(Hypertension. 1995;25:132-138.)
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Monocyte Infiltration and c-fms Expression in Hearts of Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats
From the Department of Medicine and Nephrology, Steglitz University Hospital, Free University of Berlin, and the Franz Volhard Clinic at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Rudolf Virchow University Hospitals, Free University of Berlin (Germany).
Correspondence to Hermann Haller, MD, Franz Volhard Clinic, Wiltberg Strasse 50, 13122 Berlin, FRG.
Abstract To elucidate mechanisms of myocardial hypertrophy in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR), we examined by Northern blotting the expression of the proto-oncogenes c-myc, c-fos, c-sis, and c-fms in the hearts of 4- and 14-week-old SHR and normotensive Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rats. No difference in c-myc or c-fos expression could be found between SHR and WKY rats. In SHR, c-sis gave a weak and c-fms a very strong signal at 14 weeks, whereas no signal for these oncogenes was found in either WKY rats or Sprague-Dawley controls. Since c-fms codes for the receptor of monocyte colony-stimulating factor, we next used in situ hybridization to localize the presence of c-fms in hearts of SHR at 14 weeks. We found strong signals for c-fms around small blood vessels and between cardiac myocytes in 14-week-old SHR but none in WKY rats. Immunohistochemical staining corroborated the presence of clusters of monocyte infiltration at these same perivascular sites in significantly greater numbers in SHR than in WKY rats. We conclude that c-fms expression and macrophage infiltration are increased in the perivascular space of hypertrophied hearts from SHR. We suggest that mononuclear cell recruitment and induction of c-fms may play a role in the development of hypertension-associated myocardial hypertrophy.
Key Words: heart hypertrophy • fibrosis • oncogenes • monocytes • macrophages
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