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Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol (May 27, 2005). doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00733.2004
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Submitted on July 21, 2004
Accepted on May 16, 2005

Atrial Contractile Dysfunction, Fibrosis, and Arrhythmias in a Mouse Model of Cardiomyopathy Secondary to Cardiac-Specific Overexpression of TNF-{alpha}

Samir Saba1, Andrzej M Janczewski1, Linda C Baker2, Vladimir Shusterman1, Erdal C Gursoy1, Arthur M Feldman3, Guy Salama2, Charles F McTiernan1, and Barry London1*

1 Cardiovascular Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2 Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
3 Department of Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: londonb{at}upmc.edu.

Transgenic mice overexpressing the inflammatory cytokine TNF-{alpha} in the heart develop a progressive heart failure syndrome characterized by biventricular dilatation, decreased ejection fraction, decreased survival compared to non-transgenic littermates, and earlier pathology in males. TNF-{alpha} mice (TNF1.6) develop atrial arrhythmias on ambulatory telemetry monitoring that worsen with age and are more severe in males. We performed in vivo electrophysiologic testing in transgenic and control mice, ex vivo optical mapping of voltage in the atria of isolated perfused TNF1.6 hearts, and in vitro studies on isolated atrial muscle and cells to study the mechanisms that lead to the spontaneous arrhythmias. Programmed stimulation induces atrial arrhythmias (n=8/32) in TNF1.6 but not in control mice (n=0/37), with a higher inducibility in males. In the isolated perfused hearts, programmed stimulation with single extra beats elicits reentrant atrial arrhythmias (n=6/6) in TNF1.6 but not in control hearts due to slow heterogeneous conduction of the premature beats. Lowering extracellular Ca2+ normalizes conduction and prevents the arrhythmias. Atrial muscle and cells from TNF1.6 compared to control mice exhibit increased collagen deposition, decreased contractile function, and abnormal systolic and diastolic Ca2+ handling. Thus, abnormalities in action potential propagation and Ca2+ handling contribute to the initiation of atrial arrhythmias in this mouse model of heart failure.




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