Cardiac atrophy in the heterotopically transplanted rat heart: in vitro protein synthesis.
Cardiac atrophy in the heterotopically transplanted rat heart: in vitro protein synthesis.
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异位移植大鼠心脏的心肌萎缩:体外蛋白质合成。
DOI:
10.1016/0022-2828(90)91481-l
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发表时间:
1990
影响因子:
5
通讯作者:
Schreiber,SS
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作者:
Klein,I;Hong,C;Schreiber,SS
Heterotopic cardiac isografts are vasculary perfused organs that maintain structural and functional integrity. We have used this model to study the time course of change in total heart and left ventricular size which results from mechanical unloading of the myocardium. When compared to thein situ(working) heart there is a 19% decrease in the size of the heterotopic (non-working) heart (P< 0.01) as early as 3 days post-transplantation. By 14 days there is 50% decrease in the size of the transplanted heart which is maintained at this atrophic size when measured after 4 weeks. Left ventricular protein synthesis was assayed by the simultaneousin vitroperfusion of the host and transplanted hearts under identical hemodynamic conditions. The hourly incorporation of14C-lysine into total left ventricular protein was 21 nmol in the transplant compared to 50 nmol in thein situheart (P< 0.01). This incorporation remained significantly lower throughout the period of study. In contrast, both the total (μmol lysine/g protein nitrogen/h) and fractional rates of protein synthesis which were lower in the transplanted left ventricle at days 3 and 7 returned to control values by day 28. The present studies demonstrate that heterotopic cardiac transplantation leads to a prompt and reproducible decline in cardiac mass and in total protein synthesis. These studies further support the role of cardiac work as an important determinant in the regulation of cardiac protein synthesis.