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Chronic inhibition of Rho kinase blunts the process of left ventricular hypertrophy leading to cardiac contractile dysfunction in hypertension-induced heart failure.

Abstract：

:The Gq-RhoA-Rho kinase pathway, activated by neurohormonal factors such as angiotensin II (Ang II), has been proposed to be one of the important signaling pathways involved in the progression of left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy to heart failure. We tested the hypothesis that chronic inhibition of Rho kinase prevents this process. Heart failure was induced in Dahl salt-sensitive (DS) rats fed an 8% NaCl diet from 8 until 17 weeks of age. Y-27632 (5 mg/kg per day), a selective Rho kinase inhibitor, was applied orally to DS rats starting at 10 weeks of age for 7 weeks (DS/Y+). DS rats without Y-27632 (DS/Y-) and Dahl salt-resistant (DR) rats fed the 8% NaCl diet were regarded as non-therapeutic and normotensive controls, respectively. At 17 weeks of age, there was no significant difference in the blood pressure of DS/Y- and DS/Y+ rats. DS/Y- rats exhibited: (1) increases in LV mass, cross-sectional area (CSA) of cardiomyocytes, and interstitial fibrosis; (2) contractile dysfunction, i.e. decreases in LV ejection fraction and % fractional shortening, and prolongation of time to peak tension as well as to 50% relaxation in the twitch contraction of isolated papillary muscle; and (3) increases in the protein expression of Galphaq and Rho kinase in the myocardial membrane fraction. In DS/Y+ rats, the degree of myocardial hypertrophy was significantly inhibited in association with improved contractile function, without a decrease in the degree of interstitial fibrosis. Our results suggest the possibility that the Gq-Rho kinase pathway plays an important role in the process of hypertension-induced LV hypertrophy leading to contractile dysfunction.

journal_name

J Mol Cell Cardiol

journal_title

Journal of molecular and cellular cardiology

authors

Satoh S,Ueda Y,Koyanagi M,Kadokami T,Sugano M,Yoshikawa Y,Makino N

doi

10.1016/s0022-2828(02)00278-x

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pub_date

2003-01-01 00:00:00

pages

59-70

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eissn

0022-2828

issn

1095-8584

pii

S002228280200278X

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Chronic inhibition of Rho kinase blunts the process of left ventricular hypertrophy leading to cardiac contractile dysfunction in hypertension-induced heart failure.