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Inhibition of autophagy via activation of PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway contributes to the protection of hesperidin against myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury

  • Authors:
    • Xuefei Li
    • Xiaorong Hu
    • Jichun Wang
    • Weipan Xu
    • Chunfeng Yi
    • Ruisong Ma
    • Hong Jiang
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  • Published online on: July 30, 2018     https://doi.org/10.3892/ijmm.2018.3794
  • Pages: 1917-1924
  • Copyright: © Li et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Abstract

Hesperidin has been reported to attenuate myocardial ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury; however, its effect on autophagy during myocardial I/R and the underlying mechanism remains unknown. The present study aimed to investigate whether hesperidin inhibited I/R‑induced excessive myocardial autophagy through activating the phosphatidylinositol 3‑kinase (PI3K)/protein kinase B (Akt)/mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway. Male adult rats were pretreated with hesperidin for a total of 3 days prior to ischemia in the absence or presence of LY294002, a PI3K inhibitor, and then subjected to ischemia for 30 min followed by reperfusion for 4 h. Myocardial infarct size was measured by Evans blue/triphenyltetrazolium chloride staining. Hematoxylin and eosin staining was used for observing the histological changes in the heart, and the serum levels of creatine kinase‑MB (CK‑MB) and cardiac troponin I (cTnI) were measured by enzyme‑linked immunosorbent assay. Additionally, the protein levels of light chain (LC) 3Ⅱ, Beclin1, phosphorylated (p)‑mTOR, p‑Akt and p‑PI3K were determined by western blot analysis. Hesperidin pretreatment significantly decreased the myocardial infarct size, myocardial damage and serum levels of CK‑MB and cTnI. Furthermore, the expression levels of LC3Ⅱ and Beclin1 were significantly downregulated and the expression levels of p‑mTOR, p‑Akt and p‑PI3K were markedly upregulated by hesperidin. However, the aforementioned effects as a result of hesperidin were significantly reversed by the presence of LY294002. These results demonstrated that hesperidin reduced myocardial I/R injury by suppressing excessive autophagy. Activation of the PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway contributed to the inhibitory effect of hesperidin on excessive autophagy.

Introduction

Coronary heart disease, including acute myocardial infarction, is considered to be one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide (1). Early and effective reperfusion therapy for acute myocardial infarction can reduce infarct size and improve the clinical outcomes of patients (2). However, reperfusion itself causes ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury, which unexpectedly induces additional cellular injury and paradoxically reduces the beneficial effects of reperfusion therapy, leading to irreversible myocardial tissue damage and increased infarct size (2). Therefore, it is necessary to protect against myocardial I/R injury as an adjuvant therapy for the treatment of acute myocardial infarction (3).

Multiple factors such as inflammation, oxidative stress, calcium overload and apoptosis have been identified to contribute to the process of myocardial I/R injury (2,4,5). Autophagy has also been demonstrated to serve an important role in regulating cardiomyocyte death induced by I/R (6). Autophagy is a dynamic process that turns over damaged proteins and organelles through a lysosome-associated degradation system and physiologically maintains cellular homeostasis at basal level (7). However, over-activated autophagy induces excessive self-digestion and degradation of essential cellular constituents, which triggers non-apoptotic programmed cell death (8). Emerging evidence has reported that autophagy is upregulated during myocardial I/R injury and contributes to cardiomyocyte death; whereas downregulation of autophagy attenuates I/R-induced cardiomyocyte death and protects against myocardial I/R injury (911). The results of the aforementioned previous studies indicate that modulation of autophagy may be a target strategy for treatment of myocardial I/R injury.

