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Sex-Dependent Changes in Right Ventricular Gene Expression in Response to Pressure Overload in a Rat Model of Pulmonary Trunk Banding. Biomedicines 2020; 8:biomedicines8100430. [PMID: 33086482 PMCID: PMC7603115 DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines8100430] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2020] [Revised: 10/09/2020] [Accepted: 10/15/2020] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Right ventricular hypertrophy (RVH) and subsequent failure are consequences of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). While females are four times more likely to develop PAH, male patients have poorer survival even with treatment, suggesting a sex-dependent dimorphism in right ventricular (RV) hypertrophy/compensation. This may result from differential gene expression in the RV in male vs. female. To date, the sex dependent effect of pressure overload on RV function and changes in gene expression is still unclear. We hypothesize that pressure overload promotes gene expression changes in the RV that may contribute to a poorer outcome in males vs. females. To test this hypothesis, male and female Wistar rats underwent either a sham procedure (sham controls) or moderate pulmonary trunk banding (PTB) (a model of pressure overload induced compensated RV hypertrophy) surgery. Seven weeks post-surgery, RV function was assessed in vivo, and tissue samples were collected for gene expression using qPCR. Compared to sham controls, PTB induced significant increases in the right ventricular systolic pressure, the filling pressure and contractility, which were similar between male and female rats. PTB resulted in an increase in RVH indexes (RV weight, RV weight/tibia length and Fulton index) in both male and female groups. However, RVH indexes were significantly higher in male-PTB when compared to female-PTB rats. Whilst end of procedure body weight was greater in male rats, end of procedure pulmonary artery (PA) diameters were the same in both males and females. RV gene expression analysis revealed that the following genes were increased in PTB-male rats compared with the sham-operated controls: natriuretic peptide A (ANP) and B (BNP), as well as the markers of fibrosis; collagen type I and III. In females, only BNP was significantly increased in the RV when compared to the sham-operated female rats. Furthermore, ANP, BNP and collagen III were significantly higher in the RV from PTB-males when compared to RV from PTB-female rats. Our data suggest that pressure overload-mediated changes in gene expression in the RV from male rats may worsen RVH and increase the susceptibility of males to a poorer outcome when compared to females.
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Clerico A, Passino C, Emdin M. When Gonads Talk to the Heart. J Am Coll Cardiol 2011; 58:627-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2011.03.043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2011] [Accepted: 03/08/2011] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Clerico A, Giannoni A, Vittorini S, Passino C. Thirty years of the heart as an endocrine organ: physiological role and clinical utility of cardiac natriuretic hormones. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2011; 301:H12-20. [DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00226.2011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 139] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Thirty years ago, De Bold et al. ( 20 ) reported that atrial extracts contain some biologically active peptides, which promote a rapid and massive diuresis and natriuresis when injected in rats. It is now clear that the heart also exerts an endocrine function and in this way plays a key role in the regulation of cardiovascular and renal systems. The aim of this review is to discuss some recent insights and still-debated findings regarding the cardiac natriuretic hormones (CNHs) produced and secreted by cardiomyocytes (i.e., atrial natriuretic peptide and B-type natriuretic peptide). The functional status of the CNH system depends not only on the production/secretion of CNHs by cardiomyocytes but also on both the peripheral activation of circulating inactive precursor of natriuretic hormones and the transduction of the hormone signal by specific receptors. In this review, we will discuss the data supporting the hypothesis that the production and secretion of CNHs is the result of a complex integration among mechanical, chemical, hemodynamic, humoral, ischemic, and inflammatory inputs. The cross talk among endocrine function, adipose tissue, and sex steroid hormones will be discussed more in detail, considering the clinically relevant relationships linking together cardiovascular risk, sex, and body fat development and distribution. Finally, we will review the pathophysiological role and the clinical relevance of both peripheral maturation of the precursor of B-type natriuretic peptides and hormone signal transduction .
