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2000 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Clinical implication of cardiovascular hormones

Research Project

Project/Area Number 10307026
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A).

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Endocrinology
Research InstitutionKYOTO UNIVERSITY

Principal Investigator

NAKAO Kazuwa  Kyoto Univ., Med. and Clin. Sci., Professor, 医学研究科, 教授 (00172263)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) MUKOYAMA Masashi  Kyoto Univ., Med. and Clin. Sci., Assistant Professor, 医学研究科, 助手 (40270558)
ITOH Hiroshi  Kyoto Univ., Med. and Clin. Sci., Associate Professor, 医学研究科, 講師 (40252457)
SAITO Yoshihiko  Kyoto Univ., Med. and Clin. Sci., Associate Professor, 医学研究科, 助教授 (30250260)
OGAWA Yoshihiro  Kyoto Univ., Med. and Clin. Sci., Assistant Professor, 医学研究科, 助手 (70291424)
Project Period (FY) 1998 – 2000
KeywordsCT-1 / BNP / CNP / knockout mice / cultured myocytes / cardiac fibrosis / endochondral ossification
Research Abstract

We previously reported that, using in vivo myocytes-nonmyocytes co-culture model, endothelin-1 secreted from nonmyocytes are involved in the process of cardiac hypertrophy. In this study, we examined a role of CT-1, a novel interleukin-6 related cytokine having ability to evoke cardiac cell hypertrophy, in the myocytes-nonmyocytes interaction in an in vitro model of cardiac hypertrophy. We showed that CT-1 plays a role in the hypertrophic process in the co-culture, suggesting a role of CT-1 as a local regulator during cardiac hypertrophy.
BNP is a cardiac hormonc produced primarily by ventricular myocytes. In this study, we generated mice with targeted disruption of BNP (BNP^<-/-> mice). We observed multifocal fibrotic lesions in the ventriceles from BNP^<-/-> mice. No signs of systemic hypertension and ventricular hypertrophy are noted in BNP^<-/-> mice. In response to ventricular pressure overload, focal fibrotic lesions are increased in size and number in BNP^<-/-> mice, whereas no f … More ocal fibrotic changes arc found in wild-type littermates. This study establishes BNP as a cardiomyocyte-derived antifibrotic factor in vivo and provides cvidence for its role as a local regulator of ventricular remodeling.
CNP occurs in a variety of central and peripheral tissues, where it acts as an autocrine and paracrinre regulator. In this study, we generated mice with targeted disruption of CNP(CNP^<-/-> mice).The CNP^<-/-> mice show severe dwarfism as a result of imparired endochondral ossification. They are all viable perinatally, but less than half can survive during postnatal developmcnt. The skeletal phenotypes are histologically similar to those seen in patients with achondroplasia, the most common genetic form of human dwarfism. Targeted expression of CNP in the growth plate chondrocytes can rescue the skeletal defect of CNP^<-/-> micc and allow their prolonged survival. This study demonstrates that CNP acts locally as a positive regulator of endochondral ossification in vivo and suggests its pathophysiological and therapcutic implication in some forms of skeletal dysplasia. Less

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  • [Publications] H.Chusho et al.: "Dwarfism and early death in mice lacking C-type natriuretic peptide."Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA. (in press). (2001)

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  • [Publications] K.Kuwahara et al.: "Neuron-restrictive silencer element/neuron-restrictive silencer factor system regulates basal and endothelin-1-inducible atrial natriuretic peptide gene expression in ventricular myocytes."Mol.Cell.Biol.. 21. 2085-2097 (2001)

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  • [Publications] J.Yamashita et al.: "Flkl-positive cells derived from embryonic stem cells serve as vasculai progenitors."Nature. 408. 92-96 (2000)

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  • [Publications] H.Chusho et al.: "Genetic models reveal that brain natriuretic peptide can signal through different tissue-specific receptor-mediated pathways."Endocrinology. 141. 3807-3813 (2000)

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  • [Publications] N.Tamura et al.: "Cardiac fibrosis in mice lacking brain natriuretic peptide."Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA. 97. 4239-4244 (2000)

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  • [Publications] M.Suda et al.: "Skeletal overgrowth in transgenic mice that overexpress brain natriuretic peptide."Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA. 95. 2337-2342 (1998)

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  • [Publications] H.Chusho, N.Tamura, Y.Ogawa, A.Yasoda, M.Suda, T.Miyazawa, K.Nakamura, K.Nakao, T.Kurihara, Y.Komatsu, H.Itoh, K.Tanaka, Y.Saito, M.Katsuki, and K.Nakao: "Dwarfism and early death in mice lacking C-type natriuretic peptide."Proc.Natl.Acad.USA. (in press). (2001)

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  • [Publications] K.Kuwahara, Y.Saito, E.Ogawa, N.Takahashi, Y.Nakagawa, Y.Naruse, M.Harada, I.Hamanaka, T.Izumi, Y.Miyamoto, I.Kishimoto, R.Kawakami, M.Nakanishi, N.Mori, and K.Nakao: "Neuron-restrictive silencer e1ement/neuron-restrictive silencer factor system regulates basal and endothelin-1-inducible atrial natriuretic peptide gene expression in ventricular myocytes."Mol.Cell.Biol.. 21. 2085-2097 (2001)

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  • [Publications] Yamashita, H.Itoh, M.Hirashima, M.Ogawa, S.Nishikawa, T.Yurugi, M.Naito, K.Nakao, and S.Nishikawa: "Flkl-positive cells derived from embryonic stem cells serve as vascular progenitors."Nature. 408. 92-96 (2000)

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  • [Publications] H.Chusho, Y.Ogawa, N.Tamura, M.Suda, A.Yasoda, T.Miyazawa, I.Kishimoto, Y.Komatsu, H.Itoh, K.Tanaka, Y.Saito, D.L.Garbers, and K.Nakao: "Genetic models reveal that brain natriuretic peptide can signal through different tissue-specific receptor-mediated pathways."Endocrinology. 141. 3807-3813 (2000)

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  • [Publications] N.Tamura, Y.Ogawa, H.Chusho, K.Nakamura, K.Nakao, M.Suda, M.Kasahara, R.Hashimoto, G.Katsuura, M.Mukoyama, H.Itoh, Y.Saito, I.Tanaka, H.Otani M.Katsuki, and K.Nakao: "Cardiac fibrosis in mice lacking brain natriuretic peptide."Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA. 97. 4239-4244 (2000)

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  • [Publications] M.Suda, Y.Ogawa, K.Tanaka, N.Tamura, A.Yasoda, T.Takigawa, M.Uehira, H.Nishimoto, H.Itoh, Y.Saito, K.Shiota, and K.Nakao: "Skeletal overgrowth in transgenic mice that overexpress brain natriuretic peptide."Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA. 95. 2337-2342 (1998)

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