scholarly journals Early alterations in myocardia and vessels of the diabetic rat heart: an FTIR microspectroscopic study

2006 ◽  
Vol 397 (3) ◽  
pp. 427-436 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neslihan Toyran ◽  
Peter Lasch ◽  
Dieter Naumann ◽  
Belma Turan ◽  
Feride Severcan

Diabetes mellitus is associated with a high incidence and poor prognosis of cardiovascular disease. The aim of the present study was to examine the effect of relatively short-term (5 weeks) Type I diabetes on the left ventricle, the right ventricle and the vessel (vein) on the left ventricle of the myocardium at molecular level by FTIR (Fourier-transform infrared) microspectroscopy. The rats were categorized into two groups: control group (for the left ventricle myocardium, n=8; for the right ventricle myocardium, n=9; for the vein, n=9) and streptozotocin-induced diabetic group (for the left ventricle myocardium, n=7; for the right ventricle myocardium, n=9; for the vein, n=8). Two adjacent cross-sections of 9 μm thickness were taken from the ventricles of the hearts in two groups of rats by using a cryotome. The first sections were used for FTIR microspectroscopy measurements. The second serial sections were stained by haematoxylin/eosin for comparative purposes. Diabetes caused an increase in the content of lipids, an alteration in protein profile with a decrease in α-helix and an increase in β-sheet structure as well as an increase in glycogen and glycolipid contents in both ventricles and the vein. Additionally, the collagen content was found to be increased in the vein of the diabetic group. The present study demonstrated that diabetes-induced alterations in the rat heart can be detected by correlating the IR spectral changes with biochemical profiles in detail. The present study for the first time demonstrated the diabetes-induced alterations at molecular level in both ventricle myocardia and the veins in relatively short-term diabetes.

1957 ◽  
Vol 188 (3) ◽  
pp. 514-518 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kong-oo Goh ◽  
R. Duncan Dallam

A study of the oxygen consumption of the atrium, right and left ventricles from rat heart has been reported. The response of these heart regions to the in vitro and in vivo addition of thyroxine has been reported. Results obtained were: a) The oxygen consumption of the left ventricle from normal animals was found to be about 25% greater than that of the right ventricle and atrium. b) In animals whose thyroid activity was depressed the oxygen consumption of the atrium and the right and left ventricles was proportionately decreased about 25%. c) Animals whose thyroid activity was increased were found to have an increased oxygen consumption in all areas of the heart, however, not proportionately. d) The in vitro addition of thyroxine to the three heart areas from animals with decreased thyroid activity and normal animals caused an increase in oxygen consumption, whereas it did not appreciably affect the oxygen consumption of the heart areas from animals with increased thyroid activity.


2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (Supplement_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
N M Popa-Fotea ◽  
M M Micheu ◽  
M Dorobantu

