title: Functional arginine vasopressin system in early heart maturation.
abstract: Since the neurohypophyseal hormone 8-arginine vasopressin (AVP) is involved in cardiovascular tissue hypertrophy and myocyte differentiation, it is possible that local AVP plays a role in heart maturation. AVP-specific RIA, RT-PCR, and immunoblot measurement of AVP receptors (VR) were used to investigate heart tissues from newborn and adult rats. To test AVP's role in differentiation and specialization into ventricle-like cardiomyocytes, we studied GFP-P19Cl6 stem cells, which express green fluorescence protein (GFP) reporter under transcriptional control of the myosin light chain-2v promoter. VR(1) transcripts and proteins were higher in adult than in newborn rat hearts. In contrast, VR(2) increased from postnatal day 1 to 5 and was barely detected in the adult rat heart. In cardiomyocytes expressing troponin C, immunofluorescence revealed VR(2) and VR(1). Intracellular cAMP increased 6.5- and 8.9-fold in response to the selective VR(2) agonist 1-desamino-8-D-AVP (DDAVP) after 1 and 24 h, respectively. Cardiac AVP was high in 1- and 5-day-old (330 +/- 26 and 276 +/- 53 pg/mg protein, respectively) but low in 66-day-old (98 +/- 15 pg/mg protein) rats. AVP immunostaining was detected in the tunica adventitia and endothelium of the coronary vessels. The possible role of AVP in cardiomyogenesis was indicated by DDAVP-AVP-dependent differentiation of GFP-P19Cl6 stem cells into contracting cells displaying GATA-4, a cardiac-specific marker, and ventricle-specific myosin light chain. Together, it is suggested that the AVP system is implicated in postnatal cardiac maturation.
authors.affiliation: Centre de Recherche CHUM, Hôtel-Dieu, 3850 St-Urbain, Montréal, QC, Canada H2W 1T7. jolanta.gutkowska@umontreal.ca
authors.forename: Jolanta
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gutkowska
authors.forename: Malgorzata
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Miszkurka
authors.forename: Bogdan
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Danalache
authors.forename: Natig
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Gassanov
authors.forename: Donghao
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Marek
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jankowski
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D001127:Arginine Vasopressin / Q000378:metabolism*; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D045744:Cell Line, Tumor; D000242:Cyclic AMP / Q000378:metabolism; D003894:Deamino Arginine Vasopressin / Q000494:pharmacology; D005260:Female; D050991:GATA4 Transcription Factor / Q000378:metabolism; D017930:Genes, Reporter; D049452:Green Fluorescent Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D006321:Heart / Q000187:drug effects / Q000254:growth & development*; D006727:Hormone Antagonists / Q000494:pharmacology; D008297:Male; D009206:Myocardium / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism*; D032383:Myocytes, Cardiac / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D018994:Myosin Light Chains / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D010121:Oxytocin / Q000378:metabolism; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D017483:Receptors, Vasopressin / Q000187:drug effects / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000187:drug effects; D013234:Stem Cells / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D050991:GATA4 Transcription Factor; C484171:Gata4 protein, mouse; D006727:Hormone Antagonists; D018994:Myosin Light Chains; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D017483:Receptors, Vasopressin; D001127:Arginine Vasopressin; D049452:Green Fluorescent Proteins; D010121:Oxytocin; D000242:Cyclic AMP; D003894:Deamino Arginine Vasopressin