C/EBPβ controls exercise-induced cardiac growth and protects against pathological cardiac remodeling.

ABSTRACT: The heart has the ability to grow in size in response to exercise, but little is known about the transcriptional mechanisms underlying physiological hypertrophy. Adult cardiomyocytes have also recently been proven to hold the potential for proliferation, a process that could be of great importance for regenerative medicine. Using a unique RT-PCR-based screen against all transcriptional components, we showed that C/EBPβ was downregulated with exercise, whereas the expression of CITED4 was increased. Reduction of C/EBPβ in vitro and in vivo resulted in a phenocopy of endurance exercise with cardiomyocyte hypertrophy and proliferation. This proliferation was mediated, at least in part, by the increased CITED4. Importantly, mice with reduced cardiac C/EBPβ levels displayed substantial resistan

SUBMITTER: Bostrom P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3035164 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature