Cardioprotective Effects of GLP-1 and Their Mechanisms

Summary

Ischaemic heart disease is the most common cause of death in the UK. Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) has been demonstrated to protect the heart when it is deprived of blood supply (ischaemia). The mechanism for this protection is not clear. Similar protection occurs with ischaemic conditioning of the heart, which is dependent on potassium channel opening. The investigators intend to establish whether GLP-1 mediated protection shares a similar mechanistic pathway. In order to do this the investigators will measures pressure--volume loops generated in the main pumping chamber of the heart at the time of a percutaneous coronary intervention (stenting). Patients will be allocated to GLP-1 alone, GLP-1 with glibenclamide (a potassium channel blocking medication approved for human use), saline control or glibenclamide alone. The investigators hypothesis is that the effect of GLP-1 will be abrogated by use of glibenclamide.

Timeline

Start

2014-07

Primary completion

2016-03

Completion

2016-03

Publications

• Giblett JP, Axell RG, White PA, Clarke SJ, McCormick L, Read PA, Reinhold J, Brown AJ, O'Sullivan M, West NE, Dutka DP, Hoole SP. Glucagon-like peptide-1 derived cardioprotection does not utilize a KATP-channel dependent pathway: mechanistic insights from human supply and demand ischemia studies. Cardiovasc Diabetol. 2016 Jul 19;15:99. doi: 10.1186/s12933-016-0416-3.

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