Journal article
Contractile dysfunction in hypertrophied hearts with deficient insulin receptor signaling: possible role of reduced capillary density
Journal of molecular and cellular cardiology, Vol.39(6), pp.882-892
2005
DOI: 10.1016/j.yjmcc.2005.07.017
PMID: 16216265
Abstract
Diabetics have worse outcomes than nondiabetics after a variety of cardiac insults. We tested the hypothesis that impaired insulin receptor signaling in myocytes worsens cardiac remodeling and function following injury, even in the absence of hyperglycemia. Mice with cardiomyocyte-restricted knock out of the insulin receptor (CIRKO) and wild type (WT) mice were treated with isoproterenol (ISO) for 2 or 5 days. Heart rates and cardiac mass increased comparably following ISO in WT and CIRKO mice. After 5 days, WT hearts were hyperdynamic by echocardiographic and left ventricular pressure measurements. However, CIRKO hearts had a blunted increase in contractility and relaxation following ISO. Interestingly, single myocytes isolated from both CIRKO ISO and WT ISO hearts had increased cellular shortening with prolonged time to peak shortening vs. respective shams. Thus, loss of myocytes or extramyocyte factors, rather than intrinsic dysfunction of surviving myocytes, caused the blunted inotropic response in ISO treated CIRKO hearts. Indeed, CIRKO ISO mice had increased troponin release after 2 days and greater interstitial and sub-endocardial fibrosis at 5 days than did ISO WT. Apoptosis assessed by TUNEL and caspase staining was increased in CIRKO ISO compared to WT ISO hearts; however, very few of the apoptotic nuclei were clearly in cardiac myocytes. After 5 days of ISO treatment, VEGF expression was increased in WT but not in CIRKO hearts. In keeping with this finding, capillary density was reduced in CIRKO ISO relative to WT ISO. Basal expression of hypoxia-inducible factor-1α was lower in CIRKO vs. WT hearts and may explain the blunted VEGF response. Thus, absence of insulin receptor signaling in the cardiac myocyte worsens catecholamine-mediated myocardial injury, at least in part, via mechanisms that tend to impair myocardial blood flow and increase ischemic injury.
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- Title: Subtitle
- Contractile dysfunction in hypertrophied hearts with deficient insulin receptor signaling: possible role of reduced capillary density
- Creators
- Alfred P McQueen - Division of Cardiology, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USADongfang Zhang - Division of Cardiology, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USAPing Hu - Division of Cardiology, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USALeAnne Swenson - Division of Cardiology, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USAYing Yang - Division of Cardiology, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USAVlad G Zaha - Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USAJames L Hoffman - Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USAUi Jeong Yun - Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USAGopa Chakrabarti - Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USAZhengming Wang - Department of Pediatrics, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USAKurt H Albertine - Department of Pediatrics, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USAE.D Abel - Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USASheldon E Litwin - Division of Cardiology, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of molecular and cellular cardiology, Vol.39(6), pp.882-892
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.yjmcc.2005.07.017
- PMID
- 16216265
- ISSN
- 0022-2828
- eISSN
- 1095-8584
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2005
- Academic Unit
- Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering; Fraternal Order of Eagles Diabetes Research Center; Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Endocrinology and Metabolism; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984024546202771
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