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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-4-4
pubmed:abstractText
1. The study was undertaken to assess the role of beta-adrenoceptors in the induction of compensatory cardiac hypertrophy in an in vivo model. 2. In the rat, exposure to severe hypoxia (6% inspired oxygen for 8 h day) caused a 51% increase in right heart weight and a 75% increase in haematocrit. 3. The hypoxia-induced right ventricular hypertrophic response was reduced by 65% by oral treatment with a high dose of the non-selective beta-adrenoceptor antagonist, propranolol (80 mg kg-1 body weight); the drug treatment caused only a minor reduction (6%) in secondary polycythaemia. 4. With a less severe degree of hypoxia (7% inspired oxygen) there was only minimal secondary polycythaemia (+15%), and a lesser degree of compensatory right ventricular hypertrophy in untreated rats (+33%). 5. Treatment with the beta 1-adrenoceptor antagonist, atenolol, in a dose of 80 mg kg-1 body weight abolished right ventricular hypertrophy in response to 7% inspired oxygen, without affecting haematocrit and caused a small reduction in the ratio of heart weight to body weight in normoxic rats. 6. The results show that the effect of propranolol on hypoxic right ventricular hypertrophy is not secondary to any effect on secondary polycythaemia as has previously been suggested and that a marked reduction of compensatory cardiac hypertrophy can be obtained by a beta 1-selective adrenoceptor antagonist. Thus these findings support the view that noradrenaline released from cardiac sympathetic nerve terminals exerts a trophic effect on myocardial cells and demonstrates that in vivo, this trophic effect can be reduced by beta 1-adrenoceptor blockade.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0007-1188
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
116
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2698-702
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1995
pubmed:articleTitle
Reduction by beta-adrenoceptor blockade of hypoxia-induced right heart hypertrophy in the rat.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine and Paediatrics, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't