Abstract

WILENSKY, LUCIANA et al. Effects of Endurance Training on Myocardial Hypertrophy and Ventricular Function in a Transgenic Mouse Model with sympathetic Hyperactivity. Rev. argent. cardiol. [online]. 2015, vol.83, n.6, pp.1-8. ISSN 1850-3748.

Background: Previous studies have shown that endurance training (ET) reduces inotropic, chronotropic and lusitropic reserve in normal mice. Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of endurance training on the inotropic and chronotropic reserve of trans-genic mice with sympathetic hyperactivity induced by overexpression of the cardiac GSα protein. Methods: Endurance training consisted in two daily 90-min sessions, 6 days/week, during 4 weeks. Four experimental groups were formed: 1) non-transgenic sedentary (nonTG Sed); 2) transgenic sedentary (TG Sed); 3) nonTG+ET and 4) TG+ET. Results: Endurance training induced myocardial hypertrophy [left ventricular weight (g)/tibial length (mm)] from 5.3±0.3 and 5.5±0.2 in nonTG Sed and TG Sed to 6.8±0.1 and 6.8±0.3 in nonTG+ET and TG+ET, respectively (p<0.05 nonTG Sed vs. nonTG+ET and TG Sed vs. TG+ET). Isoproterenol administration (56 ng/kg) increased +dP/dtmax by 63±10% in nonTG Sed (p<0.05 vs. baseline), 34±2% in TG Sed (p<0.05 vs. baseline and p<0.05 vs. nonTG Sed), 36±7% in non TG+ET (p<0.05 vs. base-line) and 36±7% in TG+ET (p<0.05 vs. baseline). Heart rate (beats/min) increased from 301±15 to 528±37 in nonTG Sed (p<0.05 vs. baseline), from 519±57 to 603±41 in TG Sed, from 300±16 to 375±20 in nonTG+ET (p<0.05 vs. baseline) and from 484±18 to 515±21 in TG+ET. Interstitial collagen was similar among groups. Conclusions: These results suggest that endurance training decreases inotropic and chronotropic reserve without generating struc-tural changes associated to pathological hypertrophy. The presence of sympathetic hyperactivity does not modify this response.

Keywords : Exercise Tolerance - Physical Conditioning, Animal - Sympathetic Nervous System - Isoproterenol.

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