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- Aldo Clerico
- Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Fondazione del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche e della Regione Toscana, Gabriele Monasterio, Pisa, Italy
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- Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Fondazione del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche e della Regione Toscana, Gabriele Monasterio, Pisa, Italy
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- Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Fondazione del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche e della Regione Toscana, Gabriele Monasterio, Pisa, Italy
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- Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Fondazione del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche e della Regione Toscana, Gabriele Monasterio, Pisa, Italy
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Clerico A, Fontana M, Vittorini S, Emdin M. The search for a pathophysiological link between gender, cardiac endocrine function, body mass regulation and cardiac mortality: Proposal for a working hypothesis. Clin Chim Acta 2009; 405:1-7. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2009.03.050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2009] [Revised: 03/24/2009] [Accepted: 03/25/2009] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Bold AJ, Bruneau BG. Natriuretic Peptides. Compr Physiol 2000. [DOI: 10.1002/cphy.cp070310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Multiple voltage-gated K+ channels contribute to the repolarization phases of the cardiac action potential and are targets of several antiarrhythmic drugs. The Kv1.5 K+ channel gene is expressed in the heart, and heterologous expression of this gene generates a slowly inactivating K+ current. Previously, we found that glucocorticoids specifically upregulate pituitary Kv1.5 gene expression. To test whether these steroids might also induce Kv1.5 gene expression in the heart, cardiac channel mRNA and protein were measured by RNase protection assay and by immunoblotting with antibody specific for the extracellular domain of Kv1.5 polypeptide. Kv1.5 mRNA and immunoreactive protein appeared to be more abundant in rat ventricle than atrium. Reduction of endogenous glucocorticoids by adrenalectomy decreased ventricular Kv1.5 mRNA approximately 8-fold, which was estimated by using cyclophilin mRNA as an internal control. Kv1.5 immunoreactive protein also decreased approximately 6-fold. Injection of dexamethasone into adrenalectomized rats acted within a day to increase ventricular Kv1.5 mRNA and immunoreactive protein approximately 50-fold and approximately 20-fold, respectively. In contrast, atrial Kv1.5 mRNA expression was unaffected by either adrenalectomy or injection of the glucocorticoid agonist. Furthermore, dexamethasone-induced upregulation was specific for Kv1.5, since whole-heart Kv1.4 and Kv2.1 mRNA levels, as well as ventricular Kv2.1 mRNA expression, were unchanged. Thus, dexamethasone specifically upregulates Kv1.5 K+ channel gene expression in rat ventricle but not atrium. Glucocorticoids may affect excitability of ventricular myocytes and the efficacy of clinically useful drugs by changing the expression of the Kv1.5 K+ channel.
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- K Takimoto
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Pittsburgh, PA 15261
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The effects of subcutaneous (sc) administration of estradiol (50 micrograms/100 microliters/day x 10 day) or testosterone (15 mg/100 microliters twice a week x 2 weeks) on ANF release were examined in isolated perfused rat atria. The concentration of ANF in the perfusate was measured by radioimmunoassay, under basal conditions (atrial wall unstressed), and during atrial distention (intraluminal pressure raised to 4, 6, and 10 cm water). In both male and female control (vehicle-injected) groups, increased atrial pressure resulting in distention of the atrium caused a significant increase in ANF release. Estradiol increased basal secretion of ANF but did not influence stretch-induced stimulation of ANF secretion. By contrast, although testosterone did not affect basal secretion, it completely abolished the stretch-induced increase in ANF secretion. Neither estradiol nor testosterone affected atrial compliance.
