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Circulation. 2003;108:2141-2146
Published online before print September 29, 2003, doi: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000092888.63239.54
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(Circulation. 2003;108:2141.)
© 2003 American Heart Association, Inc.


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Cardiac Angiotensin-(1-7) in Ischemic Cardiomyopathy

David B. Averill, PhD; Yuichiro Ishiyama, MD; Mark C. Chappell, PhD; Carlos M. Ferrario, MD

From The Hypertension and Vascular Disease Center, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC.

Correspondence to David B. Averill, PhD, The Hypertension and Vascular Disease Center, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Blvd, Winston-Salem, NC 27157. E-mail daverill{at}wfubmc.edu

Received December 31, 2002; de novo received April 24, 2003; revision received June 23, 2003; accepted June 24, 2003.

Background— Accumulating evidence suggests that angiotensin-(1-7) (Ang-[1-7]) may play an important role in counteracting the pressor, proliferative, and profibrotic actions of angiotensin II in the heart. Thus, we evaluated whether Ang-(1-7) is expressed in the myocardium of normal rats and those in which myocardial infarction was produced 4 weeks beforehand.

Methods and Results— The left coronary artery in 10-week-old Lewis rats was either ligated (n=5) or exposed but not occluded in age-matched controls (sham; n=5). Left ventricular end-diastolic pressures were significantly elevated 4 weeks after myocardial infarction (25±1 versus 5±1 mm Hg for sham; P<0.001), whereas left ventricular systolic pressures were significantly reduced (ligated 86±4 versus sham 110±5 mm Hg; P<0.01). Hemodynamic effects of coronary artery ligation were accompanied by significant cardiac hypertrophy (heart weight to body weight: ligated 4.3±0.1 versus sham 2.9±0.1 mg/g; P<0.001). In both ligated and sham rats, Ang-(1-7) immunoreactivity was limited to cardiac myocytes and absent in interstitial cells and coronary vessels. Ang-(1-7) immunoreactivity was significantly augmented in ventricular tissue surrounding the infarct area in the heart of rats with myocardial infarction.

Conclusions— Development of heart failure subsequent to coronary artery ligation leads to increased expression of Ang-(1-7),which was restricted to myocytes.


Key Words: heart failure • angiotensin • myocardial infarction • cardiomyopathy




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