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Kim M, Kim HL, Lim WH, Seo JB, Kim SH, Kim MA, Zo JH. Association between arterial stiffness and left ventricular diastolic function: A large population-based cross-sectional study. Front Cardiovasc Med 2022; 9:1001248. [PMID: 36312236 PMCID: PMC9606341 DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2022.1001248] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2022] [Accepted: 09/27/2022] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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Background The association between arterial stiffness and left ventricular (LV) diastolic function has been demonstrated in several studies, but the samples size in those studies was small. This study aims to verify this issue in a large number of study subjects. Methods A total of 7,013 consecutive participants (mean age 60.6 years and 43.3% female) who underwent both baPWV and transthoracic echocardiography were retrospectively analyzed. Subjects with significant cardiac structural abnormalities were excluded. Results There were significant correlations of baPWV with septal e′ velocity (r = – 0.408; P < 0.001), septal E/e′ (r = 0.349; P < 0.001), left atrial volume index (LAVI) (r = 0.122; P < 0.001) and maximal velocity of tricuspid valve regurgitation (TR Vmax) (r = 0.322; P < 0.001). The baPWV values increased proportionally with an increase in the number of LV diastolic indices meeting LV diastolic dysfunction criteria (P-for-trend < 0.001). In multivariable analyses with adjustment for confounding effects of various clinical covariates, higher baPWV was independently associated with septal e′ < 7 (odds ratio [OR], 1.30; 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.20–1.60; P < 0.001), septal E/e′ ≥ 15 (OR, 1.46; 95% CI, 1.21–1.78; P < 0.001), and TR Vmax > 2.8 m/s (OR, 1.60; 95% CI, 1.23–2.09; P < 0.001) but not with LAVI ≥ 34 mL/m2 (OR, 0.89; 95% CI, 0.76–1.03; P = 0.123). Conclusions Increased arterial stiffness, as measured by baPWV, was associated with abnormal diastolic function parameters in a large number of study participants, providing strong evidence to the existing data about ventricular-vascular coupling.
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- Minkwan Kim
- Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yongin Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Yongin-si, South Korea
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Boramae Medical Center, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea,*Correspondence: Hack-Lyoung Kim
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Boramae Medical Center, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Boramae Medical Center, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Boramae Medical Center, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Boramae Medical Center, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Boramae Medical Center, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea,Joo-Hee Zo
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Bai F, Caster HM, Dawson JF, Kawai M. The immediate effect of HCM causing actin mutants E99K and A230V on actin-Tm-myosin interaction in thin-filament reconstituted myocardium. J Mol Cell Cardiol 2014; 79:123-32. [PMID: 25451174 DOI: 10.1016/j.yjmcc.2014.10.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2014] [Revised: 10/23/2014] [Accepted: 10/26/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Human cardiac actin mutants E99K and A230V were expressed with baculovirus/insect cells and used to reconstitute the thin-filament of bovine cardiac (BVC) muscle fibers, together with tropomyosin (Tm) and troponin (Tn) purified from bovine ventricles. Effects of [Ca(2+)], [ATP], and [phosphate] on tension and its transients were studied at 25°C. In the absence of Tm/Tn, both mutants significantly decreased the tension of actin filament reconstituted fibers (WT: 0.75±0.06 T0, E99K: 0.58±0.04 T0, A230V: 0.58±0.03 T0), where T0 is active tension of native fibers (T0=26.9±1.1kPa, N=41), indicating diminished actin-myosin interactions. However, in the presence of Tm and Tn, WT, E99K, and A230V recovered tension (0.85±0.06 T0, 0.89±0.06 T0, and 0.85±0.05 T0, respectively), demonstrating the compensatory effect of Tm/Tn. Ca(2+) sensitivity (pCa50) increased (5.59±0.02, 5.80±0.03, 5.77±0.03, respectively) and cooperativity (nH) decreased (2.6±0.3, 1.87±0.21, 1.60±0.11, respectively). The kinetic constants of the cross-bridge cycle were deduced using sinusoidal analysis. E99K did not show any significant changes in any of the kinetic constants compared to those of WT. A230V caused a decrease in K1 (ATP association constant), k2 and k-2 (rate constants of the cross-bridge detachment step). The cross-bridge distribution was similar among WT, E99K, and A230V. In conclusion, our experiments demonstrate that the first step of HCM pathogenesis with E99K is increased pCa50 and decreased nH, which result in larger tension during partial activation to cause a diastolic problem. The effect on nH is more severe with A230V. In addition, A230V has a problem of decreased cross-bridge kinetics, which affects the normal functions of the cross-bridge cycle and may contribute to the first step of the HCM pathogenesis.
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- Fan Bai
- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, and Internal Medicine, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1109, USA.
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- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, and Internal Medicine, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1109, USA.
