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Exercise training improves cardiac function and attenuates arrhythmia in CPVT mice.
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PMID:  23042908     Owner:  NLM     Status:  Publisher    
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CPVT is a lethal ventricular arrhythmia evoked by physical or emotional stress. Recessively inherited CPVT is caused by either missense or null-allele mutations in the cardiac calsequestrin (CASQ2) gene. It was suggested that defects in CASQ2 cause protein deficiency, impair Ca(2+) uptake to the sarcoplasmic reticulum and Ca(2+)-dependent inhibition of ryanodine channels, leading to diastolic Ca(2+) leak, after-depolarizations and arrhythmia. To examine the effect of exercise training on left ventricular remodeling and arrhythmia, CASQ2 knockout (KO) mice and wild-type controls underwent echocardiography and heart rhythm telemetry before and after 6 weeks of training by treadmill exercise. RT-PCR and Western blotting were used to measure gene and protein expression. Left ventricular fractional shortening was impaired in KO (35±3% vs 41±8% in controls, p<0.05) and improved after training (44±5% and 51±3 in KO and control mice, respectively, p=NS). The exercise tolerance was low in KO mice (16±1 min vs 29±2 in controls, p<0.01) but improved in trained animals (26±2 vs 30±3 min, respectively, p=NS). The hearts of KO mice had a higher basal expression of the BNP gene. After training the expression of natriuretic peptide genes markedly decreased with no difference between KO and controls. Exercise training was not associated with a change in VT prevalence but appeared to reduce arrhythmia load as manifested by a decrease in ventricular beats during stress. We conclude that in KO mice, which recapitulate the phenotype of human CPVT2, exercise training is well tolerated and could offer a strategy for heart conditioning against stress-induced arrhythmia.
Authors:
Efrat Kurtzwald Josefson; Edith Hochhauser; Guy Katz; Eyal Porat; Jonathan G Seidman; Christine E Seidman; Yelena Chepurko; Asher Shainberg; Michael Eldar; Michael Arad
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Publication Detail:
Type:  JOURNAL ARTICLE     Date:  2012-10-4
Journal Detail:
Title:  Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985)     Volume:  -     ISSN:  1522-1601     ISO Abbreviation:  J. Appl. Physiol.     Publication Date:  2012 Oct 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2012-10-8     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  8502536     Medline TA:  J Appl Physiol     Country:  -    
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Languages:  ENG     Pagination:  -     Citation Subset:  -    
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1Tel Aviv University.
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