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Sodium Induces Hypertrophy of Cultured Myocardial Myoblasts and Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells
- Source :
- Hypertension. 31:1083-1087
- Publication Year :
- 1998
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 1998.
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Abstract
- Abstract —The mechanisms of sodium-induced myocardial hypertrophy and vascular hypertrophy are poorly understood. We tested the hypothesis that a high sodium concentration can directly induce cellular hypertrophy. Neonatal rat myocardial myoblasts (MMbs) and vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) were cultured in a 50:50 mixture of DMEM and M199 supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum. When the monolayers reached ≈80% confluence, normal sodium medium (146 mmol/L) was replaced with high sodium media (152 mmol/L, 160 mmol/L, and 182 mmol/L) for up to 5 days. Increasing sodium from a baseline concentration of 146 mmol/L to the higher concentrations for 5 days caused dose-related increases in cell mean diameter, cell volume, and cellular protein content in both MMbs and VSMCs. Increasing the sodium concentration by only 4% (from 146 mmol/L to 152 mmol/L) caused the following respective changes in MMbs and VSMCs: 8.5% and 8.7% increase in cell mean diameter, 27.6% and 27.0% increase in cell volume, and 55.7% and 46.7% increase in cellular protein content. The rate of protein synthesis, expressed as [ 3 H]leucine incorporation, increased by 87% and 99% in MMbs after exposure to 152 mmol/L and 160 mmol/L sodium, respectively, compared with the 146-mmol/L sodium control group. Exposure of MMbs to medium with a sodium concentration of 10% above normal, ie, 160 mmol/L, caused a significant decrease (range, 26% to 44%) in the rate of protein degradation at multiple time points over a 48-hour period compared with normal sodium control cells. The increase in cellular protein content caused by 160 mmol/L sodium returned to normal within 3 days after MMbs were returned to a normal sodium medium. These findings support the hypothesis that sodium has a direct effect to induce cellular hypertrophy and may therefore be an important determinant in causing myocardial and/or vascular hypertrophy in subjects with increased sodium concentration in the extracellular fluid.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Vascular smooth muscle
Sodium
chemistry.chemical_element
Biology
Protein degradation
Muscle, Smooth, Vascular
Muscle hypertrophy
Pregnancy
Internal medicine
Extracellular fluid
Internal Medicine
medicine
Animals
Myocyte
Cells, Cultured
Cell Size
Myocardium
Heart
Rats
Endocrinology
medicine.anatomical_structure
chemistry
Cattle
Female
Cell Division
Fetal bovine serum
Blood vessel
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15244563 and 0194911X
- Volume :
- 31
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Hypertension
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....626650c646cf81dab62a220129b5ded7