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BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
卷 320, 期 3, 页码 1015-1019出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2004.06.052
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adult cardiomyocytes; phospholipase C; protein synthesis; norepinephrine; alpha-adrenoceptors; prazosin
Cardiac hypertrophy is characterized by increased cardiomyocyte size, mRNA levels for atrial natriuretic factor (ANF), and protein synthesis. Although activation of the phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase C (PLC) leads to the generation of diacylglycerol (DAG) and inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate, the involvement of PLC in hypertrophic response remains to be fully understood. The present study was therefore undertaken to examine if the inhibition of PLC activity is associated with a decrease in ANF expression and protein synthesis in cardiomyocytes, due to norepinephrine (NE), a known hypertrophic agent. NE resulted in an increase in ANF gene expression and protein synthesis in adult rat cardiomyocytes, these effects of NE were attenuated by a PLC inhibitor, U73122. The NE-induced increase in ANF gene expression and protein synthesis was also inhibited by an alpha-adrenoceptor blocker, prazosin. Both U73122 and prazosin depressed the NE-induced increase in DAG production in cardiomyocytes. These results indicate that the alpha-adrenoceptor mediated PLC activation may be involved in the process of NE-induced cardiac hypertrophy. (C) 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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