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Copyright © 1998, European Society of Cardiology
Angiotensin II stimulates cardiac myocyte hypertrophy via paracrine release of TGF-β1 and endothelin-1 from fibroblasts
aCardiology Section, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, 4150 Clement Street, San Francisco, CA 94121, USA
bDepartment of Medicine, Endocrinology Division, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
* Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 (415) 750 2112; Fax: +1 (415) 750 6950.
Objective: We sought to determine whether angiotensin II (Ang II) promotes hypertrophy of cardiac myocytes directly or via paracrine mechanisms mediated by cardiac fibroblasts. Methods: We studied neonatal rat cardiac myocytes and fibroblasts in culture as a model system. Paracrine effects of Ang II were identified using conditioned medium and co-culture experiments. Results: Ang II type 1 (AT1) receptors responsible for myocyte growth localized to fibroblasts in radioligand binding, emulsion autoradiography, Western analysis, and immunofluorescence staining experiments. The bulk of AT1 receptor binding in myocyte cultures (1343±472 sites/cell) was to Ang II receptors on contaminating fibroblasts (9747±2126 sites/cell). Ang II induced significant paracrine trophic effects on myocytes in conditioned medium (40% increase in protein synthesis over control) and co-culture (4-fold increase over control) experiments. TGF-β1 and endothelin-1 were paracrine mediators of hypertrophy in neutralization experiments. Conclusions: Ang II stimulates cardiac myocyte hypertrophy via paracrine release of TGF-β1 and endothelin-1 from cardiac fibroblasts in a neonatal rat cell culture model.
KEYWORDS Angiotensin; Cell communication; Cell culture; Cytokines; Endothelins; Growth factors; Myocytes; Rat; Receptors
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