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(Hypertension. 1996;28:627-634.)
© 1996 American Heart Association, Inc.

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Role of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme, Adrenergic Receptors, and Blood Pressure in Cardiac Gene Expression of Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats During Development

Kensuke Ohta; Shokei Kim; Hiroshi Iwao

the Department of Pharmacology, Osaka (Japan) City University Medical School.

Correspondence to Shokei Kim, MD, Department of Pharmacology, Osaka City University Medical School, 1-4-54 Asahimachi, Abenoku, Osaka 545, Japan.

We undertook this study to investigate the regulatory mechanism of cardiac gene expression in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) during development. We measured cardiac mRNAs by Northern blot analysis. In 9-week-old SHR at the very early stage of cardiac hypertrophy, the expression of various cardiac genes related to the regulation of cardiac contraction and relaxation was already significantly changed compared with control Wistar-Kyoto rats, indicating that cardiac molecular changes are responsible for cardiac remodeling or the modulation of cardiac performance in SHR. We gave various types of antihypertensive drugs, at oral doses causing a mild and comparable hypotensive effect, to 27-week-old SHR to examine the effects on the altered cardiac gene expression. Imidapril, an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor, normalized the increased gene expression of atrial natriuretic polypeptide and collagen types I and III and the decreased expression of -myosin heavy chain in SHR heart. Atenolol (a ß₁-blocker) combined with doxazosin did not affect cardiac ANP and -myosin heavy chain expression of SHR but normalized the increased collagen expression. In contrast, despite a hypotensive effect comparable to these two drug treatments, doxazosin (an ₁-blocker) alone or manidipine (a calcium antagonist) did not normalize these altered gene expressions of SHR. These results show that the cardiac renin-angiotensin system is involved in the altered cardiac gene expression in SHR. The ß₁- but not ₁-adrenergic receptor is also responsible for the increased cardiac collagen expression in SHR.

Key Words: hypertrophy • angiotensin-converting enzyme • receptors, adrenergic • aging • hypertension, genetic

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