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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1-2
pubmed:dateCreated
2003-10-24
pubmed:abstractText
Eighteen month old spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR-rats) showed myocardial dysfunction and autoantibodies directed against the beta1-adrenoceptor similarly as known in human dilated cardiomyopathy or Chagas' disease. The agonist-like antibodies were able to activate the beta1-adrenoceptor mediated signal transduction cascade in cultured rat cardiomyocytes and induced a long-lasting stimulatory effect resulting in a harmful adrenergic overdrive. The antibodies recognized an epitope of the second extracellular loop of the beta1-adrenoceptor identical to that epitope identified in Chagas' disease. In conclusion, our assumption is supported that old SHR-rat are an useful animal model for investigating the role of anti-beta1-adrenoceptor antibodies in the induction of human cardiomyopathy.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0300-8177
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
251
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
67-75
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:14575306-Adrenergic beta-Antagonists, pubmed-meshheading:14575306-Aging, pubmed-meshheading:14575306-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:14575306-Animals, Newborn, pubmed-meshheading:14575306-Autoantibodies, pubmed-meshheading:14575306-Blood Pressure, pubmed-meshheading:14575306-Cardiomyopathies, pubmed-meshheading:14575306-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:14575306-Cyclic AMP, pubmed-meshheading:14575306-Epitopes, pubmed-meshheading:14575306-Heart Rate, pubmed-meshheading:14575306-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:14575306-Immunoglobulins, pubmed-meshheading:14575306-Myocytes, Cardiac, pubmed-meshheading:14575306-Peptides, pubmed-meshheading:14575306-Propanolamines, pubmed-meshheading:14575306-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:14575306-Rats, Inbred SHR, pubmed-meshheading:14575306-Rats, Inbred WKY, pubmed-meshheading:14575306-Receptors, Adrenergic, beta-1, pubmed-meshheading:14575306-Signal Transduction, pubmed-meshheading:14575306-Thionucleotides, pubmed-meshheading:14575306-Ventricular Pressure
pubmed:year
2003
pubmed:articleTitle
Functional and structural characterization of anti-beta1-adrenoceptor autoantibodies of spontaneously hypertensive rats.
pubmed:affiliation
Max Delbrück Centrum für Molekulare Medizin, Berlin, Germany. gwalluk@mdc.berlin.de
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't