Frontiers in Pharmacology (Mar 2023)

Ganoderma lucidum polysaccharides attenuates pressure-overload-induced pathological cardiac hypertrophy

  • Changlin Zhen,
  • Changlin Zhen,
  • Xunxun Wu,
  • Jing Zhang,
  • Jing Zhang,
  • Dan Liu,
  • Dan Liu,
  • Guoli Li,
  • Guoli Li,
  • Yongbo Yan,
  • Xiuzhen He,
  • Xiuzhen He,
  • Jiawei Miao,
  • Jiawei Miao,
  • Hongxia Song,
  • Hongxia Song,
  • Yifan Yan,
  • Yifan Yan,
  • Yonghui Zhang,
  • Yonghui Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2023.1127123
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14

Abstract

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Pathological cardiac hypertrophy is an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease. However, drug therapies that can reverse the maladaptive process and restore heart function are limited. Ganoderma lucidum polysaccharides (GLPs) are one of the main active components of G. lucidum (Ganoderma lucidum), and they have various pharmacological effects. GLPs have been used as Chinese medicine prescriptions for clinical treatment. In this study, cardiac hypertrophy was induced by transverse aortic constriction (TAC) in mice. We found that GLPs ameliorate Ang II-induced cardiomyocyte hypertrophy in vitro and attenuate pressure overload–induced cardiac hypertrophy in vivo. Further research indicated that GLPs attenuated the mRNA levels of hypertrophic and fibrotic markers to inhibit cardiac hypertrophy through the PPARγ/PGC-1α pathway. Overall, these results indicate that GLPs inhibit cardiac hypertrophy through downregulating key genes for hypertrophy and fibrosis and attenuate pressure overload-induced pathological cardiac hypertrophy by activating PPARγ. This study provides important theoretical support for the potential of using GLPs to treat pathological myocardial hypertrophy and heart failure.

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