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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2020

Psychosocial Stress Hastens Disease Progression and Sudden Death in Mice with Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy.

Jacopo Agrimi, Arianna Scalco, Julia Agafonova, Larry Williams Iii, Nainika Pansari, Gizem Keceli, Seungho Jun, Nadan Wang, Francesca Mastorci, Crystal Tichnell and 6 more

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Jacopo AgrimiDepartment of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
Arianna ScalcoDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, 35122 Padova, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-0510-6045
Julia AgafonovaDepartment of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
Larry Williams IiiDepartment of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2934-2990
Nainika PansariDepartment of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
Gizem KeceliDepartment of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9562-7994
Seungho JunDepartment of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
Nadan WangDepartment of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
Francesca MastorciClinical Physiology Institute, CNR, 56124 Pisa, Italy.
Crystal TichnellDepartment of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
Brittney MurrayDepartment of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
Cynthia A JamesDepartment of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
Hugh CalkinsDepartment of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
Tania ZagliaDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, 35122 Padova, Italy.
Nazareno PaolocciDepartment of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
Stephen P ChelkoDepartment of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1675-5945
Johns Hopkins University · USUniversity of Padua · ITFlorida State University · USIstituto di Fisiologia Clinica · IT

Funding

QAQC Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational ResearchUL1TR003098 · NCATS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI FORD, DANIEL ERNEST · 2019 to 2023
$57.7M
Translational Aging Research Training ProgramT32AG058527 · NIA · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Peter M. Abadir, Esther Seunghee Oh · 2018 to 2026
$4.0M
BDNF TrkB- and beta-AR signals in ischemic and non-ischemic cardiomyopathyR01HL136918 · NHLBI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI PAOLOCCI, NAZARENO · 2018 to 2021
$2.7M
DYSREGULATION OF IL12 IN ALLERGIC INFLAMMATIONR01HL058527 · NHLBI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI WILLS-KARP, MARSHA W · 1997 to 2000
$234k
American Heart Association 19CDA34760185Fondation Leducq 16CVD02NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL136918NHLBI NIH HHS T32AG058527NHLBI NIH HHS UL1 TR003098NIA NIH HHS T32 AG058527
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Physiological stressors, such as exercise, can precipitate sudden cardiac death or heart failure progression in patients with arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM). Yet, whether and to what extent a highly prevalent and more elusive environmental factor, such as psychosocial stress (PSS), can also increase ACM disease progression is unexplored. Here, we first quantified perceived stress levels in patients with ACM and found these levels correlated with the extent of arrhythmias and cardiac dysfunction. To determine whether the observed correlation is due to causation, we inflicted PSS-via the resident-intruder (RI) paradigm-upon Desmoglein-2 mutant mice, a vigorously used mammalian model of ACM. We found that ACM mice succumbed to abnormally high in-trial, PSS mortality. Conversely, no sudden deaths occurred in wildtype (WT) counterparts. Desmoglein-2 mice that survived RI challenge manifested markedly worse cardiac dysfunction and remodeling, namely apoptosis and fibrosis. Furthermore, WT and ACM mice displayed similar behavior at baseline, but Desmoglein-2 mice exhibited heightened anxiety following RI-induced PSS. This outcome correlated with the worsening of cardiac phenotypes. Our mouse model demonstrates that in ACM-like subjects, PSS is incisive enough to deteriorate cardiac structure and function per se, i.e., in the absence of any pre-existing anxious behavior. Hence, PSS may represent a previously underappreciated risk factor in ACM disease penetrance.

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anxietyarrhythmiacorticosteroneDesmoglein-2desmosomal variantspsychosocial stressresident-intruder

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PMID33255451
PMCPMC7761318
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