title: Altered cardiac endothelin receptors and protein kinase C in deoxycorticosterone-salt hypertensive rats.
abstract: The aim of the present study was to assess the status of ET-1 receptor subtypes (ET(A)and ET(B)) in ventricular myocytes and fibroblasts and to determine the role of PKC-dependent pathways in ET-1-stimulated cardiac cells in deoxycorticosterone acetate (DOCA)-salt hypertensive rats. Systolic blood pressure and relative heart to body weight were significantly increased in DOCA-salt rats. In unilaterally nephrectomized (Uni-Nx) control rats, more than 90% of cardiomyocyte ET receptors were of the ET(A)subtype, whereas in fibroblasts ET(A)and ET(B)receptors were present in a 1:3 ratio. In DOCA-salt rats, the density of the ET(A)receptor subtype was reduced by 31% in cardiomyocytes and in cardiac fibroblasts only ET(B)receptor density was decreased by 29%. Affinity was unchanged. The relative expression of immunoreactive PKC alpha, gamma and epsilon was significantly increased, whereas PKC delta was not altered in cardiac extracts of DOCA-salt rats. In cardiac fibroblasts from DOCA-salt rats PKC delta was significantly increased and PKC epsilon was not translocated after ET-1 stimulation. The hearts of DOCA-salt hypertensive rats are thus characterized by: (1) decreased density of cardiomyocyte ET(A)receptors and fibroblast ET(B)receptors; (2) cell-specific enhanced expression of some PKC isoenzymes (alpha, gamma, delta and epsilon); and (3) unresponsiveness of PKC epsilon to translocate in the presence of ET-1. Together with alterations of ET-1-induced Ca(2+)handling in cardiac myocytes and fibroblasts, which we previously reported, results from the present study indicate a marked modification of the cardiac ET-1 system of DOCA-salt hypertensive rats.
authors.affiliation: MRC Multidisciplinary Research Group on Hypertension, Clinical Research Institute of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, H2W 1R7, Canada.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fareh
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Touyz
authors.forename: E L
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Schiffrin
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Thibault
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001692:Biological Transport; D001794:Blood Pressure; D001835:Body Weight; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D003900:Desoxycorticosterone; D006321:Heart / Q000503:physiopathology; D006973:Hypertension / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000378:metabolism*; D007527:Isoenzymes / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D009206:Myocardium / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism; D009929:Organ Size; D011493:Protein Kinase C / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D044022:Receptor, Endothelin A; D044023:Receptor, Endothelin B; D017466:Receptors, Endothelin / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D007527:Isoenzymes; D044022:Receptor, Endothelin A; D044023:Receptor, Endothelin B; D017466:Receptors, Endothelin; D003900:Desoxycorticosterone; D011493:Protein Kinase C