JaLCDOI 10.18926/AMO/31982
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Author Yumoto, Akihisa| Kusano, Kengo Fukushima| Nakamura, Kazufumi| Hashimoto, Katsushi| Aoki, Motokuni| Morishita, Ryuichi| Kaneda, Yasufumi| Ohe, Tohru|
Abstract

It was recently reported that gene therapy using hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) has the potential to preserve cardiac function after myocardial ischemia. We speculated that this HGF gene therapy could also prevent ventricular arrhythmia. To investigate this possibility, we examined the antiarrhythmic effect of HGF gene therapy in rat acute and old myocardial infarction models. Myocardial ischemia was induced by ligation of the left descending coronary artery. Hemagglutinating virus of Japan (HVJ)-coated liposome containing HGF genes were injected directly into the myocardium fourteen days before programmed pacing. Ventricular fibrillation (VF)was induced by programmed pacing. The VF duration was reduced and the VF threshold increased after HGF gene therapy ( p< 0.01). Histological analyses revealed that the number of vessels in the ischemic border zone was greatly increased after HGF gene injection. These findings revealed that HGF gene therapy has an anti-arrhythmic effect after myocardial ischemia.

Keywords ventricular arrhythmia HGF (hepatocyte growth factor) ischemia HVJ (hemagglutinating virus of Japan)
Amo Type Article
Publication Title Acta Medica Okayama
Published Date 2005-06
Volume volume59
Issue issue3
Publisher Okayama University Medical School
Start Page 73
End Page 78
ISSN 0386-300X
NCID AA00508441
Content Type Journal Article
language English
File Version publisher
Refereed True
PubMed ID 16049559
Web of Science KeyUT 000230039100001
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Content Type Thesis or Dissertation