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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-12-1
pubmed:abstractText
Diabetic cardiomyopathy is characterized by interstitial fibrosis and cardiomyocyte hypertrophy and apoptosis. Also known as CCN2, connective tissue growth factor (CTGF) is implicated in the fibrosis; however, whether it contributes to cardiomyocytes changes and adverse effects of high glucose and lipids on these cells remains unknown. Hearts from streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats had elevated CTGF and changes of pathological myocardial hypertrophy, fibrosis, and cardiomyocyte apoptosis. Rat H9c2 cardiomyocytes were then treated with recombinant human (rh)CTGF, high glucose, or the saturated free fatty acid palmitate. Each reagent induced cell hypertrophy, as indicated by the ratio of total protein to cell number, cell size, and gene expression of cardiac hypertrophy marker genes atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP), and alpha-skeletal actin. Each treatment also caused apoptosis measured by increased caspase3/7 activity, apoptotic cells by transferase-mediated dUTP nick end labeling (TUNEL) assay, and lower viable cell number. Further studies showed CTGF mRNA was rapidly induced by high glucose and palmitate in H9c2 cells and in mouse neonatal cardiomyocyte primary cultures. small interfering RNA against CTGF blocked the high glucose and palmitate induction of hypertrophy and apoptosis. In addition, these CTGF effects were through the tyrosine kinase A (TrkA) receptor with tyrosine kinase activity, which has previously been implicated in CTGF signaling: TrkA was phosphorylated by CTGF, and a specific TrkA blocker abrogated CTGF-induced effects on hypertrophy and apoptosis. For the first time in any system, fatty acid is newly identified as a regulator of CTGF, and this work implicates autocrine CTGF as a mediator of adverse effects of high glucose and fatty acids in cardiomyocytes.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
1522-1563
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
297
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
C1490-500
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:19625611-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:19625611-Animals, Newborn, pubmed-meshheading:19625611-Apoptosis, pubmed-meshheading:19625611-Cardiomegaly, pubmed-meshheading:19625611-Cell Size, pubmed-meshheading:19625611-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:19625611-Connective Tissue Growth Factor, pubmed-meshheading:19625611-Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental, pubmed-meshheading:19625611-Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, pubmed-meshheading:19625611-Glucose, pubmed-meshheading:19625611-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:19625611-Hypertrophy, pubmed-meshheading:19625611-Male, pubmed-meshheading:19625611-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:19625611-Mice, Inbred C57BL, pubmed-meshheading:19625611-Myocardium, pubmed-meshheading:19625611-Myocytes, Cardiac, pubmed-meshheading:19625611-Palmitates, pubmed-meshheading:19625611-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:19625611-Rats, Sprague-Dawley, pubmed-meshheading:19625611-Receptor, trkA, pubmed-meshheading:19625611-Recombinant Proteins
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Adverse effects of high glucose and free fatty acid on cardiomyocytes are mediated by connective tissue growth factor.
pubmed:affiliation
The University of Sydney, Australia.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't