Hesperidin [3′,5,7-trithydroxy-4′-methoxy-flavanone-7-(6-α-L-rhamnopyranosyl-β-D-glucopyranoside)] is a natural flavanone glycoside abundantly present in citrus fruits. It has a molecular formula of C28H34O15 and a molecular weight of 610.57 Da (12) (Fig. 1A). Hesperidin possesses good radical scavenging activity and chelating metal ion ability due to its structure, which readily donates electrons from the free hydroxyls on the flavonoid nucleus (13). Furthermore, hesperidin has been reported to exert a wide range of biological effects, including anti-inflammatory (14), anti-cancer (15), radio-protective (16), anti-allergic (17), and antioxidant properties (18). Gandhi et al (19) demonstrated that hesperidin attenuates myocardial I/R injury-induced arrhythmias and apoptosis. Our previous study reported that hesperidin reduced myocardial I/R injury by inhibiting inflammation and oxidative stress (20), however, its effect on autophagy during myocardial I/R and the underlying mechanisms have not been completely elucidated.

The phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K)/protein kinase B (Akt) pathway is known to serve an important role in the control of cell growth, proliferation, survival and metabolism (21). Mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), a major intracellular repressor of autophagy, is positively regulated by the PI3K/Akt pathway (22). Our previous study reported that hesperidin could activate the PI3K/Akt pathway (20). Therefore, it was hypothesized that the PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway may contribute to the regulatory effect of hesperidin on autophagy induced by myocardial I/R injury.

In the present study, the effect of hesperidin on autophagy induced by I/R was investigated, and its underlying mechanisms were explored, with particular focus on the potential involvement of the PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway in the regulation of myocardial autophagy.

Materials and methods

Animals

Adult male Sprague-Dawley rats (6–8 weeks old; weighing 200–250 g; n=56) were supplied by the animal experiment center of Wuhan University (Wuhan, China), and were housed in an air-conditioned room (temperature, 25±3°C; humidity, 50–60%) with free access to food and water on a 12 h light/12 h dark cycle. All experimental protocols conformed to the Guideline for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals published by the US National Institutes of Health and were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Wuhan University (Approval no. 2016-0318).

Experimental protocol and myocardial I/R model

Hesperidin (HPLC>98%) was purchased from Sinopharm Chemical Reagent Co., Ltd. (Shanghai, China) and dissolved in 0.5% sodium carboxymethyl-cellulose (CMC-Na) to produce a 100 mg/ml solution. Then, the solution of hesperidin or 0.5% CMC-Na was administered orally to rats by gavage for a total of 3 days (20,23). After being anesthetized with an intraperitoneal injection of sodium pentobarbital (45 mg/kg; Sigma-Aldrich; Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany), all animals were artificially ventilated using a volume-controlled rodent respirator and monitored with an electrocardiogram using a computer-based EP system (LEAD2000B; Jinjiang Ltd., Chengdu, China). A thoracotomy through a left parasternal incision was performed to expose the heart. A 4–0 silk was passed under the left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD). The myocardial I/R model was induced by ligation and release of the silk. A successful myocardial I/R model was verified by changes of ST segment elevation in Lead-II and regional cyanosis of the myocardial surface.

A total of 56 rats were randomly divided into the following four groups (n=14 per group): i) Sham operated control (Control): 0.5% CMC-Na; ii) Ischemia/reperfusion (I/R): 0.5% CMC-Na; iii) Hesperidin (200 mg/kg/day) + I/R (Hesp+I/R); or iv) Hesperidin (200 mg/kg/day) + LY294002 + I/R (Hesp+LY+I/R): Following a 3 day pretreatment with hesperidin (200 mg/kg/day) (20), rats in the Hesp+LY+I/R group were administered LY294002 [a specific PI3K inhibitor, 0.3 mg/kg (24), Sigma-Aldrich; Merck KGaA] via a caudal vein 30 min prior to LAD occlusion. Rats in the Control group were subjected to surgical manipulation without ligaturing the LAD; however, rats in the remaining groups were subjected to 30 min of LAD occlusion followed by a 4 h reperfusion. At the end of the experiment, the rats were sacrificed, and their blood samples and hearts were harvested for subsequent analysis. The study protocol is illustrated in Fig. 1B.

