ISSN:
0173-0835
Keywords:
Rat
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Heart proteins
;
Renovascular hypertension
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Two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis
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Computer-assisted gel analysis
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Chemistry
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Biochemistry and Biotechnology
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Biology
,
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
Hypertensive heart disease caused by renovascular hypertension reflects the response of the heart to an increased afterload and neurohormonal stimulation. We hypothesized that in this condition the composition of the myocardial proteins of rats was altered. To identify yet unknown quantitative and qualitative differences in myocardial proteins in renovascular hypertensive heart disease, we analyzed protein patterns by computer-assisted two-dimensional polyacrylamide large gel electrophoresis. Renovascular hypertension was induced by placing a silver clip on the left renal artery in 9-week-old rat siblings. Sham-operated animals served as controls. Systolic blood pressure (197 ± 19 mm Hg) and heart/body weight ratios (0.36 ± 0.04%) were significantly increased in the hypertensive animals. Twenty protein patterns from the left ventricle of five hypertensive and five control rats were compared. The molecular mass and isoelectric point (pI) of proteins spots ranging from 13 to 100 kDa and from 4.5 to 8.5, respectively, were determined using marker proteins. In total, 761 ± 88 protein spots were resolved in all twenty gels. For the quantitative data analysis a univariate (Mann-Whitney test) as well as a multi-variate statistical approach (correspondence analysis) were applied. Only one myocardial protein spot (molecular mass = 41.3 kDa; pI = 6.3) was decreased by more than twofold (p 〈 0.05) in renovascular hypertension. The vast majority of spots did not indicate a significant alteration of intensity. Left ventricular hypertrophy in early renovascular hypertension induces a form of myocardial hypertrophy that conserves the naturally occurring protein expression pattern.
Additional Material:
6 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/elps.1150191124
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