Mice lacking inducible nitric oxide synthase have improved left ventricular contractile function and reduced apoptotic cell death late after myocardial infarction

Autor: Soeun Ngoy, Wilson S. Colucci, Daniel A. Brenner, Zhonglin Xie, Krishna Singh, Deborah A. Siwik, Douglas B. Sawyer, Carl S. Apstein, Flora Sam, Donny L.F. Chang
Rok vydání: 2001
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Zdroj: Circulation research. 89(4)
ISSN: 1524-4571
Popis: Nitric oxide produced by inducible nitric oxide synthase (NOS2) has been implicated in the pathophysiology of chronic myocardial remodeling and failure. We tested the role of NOS2 in left ventricular (LV) remodeling early (1 month) and late (4 months) after myocardial infarction (MI) in mice lacking NOS2. MI size measured 7 days, 1 month, and 4 months after MI was the same in NOS2 knockout (KO) and wild-type (WT) mice. The LV end-diastolic pressure-volume relationship measured by the isovolumic Langendorff technique showed a progressive rightward shift from 1 to 4 months after MI in WT mice. LV developed pressure measured over a range of LV volumes was reduced at 1 and 4 months after MI in WT mice ( P P P P
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