title: Altered beta-adrenergic signal transduction in nonfailing hypertrophied myocytes from Dahl salt-sensitive rats.
abstract: Desensitization of the beta-adrenergic receptor (beta-AR) response is well documented in hypertrophied hearts. We investigated whether beta-AR desensitization is also present at the cellular level in hypertrophied myocardium, as well as the physiological role of inhibitory G (G(i)) proteins and the L-type Ca(2+) channel in mediating beta-AR desensitization. Left ventricular (LV) myocytes were isolated from hypertrophied hearts of hypertensive Dahl salt-sensitive (DS) rats and nonhypertrophied hearts of normotensive salt-resistant (DR) rats. Cells were paced at a rate of 300 beats/min at 37 degrees C, and myocyte contractility and intracellular Ca(2+) concentration ([Ca(2+)](i)) were simultaneously measured. In response to increasing concentrations of isoproterenol, DR myocytes displayed a dose-dependent augmentation of cell shortening and the [Ca(2+)](i) transient amplitude, whereas hypertrophied DS myocytes had a blunted response of both cell shortening and the [Ca(2+)](i) transient amplitude. Interestingly, inhibition of G(i) proteins did not restore beta-AR desensitization in DS myocytes. The responses to increases in extracellular Ca(2+) and an L-type Ca(2+) channel agonist were also similar in both DS and DR myocytes. Isoproterenol-stimulated adenylyl cyclase activity, however, was blunted in hypertrophied myocytes. We concluded that compensated ventricular hypertrophy results in a blunted contractile response to beta-AR stimulation, which is present at the cellular level and independent of alterations in inhibitory G proteins and the L-type Ca(2+) channel.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Internal Medicine, Nagoya University School of Medicine, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nagata
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Communal
authors.forename: C C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Lim
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jain
authors.forename: T M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Suter
authors.forename: F R
authors.initials: FR
authors.lastname: Eberli
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Satoh
authors.forename: W S
authors.initials: WS
authors.lastname: Colucci
authors.forename: C S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Apstein
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Liao
mesh_terms: D037361:Adenylate Cyclase Toxin; D000262:Adenylyl Cyclases / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D000318:Adrenergic beta-Agonists / Q000494:pharmacology; D000818:Animals; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism; D002120:Calcium Channel Agonists / Q000494:pharmacology; D020746:Calcium Channels, L-Type / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D019206:GTP-Binding Protein alpha Subunits, Gi-Go / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000378:metabolism; D006165:Guanylyl Imidodiphosphate / Q000494:pharmacology; D006334:Heart Function Tests; D017379:Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular / Q000378:metabolism*; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D007545:Isoproterenol / Q000494:pharmacology; D008297:Male; D008345:Manganese / Q000494:pharmacology; D009200:Myocardial Contraction / Q000187:drug effects; D009206:Myocardium / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D051381:Rats; D020303:Rats, Inbred Dahl; D011943:Receptors, Adrenergic, beta / Q000378:metabolism*; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000187:drug effects; D010566:Virulence Factors, Bordetella / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D037361:Adenylate Cyclase Toxin; D000318:Adrenergic beta-Agonists; D002120:Calcium Channel Agonists; D020746:Calcium Channels, L-Type; D011943:Receptors, Adrenergic, beta; D010566:Virulence Factors, Bordetella; D006165:Guanylyl Imidodiphosphate; D008345:Manganese; D019206:GTP-Binding Protein alpha Subunits, Gi-Go; D000262:Adenylyl Cyclases; D007545:Isoproterenol; D002118:Calcium