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Decompensation of Pressure-Overload Hypertrophy in G{alpha}q-Overexpressing Mice

Yoshihito Sakata, MD, PhD; Brian D. Hoit, MD; Stephen B. Liggett, MD; Richard A. Walsh, MD; ; Gerald W. Dorn, II, MD

From the University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Veterans Administration Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Correspondence to Gerald W. Dorn II, MD, University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Veterans Administration Medical Center, 231 Bethesda Ave, ML 0542, Cincinnati, OH 45267-0542. E-mail DornGW{at}ucbeh.san.uc.edu

Background—Receptor-mediated activation of myocardial Gq signaling is postulated as a biochemical mechanism transducing pressure-overload hypertrophy. The specific effects of Gq activation on the functional and morphological adaptations to pressure overload are not known.

Methods and Results—To determine the effects of intrinsic myocyte G{alpha}q signaling on the left ventricular hypertrophic response to experimental pressure overload, transgenic mice overexpressing G{alpha}q specifically in the heart (G{alpha}q-25) and nontransgenic siblings underwent microsurgical creation of transverse aortic coarctation and the morphometric, functional, and molecular characteristics of these pressure-overloaded hearts were compared at increasing times after surgery. Before aortic banding, isolated G{alpha}q-25 ventricular myocytes exhibited contractile depression (depressed +dl/dt and -dl/dt) and G{alpha}q-25 hearts showed a pattern of fetal gene expression similar to the known characteristics of nontransgenic pressure-overloaded mice. Three weeks after transverse aortic banding, G{alpha}q-25 left ventricles hypertrophied to a similar extent ({approx}30% increase) as nontransgenic mice. However, whereas nontransgenic mice exhibited concentric left ventricular remodeling with maintained ejection performance (compensated hypertrophy), G{alpha}q-25 left ventricles developed eccentric hypertrophy and ejection performance deteriorated, ultimately resulting in left heart failure (decompensated hypertrophy). The signature hypertrophy-associated progress of fetal cardiac gene expression observed at baseline in G{alpha}q-25 developed after aortic banding of nontransgenic mice but did not significantly change in aortic-banded G{alpha}q-25 mice.

Conclusions—Intrinsic cardiac myocyte G{alpha}q activation stimulates fetal gene expression and depresses cardiac myocyte contractility. Superimposition of the hemodynamic stress of pressure overload on G{alpha}q overexpression stimulates a maladaptive form of eccentric hypertrophy that leads to rapid functional decompensation. Therefore G{alpha}q-stimulated cardiac hypertrophy is functionally deleterious and compromises the ability of the heart to adapt to increased mechanical load. This finding supports a reevaluation of accepted concepts regarding the mechanisms for compensation and decompensation in pressure-overload hypertrophy.


Key Words: hypertrophy • genetics • morphogenesis • ventricles • pressure




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