title: Chamber-specific alterations of norepinephrine uptake sites in cardiac hypertrophy.
abstract: The present study investigated local differences of sympathetic activation and sympathetic neuroeffector defects in nonhypertrophied right and hypertrophied left ventricles in a rat model with renin-induced pressure overload [TG(mREN2)27]. As judged from the depletion of myocardial norepinephrine stores, sympathetic activation was more pronounced in the left than in the right ventricles. In addition, norepinephrine uptake1 carrier sites were reduced in left but unchanged in right ventricles. Gene expression of the carrier was unchanged in stellate ganglia. An increase of Gialpha expression and a heterologous adenylyl cyclase desensitization occurred only in the left but not in the right ventricles, whereas a reduction of beta-adrenergic receptors was observed in both chambers. We concluded that general sympathetic activation can lead to beta-adrenoceptor downregulation but that pressure overload further increases sympathetic activation involving norepinephrine uptake mechanisms in the left ventricles, resulting in heterologous beta-adrenergic desensitization.
authors.affiliation: Klinik III für Innere Medizin der Universität zu Köln, Köln, and the Institut für Klinische Pharmakologie und Toxikologie der Freien Universität Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Böhm
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Castellano
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Flesch
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Maack
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Moll
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Paul
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Schiffer
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Zolk
mesh_terms: D000262:Adenylyl Cyclases / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D030801:Animals, Genetically Modified; D019205:GTP-Binding Protein alpha Subunits, Gs / Q000378:metabolism*; D017379:Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular / Q000378:metabolism*; D009638:Norepinephrine / Q000493:pharmacokinetics*; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D011943:Receptors, Adrenergic, beta / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D011943:Receptors, Adrenergic, beta; D019205:GTP-Binding Protein alpha Subunits, Gs; D000262:Adenylyl Cyclases; D009638:Norepinephrine