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Int J Mol Sci ; 18(11)2017 Nov 18.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29156550

RESUMO

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a major global cause of morbidity and mortality, projected to become the 3rd cause of disease mortality worldwide by 2020. COPD is characterized by persistent and not fully reversible airflow limitation that is usually progressive and is associated with an abnormal chronic inflammatory response of the lung to noxious agents including cigarette smoke. Currently available therapeutic strategies aim to ease COPD symptoms but cannot prevent its progress or regenerate physiological lung structure or function. The urgently needed new approaches for the treatment of COPD include stem cell therapies among which transplantation of mesenchymal stem cells derived from Wharton's jelly (WJ-MSCs) emerges as a promising therapeutic strategy because of the unique properties of these cells. The present review discusses the main biological properties of WJ-MSCs pertinent to their potential application for the treatment of COPD in the context of COPD pathomechanisms with emphasis on chronic immune inflammatory processes that play key roles in the development and progression of COPD.


Assuntos
Células-Tronco Mesenquimais/citologia , Doença Pulmonar Obstrutiva Crônica/terapia , Geleia de Wharton/citologia , Diferenciação Celular , Células Cultivadas , Humanos , Transdução de Sinais , Transplante de Células-Tronco
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Heart Fail Rev ; 15(5): 431-45, 2010 Sep.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20419345

RESUMO

Hypertension, atherosclerosis, and resultant chronic heart failure (HF) reach epidemic proportions among older persons, and the clinical manifestations and the prognoses of these worsen with increasing age. Thus, age per se is the major risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Changes in cardiac cell phenotype that occur with normal aging, as well as in HF associated with aging, include deficits in ss-adrenergic receptor (ss-AR) signaling, increased generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS), and altered excitation-contraction (EC) coupling that involves prolongation of the action potential (AP), intracellular Ca(2+) (Ca(i)(2+)) transient and contraction, and blunted force- and relaxation-frequency responses. Evidence suggests that altered sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca(2+) uptake, storage, and release play central role in these changes, which also involve sarcolemmal L-type Ca(2+) channel (LCC), Na(+)-Ca(2+) exchanger (NCX), and K(+) channels. We review the age-associated changes in the expression and function of Ca(2+) transporting proteins, and functional consequences of these changes at the cardiac myocyte and organ levels. We also review sexual dimorphism and self-renewal of the heart in the context of cardiac aging and HF.


Assuntos
Envelhecimento , Insuficiência Cardíaca Diastólica/fisiopatologia , Insuficiência Cardíaca Sistólica/fisiopatologia , ATPases Transportadoras de Cálcio do Retículo Sarcoplasmático/metabolismo , Retículo Sarcoplasmático/enzimologia , Adaptação Fisiológica , Fatores Etários , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Progressão da Doença , Feminino , Insuficiência Cardíaca Diastólica/enzimologia , Insuficiência Cardíaca Diastólica/epidemiologia , Insuficiência Cardíaca Sistólica/enzimologia , Insuficiência Cardíaca Sistólica/epidemiologia , Humanos , Masculino , Células Musculares/patologia , Prognóstico , Receptores Adrenérgicos beta/biossíntese , Fatores de Risco , Retículo Sarcoplasmático/patologia , Fatores Sexuais , Transdução de Sinais , Estresse Fisiológico , Estados Unidos/epidemiologia
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PLoS One ; 3(7): e2642, 2008 Jul 09.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18612386

