In rats undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass, AICAR pretreatment activated AMPK.
In plain wordsIn rats, AICAR increased AMPK activation compared with bypass without AICAR pretreatment.
- Peptide
- AICAR (acadesine)
- Outcome
- IncreaseAMPK activation
- Study
ratn: not reported in source
Cardiopulmonary bypass- Comparator
- Cardiopulmonary bypass without AICAR pretreatment
- Outcome group
- Receptor activity and mechanism · Cardiovascular
- Studied dose
- Dose not stated
Source sentences
However, pretreatment of AMPK agonist 5-aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide1-β-D-ribofuranoside (AICAR) at the beginning of CPB activated AMPK, enhanced phosphorylation of Akt substrate 160 (AS160), and increased myocardial membrane content of GLUT4.
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
In this study, a rat model of cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) was applied to investigate the role of Adenosine 5'-monophosphate-activated protein kinase (AMPK) in modulating myocardial glucose metabolic-induced cardiac injuries after cardiac surgery.