title: [Left ventricular accumulation of messenger ribonucleic acid coding for the natriuretic atrial factor in various experimental models of cardiac hypertrophy in rats].
abstract: Cardiac hypertrophy secondary to chronic hemodynamic overload is associated with an increase in the ventricular concentration of the messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) coding for the atrial natriuretic factor (ANF). We have compared, in male Wistar rats (10 week old, 200-220 g), using dot blot hybridization and a specific oligonucleotide probe, the left ventricular concentration of ANF mRNA (LV ANF mRNA) in 4 models of chronic hemodynamic overload inducing various patterns of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH): a model of volume overload, the aortocaval fistula (ACF, n = 15); a model of pressure overload, coarctation of the abdominal aorta (CoA, n = 13) and 2 models of mixed overload, aortic regurgitation (AR, n = 7) and myocardial infarction (INF, n = 18). A month after surgery, LVH was 49 p. 100 for AR, 41 p. 100 for Co A and 21 p. 100 for ACF. Instead of a severe infarction, LVH was 6 p. 100 in INF demonstrating a marked hypertrophy of the non infarcted myocardium. For each model, LV ANF mRNA was compared to that in a corresponding group of sham-operated control rats and expressed as the percentage of ANF mRNA concentration in the pooled atria of the controls. In the 4 control groups LV ANF mRNA was 1 +/- 0.5 p. 100 that in the corresponding atria and the sham-operated animals were thus pooled in a single group (n = 19). In the 4 models of LVH, LV ANF mRNA markedly increased as compared to controls.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
authors.affiliation: INSERM U 127, hôpital Lariboisière, Paris.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Urbain
authors.forename: J B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Michel
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bouveret
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wisnewsky
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Schwartz
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Mercadier
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D009320:Atrial Natriuretic Factor / Q000235:genetics*; D006332:Cardiomegaly / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008954:Models, Biological; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000235:genetics; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains
chemical_list: D012333:RNA, Messenger; D009320:Atrial Natriuretic Factor
vernacular_title: Accumulation ventriculaire gauche de l'acide ribonucléique messager codant pour le facteur atrial natriurétique dans divers modèles expérimentaux d'hypertrophie cardiaque chez le rat.