CARDIAC SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS ACTIVITY IN CONGESTIVE-HEART-FAILURE - EVIDENCE FOR INCREASED NEURONAL NOREPINEPHRINE RELEASE AND PRESERVED NEURONAL UPTAKE
CARDIAC SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS ACTIVITY IN CONGESTIVE-HEART-FAILURE - EVIDENCE FOR INCREASED NEURONAL NOREPINEPHRINE RELEASE AND PRESERVED NEURONAL UPTAKE
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DOI:
10.1161/01.cir.88.1.136
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发表时间:
1993-07-01
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影响因子:
37.8
通讯作者:
ESLER, MD
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作者:
MEREDITH, IT;EISENHOFER, G;ESLER, MD
Background. Increased concentrations of norepinephrine in coronary sinus plasma reported in congestive heart failure (CHF) could result from increased cardiac sympathetic nerve firing and norepinephrine release or from failure of neuronal uptake mechanisms to recapture released norepinephrine. We have applied neurochemical indexes of cardiac sympathetic nerve function in heart failure patients to delineate the underlying neural pathophysiology.Methods and Results. Cardiac norepinephrine synthesis, assessed from the cardiac overflow of the norepinephrine precursor dihydroxyphenylalanine (DOPA), intraneuronal metabolism estimated from the overflow of the intraneuronal metabolite dihydroxyphenylglycol (DHPG), neuronal norepinephrine reuptake assessed from the fractional extraction of plasma-tritiated norepinephrine and production of tritiated DHPG across the heart, and norepinephrine spillover to plasma were examined in eight patients with CHF caused by coronary artery disease (left ventricular ejection fraction of 26+/-5%, mean+/-SEM) and 14 age-matched healthy subjects. Cardiac norepinephrine spillover was increased eightfold in CHF subjects (127 ng/min versus 14 ng/min in healthy subjects; standard error of the difference [SED], 8 ng/min; P