Abstract Funding Acknowledgements CREDO Project - ID: 49182, financed through the SOP IEC -A2-0.2.2.1-2013-1 cofinanced by the ERDF Introduction One important cause of sudden cardiac death in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) are ventricular arrhythmias. In patients with HCM, non-sustained ventricular arrhythmias were analysed in relation with 2D speckle tracking mechanical dispersion of left ventricle (LVMD), but not in relation with mechanical dispersion of the right ventricle. Purpose To investigate the possible associations between mechanical dispersion and other echocardiographic parameters and the development of non-sustained ventricular tachycardias (NSVT) in HCM patients. Methods Clinical, 24 hours ECG-Holter, 2D and 3D echocardiography data were registered in HCM patients and in a healthy control group (with normal echocardiography). The 24 hours ECG-Holter was used for detecting NSVT. LVMD was calculated as the standard deviation of time to peak negative strain in the sixteenth segments of the left ventricle. The right ventricle mechanical dispersion (RVMD) was calculated on a three free wall segments model (FWMD), but also in six segments (three RV free wall segments plus three septal segments). Right and left ventricle function was evaluated by conventional echography and 2D speckle tracking imaging. Results Fifty-two patients with HCM and thirty-six age and sex matched subjects were included in the study. In HCM group, 6 patients (11,5%) associated biventricular hypertrophy, while 15 (28.8%) had NSVT on ECG monitoring (group HCM1). HCM1 patients had a much higher LVMD (77.38 ± 11.19 ms) compared with HCM patients without NSVT (group HCM2) (55.8 ± 23.85 ms, p = 0.001, CI:-33.9,-9.3) or compared with controls (43.07 ± 14.19 ms, p <0.001, CI: -44.68, -25.99). The 6 segments RVMD (60.23 ± 10.2 ms) was significantly higher in the CMH1 group compared with CMH2 (45.22 ± 9.8 ms, p = 0.01, CI: -32.1, -28.1) or with the control group (22 ±14 ms, p < 0.001,CI: -36.28, -30.12) independently of the existence of RV hypertrophy. Also, FWMD (55.2 ± 4.8 ms) was significantly higher in CMH1 group in comparation with CMH2 (42.3 ± 5.6 ms, p = 0.02, CI: -27.1, -8.2) or controls (32.1 ± 2.2 ms, p = 0.006, CI: -28.1, -12.1). The presence of NSVT correlated with global longitudinal strain (GS) 2C (-0.442, p = 0.009), GS LAX (r=-0.373, p = 0.03), GS mean value (r=-0.345, p = 0.046), LVMD (r = 0.462, p = 0.006), FWMD (r = 0.51, p = 0.004), 6 segments RVMD (r = 0.46, p = 0.05), 2D and 3D left atrial volume (r = 0.446, p = 0.008 and respectively, r = 0.512, p = 0.002). In a logistic regression, the only parameters associated with NSVT were LVMD (OR = 1.046, p = 0.05), FWMD (OR = 1.03, p = 0.05) and 6 segments MD (OR = 1.1, p = 0.04). Conclusions Increased mechanical dispersion of the left, but also right ventricle is associated with the risk of non-sustained ventricular tachycardias in HCM patients.


2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 240-247
Author(s):  
O. V. Filatova ◽  
E. Ivanova ◽  
V. Chursina

We conducted a retrospective study of EchoCG from 33 males who had the myocardial infarction. Patients with a diagnosis of "neurocirculatory dystonia" (30 people) entered the control group. We studied the size of the left ventricle, the left atrium, the right ventricle, their relationship to each other, the mass of the myocardium and the mass index of the myocardium of the left ventricle. The study of the morphological structures of the heart revealed a change in the size of the left ventricle, the left atrium and the right ventricle in patients who had an acute myocardial infarction, manifested by an increase in the end-diastolic and end-systolic dimensions of the left ventricle, the left atrium, and the right ventricle. In 2/3 of the patients who had an acute myocardial infarction, the normal geometry of the left ventricle was observed. Around one-quarter of the patients had a concentric remodeling (24%), an eccentric hypertrophy of the left ventricle was the least common (15%). The heart of patients who had an acute myocardial infarction demonstrates a lower functionality being compared to the subjects in the control group. In these groups, the maximum value of the DAC / DDR ratio is observed, the ejection fraction is reduced. To a greater extent, the onset of acute myocardial infarction was determined by the size and mass of the left ventricular myocardium. Important meaning had also the body weight, BMI, surface area of the body, the size of the left atrium, and the right ventricle.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Еlena N. Sazonova ◽  
Natalia A. Cimbalist ◽  
Olga V. Kaplieva ◽  
Olga A. Lebed’ko

