Abstract
Mast cells (MCs) are important intermediates between the nervous and immune systems. The cardiac autonomic nervous system (CANS) crucially modulates cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmogenesis, but whether and how MC-CANS neuroimmune interaction influences arrhythmia remain unclear. Our clinical data showed a close relationship between serum levels of MC markers and CANS activity, and then we use mast cell stabilizers (MCSs) to alter this MC-CANS communication. MCSs, which are well-known anti-allergic agents, could reduce the risk of ventricular arrhythmia (VA) after myocardial infarction (MI). RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) analysis to investigate the underlying mechanism by which MCSs could affect the left stellate ganglion (LSG), a key therapeutic target for modulating CANS, showed that the IL-6 and γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-ergic system may be involved in this process. Our findings demonstrated that MCSs reduce VA risk along with revealing the potential underlying antiarrhythmic mechanisms.
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Abbreviations
- VA:
-
Ventricular arrhythmia
- CANS:
-
Cardiac autonomic nervous system
- LSG:
-
Left stellate ganglion
- MI:
-
Myocardial infarction
- MC:
-
Mast cell
- MCS:
-
MC stabilizer
- GABA:
-
γ-Aminobutyric acid
- AAV:
-
Adeno-Associated Virus
- SBP:
-
Systolic blood pressure
- ERP:
-
Effective refractory period
- VPB:
-
Ventricular premature beat
- LVA:
-
Left ventricular apex
- LVB:
-
Left ventricular base
- LVM:
-
Left mid ventricle
- HRV:
-
Heart rate variability
- SDNN:
-
Standard deviation of the NN intervals
- SDANN:
-
Standard deviation of the average NN intervals
- DC:
-
Deceleration capacity
- SCD:
-
Sudden cardiac death
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Y.W., H.J., and L.Y. conceived the experiments. Y.W., Z.L., and L.Y. wrote the paper. All authors performed animal experiments. Y.W., Z.L., W.Z., J.W., R.L., J.S., Q.D., S.D., W.T., Y.W., and L.S. collected human data. Y.W. and Z.L. analyzed the data. H.J. and L.Y. secured funding.
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This work was supported by the grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 82270532, 82241057, 82370286), Foundation for Innovative Research Groups of Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province, China (2021CFA010) (Grant no. 82100530), and the Open Project of Hubei Key Laboratory (Grant no. 2023KFZZ019).
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Wang, Y., Liu, Z., Zhou, W. et al. Mast cell stabilizer, an anti-allergic drug, reduces ventricular arrhythmia risk via modulation of neuroimmune interaction. Basic Res Cardiol 119, 75–91 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00395-023-01024-y
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