TY - JOUR
T1 - Cardiac dysfunction caused by myocardium-specific expression of a mutant thyroid hormone receptor
AU - Pazos-Moura, Carmen
AU - Abel, E. Dale
AU - Boers, Mary Ellen
AU - Moura, Egberto
AU - Hampton, Thomas G.
AU - Wang, Jufeng
AU - Morgan, James P.
AU - Wondisford, Fredric E.
PY - 2000/3/31
Y1 - 2000/3/31
N2 - Thyroid hormone deficiency has profound effects on the cardiovascular system, resulting in decreased cardiac contractility, adrenergic responsiveness, and vascular volume and increased peripheral vascular resistance. To determine the importance of direct cardiac effects in the genesis of hypothyroid cardiac dysfunction, the cardiac myocyte was specifically targeted with a mutant thyroid hormone receptor (TR)-β (Δ337T- TR-β1) driven by the α-myosin heavy chain (α-MHC) gene promoter. As a control in these experiments, a wild-type (Wt) TR-β1 was also targeted to the heart by using the same promoter. Transgenic mice expressing the mutant TR displayed an mRNA expression pattern consistent with cardiac hypothyroidism, even though their peripheral thyroid hormone levels were normal. When these animals were rendered hypothyroid or thyrotoxic, mRNA expression of MHC isoforms remained unchanged in the hearts of the Δ337T transgenic animals, in contrast to Wt controls or transgenic animals expressing Wt TR-β1, which exhibited the expected changes in steady-state MHC mRNA levels. Studies in Langendorff heart preparations from mutant TR- β1 transgenic animals revealed evidence of heart failure with a significant reduction in +dP/dT, -dP/dT, and force-frequency responses compared with values in Wt controls and transgenic mice overexpressing the Wt TR-β1. In contrast, in vivo measures of cardiac performance were similar between Wt and mutant animals, indicating that the diminished performance of the mutant transgenic heart in vitro was compensated for by other mechanisms in vivo. This is the first demonstration indicating that isolated cardiac hypothyroidism causes cardiac dysfunction in the absence of changes in the adrenergic or peripheral vascular system.
AB - Thyroid hormone deficiency has profound effects on the cardiovascular system, resulting in decreased cardiac contractility, adrenergic responsiveness, and vascular volume and increased peripheral vascular resistance. To determine the importance of direct cardiac effects in the genesis of hypothyroid cardiac dysfunction, the cardiac myocyte was specifically targeted with a mutant thyroid hormone receptor (TR)-β (Δ337T- TR-β1) driven by the α-myosin heavy chain (α-MHC) gene promoter. As a control in these experiments, a wild-type (Wt) TR-β1 was also targeted to the heart by using the same promoter. Transgenic mice expressing the mutant TR displayed an mRNA expression pattern consistent with cardiac hypothyroidism, even though their peripheral thyroid hormone levels were normal. When these animals were rendered hypothyroid or thyrotoxic, mRNA expression of MHC isoforms remained unchanged in the hearts of the Δ337T transgenic animals, in contrast to Wt controls or transgenic animals expressing Wt TR-β1, which exhibited the expected changes in steady-state MHC mRNA levels. Studies in Langendorff heart preparations from mutant TR- β1 transgenic animals revealed evidence of heart failure with a significant reduction in +dP/dT, -dP/dT, and force-frequency responses compared with values in Wt controls and transgenic mice overexpressing the Wt TR-β1. In contrast, in vivo measures of cardiac performance were similar between Wt and mutant animals, indicating that the diminished performance of the mutant transgenic heart in vitro was compensated for by other mechanisms in vivo. This is the first demonstration indicating that isolated cardiac hypothyroidism causes cardiac dysfunction in the absence of changes in the adrenergic or peripheral vascular system.
KW - Cardiac hypothyroidism
KW - Mice
KW - Thyroid hormone resistance
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U2 - 10.1161/01.RES.86.6.700
DO - 10.1161/01.RES.86.6.700
M3 - Article
C2 - 10747007
AN - SCOPUS:0034737827
SN - 0009-7330
VL - 86
SP - 700
EP - 706
JO - Circulation research
JF - Circulation research
IS - 6
ER -