Adenosine plays a critical role in the heart signalling while affecting heart rate, contractility or coronary flow. Nowadays, four adenosine receptor subtypes are distinguished which are present in most of tissues and cells: A1, A2A, A2B and A3. All these receptors belong to the family of G protein-coupled receptors. Upon activation, their main target is an enzyme adenylyl cyclase which produces an important second messenger cAMP. The main goal of this thesis was characterization of adenosine receptors in the rat myocardium, assessment of their distribution, binding properties and signalling. We examined a possible disparity in receptors distribution between the left and right ventricles using SDS-PAGE electrophoresis and Western blotting. The same methods have been used in studies of adenosine receptor distribution in lipid rafts. Samples of lipid rafts and soluble fraction were prepared using a nonionic detergent Triton X-100. We did not find any evidence of different distribution between the left and right ventricles and our results did not confirm compartmentation of the receptors either. For determination of binding properties of the receptors we used radioligand binding assays with the A1 selective radioligand [H3 ]DPCPX. We did not observe any significant difference between the receptor...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:343734 |
| Date | January 2015 |
| Creators | Eichlerová, Lenka |
| Contributors | Novotný, Jiří, Nováková, Olga |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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