Myocardial infarct size

Myocardial infarct size was assessed by 2,3,5-triphenyltetrazolium chloride (TTC; Sigma-Aldrich; Merck KGaA) as previously described (19,25). Briefly, following reperfusion, the LAD was occluded again and 2 ml of 1% Evans blue dye (Sigma-Aldrich; Merck KGaA) was infused via the femoral vein. Hearts were removed and cut (~2 mm) from apex to base. The slices were incubated in 1% TTC at 37°C for 20 min and fixed in 4% paraformaldehyde at room temperature overnight. The infarct area (white) and the risk area (red) in each section were determined by Image-Pro Plus 6.0 (Media Cybernetics, Inc., Rockville, MD, USA). A total of 6 animals in each group were used for myocardial infarct size measurement. Myocardial infarct size was expressed as a percentage of the risk area volume [%, infarct area / (risk + infarct area)].

Myocardial injury

Serum levels of creatine kinase-MB (CK-MB) and cardiac troponin I (cTnI) were used as indicators of myocardial injury. Blood samples were centrifuged at 1,000 × g for 15 min at room temperature, and the serum was collected for analysis. Standard techniques were performed to determine the serum levels of CK-MB and cTnI by using commercial kits (cat. no. E006; Nanjing Jiancheng Bioengineering Institute, Nanjing, China) and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay kits (cat. no. E-EL-R0055c; Elabscience, Wuhan, China), each procedure was conducted according to the manufacturer's protocol.

Western blot analysis

Total protein extracts from the rat heart tissue were prepared as previously described (26). Protein extraction was performed using a radioimmunoprecipitation assay lysis buffer (cat. no. P0013B; Beyotime Institute of Biotechnology, Jiangsu, China), and the concentration of the protein was measured by a bicinchoninic acid protein assay kit (cat. no. P0010; Beyotime Institute of Biotechnology). A total of 50 µg protein per lane was electrophoresed on 10% sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel and transferred to a nitrocellulose membrane. The membranes were blocked with 5% non-fat dry milk in Tris-buffer saline-0.05% Tween for 2 h at room temperature and incubated respectively at 4°C overnight with the following primary antibodies including: Anti-light chain (LC)3 (cat. no. 2775; 1:1,000), Beclin1 (cat. no. 3738; 1:1,000), mTOR (cat. no. 2972S; 1:1,000), phosphorylated (p)-mTOR (cat. no. 2971S; 1:1,000), Akt (cat. no. 4691; 1:1,000), p-Akt (cat. no. 4060; 1:2,000), p-PI3K (cat. no. 4228; 1:1,000) and PI3K (cat. no. 4257; 1:800) (Cell Signaling Technology, Inc., Danvers, MA, USA). The membrane was then washed and incubated with a horseradish peroxidase conjugated secondary antibody (cat. no. BA1054; 1:50,000, Wuhan Boster Biological Technology, Ltd., Wuhan, China) at 37°C for 2 h. The protein bands were visualized by an enhanced chemiluminescence system (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc., Waltham, MA, USA), and glyceraldehydes-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH; cat. no. BM3896; 1:400; Wuhan Boster Biological Technology, Ltd.) was used as an internal control to correct the variation between samples. The densitometry of each band was quantified by Image-Pro Plus 6.0 (Media Cybernetics, Inc.). A total of 5 hearts in each group were used for the western blot analysis.

Immunofluorescence staining

To observe the LC3 expression in the myocardial tissue, immunofluorescence staining was performed as described previously (27). Following deparaffinization, the paraffin-embedded sections (5 µm) were replaced in the citrate buffer (pH 6.0) and boiled with microwave on full power for antigen retrieval. After cooling, the sections were washed with PBS (pH 7.4) three times (3 min each), and blocked with 3% goat serum (cat. no. AR1009; Wuhan Boster Biological Technology, Ltd.) for 30 min at room temperature. The sections were then incubated with anti-LC3 antibody (1:100; Cell Signaling Technology, Inc.) at 4°C overnight. Then, the sections were incubated with a FITC conjugated secondary antibody (cat. no. BA1105; 1:40; Wuhan Boster Biological Technology, Ltd.) at 37°C for 1 h. Nuclei were stained with 4′,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI; Sigma-Aldrich; Merck KGaA) for 5 min at room temperature in the dark. A total of 6 fields at ×200 magnification were randomly selected from 3 sections in each group and visualized with a fluorescence microscope (excitation wavelength: 495 nm; DX51; Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, Japan). The mean densitometry of the fluorescence signal of LC3 in each field was analyzed by Image-pro plus 6.0 software (Media Cybernetics, Inc.).

