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BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 281, Issue 2, Pages 328-333Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2001.4343
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ethanol; acetaldehyde; calcium carbamide; ANP; BNP; p53; p21; bcl-2; bax; DNA damage; TNF-alpha; apoptosis; heart; cell cycle; growth
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Whether alcohol-induced heart failure is caused by a direct toxic effect of ethanol, metabolites, or whether it is a secondary result of neurohumoral, hormonal, or nutritional factors is not clear, To address this question a Langendorff retrograde coronary perfusion model of rat heart was used to study the effect of 0.5% (v/v) ethanol (n = 7) and 0.5 mM acetaldehyde (n = 9) on left ventricular expression of ANP, BNP, p53, p21, TNF-alpha, bax, bcl-2 as well as on DNA-fragmentation. Ethanol infusion of 150 min duration significantly induced both ANP and p21 mRNA expression of ventricular myocardium compared with hearts infused with vehicle (n = 8), Acetaldehyde did not exert any significant effects on any of the parameters studied, although the mean expression of TNF-alpha tended to be lower in the acetaldehyde-treated hearts than in control hearts. No evidence of increased DNA-fragmentation was found in ethanol or acetaldehyde treated groups. We conclude that ethanol per se is capable of inducing genes associated with hypertrophy and impaired function of the heart whereas a significant apoptosis is not involved in the initial phase of alcohol-induced cardiac injury. (C) 2001 Academic Press.
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