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Medicine | Disease | Cells/tissues | Effects | Mechanisms | Pathway | Reference |
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Atorvastatin | AMI | Rat | Autophagy ↑ | Ejection fraction, LC3 ↑ Fibrosis, infarcted area, inflammatory level, Bax ↓ | AMPK/mTOR pathway | [22] |
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Atorvastatin | Hypertension-induced cardiac hypertrophy | SHRs | Autophagy ↑ | Expression of protein-1 light chain 3-II and Beclin-1 protein ↑ Akt and mTOR expression ↑ | Akt/mTOR pathway | [23] |
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Cucurbitacin B | Pressure overload- induced cardiac hypertrophy | AB-induced mice | Autophagy ↑ | Heart weight, cross-sectional area Interstitial fibrosis ↓ Systolic and diastolic ↑ Normalized in gene expression Reserved microvascular density | Akt/mTOR/FoxO3a signal axis | [24] |
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Trimetazidine | Diabetic cardiomyopathy | Type 2 DCM rat | Autophagy ↑ | CVF, PVCA/LA ratio, phosphorylation of ERK and P38 MAPK ↓ Phosphorylation of AMPK, the interaction between Bcl-2 and Beclin-1 ↑ | PI3K/AKT and AMPK pathways | [25] |
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Liraglutide | Diabetic cardiomyopathy | ZDF rat | Autophagy ↑ | CK, LDH, mTOR phosphorylation ↓ AMPK phosphorylation ↑ | AMPK-mTOR signaling pathway | [26] |
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1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin-D3 | Diabetic cardiomyopathy | STZ-induced type 1 diabetic rat High-glucose cultured H9C2 cells | Autophagy ↑ | Myocardial hypertrophy and interstitial fibrosis ↓ Cardiac function ↑ | β-Catenin/TCF4/GSK-3β and mTOR pathway | [27] |
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Spermidine | Physiological cardiac aging | Wild-type C57BL/6 mice | Autophagy ↑ | LC3-II, autophagic flux ↑ Cardiac hypertrophy ↓ Preserved diastolic function | | [28] |
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Isoflurane | Cardiomyocytes from A/R injury | Cardiomyocytes from rat | Autophagy ↓ | Cell viability ↑ Autophagosome generation, expression of NOD2 ↓ | P38MAPK pathway | [29] |
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Aliskiren | Pressure overload-induced heart hypertrophy and fibrosis | TAC mice | Autophagy ↓ | Expression of Atg5 and Atg16 L1 mRNAs, LC3-II and Beclin-1 proteins ↓ | Ang II-PKCβI-ERK1/2-regulated autophagy | [30] |
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Calhex 231 | Cardiac hypertrophy | TAC or Ang II-induced rat | Autophagy ↓ | CaSR expression, autophagy levels ↓ | CaMKKβ-AMPK-mTOR pathway | [31] |
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Hydrogen sulfide | Diabetic myocardial | STZ-induced diabetic rat | Autophagy ↓ | Myocardial fibrosis, myocardial autophagy ↓ PI3K/AKT1 pathway ↑ | PI3K/AKT1 signaling pathway | [32] |
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Chloroquine | Diabetic cardiomyopathy. | STZ-induced diabetic mice | Autophagy ↓ | Ameliorated cardiac diastolic function autophagolysosomes, cardiomyocyte apoptosis, cardiac fibrosis ↓ LC3-II, p62 expression ↑ | mTOR pathway | [33] |
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Multi-Strain Probiotics | Obesity-induced cardiac fibrosis | HF diet-induced obese rat | Autophagy ↓ | TGF/MMP2/MMP9 fibrosis pathways, ERK5/uPA/ANP cardiac hypertrophy pathways ↓ Beclin-1/LC3B/Atg7 pathway ↑ | TGF/MMP2/MMP9 fibrosis pathways, ERK5/uPA/ANP cardiac hypertrophy pathways, Beclin-1/LC3B/Atg7 autophagy pathway | [34] |
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Phellinus linteus Mycelium | Myocardial I/R Injury | I/R rat | Autophagy balance | Infarct size, plasma lactate dehydrogenase level, caspase-3, caspase-9, Beclin-1, p62, mTOR level ↓ Bcl-2/Bax ratio, AMPK Phosphorylation ↑ | AMPK-dependent pathway, Beclin-1-dependent pathway | [35] |
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