Gut microbiome mediates the protective effects of exercise after myocardial infarction

• Published in: Microbiome Vol. 10; no. 1; p. 82
• Main Authors: Zhou, Qiulian, Deng, Jiali, Pan, Xue, Meng, Danni, Zhu, Yujiao, Bai, Yuzheng, Shi, Chao, Duan, Yi, Wang, Tianhui, Li, Xinli, Sluijter, Joost Pg, Xiao, Junjie
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central 31.05.2022; BMC
• Subjects: 3-Hydroxypropionaldehyde; Animals; Antibiotics; Apoptosis; Cardiac function; Cardiovascular diseases; Community structure; Coronary vessels; Correlation analysis; Digestive system; Exercise; Experiments; Feces; Fitness equipment; Fitness training programs; Gastrointestinal Microbiome; Genes; Gut microbiome; Heart attacks; Heart failure; Intestinal microflora; Laboratory animals; Metabolites; Metabolomics; Mice; Mice, Inbred C57BL; Microbiomes; Microbiota; Myocardial Infarction; NRF2; p-Hydroxybenzoic acid; p-Hydroxyphenylacetic acid; Physical training; Running; Surgery; Veganism; Veins & arteries; Canada; United States > US; China; Myocardial infarction; Exercise; Metabolites; NRF2; Gut microbiome
• ISSN: 2049-2618; 2049-2618
• DOI: 10.1186/s40168-022-01271-6

Gut microbiota plays important roles in health maintenance and diseases. Physical exercise has been demonstrated to be able to modulate gut microbiota. However, the potential role of gut microbiome in exercise protection to myocardial infarction (MI) remains unclear. Here, we discovered exercise training ameliorated cardiac dysfunction and changed gut microbial richness and community structure post-MI. Moreover, gut microbiota pre-depletion abolished the protective effects of exercise training in MI mice. Furthermore, mice receiving microbiota transplants from exercised MI mice had better cardiac function compared to mice receiving microbiota transplants from non-exercised MI mice. Mechanistically, we analyzed metabolomics in fecal samples from exercised mice post-MI and identified 3-Hydroxyphenylacetic acid (3-HPA) and 4-Hydroxybenzoic acid (4-HBA), which could be applied individually to protect cardiac dysfunction post-MI and apoptosis through NRF2. Together, our study provides new insights into the role of gut microbiome in exercise protection to MI, offers opportunities to modulate cardiovascular diseases by exercise, microbiome and gut microbiota-derived 3-HPA and 4-HBA. Video Abstract.