Abstract:
OBJECTIVE To investigate the effects of urotensin Ⅱ(UⅡ) on the proliferation and collagen synthesis of cardiac myofibroblasts (CFs) of new-born SD rats. METHODS CFs isolated from new-born SD rats were cultured as cell model in vitro. The level of TGF-β1 in CFs supernatant was detected by ELISA assay, and the proliferation and collagen synthesis of CFs treated with UⅡ, SB-611812 and KT5720 were respectively observed by CKK-8 assay and Western blot. RESULTS After CFs treated by 10
-10, 10
-9, 10
-8 mol·L
-1 UⅡ, the level of TGF-β1 in CFs supernatant and the OD values were significantly higher than that in control group(P<0.05), but the indices in the 10
-7 mol·L
-1 UⅡ group were not significantly different from those of control group. The level of TGF-β1 and the OD values in 1 mol·L
-1 SB-611812+10
-8 mol·L
-1 UⅡgroup or 1 mol·L
-1 KT5720+10
-8?mol·L
-1 UⅡ group increased significantly compared with control group(P<0.05), but decreased compared with the 10
-8?mol·L
-1 UⅡ group (P<0.05). The expression of col-Ⅰand col-Ⅲ in 1 mol·L
-1 SB-611812+10
-8 mol·L
-1 UⅡ group and 1 mol·L
-1 KT5720+10
-8 mol·L
-1 UⅡ group decreased significantly compared with the 10
-8 mol·L
-1 UⅡ group. CONCLUSION UⅡcan stimulate the proliferation of CFs by up-regulating the level of TGF-β1 and induce expression of col-Ⅰand col-Ⅲ, the process maybe involve the cAMP-PKA pathway.