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Myocardial oxidative stress changes during compensated right heart failure in rats

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The suggested role of oxidative stress in the pathogenesis of heart failure is largely based on utilizing left heart failure models. The present study on rats evaluated changes in antioxidants as well as oxidative stress in relation to hemodynamic function subsequent to the right heart failure induced by monocrotaline (50 mg/kg, i.p.). During the post-injection period, monocrotaline (MCT)-treated rats demonstrated a persistent growth depression. Two to three weeks after the injection, MCT-treated rats showed signs of fatigue, peripheral cyanosis and dyspnea. In these rats, right heart hypertrophy was confirmed by a significant increase in right ventricular weight as well as right ventricle to body weight ratio. In MCT-treated rats, there was also a significant increase in right ventricular systolic as well as end diastolic pressures. No change in lung and liver wet/dry weight ratios between MCT-treated and control animals was observed. Based on the hemodynamic data as well as other clinical observations, the functional stage achieved was compensated heart failure. Myocardial antioxidant enzymes, catalase, glutathione peroxidase and superoxide dismutase, in the MCT-treated rats were not different compared to control rats. Vitamin E levels were significantly depressed in the RV and there was no change in retinol levels. There was a significant increase in lipid hydroperoxide concentrations in MCT-treated rats as compared to the control group. These data provide evidence that right heart failure is associated with an increase in oxidative stress.

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    Julieta Pichardo, Vince Palace, Firoozeh Farahmand & Pawan K. Singal

  2. Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

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Pichardo, J., Palace, V., Farahmand, F. et al. Myocardial oxidative stress changes during compensated right heart failure in rats. Mol Cell Biochem 196, 51–57 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006914111957

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