PMID: 16617362Apr 18, 2006Paper

Effect of hyperhomocysteinemia on cardiac remodeling in rats

Beijing da xue xue bao. Yi xue ban = Journal of Peking University. Health sciences
Feng-ying ChenChao-shu Tang

Abstract

To study the effects of hyperhomocysteinemia on cardiac remodeling and systolic function. Twenty-four Wistar rats were divided randomly into experiment and control group. 12 rats of experiment group were bred with 1 g/(kg.d) L-methionine. After 4 weeks, 6 of them were killed (HHcy), others were continuously bred with normal diet for 4 weeks (Quit hcy, QHcy). Twelve rats of control group with normal diet for 4 and 8 weeks. The plasma Hcy concentrations were measured by immuno-fluorescence technique. Left ventricular structure and systolic function were assessed by echocardiography. The cardiac morphology and collagen were studied by optical microscopy and image analysis system after hematoxylin eosin-staining and picrosirius red-staining. Immuno-histochemistry for actin-smooth muscle and factor VIII-related antigen was performed to identify changes in cardiac smaller arteriolar and microvascular numbers. The plasma Hcy concentration was (106.19+/-19.75) micromol/L in HHcy, (6.52+/-0.94) micromol/L in QHcy and (4.90+/-0.10) micromol/L in the control. Left ventricular systolic function was decreased 10.7% in HHcy. Left ventricular wall strain and cardiac smaller arteriolar wall thickness were increased by 62.1% and 2.9 fold in HHc...Continue Reading

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