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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
1987-5-19
pubmed:abstractText
Rapid cardiac growth in adult rats and neonatal pigs involves more efficient use of existing components of the protein synthesis pathway and synthesis of new ribosomes and mRNA to increase the capacity for protein synthesis. Greater efficiency of synthesis can be induced by mechanical perturbations that stretch the ventricular wall, including increased cardiac work and increased ventricular pressure development in beating hearts, and increased aortic and intraventricular pressure in arrested-drained hearts. The biochemical signal linking stretch to more efficient protein synthesis has not been identified. Preferential synthesis of new ribosomes occurs in the first two hours of exposure of Langendorff preparations to high aortic pressure or within four hours after injection of thyroid hormone into normal rats. The rate of protein degradation is either accelerated or unchanged in hypertrophing hearts but is inhibited by induction of cardiac work or high aortic pressure in Langendorff preparations. Overall, increased capacity for, and efficiency of, protein synthesis are the major factors accounting for cardiac growth.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0066-4278
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
49
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
533-43
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1987
pubmed:articleTitle
Biochemical mechanisms of cardiac hypertrophy.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Review