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- Y Deng
- Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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Hwu CM, Tsai SC, Lau CP, Pu HF, Wang TL, Chiang ST, Wang PS. Increased concentrations of atrial and plasma atrial natriuretic peptide in castrated male rats. Life Sci 1993; 52:205-12. [PMID: 8355561 DOI: 10.1016/0024-3205(93)90141-o] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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The effects of orchiectomy and testosterone replacement on the plasma concentration and the atrial stores of atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) were studied in the rats. Male rats were orchiectomized (Orc) three weeks before replacement with testosterone propionate (TP, 20 mg/ml/kg body weight) or sesame oil for five days. Immunoreactive ANP (IR-ANP) in the extracted right atria and plasma of experimental rats was measured. Plasma ANP concentrations were 206 +/- 22, 927 +/- 151, and 264 +/- 61 pg/ml in normal control, Orc, and Orc + TP rats, respectively. ANP contents in right atria were higher in Orc (108 +/- 9 ng/mg tissue) and TP-treated Orc rats (123 +/- 9 ng/mg tissue) than in normal animals (32 +/- 7 ng/mg tissue). These results indicate an increased plasma concentration and atrial stores in the castrated male rats. Replacement of testosterone in the castrated male rats does not decrease the atrial ANP stores, but decreases the plasma ANP concentration.
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- C M Hwu
- Department of Physiology, National Yang-Ming Medical College, Taipei, Taiwan, R. O. C
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Robillard JE, Smith FG, Segar JL, Guillery EN, Jose PA. Mechanisms regulating renal sodium excretion during development. Pediatr Nephrol 1992; 6:205-13. [PMID: 1533309 DOI: 10.1007/bf00866320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The present review focuses on the ontogeny of mechanisms involved in renal sodium excretion during renal maturation. The effect of birth on renal excretion of sodium and the role played by the different tubular segments in the regulation of sodium excretion during maturation are discussed. The influence of circulating catecholamines and renal sympathetic innervation in regulating sodium excretion during renal development is reviewed. The effects of aldosterone, atrial natriuretic factor, and prostaglandins on sodium regulation during renal maturation are discussed. Special emphasis is given to the potential role of glucocorticoids in modulating sodium excretion early in life.
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- J E Robillard
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242
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Fullerton MJ, Krozowski ZS, Funder JW. Adrenalectomy and dexamethasone administration: effect on atrial natriuretic peptide synthesis and circulating forms. Mol Cell Endocrinol 1991; 82:33-40. [PMID: 1837001 DOI: 10.1016/0303-7207(91)90006-e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Previous in vivo and in vitro studies have reported a variety of glucocorticoid effects on the synthesis and secretion of immunoreactive atrial natriuretic peptide (ir-ANP) into plasma. To further define glucocorticoid modulation of ir-ANP, we have measured ir-ANP levels in plasma and the four cardiac chambers, and tissue ANP mRNA levels, in intact rats and adrenalectomized rats with or without dexamethasone treatment for 1, 2, 4, 8 and 16 days. Plasma levels fell by 50% between 8 and 16 days post-adrenalectomy; in contrast, dexamethasone treatment caused a 3-fold rise in plasma ANP 1-2 days post-adrenalectomy, with levels gradually returning to control by day 16. Circulating forms of ANP were unchanged by adrenalectomy or dexamethasone treatment, as were atrial ANP concentrations and ANP mRNA levels. Left ventricular ANP concentrations rose with dexamethasone treatment, and ventricular ANP mRNA levels changed in parallel with those of circulating ANP. The in vivo effect of glucocorticoids (at moderate rather than very high doses) on ANP synthesis and secretion thus appears to be predominantly but not exclusively upon the left ventricle rather than the atria.
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- M J Fullerton
- Prince Henry's Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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The alpha-adrenergic stimulation of atrial natriuretic factor expression in cardiac myocytes requires calcium influx, protein kinase C, and calmodulin-regulated pathways. J Biol Chem 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)98495-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Matsubara H, Mori Y, Yamamoto J, Inada M. Diabetes-induced alterations in atrial natriuretic peptide gene expression in Wistar-Kyoto and spontaneously hypertensive rats. Circ Res 1990; 67:803-13. [PMID: 2145090 DOI: 10.1161/01.res.67.4.803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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We investigated the effects of streptozotocin-induced diabetes on atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) synthesis, hemodynamic parameters, blood volume, and histopathology, as well as the reversibility of such effects with insulin therapy in Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rats and spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRs). The biatrial ANP messenger RNA (mRNA) levels in the diabetic WKY rats increased by 16-17% compared with those in the age-matched WKY rats at 12 weeks after the onset of diabetes, whereas their ventricular ANP mRNA levels showed increases of 190% in left ventricles and 160% in right ventricles at 8 weeks. In the diabetic SHRs, the left atrial ANP mRNA levels increased by 36% compared with those in the age-matched SHRs, as early as 4 weeks after diabetes onset. Their ventricular ANP mRNA levels also showed 80-82% increases in left and right ventricles at 4 weeks. In proportion to changes in cardiac ANP synthesis, the biventricular end-diastolic pressures were significantly elevated at 8 weeks in the diabetic WKY rats and at 4 weeks in the diabetic SHRs. The blood volume significantly increased at 8 weeks in the diabetic WKY rats and remained higher thereafter, whereas it did not change in the diabetic SHRs throughout the experimental period. The left ventricular peak dP/dt was depressed in the 8-week diabetic SHRs, whereas in the diabetic WKY rats, its depression was observed at 12 weeks after diabetes onset. Histopathological studies showed that diabetic changes in ANP synthesis and hemodynamic parameters described above occurred before the cardiomyopathic histological changes. Cardiac ANP synthesis in the diabetic rats completely reverted to control levels after insulin therapy, accompanied by normalization of hemodynamic parameters. The present study indicates that 1) ANP synthesis is significantly augmented in the streptozotocin-induced diabetic rat compared with that in the normal rat, and the combination of diabetes and hypertension produces an earlier and greater effect in stimulating cardiac ANP synthesis than does either disease alone; 2) an elevation in the intraventricular filling pressure that occurs before observable cardiomyopathic histopathological alterations might be involved partially in the augmented ANP synthesis; and 3) the reversibility with insulin therapy suggests that the streptozotocin-induced alterations observed in cardiac ANP synthesis and hemodynamics result from insulin-deficient diabetes mellitus, not from cardiac toxicity of streptozotocin.
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- H Matsubara
- Department of Medicine, Kansai Medical University, Osaka, Japan
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Matsubara H, Yamamoto J, Hirata Y, Mori Y, Oikawa S, Inada M. Changes of atrial natriuretic peptide and its messenger RNA with development and regression of cardiac hypertrophy in renovascular hypertensive rats. Circ Res 1990; 66:176-84. [PMID: 2136812 DOI: 10.1161/01.res.66.1.176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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We assessed the changes in atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) and its messenger RNA (mRNA) levels in atria and ventricles in relation to hemodynamic factors during antihypertensive treatments in two-kidney, one-clip renovascular hypertensive rats (RHRs). Hypertension of 10-week duration caused a twofold increase in the left ventricular weight/body weight ratio, a significant increase in left ventricular end-diastolic pressure, and an eightfold increase in left ventricular ANP mRNA levels in RHRs, as compared with the levels in control rats. Uninephrectomy or 4 weeks of treatment with the converting enzyme inhibitor enalapril reduced the blood pressure to the control level, with the complete reversal of left ventricular hypertrophy, left ventricular end-diastolic pressure, and ANP mRNA levels. Four weeks of treatment with the arterial vasodilator hydralazine significantly, but not completely, reduced the high blood pressure, but it did not influence left ventricular hypertrophy, end-diastolic pressure, and ANP mRNA levels. The increased ANP synthesis observed in the right ventricles of RHRs also reverted to the control level by uninephrectomy or enalapril treatment, but not by hydralazine, with a time course similar to that of left ventricular ANP. In addition, uninephrectomy caused the left and right ventricular ANP and ANP mRNA levels of RHRs to fall to the levels of control rats as early as 1 week, despite persistent left ventricular hypertrophy.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- H Matsubara