Hematoxylin and Eosin staining

Myocardial tissue was fixed in 4% paraformaldehyde, routinely processed and embedded in paraffin. Paraffin-embedded sections were stained with hematoxylin for 7 min, and eosin for 15 sec at room temperature. A total of 6 fields at ×200 magnification were randomly selected from 3 sections in each group and visualized with a light microscope to observe the myocardium damage.

Statistical analysis

All continuous data are expressed as the mean ± standard deviation and analyzed using SPSS software, version 19.0 (IBM SPSS, Armonk, NY, USA). A one-way analysis of variance was used for comparisons among groups with Bonferroni's adjustment for multiple comparisons. Each experiment was repeated 3 times. All plotting graphics were created using the GraphPad Prism 6.0 software (GraphPad Software, Inc., La Jolla, CA, USA). P<0.05 was considered to indicate a statistically significant difference.

Results

Hesperidin decreases myocardial infarct size during I/R

To investigate the cardioprotective effects of hesperidin against I/R, the myocardial infarct size was determined. As presented in Fig. 2, when compared with the I/R group, the Hesp+I/R group exhibited a marked decrease in the myocardial infarct size. However, the addition of LY294002 partially inhibited the cardioprotective effect of hesperidin (P<0.05).

Hesperidin alleviates cardiac injury induced by I/R

The damage of myocardium induced by I/R was further confirmed by hematoxylin and eosin staining and the serum levels of CK-MB and cTnI. As presented in Fig. 3A, the myocardial structure in the I/R group exhibited ruptured cardiac muscle fibers, necrosis with inflammatory cell infiltration and interstitium edema; however, no such damage was observed in the Control group. Hesperidin treatment prevented myocardial damage after I/R, and the myocardium exhibited rescued fiber disruption, necrosis and inflammatory cell infiltration. However, the administration of LY294002 abolished these effects. The serum CK-MB and cTnI levels were also determined to assess myocardial injury (Fig. 3B and C). Compared with the Control group, the serum CK-MB and cTnI levels were significantly increased in the I/R group (P<0.05). The serum CK-MB and cTnI levels were significantly lower in the Hesp+I/R group compared with the I/R group. However, LY294002 partially reversed these effects (P<0.05).

Hesperidin decreases autophagy in hearts subjected to I/R

The present study first detected the regulatory effect of hesperidin on LC3 and Beclin1 using immunofluorescence staining and western blot analysis. As presented in Fig. 4A, the LC3 (green) signals increased in the I/R group when compared with the Control group. Hesperidin substantially decreased the I/R-induced LC3 signal accumulation; however, its effect was abrogated by LY294002. The mean densitometry values of LC3 and expression levels of LC3II and Beclin1 were significantly increased in the I/R group when compared with those in the Control group (P<0.05; Figs. 4B and 5). Hesperidin markedly suppressed the increased mean densitometry values of LC3 and expression levels of LC3II and Beclin1 induced by I/R (P<0.05), which indicated that hesperidin could inhibit I/R-induced autophagy. However, administration of LY294002 partially abolished these effects (P<0.05).

