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Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 275: H823-H830, 1998;
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Vol. 275, Issue 3, H823-H830, September 1998

Altered inotropic response to IGF-I in diabetic rat heart: influence of intracellular Ca2+ and NO

Jun Ren, Mary F. Walsh, Marwan Hamaty, James R. Sowers, and Ricardo A. Brown

Departments of Physiology and Internal Medicine, Wayne State University School of Medicine, and John D. Dingell Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Detroit, Michigan 48201

Normally, insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) exerts positive effects on cardiac growth and myocardial contractility, but resistance to its action has been reported in diabetes. This study was designed to determine whether IGF-I-induced myocardial contractile action is altered in diabetes as a result of an intrinsic alteration of contractile properties at the cellular level. Contractile responses to IGF-I were examined in left ventricular papillary muscles and ventricular myocytes from normal and short-term (5-7 days) streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. Mechanical properties of muscles and myocytes were evaluated using a force transducer and an edge detector, respectively. Preparations were electrically stimulated at 0.5 Hz, and contractile properties analyzed include peak tension development (PTD) or peak twitch amplitude (PTA), time to peak contraction/shortening, and time to 90% relaxation/relengthening. Intracellular Ca2+ transients were measured as fura 2 fluorescence intensity changes. IGF-I (1-500 ng/ml) caused a dose-dependent increase in PTD and PTA in preparations from normal but not diabetic animals. IGF-I did not alter time to peak contraction/shortening or time to 90% relaxation/relengthening. Pretreatment with the NO synthase inhibitor Nomega -nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (100 µM) attenuated IGF-I-induced increases in PTD in normal myocardium but unmasked a positive inotropic action in diabetic animals. Pretreatment with Nomega -nitro-L-arginine methyl ester blocked IGF-I-induced increases in PTA in single myocytes. Consistent with its inotropic actions on muscles and myocytes, IGF-I induced a dose-dependent increase in Ca2+ transients in normal but not diabetic myocytes. These results suggest that the IGF-I-induced inotropic response is depressed in diabetes because of an intrinsic alteration at the myocyte level. Mechanisms underlying this alteration in IGF-I-induced myocardial response may be related to changes in intracellular Ca2+ and/or NO production in diabetes.

insulin-like growth factor I; nitric oxide; papillary muscle; ventricular myocyte; calcium transient


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