Reduced gene expression of vascular endothelial NO synthase and cyclooxygenase-1 in heart failure

Circulation Research
C J SmithT H Hintze

Abstract

Endothelium-dependent responses are depressed in coronary and peripheral blood vessels after the onset of pacing-induced heart failure in dogs and heart failure of various etiologies in humans. The present study was designed to examine whether these responses were due to decreases in the expression of endothelial cell NO synthase (ecNOS) and cyclooxygenase-1 (COX-1). After 1 month of left ventricular pacing, 8 mongrel dogs were monitored for heart failure as defined by clinical signs and left ventricular end diastolic pressures > 25 mm Hg. Total RNA and protein were isolated from endothelial cells scraped from the thoracic aorta and analyzed by Northern and Western blotting, respectively. Blots probed with 32P-labeled cDNAs for ecNOS and COX-1 were quantified densitometrically, and results were normalized against GAPDH or von Willebrand factor (vWF). In arbitrary units, the ratios of ecNOS to GAPDH were 2.66 +/- 0.77 (mean +/- SEM, n = 17) and 1.12 +/- 0.37 (n = 6 and the ratios of COX-1 to GAPDH were 1.52 +/- 0.52 and 0.56 +/- 0.15 before and after heart failure, respectively. These represent 56% to 64% (P < .05) reductions in ecNOS and COX-1 gene expression. There was no change in the ratios of either COX-1 or ecNOS to vWF. T...Continue Reading

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