Endocrinology, Vol 130, 2001-2006, Copyright © 1992 by Endocrine Society

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Time course of the in vivo effects of thyroid hormone on cardiac gene expression

C Balkman, K Ojamaa and I Klein
Department of Medicine, North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset, New York 11030.

The rate of response to thyroid hormone on cardiac growth, heart rate, and the relative changes in messenger RNA (mRNA) coding for alpha- and beta-myosin heavy chain (MHC), slow sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium- adenosine triphosphatase, and thyroid hormone receptors in ventricular tissue of hypothyroid rats was investigated. Hypothyroid rats had significantly smaller hearts, with slower heart rates and expressed no alpha-MHC mRNA as analyzed by an S1 nuclease protection assay when compared to euthyroid animals that expressed 79% alpha-MHC. Twelve hours after treating hypothyroid rats with 20 micrograms of L-T4, detectable levels of alpha-MHC mRNA were present and the shift to alpha- MHC mRNA was complete by 72 h of treatment. Northern blot analysis showed that hypothyroidism resulted in a 60% decrease in the level of sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium-adenosine triphosphatase mRNA which increased after 12 h of T4 administration and was 2.5-fold (P less than 0.05) greater than euthyroid levels after 72 h. In contrast, thyroid hormone receptor mRNA levels measured in poly(A)+ RNA were elevated in hypothyroid rats and decreased to euthyroid levels within 24 h after thyroid hormone treatment. These changes in cardiac gene expression occurred simultaneously with changes in both cardiac size and heart rate. The current studies characterize the coordinated changes and the time course for gene expression that occur in the hypothyroid heart after acute T4 administration.

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