RESUMO

BACKGROUND: Hypertrophic (HCM) and dilated (DCM) cardiomyopathies result from sarcomeric protein mutations, including cardiac troponin T (cTnT, TNNT2). We determined whether TNNT2 mutations cause cardiomyopathies by altering cTnT function or quantity; whether the severity of DCM is related to the ratio of mutant to wildtype cTnT; whether Ca(2+) desensitization occurs in DCM; and whether absence of cTnT impairs early embryonic cardiogenesis. METHODS AND FINDINGS: We ablated Tnnt2 to produce heterozygous Tnnt2(+/-) mice, and crossbreeding produced homozygous null Tnnt2(-/-) embryos. We also generated transgenic mice overexpressing wildtype (TG(WT)) or DCM mutant (TG(K210Delta)) Tnnt2. Crossbreeding produced mice lacking one allele of Tnnt2, but carrying wildtype (Tnnt2(+/-)/TG(WT)) or mutant (Tnnt2(+/-)/TG(K210Delta)) transgenes. Tnnt2(+/-) mice relative to wildtype had significantly reduced transcript (0.82+/-0.06[SD] vs. 1.00+/-0.12 arbitrary units; p = 0.025), but not protein (1.01+/-0.20 vs. 1.00+/-0.13 arbitrary units; p = 0.44). Tnnt2(+/-) mice had normal hearts (histology, mass, left ventricular end diastolic diameter [LVEDD], fractional shortening [FS]). Moreover, whereas Tnnt2(+/-)/TG(K210Delta) mice had severe DCM, TG(K210Delta) mice had only mild DCM (FS 18+/-4 vs. 29+/-7%; p<0.01). The difference in severity of DCM may be attributable to a greater ratio of mutant to wildtype Tnnt2 transcript in Tnnt2(+/-)/TG(K210Delta) relative to TG(K210Delta) mice (2.42+/-0.08, p = 0.03). Tnnt2(+/-)/TG(K210Delta) muscle showed Ca(2+) desensitization (pCa(50) = 5.34+/-0.08 vs. 5.58+/-0.03 at sarcomere length 1.9 microm, p<0.01), but no difference in maximum force generation. Day 9.5 Tnnt2(-/-) embryos had normally looped hearts, but thin ventricular walls, large pericardial effusions, noncontractile hearts, and severely disorganized sarcomeres. CONCLUSIONS: Absence of one Tnnt2 allele leads to a mild deficit in transcript but not protein, leading to a normal cardiac phenotype. DCM results from abnormal function of a mutant protein, which is associated with myocyte Ca(2+) desensitization. The severity of DCM depends on the ratio of mutant to wildtype Tnnt2 transcript. cTnT is essential for sarcomere formation, but normal embryonic heart looping occurs without contractile activity.


Assuntos
Cardiomiopatia Dilatada/genética , Coração/embriologia , Troponina T/genética , Troponina T/fisiologia , Animais , Cardiomiopatia Dilatada/metabolismo , Cardiomiopatia Hipertrófica/metabolismo , Ecocardiografia , Embrião de Mamíferos/metabolismo , Camundongos , Camundongos Knockout , Camundongos Transgênicos , Miocárdio/metabolismo , Fenótipo , Troponina T/metabolismo
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Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol ; 291(4): H1829-37, 2006 Oct.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-16617136

RESUMO

Embryonic myocardium has a high rate of cell proliferation and regulates cellular proliferation, contractile function, and myocardial architecture in response to changes in external mechanical loads. However, the small and complex three-dimensional (3D) structure of the embryonic myocardium limits our ability to directly investigate detailed relationships between mechanical load, contractile function, and cardiomyocyte proliferation. We developed a novel 3D engineered early embryonic cardiac tissue (EEECT) from early embryonic ventricular cells to test the hypothesis that EEECT retains the proliferative and contractile properties of embryonic myocardium. We combined freshly isolated White Leghorn chicken embryonic ventricular cells at Hamburger-Hamilton (HH) stage 31 (day 7 of a 46-stage, 21-day incubation period), collagen type I, and matrix factors to construct cylindrical-shaped EEECTs. We studied tissue architecture, cell proliferation patterns, and contractile function. We then generated engineered fetal cardiac tissue (EFCT) from HH stage 40 (day 14) fetal ventricular cells for direct comparison with EEECT. Tissue architecture was similar in EEECT and EFCT. EEECT maintained high cell proliferation patterns by culture day 12, whereas EFCT decreased cell proliferation rate by culture day 9 (P < 0.05). EEECT increased active contractile force from culture day 7 to day 12. The culture day 12 EEECT contractile response to the beta-adrenergic stimulation was less than culture day 9 EFCT (P < 0.05). Cyclic mechanical stretch stimulation induced myocardial hyperplasia in EEECT. Results indicate that EEECT retains the proliferative and contractile properties of developing embryonic myocardium and shows potential as a robust in vitro model of developing embryonic myocardium.


