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Neumann J, Hofmann B, Dhein S, Gergs U. Role of Dopamine in the Heart in Health and Disease. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:ijms24055042. [PMID: 36902474 PMCID: PMC10003060 DOI: 10.3390/ijms24055042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2023] [Revised: 02/25/2023] [Accepted: 03/02/2023] [Indexed: 03/08/2023] Open
Abstract
Dopamine has effects on the mammalian heart. These effects can include an increase in the force of contraction, and an elevation of the beating rate and the constriction of coronary arteries. Depending on the species studied, positive inotropic effects were strong, very modest, or absent, or even negative inotropic effects occurred. We can discern five dopamine receptors. In addition, the signal transduction by dopamine receptors and the regulation of the expression of cardiac dopamine receptors will be of interest to us, because this might be a tempting area of drug development. Dopamine acts in a species-dependent fashion on these cardiac dopamine receptors, but also on cardiac adrenergic receptors. We will discuss the utility of drugs that are currently available as tools to understand cardiac dopamine receptors. The molecule dopamine itself is present in the mammalian heart. Therefore, cardiac dopamine might act as an autocrine or paracrine compound in the mammalian heart. Dopamine itself might cause cardiac diseases. Moreover, the cardiac function of dopamine and the expression of dopamine receptors in the heart can be altered in diseases such as sepsis. Various drugs for cardiac and non-cardiac diseases are currently in the clinic that are, at least in part, agonists or antagonists at dopamine receptors. We define the research needs in order to understand dopamine receptors in the heart better. All in all, an update on the role of dopamine receptors in the human heart appears to be clinically relevant, and is thus presented here.
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Affiliation(s)
- Joachim Neumann
- Institut für Pharmakologie und Toxikologie, Medizinische Fakultät, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 06097 Halle, Germany
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +49-345-557-1686; Fax: +49-345-557-1835
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- Herzchirurgie, Medizinische Fakultät, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 06097 Halle, Germany
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- Medizinische Fakultät, Rudolf-Boehm-Institut für Pharmakologie und Toxikologie, Universität Leipzig, 04107 Leipzig, Germany
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- Institut für Pharmakologie und Toxikologie, Medizinische Fakultät, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 06097 Halle, Germany
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Peltsch H, Khurana S, Byrne CJ, Nguyen P, Khaper N, Kumar A, Tai TC. Cardiac phenylethanolamine N-methyltransferase: localization and regulation of gene expression in the spontaneously hypertensive rat. Can J Physiol Pharmacol 2015; 94:363-72. [PMID: 26761434 DOI: 10.1139/cjpp-2015-0303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Phenylethanolamine N-methyltransferase (PNMT) is the terminal enzyme in the catecholamine biosynthetic pathway responsible for adrenaline biosynthesis. Adrenaline is involved in the sympathetic control of blood pressure; it augments cardiac function by increasing stroke volume and cardiac output. Genetic mapping studies have linked the PNMT gene to hypertension. This study examined the expression of cardiac PNMT and changes in its transcriptional regulators in the spontaneously hypertensive (SHR) and wild type Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rats. SHR exhibit elevated levels of corticosterone, and lower levels of the cytokine IL-1β, revealing systemic differences between SHR and WKY. PNMT mRNA was significantly increased in all chambers of the heart in the SHR, with the greatest increase in the right atrium. Transcriptional regulators of the PNMT promoter show elevated expression of Egr-1, Sp1, AP-2, and GR mRNA in all chambers of the SHR heart, while protein levels of Sp1, Egr-1, and GR were elevated only in the right atrium. Interestingly, only AP-2 protein-DNA binding was increased, suggesting it may be a key regulator of cardiac PNMT in SHR. This study provides the first insights into the molecular mechanisms involved in the dysregulation of cardiac PNMT in a genetic model of hypertension.
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- Heather Peltsch
- a Department of Biology, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON, Canada
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- e Medical Sciences Division, Northern Ontario School of Medicine, East Campus, 935 Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury, ON P3E 2C6, Canada
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- a Department of Biology, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON, Canada
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- a Department of Biology, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON, Canada
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- d Medical Sciences Division, Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada
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- b Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON, Canada.,c Biomolecular Sciences, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON, Canada
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- a Department of Biology, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON, Canada.,b Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON, Canada.,c Biomolecular Sciences, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON, Canada.,e Medical Sciences Division, Northern Ontario School of Medicine, East Campus, 935 Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury, ON P3E 2C6, Canada
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Spasojevic N, Jovanovic P, Stefanovic B, Dronjak S. Influence of individual housing in the adult rats on catecholamine synthesis and storage in the right and left medial prefrontal cortex. NEUROCHEM J+ 2014. [DOI: 10.1134/s1819712414040084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Spasojevic N, Jovanovic P, Stanisavljevic D, Stefanovic B, Dronjak S. Hypothalamic noradrenaline synthesis, uptake and storage in rats during adaptation to long-term individual housing. NEUROCHEM J+ 2013. [DOI: 10.1134/s1819712413020050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Campos-Melo D, Quiroz G, Noches V, Gysling K, Forray MI, Andrés ME. Repeated immobilization stress increases nur77 expression in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis. Neurotox Res 2011; 20:289-300. [PMID: 21442465 DOI: 10.1007/s12640-011-9243-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2010] [Revised: 03/09/2011] [Accepted: 03/10/2011] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The transcription factor Nur77 has been identified as a neuronal activation marker of stressful stimuli in the central nervous system. Nur77 plays a key role at all levels of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis during the stress response. However, the participation of Nur77 in extra-hypothalamic responses to stress is unknown. In this study, we studied the impact of acute and repeated immobilization stress on Nur77 expression in the bed nucleus of stria terminalis (BNST), a region involved in autonomic, neuroendocrine, and behavioral responses to stress. After a single session of immobilization stress we observed a significant increase of Nur77-like immunoreactivity in the BNST. This effect is not lost with repeated exposure to stress, since Nur77-like immunoreactivity and Nur77 mRNA in BNST were increased after the fifteenth stress session. The administration of desipramine, a specific inhibitor of noradrenaline reuptake, prevented the increase in Nur77-like immunoreactivity and mRNA induced by stress in rats subjected to repeated exposure to immobilization stress. Our results show that acute and repeated stress modulates Nur77 expression in BNST and suggest that Nur77 participates in extra-hypothalamic responses to stress.
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- Danae Campos-Melo
- Faculty of Biological Sciences, Nucleus Millennium in Stress and Addiction, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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