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ArticleBMC cardiovascular disorders2013

Quantification of carbonic anhydrase gene expression in ventricle of hypertrophic and failing human heart.

Bernardo V Alvarez, Anita L Quon, John Mullen, Joseph R Casey

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Article in BMC cardiovascular disorders, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Bernardo V AlvarezDepartment of Biochemistry, and Membrane Protein Disease Research Group, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
Anita L Quon
John Mullen
Joseph R Casey
University of Alberta · CAUniversidad Nacional de La Plata · AR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundCarbonic anhydrase enzymes (CA) catalyze the reversible hydration of carbon dioxide to bicarbonate in mammalian cells. Trans-membrane transport of CA-produced bicarbonate contributes significantly to cellular pH regulation. A body of evidence implicates pH-regulatory processes in the hypertrophic growth pathway characteristic of hearts as they fail. In particular, Na+/H+ exchange (NHE) activation is pro-hypertrophic and CA activity activates NHE. Recently Cardrase (6-ethoxyzolamide), a CA inhibitor, was found to prevent and revert agonist-stimulated cardiac hypertrophy (CH) in cultured cardiomyocytes. Our goal thus was to determine whether hypertrophied human hearts have altered expression of CA isoforms.

methodsWe measured CA expression in hypertrophied human hearts to begin to examine the role of carbonic anhydrase in progression of human heart failure. Ventricular biopsies were obtained from patients undergoing cardiac surgery (CS, n = 14), or heart transplantation (HT, n = 13). CS patients presented mild/moderate concentric left ventricular hypertrophy and normal right ventricles, with preserved ventricular function; ejection fractions were ~60%. Conversely, HT patients with failing hearts presented CH or ventricular dilation accompanied by ventricular dysfunction and EF values of 20%. Non-hypertrophic, non-dilated ventricular samples served as controls.

resultsExpression of atrial and brain natriuretic peptide (ANP and BNP) were markers of CH. Hypertrophic ventricles presented increased expression of CAII, CAIV, ANP, and BNP, mRNA levels, which increased in failing hearts, measured by quantitative real-time PCR. CAII, CAIV, and ANP protein expression also increased approximately two-fold in hypertrophic/dilated ventricles.

conclusionsThese results, combined with in vitro data that CA inhibition prevents and reverts CH, suggest that increased carbonic anhydrase expression is a prognostic molecular marker of cardiac hypertrophy.

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AgedAnimalsAtrial Natriuretic FactorBiopsyCarbonic Anhydrase IICarbonic Anhydrase IVCarbonic AnhydrasesFemaleGene Expression Regulation, EnzymologicGenetic MarkersHeart FailureHEK293 CellsHumansHypertrophy, Left VentricularIsoenzymesMaleAtrial Natriuretic FactorCA4 protein, humanCarbonic Anhydrase IICarbonic Anhydrase IVCarbonic AnhydrasesGenetic MarkersIsoenzymesNatriuretic Peptide, BrainRNA, Messenger

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PMID23297731
PMCPMC3570296
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