Objective ― Our study aimed to evaluate the possibility of correcting cardiac consequences of intrauterine hypoxia (IUH) by injecting leu-enkephalin analog, lacking affinity for opiate receptors, in the early postnatal period. Material and Methods ― To model IUH, we placed pregnant Wistar rats in a hypobaric chamber with an oxygen partial pressure of 52 mmHg. The procedure was repeated for 4 h daily over the 15th-19th days of gestation. From the 2nd through the 6th days of their lives, the offspring were injected intraperitoneally with non-opiate leu-enkephalin analog at a dose of 100 μg/kg (NALE: Phe-D-Ala-Gly-Phe-Leu-Arg). This analog did not have affinity for opiate receptors. The 7- and 60-day old offspring of female rats subjected to IUH were investigated. The control group included the descendants of intact animals. We investigated gravimetric indicators, DNA-synthetic activity of cardiomyocytes (CMC) by tritium-labeled thymidine autoradiography method, the size of the CMC nuclei, as well as size and amount of nucleoli in the CMC nuclei. The activity of free radical oxidation was evaluated in cardiac homogenates by chemiluminescence. Results ― In 7-day old rats subjected to IUH vs. control animals, we observed decreases in body mass by 32.6%, in heart mass by 27.3%; in the proportion of 3Н-thymidine labeled CMC nuclei by 32.7% in the left ventricle and by 30.4% in the right ventricle; in the number of nucleoli in the CMC nuclei (in the left ventricle: control – 2.384±0.027, IUH – 2.282±0.027*, p<0.05; in the right ventricle: control – 2.409±0.038; IUH – 2.240±0.012*, p<0, 05). Increase in CML indices of cardiac homogenates was revealed, indicating the activation of free radical oxidation. In 7-day old rats subjected to IUH and administration of the NALE peptide from the 2nd through the 6th days of their lives, the proportion of 3H-thymidine labeled nuclei in the CMC did not differ from the control (in the left ventricle: control – 12.79±0.89%, IUH + NALE – 10.98±0.95%, p>0.05; in the right ventricle: control – 11.61±0.78%; IUH + NALE – 11.26±0.58%, p>0.05). The number of nucleoli in the CMC nuclei of the left and right ventricles in the heart of 7-day old animals in the IUH + NALE group did not differ from the control too. The CML indices of heart homogenates in the IUH + NALE group were significantly lower than those in the IUH group. In 60-day old male rats exposed to IUH, there was a decrease in heart mass by 18.5%, sizes of CMC nuclei by 7.5% and 16.1% in the left and right ventricles, respectively, and in the total nucleoli area in the CMC nuclei of the left ventricle (control – 3.953±0.085; IUH – 3.372±0.078*; p<0.05). In 60-day old male rats subjected to IUH and injections of the NALE peptide from the 2nd to the 6th days of their lives, heart mass (control – 692.73±26.81 mg; IUH + NALE – 631.0±29.79 mg; p>0.05) and the size of the CMC nuclei of the right ventricle (control – 54.25±0.84; IUH + NALE – 55.24±0.94; p>0.05) did not differ significantly from the control. The size of the nuclei, the number and size of the nucleoli in the CMC of the left ventricle, as well as the area of the nucleoli in the CMC of the right ventricle in 60-day old male rats of the IUH + NALE group significantly exceeded control group values. Conclusion ― Administration of the NALE peptide to albino rats subjected to IUH normalized DNA-synthetic activity and the number of nucleoli in the nuclei of CMC in 7-day old animals, and also reduced the severity of oxidative stress in the heart tissue. In 60-day old albino male rats exposed to IUH, injecting NALE from the 2nd to the 6th days of their lives eliminated declines in heart mass and sizes of the CMC nuclei and nucleoli, and also led to an increase in the values of the nucleus-and-nucleolus complex indices compared with the control.


2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 335-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sevim Karaarslan ◽  
Hayrullah Alp ◽  
Tamer Baysal ◽  
Derya Çimen ◽  
Rahmi Örs ◽  
...  

AbstractIntroductionThe aim of this study was to investigate the importance of myocardial performance index as an additive criterion to Sarnat criteria in differential diagnosis of newborn babies with moderate and severe hypoxic–ischaemic encephalopathy.MethodsOur study group included 50 healthy term newborn babies and 20 newborn babies with hypoxic–ischaemic encephalopathy. The 20 newborn babies with hypoxic–ischaemic encephalopathy were scored using Sarnat grades. Left and right ventricular functions were determined on the first day and thereafter in the 1, 3–4, 6–7, and 11–12 months of life by M-Mode and pulsed Doppler.ResultsMyocardial performance indexes of the left ventricle were significantly higher in the severe hypoxic–ischaemic encephalopathy group than in the control group during the first, second, and third analyses (p = 0.01, p = 0.02, p = 0.02, respectively) and only during the first analysis (p = 0.01) in the moderate hypoxic–ischaemic encephalopathy group. In addition, the myocardial performance indexes of the right ventricle were significantly higher during the first, second, and third analyses in both severe and moderate hypoxic–ischaemic encephalopathy groups than in the control group (p = 0.01, all). Hypoxia-induced alterations last longer in the right ventricle than in the left ventricle in the moderate group, as during the second and third analyses myocardial performance index continues to be higher than the control group.ConclusionMyocardial performance indexes for the left and right ventricles were significantly higher in both severe and moderate hypoxic–ischaemic encephalopathy groups than in the control group during the first analysis, and myocardial performance index greater than or equal to 0.5 can be used in order to distinguish moderate and severe hypoxic–ischaemic encephalopathy babies according to Sarnat grades as a discriminative additive criterion.


