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Age and Ageing 2003; 32: 273-278
© 2003, British Geriatrics Society

Research paper

Dietary selenium intake affects cardiac susceptibility to ischaemia/reperfusion in male senescent rats

Stéphane Tanguy1, Marie-Claire Toufektsian1, Sophie Besse1, Véronique Ducros2, Joël de Leiris1 and FranÇois Boucher1,

1 Laboratoire Stress Cardiovasculaires et Pathologies Associées, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
2 Département de Biologie Intégrée, Centre Hospitalier Régional de Grenoble, Grenoble, France

Abstract

Background:  cardiovascular ageing is associated with an increase in cardiac susceptibility to ischaemia and reperfusion. This has been suggested to be partly related to an increased sensitivity of the myocardium to the reactive oxygen species that are produced during post-ischaemic reperfusion. The aim of the present study was therefore to determine whether increasing cardiac glutathione peroxidase activity by a selenium-enriched diet could afford some protection against ischaemia and reperfusion to senescent rat hearts.

Methods:  22 months old male Wistar rats received either a high-selenium (1.5 mg Se/kg diet) or a low-selenium (0.05 mg Se/kg diet) diet for 10 weeks. At the end of the diet, hearts were submitted to ischaemia and reperfusion ex vivo and either fixed for semi-quantitative analysis of ultrastructural damage by electron microscopy or used for glutathione peroxidase activity assessment.

Results:  high-selenium supply increased cardiac total, mitochondrial and cytosolic glutathione peroxidase activities. Moreover, this diet induced a significant improvement of cardiac post-ischaemic functional recovery. Finally, this preservation of cardiac function was associated with a significant limitation of ultrastructural alterations of sarcomeres and mitochondria.

Conclusion: our high-selenium diet considerably limits the sensitivity of senescent rat hearts to ischaemia and reperfusion. This finding suggests that peroxides might play a key role in the increase in cardiac sensitivity to ischaemia and reperfusion during ageing. Together with the observation that selenium status decreases with age in humans, our results indicate that reinforcing selenium supply could improve the prognosis of cardiovascular diseases in old patients.

Keywords: ageing, glutathione peroxidase activity, isolated rat heart, reactive oxygen species, reperfusion-injury, selenium


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