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Effects of regression of cardiac hypertrophy on myocardial contractility and ventricular myosin isoenzymes

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The effects of regression of cardiac hypertrophy on myocardial contractility and ventricular myosin isoenzymes were investigated in rats with renovascular hypertension. Six-week-old male Wistar rats were made hypertensive by constriction of one renal artery with a silver clip. Regression of cardiac hypertrophy was induced following the lowering of blood pressure by nephrectomy on the affected side 5–6 weeks after constriction of the renal artery and was maintained for 5–6 weeks. In contrast, myocardial hypertrophy was induced by 10–11 weeks of the hypertensive state. Isometric developed tension of isolated left ventricular papillary muscles was measured, while they were being perfused with Tyrode solution. Left ventricular myosin isoenzymes were separated by pyrophosphate gel electrophoresis. The ventricular to body weight ratio of the nephrectomized group was significantly lower than that of the hypertensive group, although it was greater than that of age-matched normal control rats. There were no significant differences in the isometric developed tension among three groups, the nephrectomized, hypertensive, and normal control rats. However, dT/dtmax tended to decrease in the hypertensive rats and recovered to normal in the nephrectomized rats. The left ventricular myosin isoenzyme pattern was shifted toward VM-3 in hypertensive rats and was shifted back toward VM-1 again in nephrectomized rats.

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    Takaaki Iwai, Nobuakira Takeda, Masahito Tuchiya, Tohru Arino, Akira Tanamura & Makoto Nagano

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Iwai, T., Takeda, N., Tuchiya, M. et al. Effects of regression of cardiac hypertrophy on myocardial contractility and ventricular myosin isoenzymes. Mol Cell Biochem 118, 99–103 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00249699

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