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Mitoquinone (MitoQ) Inhibits Platelet Activation Steps by Reducing ROS Levels.


ABSTRACT: Platelet activation plays a key role in cardiovascular diseases. The generation of mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (ROS) has been described as a critical step required for platelet activation. For this reason, it is necessary to find new molecules with antiplatelet activity and identify their mechanisms of action. Mitoquinone (MitoQ) is a mitochondria-targeted antioxidant that reduces mitochondrial overproduction of ROS. In this work, the antiplatelet effect of MitoQ through platelet adhesion and spreading, secretion, and aggregation was evaluated. Thus MitoQ, in a non-toxic effect, decreased platelet adhesion and spreading on collagen surface, and expression of P-selectin and CD63, and inhibited platelet aggregation induced by collagen, convulxin, thrombin receptor activator peptide-6 (TRAP-6), and phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA). As an antiplatelet mechanism, we showed that MitoQ produced mitochondrial depolarization and decreased ATP secretion. Additionally, in platelets stimulated with antimycin A and collagen MitoQ significantly decreased ROS production. Our findings showed, for the first time, an antiplatelet effect of MitoQ that is probably associated with its mitochondrial antioxidant effect.

SUBMITTER: Mendez D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7503844 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Mitoquinone (MitoQ) Inhibits Platelet Activation Steps by Reducing ROS Levels.

Méndez Diego D   Arauna Diego D   Fuentes Francisco F   Araya-Maturana Ramiro R   Palomo Iván I   Alarcón Marcelo M   Sebastián David D   Zorzano Antonio A   Fuentes Eduardo E  

International journal of molecular sciences 20200827 17


Platelet activation plays a key role in cardiovascular diseases. The generation of mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (ROS) has been described as a critical step required for platelet activation. For this reason, it is necessary to find new molecules with antiplatelet activity and identify their mechanisms of action. Mitoquinone (MitoQ) is a mitochondria-targeted antioxidant that reduces mitochondrial overproduction of ROS. In this work, the antiplatelet effect of MitoQ through platelet adhes  ...[more]

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