Affiliation:
1. the Department of Pharmacology (K.O., S.K., H.I.) and the First Department of Pathology (H.W.), Osaka (Japan) City University Medical School, and the Max Delbru¨ck Center for Molecular Medicine (D.G.), Berlin-Buch, Germany.
Abstract
Background
The transgenic rat TGR(mRen2)27, carrying the mouse
Ren
-2 gene, is a new model to elucidate the role of the local renin-angiotensin system in vivo. However, the role of the local renin-angiotensin system in the heart remains to be determined in TGR(mRen2)27.
Methods and Results
TGR(mRen2)27 were treated with various antihypertensive drugs for 6 weeks to examine the effects on cardiac hypertrophy and gene expression. Cardiac mRNAs were examined by Northern blot analysis. In TGR(mRen2)27, left ventricular hypertrophy was associated with a decrease in α-myosin heavy chain expression of 31% and an increase in skeletal α-actin and atrial natriuretic polypeptide expression by 2.6- and 21-fold, respectively (
P
<.05), thereby showing the shift of myocardium to a fetal phenotype. Furthermore, cardiac collagen and laminin expressions were increased in TGR(mRen2)27 (
P
<.05), suggesting the occurrence of cardiac remodeling. Although treatment of TGR(mRen2)27 with a high dose of TCV-116 (angiotensin AT
1
receptor antagonist) or manidipine (calcium antagonist) combined with atenolol (β
1
-adrenergic receptor blocker) completely normalized blood pressure, TCV-116 regressed cardiac hypertrophy and suppressed the changes in cardiac mRNA levels of TGR(mRen2)27 much more potently than manidipine with atenolol. Furthermore, the inhibitory effects of a low dose of TCV-116 on cardiac hypertrophy and altered gene expressions of TGR(mRen2)27 were greater than those of doxazosin (α
1
-adrenergic receptor blocker) combined with atenolol, despite their similar hypotensive effects.
Conclusions
Our present observations provide evidence that the cardiac renin-angiotensin system in TGR(mRen2)27 is responsible for cardiac hypertrophy, phenotypic modulation, and remodeling.
Publisher
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Subject
Physiology (medical),Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
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