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, College of Biological Science, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada.
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- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, and Internal Medicine, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1109, USA.
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A study of tropomyosin's role in cardiac function and disease using thin-filament reconstituted myocardium. J Muscle Res Cell Motil 2013; 34:295-310. [PMID: 23700264 DOI: 10.1007/s10974-013-9343-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2013] [Accepted: 05/07/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Tropomyosin (Tm) is the key regulatory component of the thin-filament and plays a central role in the cardiac muscle's cooperative activation mechanism. Many mutations of cardiac Tm are related to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), and left ventricular noncompaction (LVNC). Using the thin-filament extraction/reconstitution technique, we are able to incorporate various Tm mutants and protein isoforms into a muscle fiber environment to study their roles in Ca(2+) regulation, cross-bridge kinetics, and force generation. The thin-filament reconstitution technique poses several advantages compared to other in vitro and in vivo methods: (1) Tm mutants and isoforms are placed into the real muscle fiber environment to exhibit their effect on a level much higher than simple protein complexes; (2) only the primary and immediate effects of Tm mutants are studied in the thin-filament reconstituted myocardium; (3) lethal mutants of Tm can be studied without causing a problem; and (4) inexpensive. In transgenic models, various secondary effects (myocyte disarray, ECM fibrosis, altered protein phosphorylation levels, etc.) also affect the performance of the myocardium, making it very difficult to isolate the primary effect of the mutation. Our studies on Tm have demonstrated that: (1) Tm positively enhances the hydrophobic interaction between actin and myosin in the "closed state", which in turn enhances the isometric tension; (2) Tm's seven periodical repeats carry distinct functions, with the 3rd period being essential for the tension enhancement; (3) Tm mutants lead to HCM by impairing the relaxation on one hand, and lead to DCM by over inhibition of the AM interaction on the other hand. Ca(2+) sensitivity is affected by inorganic phosphate, ionic strength, and phosphorylation of constituent proteins; hence it may not be the primary cause of the pathogenesis. Here, we review our current knowledge regarding Tm's effect on the actomyosin interaction and the early molecular pathogenesis of Tm mutation related to HCM, DCM, and LVNC.
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Bai F, Weis A, Takeda AK, Chase PB, Kawai M. Enhanced active cross-bridges during diastole: molecular pathogenesis of tropomyosin's HCM mutations. Biophys J 2011; 100:1014-23. [PMID: 21320446 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2011.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2010] [Revised: 12/22/2010] [Accepted: 01/03/2011] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Three HCM-causing tropomyosin (Tm) mutants (V95A, D175N, and E180G) were examined using the thin-filament extraction and reconstitution technique. The effects of Ca(2+), ATP, phosphate, and ADP concentrations on cross-bridge kinetics in myocardium reconstituted with each of these mutants were studied at 25°C, and compared to wild-type (WT) Tm at physiological ionic strength (200 mM). All three mutants showed significantly higher (2-3.5 fold) low Ca(2+) tension (T(LC)) and stiffness than WT at pCa 8.0. High Ca(2+) tension (T(HC)) was significantly higher for E180G than that for WT, whereas T(HC) of V95A and D175N was similar to WT; high Ca(2+) stiffness (Y(HC)) had the same trend. The Ca(2+) sensitivity of isometric force was significantly greater for V95A and E180G than for WT, whereas that of D175N remained the same as for WT; for all mutants, cooperativity was lower than for WT. Nine kinetic constants and the cross-bridge distribution were deduced using sinusoidal analysis. The number of force-generating cross bridges was similar among the D175N, E180G, and WT Tm forms, but it was significantly larger in the case of V95A than WT. We conclude that the increased number of actively cycling cross bridges at pCa 8 is the major cause of Tm mutation-related HCM pathogenesis, which may result in diastolic dysfunction. Decreased contractility (T(act)) in V95A and D175N may further contribute to the severity of myocyte hypertrophy and related prognosis of the disease.
