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LANCET
Volume 363, Issue 9418, Pages 1365-1367Publisher
LANCET LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(04)16048-0
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Experimental data suggest that nitric oxide (NO) generated from neuronal NO synthase (nNOS) modulates the myocardial inotropic state. To assess the contribution of NO, derived from endothelial and neuronal isoforms, to the pathophysiology of congestive heart failure in human beings, we compared expression, localisation, and specific activity of NOS isoforms in myocardium from patients with dilated cardiomyopathy with those in controls who had died from head trauma or intracranial bleeds. Diseased hearts had a significant increase in nNOS mRNA and protein expression, and activity associated with the translocation of nNOS to the sarcolemma through interactions with caveolin 3. Enhanced nNOS activity counteracted a decrease in eNOS expression and activity. Our results provide evidence of increased nNOS-derived NO in the failing human heart. Such altered regulation may be important in the pathophysiology of cardiac dysfunction in human congestive heart failure.
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