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      Mechanical stretch induces hypertrophic responses in cardiac myocytes of angiotensin II type 1a receptor knockout mice.

      The Journal of Biological Chemistry
      Animals, Animals, Newborn, Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinases, metabolism, Cardiomegaly, physiopathology, Cells, Cultured, Enzyme Inhibitors, pharmacology, Genes, fos, Genistein, Heart, physiology, Mice, Mice, Knockout, Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases, Myocardium, cytology, Phosphorylation, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Protein Kinase C, Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fos, genetics, Receptor, Angiotensin, Type 1, Receptor, Angiotensin, Type 2, Receptor, Epidermal Growth Factor, antagonists & inhibitors, Receptors, Angiotensin, deficiency, Reference Values, Signal Transduction, Stress, Mechanical, Transcription, Genetic, p38 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases

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          Many lines of evidence have suggested that angiotensin II (AngII) plays an important role in the development of cardiac hypertrophy through AngII type 1 receptor (AT1). To determine whether AngII is indispensable for the development of mechanical stress-induced cardiac hypertrophy, we examined the activity of mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) family and the expression of the c-fos gene as hypertrophic responses after stretching cultured cardiac myocytes of AT1a knockout (KO) mice. When cardiac myocytes were stretched by 20% for 10 min, extracellular signal-regulated protein kinases (ERKs) were strongly activated in KO cardiomyocytes as well as wild type (WT) myocytes. Both basal and stimulated levels of ERKs were higher in cardiomyocytes of KO mice than in those of WT mice. Activation of another member of the MAPK family, p38(MAPK), and expression of the c-fos gene were also induced by stretching cardiac myocytes of both types of mice. An AT1 antagonist attenuated stretch-induced activation of ERKs in WT cardiomyocytes but not in KO cardiomyocytes. Down-regulation of protein kinase C inhibited stretch-induced ERK activation in WT cardiomyocytes, whereas a broad spectrum tyrosine kinase inhibitor (genistein) and selective inhibitors of epidermal growth factor receptor (tyrphostin, AG1478, and B42) suppressed stretch-induced activation of ERKs in KO cardiac myocytes. Epidermal growth factor receptor was phosphorylated at tyrosine residues by stretching cardiac myocytes of KO mice. These results suggest that mechanical stretch could evoke hypertrophic responses in cardiac myocytes that lack the AT1 signaling pathway possibly through tyrosine kinase activation.

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