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Abstract 75: Ischemic Heart Failure is Exacerbated in CD39-null Mice

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posted on 2024-07-25, 06:22 authored by Tatiana Novitskaya, Debra G Wheeler, Zhaobin Xu, Elena Chepurko, Bo Zhang, Walter Koch, Karen M Dwyer, Peter J Cowan, Simon C Robson, Erhe Gao, Richard J Gumina
Background: CD39 (ectonucleoside triphosphate diphosphohydrolase) is a nucleotidase expressed on endothelial cells, vascular smooth muscles cells, and leukocytes. CD39 plays a key role in vascular homeostasis, hydrolyzing extracellular ATP and ADP. CD39 has been shown to be important in models of ischemic preconditioning and cardiac ischemia reperfusion. However, the effect of CD39 activity on functional recovery of heart after myocardial infarction (MI) has not been evaluated. Hypothesis: Genetic ablation of CD39 expression exacerbates post-myocardial infarction cardiac function and fibrosis. Methods: Wild-type (WT) and CD39-null mice were subjected to coronary artery ligation. Cardiac function and protein evaluation of fibrotic markers was performed at day 28 post-MI. Results: Evaluation at Day 28 post-MI revealed that while mice of both genotypes had similarly reduced ejection fraction and equally compromised contractile function (dP/dtmax), there was a more pronounced negative effect on lusitropy (dP/dtmin) and increased left ventricular end-diastolic pressure in CD39-null mice. Therefore, cd39 gene ablation associates with the development of worsening cardiac performance. Histological analysis revealed increased collagen deposition and abundance of alpha-smooth muscle actin (αSMA) positive interstitial cells in the CD39-null hearts compared to WT hearts. To quantify these findings immunoblot analysis for collagen and αSMA was performed. We found that collagen and αSMA were increased at Day 28 post-MI, in CD39-null hearts compared to WT hearts. Conclusion: CD39 ablation has detrimental effects on post-MI recovery, resulting in diminished cardiac performance and increased fibrosis.

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Journal

Circulation Research

Volume

117

ISSN

0009-7330

eISSN

1524-4571

Language

eng

Publication classification

E3.1 Extract of paper

Issue

suppl_1

Publisher

Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)

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