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Decompensation of pressure-overload hypertrophy in G alpha q-overexpressing mice.

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BACKGROUND:Receptor-mediated activation of myocardial Gq signaling is postulated as a biochemical mechanism transducing pressure-overload hypertrophy. The specific effects of Gq activation on the functional and morphological adaptations to pressure overload are not known. METHODS AND RESULTS:To determine the effects of intrinsic myocyte G alpha q signaling on the left ventricular hypertrophic response to experimental pressure overload, transgenic mice overexpressing G alpha q specifically in the heart (G alpha q-25) and nontransgenic siblings underwent microsurgical creation of transverse aortic coarctation and the morphometric, functional, and molecular characteristics of these pressure-overloaded hearts were compared at increasing times after surgery. Before aortic banding, isolated G alpha q-25 ventricular myocytes exhibited contractile depression (depressed +dl/dt and -dl/dt) and G alpha q-25 hearts showed a pattern of fetal gene expression similar to the known characteristics of nontransgenic pressure-overloaded mice. Three weeks after transverse aortic banding, G alpha q-25 left ventricles hypertrophied to a similar extent (approximately 30% increase) as nontransgenic mice. However, whereas nontransgenic mice exhibited concentric left ventricular remodeling with maintained ejection performance (compensated hypertrophy), G alpha q-25 left ventricles developed eccentric hypertrophy and ejection performance deteriorated, ultimately resulting in left heart failure (decompensated hypertrophy). The signature hypertrophy-associated progress of fetal cardiac gene expression observed at baseline in G alpha q-25 developed after aortic banding of nontransgenic mice but did not significantly change in aortic-banded G alpha q-25 mice. CONCLUSIONS:Intrinsic cardiac myocyte G alpha q activation stimulates fetal gene expression and depresses cardiac myocyte contractility. Superimposition of the hemodynamic stress of pressure overload on G alpha q overexpression stimulates a maladaptive form of eccentric hypertrophy that leads to rapid functional decompensation. Therefore G alpha q-stimulated cardiac hypertrophy is functionally deleterious and compromises the ability of the heart to adapt to increased mechanical load. This finding supports a reevaluation of accepted concepts regarding the mechanisms for compensation and decompensation in pressure-overload hypertrophy.

journal_name

Circulation

journal_title

Circulation

authors

Sakata Y,Hoit BD,Liggett SB,Walsh RA,Dorn GW 2nd

doi

10.1161/01.cir.97.15.1488

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1998-04-21 00:00:00

pages

1488-95

issue

eissn

0009-7322

issn

1524-4539

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Decompensation of pressure-overload hypertrophy in G alpha q-overexpressing mice.