochondria, and/or ruptured plasma membranes) were also seen in the 0- and 30-minute reperfusion groups, which did not exhibit TUNEL-positive myocytes. There was no evidence of apoptotic ultrastructures in the myocytes.

Conclusions—DNA fragmentation occurs in the myocytes that had already shown irreversibly oncotic, but not apoptotic, ultrastructures with ischemia and/or reperfusion. Therefore, DNA fragmentation itself does not always mean apoptosis, and so-called apoptotic infarcted myocytes may belong to a category of cell death other than apoptosis.


Key Words: myocardial infarction • apoptosis • myocytes • ischemia • reperfusion




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Profound Apoptosis-Mediated Regional Myocyte Loss and Compensatory Hypertrophy in Pigs With Hibernating Myocardium
Circulation, December 7, 1999; 100(23): 2380 - 2386.
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E. Takashi, Y. Wang, and M. Ashraf
Activation of Mitochondrial KATP Channel Elicits Late Preconditioning Against Myocardial Infarction via Protein Kinase C Signaling Pathway
Circ. Res., December 3, 1999; 85(12): 1146 - 1153.
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J. Schaper, A. Elsasser, and S. Kostin
The Role of Cell Death in Heart Failure
Circ. Res., October 29, 1999; 85(9): 867 - 869.
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M. Kanoh, G. Takemura, J. Misao, Y. Hayakawa, T. Aoyama, K. Nishigaki, T. Noda, T. Fujiwara, K. Fukuda, S. Minatoguchi, et al.
Significance of Myocytes With Positive DNA In Situ Nick End-Labeling (TUNEL) in Hearts With Dilated Cardiomyopathy : Not Apoptosis but DNA Repair
Circulation, June 1, 1999; 99(21): 2757 - 2764.
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B. Li, M. Setoguchi, X. Wang, A. M. Andreoli, A. Leri, A. Malhotra, J. Kajstura, and P. Anversa
Insulin-Like Growth Factor-1 Attenuates the Detrimental Impact of Nonocclusive Coronary Artery Constriction on the Heart
Circ. Res., May 14, 1999; 84(9): 1007 - 1019.
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J. J. Lemasters
V. Necrapoptosis and the mitochondrial permeability transition: shared pathways to necrosis and apoptosis
Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol, January 1, 1999; 276(1): G1 - G6.
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L. M. Buja and M. L. Entman
Modes of Myocardial Cell Injury and Cell Death in Ischemic Heart Disease
Circulation, October 6, 1998; 98(14): 1355 - 1357.
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