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Intracardiac basic fibroblast growth factor and transforming growth factor-beta 1 mRNA and their proteins expression
Zuo Yun He1, Bing Feng, Sheng Li Yang
1Department of Cardiology, Xinqiao Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400037, China. yslhzy@yahoo.com.cn
Objectives:
The aim of the study was to investigate the pathogenic role of intracardiac basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) and transforming growth factor beta-1 (TGF beta-1) mRNA and their protein expression level in patients with ventricular volume or pressure-overload.
Background:
Myocardial hypertrophy is responsiveness of cardiomyocytes and interstitial cells to ventricular stress produced by ventricular preload or/and afterload and a series of growth factors. However, the molecular mechanism by which the changes of bFGF and TGF beta-1 mRNA and their protein expression level in patients with volume or pressure-overload lead to distinct forms of cardiac hypertrophy is unclear.
Methods:
32 patients were divided into two groups: 16 patients with cardiac volume overload leading to left ventricular hypertrophy (VG) and 16 patients with pressure overload leading to right ventricular hypertrophy (PG), respectively, as compared with 5 unexpected deaths of noncardiac disease (CG), which is determinated by echocardiography and/or pathologic examination following operation; intracardiac bFGF and TGF beta-1 mRNA and their protein expression level were determined by immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization as well as image analysis; cardiomyocytes and fibril collagen of type I and III were examined by haemotoxylin and eosin (HE) staining or sirius-red staining.
Results:
Cardiocyte transverse diameter and fibril collagen of extracellular matrix, intracardiac bFGF and TGF beta-1 mRNA and their protein expression level in patients with volume or pressure-overload were significantly increased in both VG and PG, as compared with CG.
Conclusion:
This is the first paper to suggest that intracardiac bFGF and TGF beta-1 play a pivotal role in patients with pressure or volume-overload leading to right or left ventricular hypertrophy, composed of cardiomyocyte hypertrophy and extracellular matrix proliferation.
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