Journal
SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL & LABORATORY INVESTIGATION
Volume 77, Issue 5, Pages 321-331Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00365513.2017.1318447
Keywords
Animal models of human disease; cardiac morphogens; growth factors; heart failure; ischemia; myocardial remodelling
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- South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority [2013109]
- National Association (Norway)
- University of Oslo
- Norwegian Research Council [170645]
- Government of Russian Federation [074-U01]
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We aimed to study the cardiac expression of bone morphogenetic protein 2, its receptor 1b, and connective tissue growth factor, factors implicated in cardiac embryogenesis, following ischemia/hypoxia, heart failure, and in remodeling hearts from humans and mice. Biopsies from the left ventricle of patients with end-stage heart failure due to dilated cardiomyopathy or coronary artery disease were compared with donor hearts and biopsies from patients with normal heart function undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting. Mouse model of post-infarction remodeling was made by permanent ligation of the left coronary artery. Hearts were analyzed by real-time polymerase chain reaction and Western blotting after 24hours and after 2 and 4 weeks. Patients with dilated cardiomyopathy and mice post-infarction had increased cardiac expression of connective tissue growth factor. Bone morphogenetic protein 2 was increased in human hearts failing due to coronary artery disease and in mice post-infarction. Gene expression of bone morphogenetic protein receptor 1 beta was reduced in hearts of patients with failure, but increased two weeks following permanent ligation of the left coronary artery in mice. In conclusion, connective tissue growth factor is upregulated in hearts of humans with dilated cardiomyopathy, bone morphogenetic protein 2 is upregulated in remodeling due to myocardial infarction while its receptor 1b in human failing hearts is downregulated. A potential explanation might be an attempt to engage regenerative processes, which should be addressed by further, mechanistic studies.
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