Abstract
Changes which might lead to the initiation of cardiac hypertrophy include possible variations in the dynamics of nucleotides. In the experiments reported in this paper, changes in the pool sizes of adenine, uracil and cytosine nucleotides were observed during the initial phase of cardiac overload. Repeated subcutaneous injections of isoproterenol (ISO) (5 mg . kg-1 body weight, s.c.) were performed so as to produce symmetric cardiomegaly in rats. Under these conditions, the dry weight of the heart, on the fifth day of dialy injections of ISO, had increased by 43% and the RNA concentration by 39%. There was no significant change in the DNA concentration. No further changes in weight or in DNA and RNA concentrations were recorded from the fifth to the tenth day of treatment. Changes in UTP and ATP were carefully monitored during the first days following ISO application. The levels of both nucleotides decreased sharply at first. The ATP level remained below the control value for at least 48 h while the UTP level was rapidly restored and a further increase occurred resulting in a maximal enlargement of 82% after the 12th h. At the same time, the uracil nucleotide pool and the cytosine nucleotide pool had increased by 76% and 101%, ...Continue Reading
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