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- Title
Preclinical Investigation of Trifluoperazine as a Novel Therapeutic Agent for the Treatment of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension.
- Authors
Grobs, Yann; Awada, Charifa; Lemay, Sarah-Eve; Romanet, Charlotte; Bourgeois, Alice; Toro, Victoria; Nadeau, Valérie; Shimauchi, Kana; Orcholski, Mark; Breuils-Bonnet, Sandra; Tremblay, Eve; Provencher, Steeve; Paulin, Roxane; Boucherat, Olivier; Bonnet, Sébastien; Yamawaki, Hideyuki
- Abstract
Trifluoperazine (TFP), an antipsychotic drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration, has been show to exhibit anti-cancer effects. Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a devastating disease characterized by a progressive obliteration of small pulmonary arteries (PAs) due to exaggerated proliferation and resistance to apoptosis of PA smooth muscle cells (PASMCs). However, the therapeutic potential of TFP for correcting the cancer-like phenotype of PAH-PASMCs and improving PAH in animal models remains unknown. PASMCs isolated from PAH patients were exposed to different concentrations of TFP before assessments of cell proliferation and apoptosis. The in vivo therapeutic potential of TFP was tested in two preclinical models with established PAH, namely the monocrotaline and sugen/hypoxia-induced rat models. Assessments of hemodynamics by right heart catheterization and histopathology were conducted. TFP showed strong anti-survival and anti-proliferative effects on cultured PAH-PASMCs. Exposure to TFP was associated with downregulation of AKT activity and nuclear translocation of forkhead box protein O3 (FOXO3). In both preclinical models, TFP significantly lowered the right ventricular systolic pressure and total pulmonary resistance and improved cardiac function. Consistently, TFP reduced the medial wall thickness of distal PAs. Overall, our data indicate that TFP could have beneficial effects in PAH and support the view that seeking new uses for old drugs may represent a fruitful approach.
- Subjects
UNITED States. Food &; Drug Administration; PULMONARY hypertension; SYSTOLIC blood pressure; MUSCLE cells; SMOOTH muscle; ANIMAL models in research; NITROIMIDAZOLES; FORKHEAD transcription factors
- Publication
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021, Vol 22, Issue 6, p2919
- ISSN
1661-6596
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/ijms22062919