- Department of Medicine, Kansai Medical University, Moriguchi, Japan
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Wintour EM, Cooper E, McDougall JG, Shine PF, Towstoless MK. Interrelationship between cortisol and atrial natriuretic factor in the immature ovine fetus. Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol 1989; 16:737-44. [PMID: 2530017 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.1989.tb01628.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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1. In chronically cannulated ovine fetuses (100-130 days of gestation) the infusion of cortisol (86.7 +/- 15 micrograms/h for 4 h) or human atrial natriuretic factor (ANF; 4.4 micrograms for 2 h) resulted in highly significant increases in the excretion of sodium, chloride, potassium and water. 2. Cortisol had no significant effect on fetal plasma ANF concentrations. All values are mean and s.e.m. Plasma immunoreactive ANF was 53 +/- 5 and 67.3 +/- 13 pmol/L in the 4 h saline infused fetuses, and 51.3 +/- 14.3 and 74 +/- 13.3 pmol/L in cortisol-infused fetuses (n = 7). A separate group of fetuses received 2 h infusions of saline or hANF (4.4 micrograms/h), and plasma IR-ANF values were measured (n = 3). The values, at 0, 60, 90 and 120 min were, respectively, 19.7 +/- 3, 17.3 +/- 0.7, 18.7 +/- 3.7 and 20.7 +/- 3.7 pmol/L in the saline infused group, and 25.3 +/- 5.3, 80.7 +/- 32.3, 123.3 +/- 4.3 and 100 +/- 15 pmol/L in the ANF-infused fetuses. 3. Blood cortisol concentrations, in fetuses infused for 4 h with 0.9% NaCl, were 3.1 +/- 0.8 nmol/L (n = 7); in fetuses infused with 0.9% NaCl for 2 h were 3.6 +/- 1 nmol/L (n = 3); in fetuses infused for 4 h with cortisol were 19.9 +/- 1.9 nmol/L (n = 7); and in fetuses infused with hANF for 2 h were 6.0 +/- 3.0 nmol/L (n = 5). 4. There was no effect of fetal hANF infusion on maternal or fetal blood aldosterone concentrations.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- E M Wintour
- Department of Physiology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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Thibault G, Nemer M, Drouin J, Lavigne JP, Ding J, Charbonneau C, Garcia R, Genest J, Jasmin G, Sole M. Ventricles as a major site of atrial natriuretic factor synthesis and release in cardiomyopathic hamsters with heart failure. Circ Res 1989; 65:71-82. [PMID: 2525431 DOI: 10.1161/01.res.65.1.71] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The aim of the present study was to correlate in cardiomyopathic hamsters with congestive heart failure the levels of atrial and ventricular atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) messenger RNA (mRNA) with immunoreactive ANF (IR-ANF) plasma levels and the relative amount of IR-ANF released by the whole heart versus isolated ventricles in the Langendorff preparation. High-performance liquid chromatography analysis of the forms of ANF present in plasma and in the Langendorff effluent of whole heart versus isolated ventricles was also performed. As previously found for cardiac IR-ANF, the levels of ANF mRNA decreased gradually in atria and increased in an analogous fashion in ventricles with the severity of congestive heart failure. Plasma IR-ANF levels (C-terminal) were more elevated in moderate than in severe congestive heart failure, as were the IR-ANF levels in the Langendorff effluent of the whole heart. On the contrary, the effluent of isolated ventricles from animals in severe heart failure yielded more IR-ANF than that from hamsters in moderate heart failure. Thus, while the isolated ventricles from controls contributed 35.8% of IR-ANF released by the whole heart, ventricles from hamsters in moderate heart failure contributed 17.5%, and those from hamsters in severe heart failure contributed 73.9%. These results indicate that atrial cardiocytes contribute more IR-ANF than their ventricular counterpart in moderate heart failure and that ventricles are a major source of plasma IR-ANF in severe heart failure. Analysis of IR-ANF from plasma and the Langendorff effluent from whole hearts and isolated ventricles revealed that the ventricles are the major source of the propeptide (and of its cleaved products) found in the circulation of cardiomyopathic hamsters. These results suggest that ANF synthesis and secretion do not increase conjointly in atria but do increase in ventricles during congestive heart failure.
