β-Adrenergic signalization plays an important role in heart, regulating cardiac frequency and contractility. It is also involved in development of hypertension and heart hypertrophy. Spontaneous hypertensive rat strain is a common model for human essential hypertension, although the origin of blood pressure abnormalities in SHR remains unknown. Dysfunction in the regulation of fatty acid translocase Cd36 was suggested as a link to development of hypertension in SHR. Transgenic strain SHR-Tg19 (also known as SHR-Cd36) was obtained, harboring a wild type of FAT/Cd36. This thesis aimed to investigate key elements of β-adrenergic signaling in the heart of SHR-Tg19 compared to their SHR controls. Expression and distribution of β1- and β2-ARs were measured using radioligand binding and Western blot analysis along with expression of selected G proteins and expression and activity of adenylyl cyclase. Our experiments showed that there were no significant changes in the Gsα and Giα subunits expressions, along with the amount of β1-AR in both left and right ventricles, according to the Western immunoblotting, but radioligand binding showed an increase in the quantity of β-ARs, particularly β2 subtype. Alongside, an increased expression of β2- ARs was observed in the right ventricle. Different...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:306653 |
| Date | January 2012 |
| Creators | Manakov, Dmitry |
| Contributors | Novotný, Jiří, Nováková, Olga |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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