Author(s):  
Jing Yang ◽  
Lin Xu ◽  
Xin Yin ◽  
Yi Li Zheng ◽  
Hai Peng Zhang ◽  
...  

AbstractHigh-volume training followed by inadequate recovery may cause overtraining. This process may undermine the protective effect of regular exercise on the cardiovascular system and may increase the risk of pathological cardiac remodelling. We evaluated whether chronic overtraining changes cardiac-related microRNA profiles in the left and right ventricles. C57BL/6 mice were divided into the control, normal training, and overtrained by running without inclination, uphill running or downhill running groups. After an 8-week treadmill training protocol, the incremental load test and training volume results showed that the model had been successfully established. The qRT-PCR results showed increased cardiac miR-1, miR-133a, miR-133b, miR-206, miR-208b and miR-499 levels in the left ventricle of the downhill running group compared with the left ventricle of the control group. Similarly, compared with the control group, the downhill running induced increased expression of miR-21, miR-17–3p, and miR-29b in the left ventricle. Unlike the changes in the left ventricle, no difference in the expression of the tested miRNAs was observed in the right ventricle. Briefly, our results indicated that overtraining generally affects key miRNAs in the left ventricle (rather than the right ventricle) and that changes in individual miRNAs may cause either adaptive or maladaptive remodelling with overtraining.


2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 077
Author(s):  
Ireneusz Haponiuk ◽  
Maciej Chojnicki ◽  
Konrad Paczkowski ◽  
Wojciech Kosiak ◽  
Radosław Jaworski ◽  
...  

The presence of a pathologic mass in the right ventricle (RV) may lead to hemodynamic consequences and to a life-threatening incident of pulmonary embolism. The diagnosis of an unstable thrombus in the right heart chamber usually necessitates intensive treatment to dissolve or remove the pathology. We present a report of an unusual complication of severe ketoacidosis: thrombus in the right ventricle, removed from the tricuspid valve (TV) apparatus. A four-year-old boy was diagnosed with diabetes mellitus (DM) type I de novo. During hospitalization, a 13.9 × 8.4 mm tumor in the RV was found in a routine cardiac ultrasound. The patient was referred for surgical removal of the floating lesion from the RV. The procedure was performed via midline sternotomy with extracorporeal circulation (ECC) and mild hypothermia. Control echocardiography showed complete tumor excision with normal atrioventricular valves and heart function. Surgical removal of the thrombus from the tricuspid valve apparatus was effective, safe, and a definitive therapy for thromboembolic complication of pediatric severe ketoacidosis.<br /><br />


2019 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Venera Cristina Dinescu ◽  
Ileana Puiu ◽  
Sorin Nicolae Dinescu ◽  
Diana Rodica Tudorascu ◽  
Elena Catalina Bica ◽  
...  

The aim of this study was to identify correlations between electrocardiographic and echocardiographic changes in patients with silicosis prior to the occurrence of chronic pulmonary heart disease. We conducted a prospective, descriptive, analytical study, in which we included a group of 67 patients consecutively admitted to the Health Promotion and Occupational Medicine Clinic between December 2016 and January 2018, aged 47 to 78 years.There was a biochemical and electrocardiographic evaluation for each patient as well as a right ventricle echocardiographic evaluation (diameters, volumes, function). A control group, including 25 patients with benign minor diseases that required a cardiologist consultation, was also used. From the electrocardiographic point of view, slight changes were observed regarding the waves of electrical activity of the right ventricle. Taking into account the degree of ventilatory dysfunction (depending on FEV1), changes in right heart echocardiographic parameters were identified. Thus, in what the most important right ventricular parameters, including the tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion (TAPSE) or the RV index of myocardial performance (RVMPI) were concerned, values at the upper limit of normality were recorded in most patients with moderate and severe ventilatory dysfunction. Values of echocardiographic parameters of the right heart at the upper limit of normality, correlated with the degree of ventilatory dysfunction, are early markers for cardiovascular damage in patients with pulmonary silicosis prior to the occurrence of chronic pulmonary heart disease also known ascor pulmonale.


1994 ◽  
Vol 239 (2) ◽  
pp. 216-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arnold C. G. Wenink ◽  
Bert J. Wisse ◽  
Pieter M. Groenendijk

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