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- G Thibault
- Department of Pathology, Université de Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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This report has reviewed some of the cardiovascular aspects of ANP. The emergence of the heart as an endocrine organ requires that numerous questions be asked with regard to the importance of ANP to anesthesia and surgery. It is clear that the interaction of the hormone with other vasoactive compounds, including anesthetic agents, requires further elucidation. The accumulation of more information regarding the regulation of ANP and its cardiovascular setting will define its role in hemodynamic homeostasis in the acute clinical setting. Questions of specific interest to the anesthesiologist that require elucidation are: (1) Does the presence of abnormal ANP levels, associated with specific disease states, affect perioperative cardiovascular function? (2) Do cardiac surgery and CPB affect ANP-adrenergic interaction? (3) What is the relationship among blood volume, blood pressure, cation metabolism, and the ANP-renin-angiotensin system in perioperative patients? (4) What is the role of ANP as a therapeutic modality in surgical patients?
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- R W McIntyre
- Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710
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Matsubara H, Mori Y, Umeda Y, Oikawa S, Nakazato H, Inada M. Atrial natriuretic peptide gene expression and its secretion by pneumocytes derived from neonatal rat lungs. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1988; 156:619-27. [PMID: 2973312 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-291x(88)80888-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Using a primary culture of pneumocytes derived from neonatal rat lungs, we investigated the synthesis and secretion at transcriptional and peptide levels of pulmonary rat(r) atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP). Total RNA extracted from pneumocytes contained a hybridizing RNA band of the same size as atrial rANP mRNA. Immunoreactive (IR)-rANP content in pneumocytes was 0.5% of that in atrial myocytes, and 8.6% of that in ventricular myocytes, while the secretory rate from pneumocytes was about 7% of atrial and ventricular myocytes. Triiodothyronine (T3, 5 x 10(-10) to 5 x 10(-8) M), dexamethasone and testosterone (5 x 10(-9) to 5 x 10(-8) M) significantly stimulated the synthesis of IR-rANP by pneumocytes in a dose-dependent manner. However, the stimulatory effect exerted by T3 on rANP synthesis, unlike in the case of cardiocytes, was much more potent than that of dexamethasone, as evidenced by the significant difference in potency at both transcriptional and peptide levels. The present study suggests that ANP secreted from lungs may at least in part contribute to circulating ANP pool, and that the tissue-dependent difference of sensitivity to thyroid hormone may play an important role in the regulation of developmental ANP gene expression in mammalian lungs.
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- H Matsubara
- Second Department of Internal Medicine, Kansai Medical University, Osaka, Japan
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Wharton J, Anderson RH, Springall D, Power RF, Rose M, Smith A, Espejo R, Khaghani A, Wallwork J, Yacoub MH. Localisation of atrial natriuretic peptide immunoreactivity in the ventricular myocardium and conduction system of the human fetal and adult heart. Heart 1988; 60:267-74. [PMID: 2973340 PMCID: PMC1216572 DOI: 10.1136/hrt.60.4.267] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Atrial natriuretic peptide immunoreactivity was found in ventricular and atrial tissues with specific antisera raised to the amino and carboxy terminal regions of the precursor molecule. In 13 developing human hearts (7-24 weeks' gestation) the immunoreactivity was concentrated in the atrial myocardium and ventricular conduction system but it was also detected in the early fetal ventricular myocardium. Immunoreactivity in five normal adults was largely confined to the atrial myocardium although it was also found in the ventricular conduction tissues of hearts removed from 10 patients who were undergoing cardiac transplantation. The ventricular conduction system is an extra-atrial site for the synthesis of atrial natriuretic peptide. In the failing heart this synthesis may be further supplemented by expression of the gene in the ventricular myocardium. It is possible that ventricular production of the peptide contributes to the raised circulating concentrations of atrial natriuretic peptide immunoreactivity found in severe congestive heart disease, particularly in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy.
