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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
11
pubmed:dateCreated
1998-11-30
pubmed:abstractText
The cardiac response to increased work includes a reactivation of fetal genes. The response to a decrease in cardiac work is not known. Such information is of clinical interest, because mechanical unloading can improve the functional capacity of the failing heart. We compared here the patterns of gene expression in unloaded rat heart with those in hypertrophied rat heart. Both conditions induced a re-expression of growth factors and proto-oncogenes, and a downregulation of the 'adult' isoforms, but not of the 'fetal' isoforms, of proteins regulating myocardial energetics. Therefore, opposite changes in cardiac workload in vivo induce similar patterns of gene response. Reactivation of fetal genes may underlie the functional improvement of an unloaded failing heart.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
1078-8956
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
4
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1269-75
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:9809550-Anastomosis, Surgical, pubmed-meshheading:9809550-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:9809550-Aorta, Abdominal, pubmed-meshheading:9809550-Aorta, Thoracic, pubmed-meshheading:9809550-Cardiomegaly, pubmed-meshheading:9809550-Carnitine O-Palmitoyltransferase, pubmed-meshheading:9809550-Fetal Heart, pubmed-meshheading:9809550-Gene Expression Regulation, pubmed-meshheading:9809550-Genes, fos, pubmed-meshheading:9809550-Glucose Transporter Type 1, pubmed-meshheading:9809550-Glucose Transporter Type 4, pubmed-meshheading:9809550-Heart, pubmed-meshheading:9809550-Heart Transplantation, pubmed-meshheading:9809550-Male, pubmed-meshheading:9809550-Monosaccharide Transport Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:9809550-Muscle Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:9809550-Myocardium, pubmed-meshheading:9809550-Myosin Heavy Chains, pubmed-meshheading:9809550-Protein Isoforms, pubmed-meshheading:9809550-Pulmonary Artery, pubmed-meshheading:9809550-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:9809550-Rats, Wistar, pubmed-meshheading:9809550-Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:9809550-Transcription, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:9809550-Transforming Growth Factor beta, pubmed-meshheading:9809550-Transplantation, Heterotopic, pubmed-meshheading:9809550-Transplantation, Isogeneic
pubmed:year
1998
pubmed:articleTitle
Unloaded heart in vivo replicates fetal gene expression of cardiac hypertrophy.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Houston Medical School, 77030, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't