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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-6-13
pubmed:abstractText
Chronic hypoxia depolarizes and reduces K+ current in pulmonary arterial smooth muscle cells (PASMCs). Our laboratory previously demonstrated that hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) contributed to the development of hypoxic pulmonary hypertension. In this study, electrophysiological parameters were measured in PASMCs isolated from intrapulmonary arteries of mice with one null allele at the Hif1a locus encoding HIF-1alpha [Hif1a(+/-)] and from their wild-type [Hif1a(+/+)] littermates after 3 wk in air or 10% O2. Hematocrit and right ventricular wall and left ventricle plus septum weights were measured. Capacitance, K+ current, and membrane potential were measured with whole cell patch clamp. Similar to our laboratory's previous results, hypoxia-induced right ventricular hypertrophy and polycythemia were blunted in Hif1a(+/-) mice. Hypoxia increased PASMC capacitance in Hif1a(+/+) mice but not in Hif1a(+/-) mice. Chronic hypoxia depolarized and reduced K+ current density in PASMCs from Hif1a(+/+) mice. In PASMCs from hypoxic Hif1a(+/-) mice, no reduction in K+ current density was observed, and depolarization was significantly blunted. Thus partial deficiency of HIF-1alpha is sufficient to impair hypoxia-induced depolarization, reduction of K+ current density, and PASMC hypertrophy.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
1040-0605
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
281
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
L202-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11404263-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:11404263-Anoxia, pubmed-meshheading:11404263-DNA-Binding Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11404263-Electric Conductivity, pubmed-meshheading:11404263-Electrophysiology, pubmed-meshheading:11404263-Hematocrit, pubmed-meshheading:11404263-Hypertrophy, Right Ventricular, pubmed-meshheading:11404263-Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1, pubmed-meshheading:11404263-Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1, alpha Subunit, pubmed-meshheading:11404263-Membrane Potentials, pubmed-meshheading:11404263-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:11404263-Mice, Inbred C57BL, pubmed-meshheading:11404263-Mice, Knockout, pubmed-meshheading:11404263-Muscle, Smooth, Vascular, pubmed-meshheading:11404263-Nuclear Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11404263-Patch-Clamp Techniques, pubmed-meshheading:11404263-Potassium Channels, pubmed-meshheading:11404263-Pulmonary Artery, pubmed-meshheading:11404263-Reference Values, pubmed-meshheading:11404263-Transcription Factors
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Partial HIF-1alpha deficiency impairs pulmonary arterial myocyte electrophysiological responses to hypoxia.
pubmed:affiliation
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Institute of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA. shimodal@wech.jhu.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't