Assuntos
Proliferação de Células , Coração/embriologia , Contração Miocárdica/fisiologia , Miocárdio/citologia , Engenharia Tecidual/métodos , Animais , Fenômenos Biomecânicos , Diferenciação Celular/fisiologia , Embrião de Galinha , Desenvolvimento Embrionário/fisiologia , Modelos Biológicos , Morfogênese/fisiologia , Miofibrilas/ultraestrutura , Técnicas de Cultura de Tecidos/métodos
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Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol ; 289(4): H1456-67, 2005 Oct.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-15923312

RESUMO

Transgenic mice overexpressing the inflammatory cytokine TNF-alpha in the heart develop a progressive heart failure syndrome characterized by biventricular dilatation, decreased ejection fraction, decreased survival compared with non-transgenic littermates, and earlier pathology in males. TNF-alpha mice (TNF1.6) develop atrial arrhythmias on ambulatory telemetry monitoring that worsen with age and are more severe in males. We performed in vivo electrophysiological testing in transgenic and control mice, ex vivo optical mapping of voltage in the atria of isolated perfused TNF1.6 hearts, and in vitro studies on isolated atrial muscle and cells to study the mechanisms that lead to the spontaneous arrhythmias. Programmed stimulation induces atrial arrhythmias (n = 8/32) in TNF1.6 but not in control mice (n = 0/37), with a higher inducibility in males. In the isolated perfused hearts, programmed stimulation with single extra beats elicits reentrant atrial arrhythmias (n = 6/6) in TNF1.6 but not control hearts due to slow heterogeneous conduction of the premature beats. Lowering extracellular Ca(2+) normalizes conduction and prevents the arrhythmias. Atrial muscle and cells from TNF1.6 compared with control mice exhibit increased collagen deposition, decreased contractile function, and abnormal systolic and diastolic Ca(2+) handling. Thus abnormalities in action potential propagation and Ca(2+) handling contribute to the initiation of atrial arrhythmias in this mouse model of heart failure.


Assuntos
Fibrilação Atrial/genética , Fibrilação Atrial/fisiopatologia , Cardiomiopatias/genética , Cardiomiopatias/fisiopatologia , Fator de Necrose Tumoral alfa/genética , Potenciais de Ação , Fatores Etários , Animais , Fibrilação Atrial/patologia , Cálcio/metabolismo , Cardiomiopatias/patologia , Colágeno/metabolismo , Modelos Animais de Doenças , Eletrocardiografia , Feminino , Fibrose , Expressão Gênica , Átrios do Coração/patologia , Átrios do Coração/fisiopatologia , Insuficiência Cardíaca/genética , Insuficiência Cardíaca/patologia , Insuficiência Cardíaca/fisiopatologia , Frequência Cardíaca , Masculino , Camundongos , Camundongos Transgênicos , Contração Miocárdica , Caracteres Sexuais
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Cardiovasc Res ; 62(3): 468-80, 2004 Jun 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-15158139

RESUMO

UNLABELLED: Decreased amplitude and slower kinetics of cardiomyocyte intracellular calcium (Ca(i)(2+)) transients may underlie the diminished cardiac function observed in heart failure. These alterations occur in humans and animals with heart failure, including the TNF1.6 mouse model, in which heart failure arises from cardiac-specific overexpression of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF alpha). OBJECTIVE: Since ablation of phospholamban expression (PLBKO) removes inhibition of the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca(2+) pump, enhances SR Ca(2+) uptake and increases contractility, we assessed whether ablation of phospholamban expression could improve cardiac function, limit remodeling, and improve survival in the TNF1.6 model of heart failure. METHODS: We bred PLBKO with TNF1.6 mice and characterized the progeny for survival, cardiac function (echocardiography), cardiac remodeling (hypertrophy, dilation, fibrosis), and Ca(2+)(i) transients and contractile function of isolated cardiomyocytes. RESULTS: PLB ablation did not improve survival, cardiac function, or limit cardiac chamber dilation and hypertrophy in TNF1.6 mice (TKO mice). However, contractile function and Ca(2+)(i) transients (amplitude and kinetics) of isolated TKO cardiomyocytes were markedly enhanced. This discordance between unimproved cardiac function, and enhanced Ca(2+)(i) cycling and cardiomyocyte contractile parameters may arise from a continued overexpression of collagen and decreased expression of gap junction proteins (connexin 43) in response to chronic TNF alpha stimulation. CONCLUSIONS: Enhancement of intrinsic cardiomyocyte Ca(2+)(i) cycling and contractile function may not be sufficient to overcome several parallel pathophysiologic processes present in the failing heart.


