Key result
Pretreatment with ACE inhibitors, but not nephrectomy, blocked the rapid and marked increases in cardiac tissue ANG II post-myocardial infarction in rats.
Why the study?
Do ACE inhibitors or nephrectomy alter the early changes in cardiac and plasma ANG I and II post-myocardial infarction in rats?
Do ACE inhibitors or nephrectomy alter the early changes in cardiac and plasma ANG I and II post-myocardial infarction in rats?
Local production plays a major role in the early increases in cardiac ANG II post-myocardial infarction, which can be blocked by ACE inhibitors.
May limit early cardiac ANG II via local effects in rat MI models; leaves open clinical relevance for human post-MI therapy.
We evaluated in rats the time course of changes in cardiac versus plasma ANG I and II postmyocardial infarction (MI) and the effects of nephrectomy and angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors on the early changes post-MI. Acute coronary artery ligation was induced in conscious rats using the two-stage model, and plasma and cardiac tissue were obtained shortly (6 h, 1 and 3 days) and chronically (1, 4, and 8-9 wk) after MI. In an additional group of rats, bilateral nephrectomy was performed 18 h before the coronary artery ligation, and samples were obtained at 6 h post-MI. Furthermore, in two additional groups of rats, treatment with enalapril and quinapril was started 3 days before the ligation, and samples were obtained at 1 or 3 days post-MI. In these groups of rats, plasma and left ventricular (LV) (infarct and infarct free) ANG I and II were measured by RIA after separation on HPLC. In control rats, plasma ANG I and II showed a clear increase at 6 h post-MI but subsequently only minor increases were observed. In contrast, LV ANG II showed major increases at 6 h and 1 day post-MI, which had returned to normal by 3 days in the infarct-free LV and after 1(-2) wk in the infarct LV. LV ANG I showed a more gradual increase and remained elevated in the infarct up to 8-9 wk. Nephrectomy preceding the MI lowered ANG I and II in plasma but enhanced their increases in the heart at 6 h post-MI. Both ACE inhibitors decreased plasma ANG II associated with large increases in plasma ANG I. They also inhibited the increases in LV ANG II in both the infarct and infarct-free LV at 1 and 3 days post-MI with however no significant increase in LV ANG I. In conclusion, induction of a MI in conscious rats leads to rapid and marked, but only short-lived, increases in cardiac tissue ANG II in both the infarct and infarct-free parts of the LV. Pretreatment with ACE inhibitors, but not nephrectomy, blocks this increase. Local production appears to play a major role in the increases in cardiac ANG II post-MI.
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Leenen et al. (1999) studied Myocardial infarction. Nephrectomy and ACE inhibitors (enalapril and quinapril) vs. Control rats was evaluated on Changes in cardiac and plasma ANG I and II. Pretreatment with ACE inhibitors, but not nephrectomy, blocked the rapid and marked increases in cardiac tissue ANG II post-myocardial infarction in rats.
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