Chronic Ethanol Administration Prevents Compensatory Cardiac Hypertrophy in Pressure Overload

Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research
Van K NinhJason D Gardner

Abstract

Alcohol is among the most commonly abused drugs worldwide and affects many organ systems, including the heart. Alcoholic cardiomyopathy is characterized by a dilated cardiac phenotype with extensive hypertrophy and extracellular matrix (ECM) remodeling. We have previously shown that chronic ethanol (EtOH) administration accelerates the progression to heart failure in a rat model of volume overload. However, the mechanism by which this decompensation occurs is unknown. For this study, we hypothesized that chronic EtOH administration would prevent compensatory hypertrophy and cardiac remodeling in a rodent model of pressure overload (PO). Abdominal aortic constriction was used to create PO in 8-week-old male Wistar rats. Alcohol administration was performed via chronic intermittent EtOH vapor inhalation for 2 weeks prior to surgery and for the duration of the 8-week study. Echocardiography measurements were taken to assess ventricular functional and structural changes. PO increased posterior wall thickness and the hypertrophic markers, atrial and B-type natriuretic peptides (ANP and BNP). With the added stressor of EtOH, wall thickness, ANP, and BNP decreased in PO animals. The combination of PO and EtOH resulted in increased wal...Continue Reading

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