Assuntos
Canais de Cálcio/metabolismo , Proteínas de Ligação ao Cálcio/genética , Insuficiência Cardíaca/fisiopatologia , Coração/fisiopatologia , Fator de Necrose Tumoral alfa/genética , Animais , Cálcio/metabolismo , Proteínas de Ligação ao Cálcio/metabolismo , Cardiomegalia/metabolismo , Células Cultivadas , Conexina 43/análise , Ecocardiografia , Feminino , Fibrose , Deleção de Genes , Insuficiência Cardíaca/metabolismo , Insuficiência Cardíaca/patologia , Masculino , Camundongos , Camundongos Transgênicos , Modelos Animais , Miócitos Cardíacos/metabolismo , Miócitos Cardíacos/fisiologia , Fator de Necrose Tumoral alfa/metabolismo
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Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol ; 284(3): H960-9, 2003 Mar.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-12578819

RESUMO

Transgenic (TG) TNF1.6 mice, which cardiac specifically overexpress tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), exhibit heart failure (HF) and increased mortality, which is markedly higher in young (<20 wk) males (TG-M) than females (TG-F). HF in this model may be partly caused by remodeling of the extracellular matrix and/or structure/function alterations at the single myocyte level. We studied left ventricular (LV) structure and function using echocardiography and LV myocyte morphometry, contractile function, and intracellular Ca(2+) (Ca(i)(2+)) handling using cell edge detection and fura 2 fluorescence, respectively, in 12-wk-old TG-M and TG-F mice and their wild-type (WT) littermates. TG-F mice showed LV hypertrophy without dilatation and only a small reduction of basal fractional shortening (FS) and response to isoproterenol (Iso). TG-M mice showed a large LV dilatation, higher mRNA levels of beta-myosin heavy chain and atrial natriuretic factor versus TG-F mice, reduced FS relative to both WT and TG-F mice, and minimal response to Iso. TG-F and TG-M myocytes were similarly elongated (by approximately 20%). The amplitude of Ca(i)(2+) transients and contractions and the response to Iso were comparable in WT and TG-F myocytes, whereas the time to 50% decline (TD(50%)) of the Ca(i)(2+) transient, an index of the rate of sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+) uptake, was prolonged in TG-F myocytes. In TG-M myocytes, the amplitudes of Ca(i)(2+) transients and contractions were reduced, TD(50%) of the Ca(i)(2+) transient was prolonged, and the inotropic effect of Iso on Ca(i)(2+) transients was reduced approximately twofold versus WT myocytes. Protein expression of sarco(endo)plasmic reticulum Ca(2+)-ATPase 2 and phospholamban was unaltered in TG versus WT hearts, suggesting functional origins of impaired Ca(2+) handling in the former. These results indicate that cardiac-specific overexpression of TNF-alpha induces myocyte hypertrophy and gender-dependent alterations in Ca(i)(2+) handling and contractile function, which may at least partly account for changes in LV geometry and in vivo cardiac function in this model.