Hesperidin increases expression levels of p-mTOR, p-Akt and p-PI3K during myocardial I/R

To investigate the possible mechanism underlying the inhibitory effect of hesperidin on autophagy during myocardial I/R injury, the expression levels of p-mTOR, mTOR, p-Akt, Akt, p-PI3K and PI3K in the myocardium were examined using western blot analysis. As presented in Fig. 6, compared with the Control group, the p-mTOR, p-Akt and p-PI3K expression levels were significantly decreased in the I/R group (P<0.05). Hesperidin treatment markedly inhibited the decrease in the p-mTOR, p-Akt and p-PI3K expression levels, demonstrating that hesperidin could activate the PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway; however, LY294002 significantly reversed these effects (P<0.05). Additionally, no significant difference in mTOR, Akt and PI3K expression levels were observed among the four groups (P>0.05).

Discussion

The present study aimed to investigate the potential mechanism of cardioprotection of hesperidin against ischemia/reperfusion (I/R), with a particular focus on autophagy. To the best of our knowledge, the present study was the first to demonstrate that hesperidin inhibited excessive autophagy following I/R, which was displayed by the downregulation of LC3II and Beclin1 expression levels. Furthermore, hesperidin was demonstrated to activate the PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway, and LY294002, a specific PI3K inhibitor, significantly reversed the effects of hesperidin. These results suggested that inhibition of autophagy via activation of the PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway contributes to the cardioprotective effect of hesperidin during I/R.

Irreversible loss of cardiomyocytes is the principal cause of myocardial injury induced by myocardial infarction or I/R, which leads to persistent cardiac dysfunction and heart failure (28). Necrosis, apoptosis, and autophagy, the three main mechanisms of cell death, are known to participate in the loss of cardiomyocytes induced by I/R (28). Of these, autophagy, an intracellular lysosomal degradative pathway, serves a key role in cellular homeostasis (7). LC3 and Beclin1 are important and reliable markers of autophagy. LC3 exists in the cytosolic form (LC3I) and membrane bound form (LC3II) (29). Increased LC3II is considered to be closely associated with the extent of autophagosome formation (30). Beclin1 is essential in the recruitment of other autophagic proteins during expansion of the pre-autophagosomal membrane and structure (31).

Under basal conditions, autophagy functions as a cell survival mechanism and maintains the cell size, construction and function of cardiomyocytes (32). However, under the condition of I/R, autophagy is upregulated and its role in modulating cardiomyocyte survival and death remains controversial. Previous studies have reported that autophagy promotes cell survival by purging damaged proteins and organelles to generate the intracellular building blocks required to maintain vital functions during ischemia (33,34); whereas other studies demonstrated that autophagy also promotes cell death via excessive self-digestion and degradation of essential cellular constituents (9,34). In the present study, the immunofluorescence staining results demonstrated that the LC3 signals were markedly increased in the I/R group. The expression levels of LC3II and Beclin1 in the myocardium, myocardial infarct size and serum levels of CK-MB and cTnI were also significantly upregulated following reperfusion, indicating that autophagy is over-activated during I/R. These findings suggested that excessive autophagy contributes to the process of myocardial I/R injury.

A growing number of epidemiological studies have reported that diets rich in herbs, fruits and spices can attenuate the risk of cardiovascular diseases (35,36). Hesperidin, a bioactive flavanone glycoside, is highly abundant in citrus fruit (12). In a randomized crossover study, Morand et al (37) reported that hesperidin (294 mg in 500 ml of orange juice) contributes to the cardioprotective effect of orange juice in overweight men by decreasing diastolic blood pressure and increasing endothelium-dependent microvascular reactivity. Another double-blind, crossover study also reported that hesperidin treatment (500 mg/day) improves endothelial function and reduces inflammatory markers in patients with metabolic syndrome (38). Using the dose conversion of body surface area comparisons between humans and rats (1:6.17) (39), 200 mg/kg/day of hesperidin used in rats is equal to 1,944 mg/day for a 60-kg man, which is 6-fold greater than 294 mg/day and 3-fold greater than 500 mg/day. Hence, the dose of hesperidin used in the present study far exceeded a nutritional dose; however, it functioned as a therapeutic dose.

