title: Pleiotropic effects of neutrophils on myocyte apoptosis and left ventricular remodeling during early volume overload.
abstract: Most of the available evidence on the role of neutrophils on pathological cardiac remodeling has been pertained after acute myocardial infarction. However, whether neutrophils directly contribute to the pathogenesis of cardiac remodeling after events other than acute myocardial infarction remains unknown. Here we show that acute eccentric hypertrophy induced by aorto-caval fistula (ACF) in the rats induced an increase in the inflammatory response characterized by activation of the STAT pathway and increased infiltration of neutrophils in the myocardium. This early inflammation was associated with a decrease in interstitial collagen accumulation and an increase in myocyte apoptosis. Neutrophil infiltration blockade attenuated MMP activation, ECM degradation, and myocyte apoptosis induced by ACF at 24 hours and attenuated the development of eccentric hypertrophy induced by ACF at 2 and 3 weeks, suggesting a causal relationship between neutrophils and the ACF-induced cardiac remodeling. In contrast, sustained neutrophil depletion over 4 weeks resulted in adverse cardiac remodeling with further increase in cardiac dilatation and macrophage infiltration, but with no change in myocyte apoptosis level. These data support a functional role for neutrophils in MMP activation, ECM degradation, and myocyte apoptosis during eccentric cardiac hypertrophy and underscore the adverse effects of chronic anti-neutrophil therapy on cardiac remodeling induced by early volume overload.
authors.affiliation: Cardiovascular Research Center and Department of Physiology, Temple University School of Medicine, MRB 801, 3420 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19140, USA.
authors.forename: Mikhail A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Kolpakov
authors.forename: Rachid
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Seqqat
authors.forename: Khadija
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Rafiq
authors.forename: Hang
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Xi
authors.forename: Kennneth B
authors.initials: KB
authors.lastname: Margulies
authors.forename: Joseph R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Libonati
authors.forename: Pamela
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Powel
authors.forename: Steven R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Houser
authors.forename: Louis J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Dell'italia
authors.forename: Abdelkarim
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sabri
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017209:Apoptosis / Q000502:physiology; D001164:Arteriovenous Fistula / Q000503:physiopathology*; D015153:Blotting, Western; D003094:Collagen / Q000378:metabolism; D004452:Echocardiography; D006439:Hemodynamics; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D008297:Male; D032342:Muscle Cells / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism; D009206:Myocardium / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism; D009504:Neutrophils / Q000276:immunology / Q000502:physiology*; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D020257:Ventricular Remodeling / Q000276:immunology / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D003094:Collagen