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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
10
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-11-19
pubmed:abstractText
S100A1, a Ca superset2+-binding protein of the EF-hand type, is preferentially expressed in myocardial tissue and has been shown to enhance cardiac contractile performance by regulating both sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca superset2+-handling and myofibrillar Ca superset2+-responsiveness. In cardiac disease, the expression of S100A1 is dynamically altered as it is significantly down-regulated in end stage human heart failure (HF), and it is up-regulated in compensated hypertrophy. Therefore, the delivery of a transgene encoding for S100A1 to the myocardium might be an attractive strategy for improving cardiac function in HF by replacing lost endogenous S100A1. In this study we sought to test whether exogenous S100A1 gene delivery to alter global cardiac function is feasible in the normal rabbit heart. An adenoviral S100A1 transgene (AdvS100A1) also containing the green fluorescent protein (GFP) was delivered using an intracoronary injection method with a dose of 5 x 10 superset11 total virus particles (tvp) (n = 8). Rabbits treated with either a GFP-only adenovirus (AdvGFP) or saline were used as control groups (n = 11 each). Seven days after global myocardial in vivo gene delivery hemodynamic parameters were assessed. S100A1 overexpression as a result of the intracoronary delivery of AdvS100A1 significantly increased left ventricular (LV) +dP/dt subsetmax, -dP/dt subsetmin and systolic ejection pressure (SEP) compared to both control groups after administration of isoproterenol (0.1, 0.5 and 1.0 microg/kgBW/min), while contractile parameters remained unchanged under basal conditions. These results demonstrate that global myocardial in vivo gene delivery is possible and that myocardial S100A1 overexpression can increase cardiac performance. Therefore, substitution of down-regulated S100A1 protein expression levels may represent a potential therapeutic strategy for improving the cardiac performance of the failing heart.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0949-2321
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
27
pubmed:volume
11
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
418-22
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-12-3
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
S100A1 gene transfer in myocardium.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Internal Medicine III, Division of Cardiology, University of Heidelberg, Otto-Meyerhof-Zentrum, Im Neuenheimer Feld 350, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany. sven.pleger@jefferson.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural