ArticleJournal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985)2013
β-Adrenergic receptor antagonism in mice: a model for pediatric heart disease.
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- A novel Notch and WNT signaling mechanism contribute to paediatric DCM: a pathway to new therapeutics.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Pediatric Chronic Heart Failure: Age-Specific Considerations of Medical Therapy.Physiological research · 2024Review
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- Juvenile physical activity protects against isoproterenol-induced cardiac dysfunction later in life.Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2023Article
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- Congenital Heart Disease: An Immunological Perspective.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2021Review
- Increased myocyte calcium sensitivity in end-stage pediatric dilated cardiomyopathy.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2019Article
- Immunohistochemical characterization of myofibroblasts appearing in isoproterenol-induced rat myocardial fibrosis.The Journal of veterinary medical science · 2019Article
- From pediatrics to geriatrics: Mechanisms of heart failure across the life-course.Journal of molecular and cellular cardiology · 2019Review
- Acute isoproterenol leads to age-dependent arrhythmogenesis in guinea pigs.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2018Article
- Differential Response to Heart Failure Medications in Children.Progress in pediatric cardiology · 2018Article
- Age-related differences in phosphodiesterase activity and effects of chronic phosphodiesterase inhibition in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy.Circulation. Heart failure · 2015Article
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Abstract
Children with heart failure are treated with similar medical therapy as adults with heart failure. In contrast to adults with heart failure, these treatment regiments are not associated with improved outcomes in children. Recent studies have demonstrated age-related pathophysiological differences in the molecular mechanisms of heart failure between children and adults. There are no animal models of pediatric cardiomyopathy to allow mechanistic studies. The purpose of the current experiments was to develop a mouse model of pediatric heart disease and test whether the influence of β-adrenergic receptor (β-AR) antagonism could be modeled in this system. We hypothesized that isoproterenol treatment of young mice would provide a model system of cardiac pathology, and that nonselective β-AR blockade would provide benefit in adult, but not young, mice, similar to clinical trial data. We found that isoproterenol treatment (through osmotic minipump implantation) of young and adult mice produced similar degrees of cardiac hypertrophy and recapitulated several age-related molecular abnormalities in human heart failure, including phospholamban phosphorylation and β-AR expression. We also found that nonselective β-AR blockade effectively prevented pathological cardiac growth and collagen expression in the adult but not young mice, and that selective β1-AR blockade was effective in both young and adult isoproterenol-treated mice. In conclusion, we have developed the first model system for β-AR-mediated pediatric heart disease. Furthermore, we have generated novel data suggesting beneficial effects of selective β1-AR blockade in the pediatric heart.
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