β 2 -Adrenergic Receptor Overexpression Exacerbates Development of Heart Failure After Aortic Stenosis

Abstract
Background—β-Adrenergic signaling is downregulated in the failing heart, and the significance of such change remains unclear. Methods and Results—To address the role of β-adrenergic dysfunction in heart failure (HF), aortic stenosis (AS) was induced in wild-type (WT) and transgenic (TG) mice with cardiac targeted overexpression of β2-adrenergic receptors (ARs), and animals were studied 9 weeks later. The extents of increase in systolic arterial pressure (PPPPmax and heart rate were markedly higher in TG than WT mice (both Pmax was lower in both AS groups than in sham-operated controls, and this tended to be more pronounced in TG than WT mice (−32±5% versus −16±6%, P=0.059), although dP/dtmax remained higher in TG than WT groups (PConclusions—Elevated cardiac β-adrenergic activity by β2-AR overexpression leads to functional deterioration after pressure overload.

This publication has 21 references indexed in Scilit: