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The effect of starvation and of protein-deprivation on the extractable amount of cardiac mRNA was investigated in male rats. Cardiac mRNA was determined by either (a) isolation of cardiac mRNA by SDS-Phenol/oligo-dT-cellulose, or by (b) hybridization of cardiac mRNA to 3H-Poly(U). During starvation (1-6 days) the extractable amount of cardiac microsomal RNA decreased from 870 micrograms/g heart (controls) to 606 micrograms/g (3 days) and to 547 micrograms/g (6 days), the extractable amount of mRNA fell from 28.6 micrograms/g heart (controls) to 18.7 micrograms/g (3 days) and to 14.5 micrograms/g (6 days). When a normocaloric but protein-deficient diet was fed, the decreases in cardiac microsomal RNA and mRNA were qualitatively similar, but slightly less severe. An analysis of the intracellular distribution of cardiac microsomal RNA and mRNA in the hearts of normal animals and of animals starved or fed a protein-deficient diet indicates that during starvation cardiac mRNA does not accumulate in the cell sap, but gets rapidly degraded. In the refeeding period, mRNA is transported from the nucleus to the cytoplasm and engages in polyribosome formation. The specific mRNA species coding for the major myofibrillar cardiac proteins are affected to a similar extent by these changes during starvation/protein-deprivation and refeeding.
Basic Res Cardiol
PMID:Influence of starvation and total protein deprivation on cardiac mRNA levels. 258 May 11

Young male Wistar rats were fed with a thiamine-free diet for 35 days. The growth of the thiamine-deficient animals was considerably suppressed, as compared to a pair-fed control group (body weights: 140.4 +/- 4.3 g v. 243.1 +/- 4.3 g). A weight-matched control group was therefore evaluated in addition. Histological and ultrastructural investigations of the hearts did not reveal any morphological abnormalities. Stereological analysis was performed on left ventricular papillary muscles. One-way analysis of variance showed significant differences of stereological parameters between the three groups which were not associated with significant linear contrasts between the thiamine-deficient group and the weight-matched control group. Thus, the changes are not to be related to direct effects of thiamine depletion on the myocardium. Conclusively, the data indicate that stereological parameters (ratios) of the myocardium depend on heart weight and body weight, respectively, and are changed during normal growth. Our stereological estimates disclosed alterations of the following parameters: numerical density of myocardial cell nuclei, length density and volume density of capillaries, surface density of outer mitochondrial membranes and surface-to-volume ratio of mitochondria, and volume density of myofibrils. Furthermore, relative heart weights decrease in normal growth. It is concluded that our experimental model of chronic alimentary thiamine deficiency was associated with a normal structure of the myocardium. All significant differences between the thiamine-deficient group and the control group are explained by body weight changes following starvation in chronic thiamine deficiency.
J Mol Cell Cardiol 1986 Jun
PMID:Stereological study on the rat heart in chronic alimentary thiamine deficiency--absence of myocardial changes despite starvation. 373 43

In heart muscle regulation of pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) complex activity by reversible phosphorylation is the major determinant of glucose oxidation under physiological conditions and in diabetes. Altered mitochondrial concentrations of effectors of PDH kinase and phosphatase (metabolites, Ca2+, H+) appear to explain effects of oxidation of lipid fuels, myocardial contraction and ischaemia on PDH complex activity. The effects of diabetes and starvation are mediated in addition by protein(s) which increase the activity of PDH kinase. End product inhibition by NADH may be important in ischaemia.
Basic Res Cardiol 1985
PMID:Molecular mechanisms regulating myocardial glucose oxidation. 406 41

The specific activity of cardiac cathepsin B is significantly decreased by starvation and corticosteroid treatment in vivo, and by exposure of the heart in vitro to insulin, hydrocortisone and cycloheximide. Increases in cathepsin B activity occur following isoproterenol-induced cardiac damage in vivo and exposure in vitro to sucrose. Cathepsin B activity in heart is not changed during normal aging or in thyrotoxicosis. These responses are different from simultaneous changes in cardiac cathepsin D activity in several instances (starvation, corticosteroid treatment, aging and thyrotoxicosis). In the past, measurements of cathepsin D activity in heart have sometimes been considered to be representative of lysosomal proteinase activity in general and used as an index of cardiac lysosomal proteolytic capacity. The present results suggest that changes in cathepsin D do not necessarily reflect alterations in other lysosomal proteinases and may not serve as a valid indicator of overall lysosomal proteolytic capacity under all conditions.
J Mol Cell Cardiol 1983 Aug
PMID:Changes in cardiac cathepsin B activity in response to interventions that alter heart size or protein metabolism: comparison with cathepsin D. 623 80

