Autor: | Cang-Bao Xu, Theodorus H. F. Peters, S. Gulbenkian, Lars Edvinsson, David Erlinge, Mikael Adner, Hari S. Sharma, Lars Stavenow, Ole Saetrum Opgaard |
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Rok vydání: | 2001 |
Předmět: |
Pathology
medicine.medical_specialty medicine.drug_class Clinical Biochemistry Biological activity Cell Biology General Medicine Biology Receptor antagonist Endothelin 1 Cell biology Contractility medicine.anatomical_structure Ventricle Circulatory system medicine medicine.symptom Receptor Molecular Biology Vasoconstriction |
Zdroj: | Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry. 224:151-158 |
ISSN: | 0300-8177 |
Popis: | Endothelin-1 (ET-1), a 21 amino acid peptide exerts a wide range of biological activities including vasoconstriction, mitogenesis and inotropic effects on the heart. In this study, we examined whether endocardial endothelial cells express ET-1 and evaluated its functional properties. Using immunofluorescence localization method, we demonstrated cytoplasmic staining of ET-1 in the human endocardial endothelial cells from the right atrium and left ventricle. Employing reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) expression of ET-1 mRNA and its receptors ET(A) and ET(B) mRNAs were found in human myocardial as well as in endocardial endothelial cells. Biological activity of endocardial endothelial cells derived ET-1 was established as the conditioned media obtained from cultured porcine endocardial endothelial cells induced a slowly developing, strong and long-lasting contraction of circular rat aortic segments, with similar characteristics to that obtained with exogenous ET-1. Furthermore, the selective endothelin-A receptor antagonist, FR 139317, blocked the conditioned media induced contractions. Our results suggest that endocardial endothelial cells express and release biologically active ET-1 which could play a pivotal role in the regulation of myocardial contractility as well as a circulatory peptide may further act in other peripheral target organs. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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