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Mechanisms of remodelling: a question of life (stem cell production) and death (myocyte apoptosis).

Abstract
Remodeling myocytes show a typical switch between the embryonic and classical features of apoptosis and/or hypertrophy representing a signal of death (ie, apoptosis) and a signal of life (ie, hypertrophy). The adult myocyte, however, is a terminal cell; usually it is unable to reproduce and death is not genetically programmed (apoptosis), but occurs by necrosis. The reinstatement of apoptosis and development of hypertrophy during remodeling could be part of the switch forward to the embryonic phenotype with reinstatement of the early embryonic genetic program. Hypertrophy and apoptosis are "sons" of the same "mother": the local, tissue neuroendocrine-neurohumoral response to a mechanical stretch of the myocytes consequent to the geometric changes imposed on the viable myocytes by the necrotic ones. As expected, the life and death cycle is very closely regulated by several autocrine systems, one of which is linked to the interleukin-6 family via a regulatory protein named GP-130. Activation of the GP-130 slows down the death signals, thus favoring hypertrophy and reducing fibrosis.
AuthorsRoberto Ferrari, Claudio Ceconi, Gianluca Campo, Elisa Cangiano, Caterina Cavazza, Paola Secchiero, Luigi Tavazzi
JournalCirculation journal : official journal of the Japanese Circulation Society (Circ J) Vol. 73 Issue 11 Pg. 1973-82 (Nov 2009) ISSN: 1347-4820 [Electronic] Japan
PMID19822975 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Review)
Chemical References
  • Adrenergic beta-Antagonists
  • Catecholamines
Topics
  • Adrenergic beta-Antagonists (therapeutic use)
  • Adult Stem Cells (pathology)
  • Aging
  • Animals
  • Apoptosis
  • Cardiomegaly (pathology)
  • Catecholamines (physiology)
  • Heart Failure (pathology)
  • Hemodynamics
  • Humans
  • Models, Cardiovascular
  • Myocytes, Cardiac (drug effects, pathology, physiology)
  • Necrosis
  • Renin-Angiotensin System (drug effects, physiology)
  • Ventricular Dysfunction, Left (pathology)
  • Ventricular Remodeling (physiology)

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