Changes in cardiac protein composition occur in a variety of patho-physiological situations and are usually accompanied by modifications in protein synthesis. Although adjustments in protein synthesis during starvation may be adaptive, the alterations in protein synthesis seen in response to ethanol ingestion may be pathological and an important step in the genesis of alcoholic heart muscle disease. The alterations in heart muscle in hypertension are initially adaptive but in the long term they are deleterious, and involve both transcription and translation. While adequate methods exist for quantifying the amount of mRNA for contractile and non-contractile proteins, such studies of gene-expression provide no dynamic information on the rate at which tissue proteins are lost or accrued. This can only be determined by measuring the rate of protein turnover, i.e. either protein synthesis or protein breakdown. Techniques for directly determining the rates of protein breakdown are limited or involve surgical procedures. Methods for measuring the rate of protein synthesis are described, and are illustrated by their application to the investigation of starvation and ethanol toxicity. In particular, attention is focused on the fact that reliable rates of protein synthesis are obtained only if the specific radioactivity of the precursor at the site of protein synthesis (aminoacyl-tRNA) is assessed.
Int J Cardiol 1995 Jun 30
PMID:Protein synthesis in the heart in vivo, its measurement and patho-physiological alterations. 759 36

Hyperthyroidism [produced by the administration of 3,5,3'-triiodothyronine (T3) for 3 days to adult rats] increased PDH kinase activities of freshly isolated cardiomyocytes by 1.6-fold. The effects of hyperthyroidism and 48 h-starvation to increase PDH kinase activities were additive. Culture of cardiomyocytes prepared from fed, euthyroid rats for 25 h with T3 (100 nM) increased PDH kinase activities to values comparable in magnitude to those observed in response to experimental hyperthyroidism in vivo. PDH kinase activities in cardiomyocytes from fed, euthyroid rats after culture with n-octanoate (1 mM) or dibutyryl cyclic AMP (DBcAMP)(50 microM) exceeded those of freshly isolated myocytes. DBcAMP and T3 were without further effect in the presence of n-octanoate. The inclusion of insulin (100 microU/ml) alone in the culture medium did not affect PDH kinase activity, but insulin suppressed the effects of T3, DBcAMP and n-octanoate to increase cardiomyocyte PDH kinase activity in culture. PDH kinase activities in cardiomyocytes isolated from starved rats declined after 25 h of culture. This decline was prevented by the inclusion of T3, but not of DBcAMP, in the culture medium. Insulin (100 microU/ml) suppressed the effects of T3 to oppose the loss of cardiomyocyte PDH kinase activity experienced during culture. The results demonstrate that hyperthyroidism leads to a stable increase in the activity of cardiomyocyte PDH kinase, a response that is mimicked by T3 in vitro. Insulin opposes the effects of T3 (and of fatty acids and cyclic AMP) to increase PDH kinase activity in cultured cardiomyocytes.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
J Mol Cell Cardiol 1995 Mar
PMID:Interactive effects of insulin and triiodothyronine on pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase activity in cardiac myocytes. 760 8

The use of liquid protein products for treatment of obesity in the United States in the 1960s and '70s was associated with an increased risk of sudden cardiac death. The latter was related to long QT interval occurring in the absence of structural abnormalities of the heart. In an attempt to increase understanding of this phenomenon, the authors examined the possible role of diet-related circumstances. No evidence of increased incidence of sudden cardiac death or significant lengthening of QT interval in obesity, weight loss, starvation and dieting by methods other than liquid protein intake were found. It was concluded that sudden cardiac death during use of liquid protein products remains an enigma, but that other methods of properly medically supervised dieting appear to be safe.
Can J Cardiol 1995 Mar
PMID:The enigma of sudden cardiac death related to dieting. 788 41