Assuntos
Insuficiência Cardíaca/fisiopatologia , Ventrículos do Coração , Miócitos Cardíacos/fisiologia , Fator de Necrose Tumoral alfa/biossíntese , Função Ventricular Esquerda , Animais , Biomarcadores/análise , Northern Blotting , Cálcio/metabolismo , Proteínas de Ligação ao Cálcio/genética , Proteínas de Ligação ao Cálcio/metabolismo , ATPases Transportadoras de Cálcio/genética , ATPases Transportadoras de Cálcio/metabolismo , Tamanho Celular , Células Cultivadas , Modelos Animais de Doenças , Ecocardiografia , Perfilação da Expressão Gênica , Insuficiência Cardíaca/diagnóstico por imagem , Insuficiência Cardíaca/patologia , Ventrículos do Coração/patologia , Ventrículos do Coração/fisiopatologia , Camundongos , Camundongos Transgênicos , Contração Miocárdica , Miocárdio/metabolismo , Miócitos Cardíacos/citologia , Miócitos Cardíacos/metabolismo , RNA Mensageiro/metabolismo , ATPases Transportadoras de Cálcio do Retículo Sarcoplasmático , Fatores Sexuais , Fator de Necrose Tumoral alfa/genética
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J Mol Cell Cardiol ; 34(6): 641-8, 2002 Jun.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-12054851

RESUMO

Advanced age in rats is accompanied by reduced expression of the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca2+ pump (SERCA-2). The amplitudes of intracellular Ca2+ (Ca2+(i)) transients and contractions in ventricular myocytes isolated from old (23-24-months) rats (OR), however, are similar to those of young (4-6-months) rat myocytes (YR). OR myocytes also manifest slowed inactivation of L-type Ca2+ current (I(CaL)) and marked prolongation of action potential (AP) duration. To determine whether and how age-associated AP prolongation preserves the Ca2+(i) transient amplitude in OR myocytes, we employed an AP-clamp technique with simultaneous measurements of I(CaL) (with Na+ current, K+ currents and Ca2+ influx via sarcolemmal Na+-Ca2+ exchanger blocked) and Ca2+(i) transients in OR rat ventricular myocytes dialyzed with the fluorescent Ca2+ probe, indo-1. Myocytes were stimulated with AP-shaped voltage clamp waveforms approximating the configuration of prolonged, i.e. the native, AP of OR cells (AP-L), or with short AP waveforms (AP-S), typical of YR myocytes. Changes in SR Ca2+ load were assessed by rapid, complete SR Ca2+ depletions with caffeine. As expected, during stimulation with AP-S vs AP-L, peak I(CaL) increased, by 21+/-4%, while the I(CaL) integral decreased, by 19+/-3% (P<0.01 for each). Compared to AP-L, stimulation of OR myocytes with AP-S reduced the amplitudes of the Ca2+(i) transient by 31+/-6%, its maximal rate of rise (+dCa2+(i)/dt(max); a sensitive index of SR Ca2+ release flux) by 37+/-4%, and decreased the SR Ca2+ load by 29+/-4% (P<0.01 for each). Intriguingly, AP-S also reduced the maximal rate of the Ca2+(i) transient relaxation and prolonged its time to 50% decline, by 35+/-5% and 33+/-7%, respectively (P<0.01 for each). During stimulation with AP-S, the gain of Ca2+-induced Ca2+ release (CICR), indexed by +dCa2+(i)/dt(max)/I(CaL), was reduced by 46+/-4% vs AP-L (P<0.01). We conclude that the effects of an application of a shorter AP to OR myocytes to reduce +dCa2+(i)/dt(max) and the Ca2+ transient amplitude are attributable to a reduction in SR Ca2+ load, presumably due to a reduced I(CaL) integral and likely also to an increased Ca2+ extrusion via sarcolemmal Na+-Ca2+ exchanger. The decrease in the Ca2+(i) transient relaxation rate in OR cells stimulated with shorter APs may reflect a reduction of Ca2+/calmodulin-kinase II-regulated modulation of Ca2+ uptake via SERCA-2, consequent to a reduced local Ca2+ release in the vicinity of SERCA-2, also attributable to reduced SR Ca2+ load. Thus, the reduction of CICR gain during stimulation with AP-S is the net result of both a diminished SR Ca2+ release and an increased peak I(CaL). These results suggest that ventricular myocytes of old rats utilize AP prolongation to preserve an optimal SR Ca2+ loading, CICR gain and relaxation of Ca2+(i) transients.


Assuntos
Potenciais de Ação/fisiologia , Envelhecimento/fisiologia , Cálcio/metabolismo , Miócitos Cardíacos/fisiologia , Animais , Ventrículos do Coração , Técnicas In Vitro , Técnicas de Patch-Clamp , Ratos , Ratos Wistar
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