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  • Title: Mechanisms of the circadian regulation of beta-adrenoceptor density and adenylyl cyclase activity in cardiac tissue from normotensive and spontaneously hypertensive rats.
    Author: Witte K, Parsa-Parsi R, Vobig M, Lemmer B.
    Journal: J Mol Cell Cardiol; 1995 May; 27(5):1195-202. PubMed ID: 7473777.
    Abstract:
    Circadian variation in beta-adrenoceptor density and adenylyl cyclase activity was studied in myocardium from normotensive Wistar-Kyoto rats (WKY) and spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR). In SHR cardiac beta-adrenoceptor density was significantly lower than in WKY. This reduction in total beta-adrenoceptors was exclusively due to a loss in the beta 1-subtype. Total and beta 1-adrenoceptor density in ventricles from both strains exhibited significant circadian variation with peaks occurring in the middle of the light and dark periods, whereas the beta 2-subtype did not show rhythmicity. Similarly, stimulation of adenylyl cyclase via total beta-adrenoceptors and via the beta 1-subtype was circadian time dependent, but circadian peaks occurring at the beginning of the light and dark periods were 6 h apart from those in beta-adrenoceptor density. Rhythmicity in the formation of cAMP was observed under basal conditions and after stimulation by isoprenaline or a forskolin derivative, whereas addition of manganese-ions abolished the circadian variation. In conclusion, the present study demonstrates that in ventricular tissue from WKY and SHR circadian rhythms observed in total beta-adrenoceptor density are due exclusively to variations in the beta 1-subtype. Since peaks in cAMP formation coincided with troughs in beta-adrenoceptor number, cAMP mediated phosphorylation of beta-adrenoceptors enhancing their down-regulation, could be involved in the circadian regulation of myocardial beta-adrenoceptor density. Rhythmicity in cAMP formation itself seems to involve coupling of G-proteins, because manganese ions abolished the circadian variation.
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