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| Author(s): |
Viviane de Menezes Caceres
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Biologia |
| Defense date: | 2008-02-25 |
| Examining board members: |
Marta Helena Krieger;
Rosana Almada Bassani;
Cassia Marta de Toledo Bergamaschi
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| Advisor: | Regina Celia Spadari Bratfisch; Marta Helena Krieger |
| Abstract | |
The aim of this study is to analyze and to compare the effects of a nitrosothiol NO donnor (SNAC) and of a NO-/HNO donor (Angelis Salt, AS) on the structure and functioning of myocardium under atherogenic process induced by a hyperlipic diet in LDL receptor knockout mice (LDLr-/-). The role played by the ß adrenoceptor subtypes in the control of the cardiac function of LDLr-/- mice has also been analysed. LDLr-/- mice exhibited a contractile deficit in the myocardium, with no alteration in the response to isoprenaline, which is mediated by a homogeneous population of ß1 adrenoceptors. However, when it was associated with a hyperlipidic diet, ß2 adrenoceptors participate in the inotropic and chronotropic responses to isoprenaline, causing an alteration on tissue sensitivity to the agonist. LDLr-/- knockout mice treatment with SNAC or AS avoided the atria supersensitivity to isoprenaline by inducing ß2 adrenoceptors coupling to Gi protein. Moreover, AS but not SNAC was able to recover the atria contractile performance. LDLr-/- mice also presented hypertension that it was prevented by the SNAC treatment. Hypertension was accompanied by ventricular hypertrophy when the gene deletion was associated with a hyperlipidic diet. SNAC or AS treatment prevented the hypertrophy, but not the hypertension. We concluded that LDLr-/- mice fed with a hyperlipidic diet are useful models for the study of haemodynamic and cardiac diseases related to a hypercholesterolemic profile, mostly when the focus is to investigate the participation of the adrenoceptors in the involved processes, and that NO donnors or similar compounds may be an alternative tool to prevent such alterations (AU) | |