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- Fan Bai
- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
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Harris DM, Chen X, Pesant S, Cohn HI, MacDonnell SM, Boucher M, Vinge LE, Raake P, Moraca SR, Li D, Most P, Houser SR, Koch WJ, Eckhart AD. Inhibition of angiotensin II Gq signaling augments beta-adrenergic receptor mediated effects in a renal artery stenosis model of high blood pressure. J Mol Cell Cardiol 2008; 46:100-7. [PMID: 18930063 DOI: 10.1016/j.yjmcc.2008.09.708] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2008] [Revised: 09/17/2008] [Accepted: 09/17/2008] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Chronic ventricular pressure overload states, such as hypertension, and elevated levels of neurohormones (norepinephrine, angiotensin II, endothelin-1) initiate cardiac hypertrophy and dysfunction and share the property of being able to bind to Gq-coupled 7-transmembrane receptors. The goal of the current study was to determine the role of endogenous cardiac myocyte Gq signaling and its role in cardiac hypertrophy and dysfunction during high blood pressure (BP). We induced renal artery stenosis for 8 weeks in control mice and mice expressing a peptide inhibitor of Gq signaling (GqI) using a 2 kidney, 1 clip renal artery stenosis model. 8 weeks following chronic high BP, control mice had cardiac hypertrophy and depressed function. Inhibition of cardiomyocyte Gq signaling did not reverse cardiac hypertrophy but attenuated increases in a profile of cardiac profibrotic genes and genes associated with remodeling. Inhibition of Gq signaling also attenuated the loss of cardiac function. We determined that Gq signaling downstream of angiotensin II receptor stimulation negatively impacted beta-adrenergic receptor (AR) responses and inhibition of Gq signaling was sufficient to restore betaAR-mediated responses. Therefore, in this study we found that Gq signaling negatively impacts cardiac function during high BP. Specifically, we found that inhibition of AT1-Gq signaling augmented betaAR mediated effects in a renal artery stenosis model of hypertension. These observations may underlie additional, beneficial effects of angiotensinogen converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and angiotensin receptor antagonists observed during times of hemodynamic stress.
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- David M Harris
- Eugene Feiner Laboratory of Vascular Biology and Thrombosis, USA
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Lourenço AP, Roncon-Albuquerque R, Brás-Silva C, Faria B, Wieland J, Henriques-Coelho T, Correia-Pinto J, Leite-Moreira AF. Myocardial dysfunction and neurohumoral activation without remodeling in left ventricle of monocrotaline-induced pulmonary hypertensive rats. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2006; 291:H1587-94. [PMID: 16679394 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.01004.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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In monocrotaline (MCT)-induced pulmonary hypertension (PH), only the right ventricle (RV) endures overload, but both ventricles are exposed to enhanced neuroendocrine stimulation. To assess whether in long-standing PH the left ventricular (LV) myocardium molecular/contractile phenotype can be disturbed, we evaluated myocardial function, histology, and gene expression of autocrine/paracrine systems in rats with severe PH 6 wk after subcutaneous injection of 60 mg/kg MCT. The overloaded RV underwent myocardial hypertrophy ( P < 0.001) and fibrosis ( P = 0.014) as well as increased expression of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) (8-fold; P < 0.001), endothelin-1 (ET-1) (6-fold; P < 0.001), and type B natriuretic peptide (BNP) (15-fold; P < 0.001). Despite the similar upregulation of ET-1 (8-fold; P < 0.001) and overexpression of ACE (4-fold; P < 0.001) without BNP elevation, the nonoverloaded LV myocardium was neither hypertrophic nor fibrotic. LV indexes of contractility ( P < 0.001) and relaxation ( P = 0.03) were abnormal, however, and LV muscle strips from MCT-treated compared with sham rats presented negative ( P = 0.003) force-frequency relationships (FFR). Despite higher ET-1 production, BQ-123 (ETA antagonist) did not alter LV MCT-treated muscle strip contractility distinctly ( P = 0.005) from the negative inotropic effect exerted on shams. Chronic daily therapy with 250 mg/kg bosentan (dual endothelin receptor antagonist) after MCT injection not only attenuated RV hypertrophy and local neuroendocrine activation but also completely reverted FFR of LV muscle strips to positive values. In conclusion, the LV myocardium is altered in advanced MCT-induced PH, undergoing neuroendocrine activation and contractile dysfunction in the absence of hypertrophy or fibrosis. Neuroendocrine mediators, particularly ET-1, may participate in this functional deterioration.
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- André P Lourenço
- Serviço de Fisiologia, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto, Alameda Professor Hernâni Monteiro, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal
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This case report shows the development of a right ventricular aneurysm in a cat with a large atrial septal defect. Despite this complex cardiac pathology, the cat lived normally for more than 4 years and developed fatal congestive heart failure.