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- J Wharton
- Department of Histochemistry, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London
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Gardner DG, Gertz BJ, Deschepper CF, Kim DY. Gene for the rat atrial natriuretic peptide is regulated by glucocorticoids in vitro. J Clin Invest 1988; 82:1275-81. [PMID: 2971674 PMCID: PMC442679 DOI: 10.1172/jci113726] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Glucocorticoids regulate the expression of the gene for atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) in neonatal cardiocytes. Dexamethasone (Dex) increased cytoplasmic ANP mRNA levels and media ANP immunoreactivity in a dose-dependent fashion. These effects were not shared by the other classes of steroid hormones and were reversed by the glucocorticoid antagonist RU 38486. The effect on ANP mRNA levels resulted, at least in part, from enhanced transcription of the gene. Dex effected a two-fold increase in ANP gene activity assessed using a run-on transcription assay. The turnover of the ANP transcript was approximated using a standard pulse-chase technique. The half-life of the ANP mRNA was 18 h in hormone-free media. In the presence of Dex this half-life increased modestly to 30 h, although the increase relative to the control did not reach statistical significance. The effect of Dex at the level of the individual myocardial cell was assessed by in situ hybridization analysis using a specific [3H]cRNA probe. These studies demonstrated a significant level of ANP expression within a subpopulation of cells in the cultures. Exposure of the cells to Dex for 24 h did not recruit additional cells into the expressing pool (27.3% cells/high power field vs. 31.3% for the control) but did increase the level of expression (i.e., grain density) within individual cells. These findings indicate that glucocorticoids stimulate expression of the ANP gene directly at the level of the myocardial cell. This results predominantly from transcriptional activation in cells already expressing the gene rather than through recruitment of previously quiescent cells.
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- D G Gardner
- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco 94143
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Shields PP, Dixon JE, Glembotski CC. The secretion of atrial natriuretic factor-(99-126) by cultured cardiac myocytes is regulated by glucocorticoids. J Biol Chem 1988. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)37799-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Lavigne JP, Drouin J, Ding J, Thibault G, Nemer M, Cantin M. Atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) gene expression in the Brattleboro rat. Peptides 1988; 9:817-24. [PMID: 2976162 DOI: 10.1016/0196-9781(88)90127-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
Abstract
Atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) is a 28-amino acid peptide hormone of cardiac origin. It has natriuretic, diuretic and vasorelaxant properties and inhibits several cardiovascular modulators. Because of the possible effects of arginine vasopressin (AVP) on ANF secretion, we have investigated ANF gene expression in Brattleboro rats which are genetically deficient in AVP. Our results indicate that cardiac ANF mRNA and ANF content are higher in Brattleboro rats compared to Long-Evans controls, whereas the plasma levels are similar in both groups. Typical secretory granules containing immunoreactive ANF are present in ventricular cardiocytes of Brattleboro but not of Long-Evans rats. These data suggest that ANF release may be uncoupled from its synthesis in the absence of AVP.
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- J P Lavigne
- Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal, Québec, Canada
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Morel G, Heisler S. Internalization of endogenous and exogenous atrial natriuretic peptide by target tissues. ELECTRON MICROSCOPY REVIEWS 1988; 1:221-59. [PMID: 2856490 DOI: 10.1016/0892-0354(88)90003-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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- G Morel
- CNRS, UA 559, Laboratoire d'Histologie et Embryologie, Faculté de Médecine Lyon-Sud, Oullins, France
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