TY - JOUR
T1 - Acute kidney injury in the rat causes cardiac remodelling and increases angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 expression
AU - Burchill, L
AU - Velkoska, Elena
AU - Dean, Rachel G
AU - Lew, Rebecca Ann
AU - Smith, Alexander Ian
AU - Levidiotis, V
AU - Burrell, Louise M
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Patients with kidney failure are at high risk of a cardiac death, and frequently develop left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH). The mechanisms involved in the cardiac structural changes that occur in kidney failure are yet to be fully delineated. Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) 2 is a newly described enzyme that is expressed in the heart, and plays an important role in cardiac function. This study assessed if ACE2 plays a role in the cardiac remodelling that occurs in experimental acute kidney injury (AKI). Sprague-Dawley rats had sham (control) or subtotal nephrectomy (STNx) surgery. Control rats received vehicle (N=10), and STNx rats received the ACE inhibitor (ACEi), ramipril, 1 mg/kg/day (N=15) or vehicle (N=13) orally for 10 days after surgery. Rats with AKI had polyuria (P
AB - Patients with kidney failure are at high risk of a cardiac death, and frequently develop left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH). The mechanisms involved in the cardiac structural changes that occur in kidney failure are yet to be fully delineated. Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) 2 is a newly described enzyme that is expressed in the heart, and plays an important role in cardiac function. This study assessed if ACE2 plays a role in the cardiac remodelling that occurs in experimental acute kidney injury (AKI). Sprague-Dawley rats had sham (control) or subtotal nephrectomy (STNx) surgery. Control rats received vehicle (N=10), and STNx rats received the ACE inhibitor (ACEi), ramipril, 1 mg/kg/day (N=15) or vehicle (N=13) orally for 10 days after surgery. Rats with AKI had polyuria (P
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M3 - Article
SN - 0958-0670
VL - 93
SP - 622
EP - 630
JO - Experimental Physiology
JF - Experimental Physiology
IS - 5
ER -