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Amedeo Modesti P, Zecchi-Orlandini S, Vanni S, Polidori G, Bertolozzi I, Perna AM, Formigli L, Cecioni I, Coppo M, Boddi M, Serneri GGN. Release of preformed Ang II from myocytes mediates angiotensinogen and ET-1 gene overexpression in vivo via AT1 receptor. J Mol Cell Cardiol 2002; 34:1491-500. [PMID: 12431448 DOI: 10.1006/jmcc.2002.2095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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UNLABELLED The role of angiotensin II in pressure overload is still debated because notwithstanding its effects on myocyte contractility angiotensin II is not an obligatory factor for the development of hypertrophy. To define the role of angiotensin II in acute pressure overload we studied the effects of AT1 blockade (valsartan 80mg per day) on myocardial contractility, cardiac growth factor gene expression, and myocardial hypertrophy in aortic banded (60mmHg) pigs. Acute pressure overload caused an abrupt reduction of myocardial contractility, measured by the end-systolic stiffness constant, and a sharp increase in end-systolic stress which rapidly normalized (within 12h) in the placebo group. In AT1-blocked animals end-systolic stiffness constant remained significantly depressed up to 24h and end-systolic stress was still elevated up to 48h (both P<0.05 vs placebo). In both groups confocal microscopy revealed that granular staining of angiotensin II in cardiomyocyte cytoplasm disappeared after 30min of pressure overload. AT1 blockade abolished following cardiac overexpression of angiotensinogen and endothelin-1 genes as shown in RT-PCR studies and the consequent angiotensin II and endothelin-1 release in the coronary circulation. Conversely, insulin-like growth factor-I and ACE mRNA overexpression, as well as the onset of left ventricular mass increase, were not significantly affected by AT1 blockade. IN CONCLUSION (1) mechanical stress releases preformed angiotensin II from myocyte in vivo; (2) the AT1 blockade abolishes cardiac angiotensin II and endothelin-1 production with delayed recovery of myocardial contractility; whereas (3) the overexpression of insulin-like growth factor-I gene and the development of myocardial hypertrophy are not angiotensin II-mediated effects.
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- Pietro Amedeo Modesti
- Clinica Medica Generale e Cardiologia, University of Florence, Viale Morgagni 85, 50134, Florence, Italy.
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Leeuwenburgh BP, Helbing WA, Steendijk P, Schoof PH, Baan J. Biventricular systolic function in young lambs subject to chronic systemic right ventricular pressure overload. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2001; 281:H2697-704. [PMID: 11709439 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.2001.281.6.h2697] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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In various clinical situations of congenital heart disease, the right ventricle (RV) is subject to a chronic systemic pressure overload which affects biventricular function and may progress to the development of RV failure. Young lambs (2-3 wk old) underwent adjustable pulmonary artery banding (PAB) at systemic (aortic) level for 8 wk. Biventricular function was determined by using load-independent indexes of global ventricular contractile performance by the end-systolic pressure-volume relationship (ESPVR) using the conductance catheter at baseline and during dobutamine infusion. PAB resulted in a significant fivefold increase in RV end-systolic pressure (12-64 mmHg) and a doubling of the RV-to-left ventricular (LV) wall thickness ratio (P < 0.01). RV global contractile performance increased significantly, as indicated by an increased slope of the ESPVR. Compared with age-matched control lambs, cardiac output decreased from 2.6 to 1.6 l/min (P < 0.05) whereas heart rates were equal. In contrast with RV volume, LV volume decreased significantly after PAB (P < 0.01), whereas the LV-ESPVR slope was unchanged. In the PAB group, the RV, but not the LV, showed a reduced response to dobutamine. We concluded that chronic RV pressure overload for 8 wk results in diminished pump function despite compensatory increased RV global contractile performance.
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- B P Leeuwenburgh
- Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands
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Modesti PA, Vanni S, Bertolozzi I, Cecioni I, Polidori G, Paniccia R, Bandinelli B, Perna A, Liguori P, Boddi M, Galanti G, Serneri GG. Early sequence of cardiac adaptations and growth factor formation in pressure- and volume-overload hypertrophy. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2000; 279:H976-85. [PMID: 10993758 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.2000.279.3.h976] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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To investigate the time sequence of cardiac growth factor formation, echocardiographic and hemodynamic measurements were performed at scheduled times, and mRNAs for angiotensinogen, prepro-endothelin-1 (ppET-1), and insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) were quantified with RT-PCR and localized with in situ hybridization in pigs (fluothane anesthesia) by use of pressure or volume overload (aortic banding and aorta-cava fistula, respectively). Relative peptide formation was also measured by radioimmunoassay. In pressure overload, angiotensinogen and ppET-1 mRNA overexpression on myocytes (13 times vs. sham at 3 h and 112 times at 6 h, respectively) was followed by recovery (12 h) of initially decreased (0.5-6 h) myocardial contractility. In volume overload, contractility was not decreased, the angiotensinogen gene was slightly upregulated at 6 h (6.7 times), and ppET-1 was not overexpressed. IGF-I mRNA was overexpressed on myocytes (at 24 h) in both volume and pressure overload (14 times and 37 times, respectively). In the latter setting, a second ppET-1 overexpression was detectable on myocytes at 7 days. In conclusion, acute cardiac adaptation responses involve different growth factor activation over time in pressure versus volume overload; growth factors initially support myocardial contractility and thereafter induce myocardial hypertrophy.
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- P A Modesti
- Clinica Medica Generale e Cardiologia, University of Florence, 50134 Florence, Italy
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