A study of substrate selection in the isolated heart was made using 13C NMR isotopomer analysis, a method that unequivocally identifies relative substrate utilization. This technique has several advantages over conventional approaches used to study this problem. It detects the labeling of metabolic end-products present in tissue, as opposed to more indirect methods such as measurement of respiratory quotient, arteriovenous differences, or specific activity changes in the added substrate. It also has advantages over methods such as 14CO2 release, which may involve dilution of label with unlabeled pools before CO2 release. Furthermore, it can measure the relative oxidation of up to four substrates in a single experiment, which other labeling techniques cannot conveniently achieve. Substrate selection was considered in light of its effects on myocardial efficiency and recovery from ischemia. A mixture of four substrates (acetoacetate, glucose, lactate, and a mixture of long chain fatty acids), present at physiological concentration (0.17, 5.5, 1.2, and 0.35 mM, respectively), was examined. This is the first use of such a mixture in the study of substrate selection in an isolated organ preparation. At these concentrations, it was found that fatty acids supplied the majority of the acetyl-CoA (49%), and a substantial contribution was also provided by acetoacetate (23%). This suggests that the ketone bodies are a more important substrate than generally considered. Indeed, normalizing the relative utilizations on the basis of acetyl-CoA equivalents, ketone bodies were by far the preferred substrate. The relative lactate oxidation was only 15%, and glucose oxidation could not be detected. No change in utilization was detected after 15 min of ischemia followed by 40 min of reperfusion. The change in substrate selection with afterload was examined, to mimic the stress-related changes in workload found with ischemia. Only minor changes were found. Substrate selection from the same group of substrates, but employing concentrations observed during starvation, was also assessed. This represents the state during which most clinical treatments and evaluations are performed. In this case, acetoacetate was the most used substrate (78%), with small and equal contributions from fatty acids and endogenous substrates; the oxidation of lactate was suppressed.
Basic Res Cardiol
PMID:Substrate selection in the isolated working rat heart: effects of reperfusion, afterload, and concentration. 858 60

Glypicans are a group of membrane-bound heparan sulfate proteoglycans (HSPG) that are tissue specific and developmentally regulated. Transcripts for avian glypican are found in endocardial cushions, limb buds, somites and forebrain of early chick embryos. Since avian glypican is not well characterized, the cellular localization, regulation of expression, and possible function during cardiac development have been studied. A polyclonal antibody was raised against a 20-amino acid peptide corresponding to an antigenic sequence within avian glypican core protein. The antibody recognized the expressed core protein in bacterial lysates and the endogenous HSPG in the proteoglycan fraction from chick forebrain. Immunolocalization studies indicated that the core protein is associated with cell membranes. The level of mRNA for avian glypican in MEQC (myc embryonic quail cardiomyocytes) grown in medium containing 10% fetal calf serum was compared to the message levels in cells grown without serum for 3 days. By Northern analysis, glypican transcripts were increased markedly after serum starvation. Up-regulation of glypican transcripts by serum withdrawal was partially prevented by addition of TGFbeta-1 and bFGF, suggesting that these growth factors may regulate its expression. MEQC cells deprived of serum migrated into clumps that could be blocked by an antisense OND (oligodeoxynucleotide) to the mRNA encoding the avian glypican. The same antisense OND inhibited the migration of endothelial cells from chick tubular heart explants over the surface of collagen gels. These results indicate that avian glypican may play a role in cell migration during development of endocardial cushions.
J Mol Cell Cardiol 1998 Mar
PMID:Structure, regulation and function of avian glypican. 951 30

Thyroid hormone is known to cause hypertrophy, tachycardia, vasorelaxation, and enhanced contractile function. The exact mechanisms responsible for these effects are unknown but classical regulation of gene expression through binding to nuclear receptors has been widely implicated. Data have also accumulated suggesting that TH can exert effects through non-classical mechanisms involving activation of signal transduction pathways. Whether thyroid hormone can activate signal transduction pathways in the heart is unknown. In this study, we treated neonatal rat cardiomyocytes with T3 and determined the expression and phosphorylation of signaling molecules. T3 caused specific activation of Akt/PKB signaling after 24 h of treatment. Since Akt is known to protect against cell death, cells were serum-starved in the presence or absence of T3 to determine whether T3 could protect against serum starvation-induced cell death. Indeed, myocytes treated with T3 displayed enhanced sarcomeric structure after 4 days of serum starvation. T3 increased cell viability as measured by MTT assays, prevented DNA laddering, and reduced TUNEL positive cells, which was associated with increased phosphorylated Akt and glycogen synthase kinase 3beta (GSK-3beta). The protective effect of T3 on cell viability, DNA laddering and TUNEL positive cells were blocked by LY294002, a phosphoinositide-3 kinase (PI3K) inhibitor that blocks Akt signaling. Overall these data suggest that T3 can activate Akt in cardiomyocytes which protects myocytes against cell death.
J Mol Cell Cardiol 2005 Nov
PMID:Thyroid hormone activates Akt and prevents serum starvation-induced cell death in neonatal rat cardiomyocytes. 1617 8


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