The study of Huang et al (40) reported that hesperidin protects against amyloid β-induced neuronal injury through suppression of neuronal autophagy. In the present study, the data presented similar results, which revealed that hesperidin significantly downregulated the expression levels of LC3II and Beclin1 in the heart of rats, which was accompanied with low myocardial infarct size and low serum levels of CK-MB and cTnI. Combined, the aforementioned results indicated that excessive autophagy contributes to the process of myocardial I/R injury, and the findings of the present study suggested that hesperidin could reduce myocardial I/R injury by inhibiting excessive autophagy.

Autophagy can be modulated by multiple signaling pathways, including the PI3K/Akt pathway (22). The PI3K/Akt pathway, a major regulator of cell growth and survival, serves an essential role in the mediation of myocardial cell survival in many situations (27). Previous studies demonstrated that activation of PI3K/Akt ameliorates myocardial I/R injury (20,24). Furthermore, activation of the PI3K/Akt pathway can phosphorylate mTOR, which is a key regulator of autophagy (22). Phosphorylated mTOR has been reported to protect against I/R injury by reducing autophagy and enhancing recovery in the heart (41). It has been reported that hesperidin activates the Akt pathway in a rat model of neuroinflammation induced by aluminum chloride (42). Saiprasad et al (43) also demonstrated that hesperidin regulates the PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway in a mouse model of colon carcinogenesis. Similar results were obtained in the present study, which demonstrated that hesperidin significantly increased the expression levels of p-PI3K, p-Akt and p-mTOR and decreased the expression levels of LC3II and Beclin1, while LY294002, a specific inhibitor of PI3K, markedly reversed the aforementioned effects of hesperidin. These findings suggested that hesperidin inhibited excessive autophagy via activating the PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway.

Although the present study suggested that hesperidin may be a novel drug for protection of myocardial I/R injury, there are still various limitations. Firstly, the dose of hesperidin used in the present study is a therapeutic dose; the effective range of hesperidin dose and related safety evaluation need to be investigated in further studies. Second, the effects of hesperidin on longer term myocardial remodeling following myocardial I/R injury also requires further exploration.

In conclusion, the present study demonstrated that hesperidin reduced myocardial I/R injury by suppressing excessive autophagy, and activation of the PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway contributed to the inhibitory effect of hesperidin on excessive autophagy.

Acknowledgments

Not applicable.

Funding

No funding was received.

Availability of data and materials

The data used and/or analyzed during the present study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

Authors' contributions

XL, XH, and HJ conceived and designed the experiment. XL, RM, CY and WX carried out the experiments. RM, CY and WX acquired the reagents and materials. XL and JW analyzed the data. XL, XH, JW and HJ wrote the manuscript. All authors approved the final version of the manuscript.

Ethics approval and consent to participate

The present study was approved by Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Wuhan University (approval no. 2016-0318).

Patient consent for publication

Not applicable.

Competing interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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Li X, Hu X, Wang J, Xu W, Yi C, Ma R and Jiang H: Inhibition of autophagy via activation of PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway contributes to the protection of hesperidin against myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury. Int J Mol Med 42: 1917-1924, 2018
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Li, X., Hu, X., Wang, J., Xu, W., Yi, C., Ma, R., & Jiang, H. (2018). Inhibition of autophagy via activation of PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway contributes to the protection of hesperidin against myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury. International Journal of Molecular Medicine, 42, 1917-1924. https://doi.org/10.3892/ijmm.2018.3794
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Li, X., Hu, X., Wang, J., Xu, W., Yi, C., Ma, R., Jiang, H."Inhibition of autophagy via activation of PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway contributes to the protection of hesperidin against myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury". International Journal of Molecular Medicine 42.4 (2018): 1917-1924.
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Li, X., Hu, X., Wang, J., Xu, W., Yi, C., Ma, R., Jiang, H."Inhibition of autophagy via activation of PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway contributes to the protection of hesperidin against myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury". International Journal of Molecular Medicine 42, no. 4 (2018): 1917-1924. https://doi.org/10.3892/ijmm.2018.3794