Gene expression of adrenomedullin in failing myocardium: comparison to atrial natriuretic peptide
- 1 March 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physiological Society in Journal of Applied Physiology
- Vol. 92 (3) , 1058-1063
- https://doi.org/10.1152/japplphysiol.00794.2001
Abstract
The expression of adrenomedullin (AM) and atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) were investigated in the myocardium of a rat model of chronic ischemic heart failure (CHF) compared with sham-operated controls. In addition, human myocardium of patients with end-stage heart failure due to idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy compared with myocardium of normal subjects (NF) was studied. In CHF, similar AM levels but increased ANF expression were observed in left ventricular myocardium, as assessed by semiquantitative PCR. Functional experiments with freshly excised papillary muscles showed no influence of AM on myocardial contractility. In NF human myocardium, the expression of AM mRNA was threefold higher in atrial compared with ventricular tissue. In analogy, ANF mRNA was increased by ∼15-fold in atrial tissue. In dilated cardiomyopathy, the expression of AM was significantly increased in right and left ventricles compared with NF. In parallel, ventricular ANF expression was enhanced.Keywords
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