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High prevalence of antibodies against beta 1- and beta 2-adrenoceptors in patients with primary electrical cardiac abnormalities.
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Chiale, P A (författare)
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Rosenbaum, M B (författare)
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Elizari, M V (författare)
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- Hjalmarson, Agneta, 1943 (författare)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Hjärt-kärlinstitutionen,Cardiovascular Institute
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- Magnusson, Yvonne, 1957 (författare)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Wallenberglaboratoriet,Wallenberg Laboratory
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Wallukat, G (författare)
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Hoebeke, Johan (författare)
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- Elsevier BV, 1995
- 1995
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: Journal of the American College of Cardiology. - : Elsevier BV. - 0735-1097. ; 26:4, s. 864-9
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Abstract
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- OBJECTIVES: This study sought to determine the prevalence of autoantibodies directed against the beta-adrenoceptors in patients with primary electrical cardiac abnormalities, including atrial arrhythmias, ventricular arrhythmias and conduction disturbances, in the absence of any other cardiac abnormality. BACKGROUND: Using synthetic peptides corresponding to the predicted sequences for the second extracellular loop of the human beta 1- and beta 2-adrenoceptors as antigenic targets, autoantibodies directed against the beta-adrenoceptors were recently shown to occur in patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy and Chagas' heart disease. METHODS: Eighty-six patients (57 with primary electrical abnormalities, 29 with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy) and 101 healthy and cardiopathic control subjects were studied. Antibodies against the beta 1- and beta 2-peptides were detected with an enzyme immunoassay performed in blinded manner. In nine selected (seropositive) cases, the immunoglobulin G (IgG) fraction was tested for functional effects on the rate of beating of cultured neonatal rat cardiomyocytes. RESULTS: Antibodies recognizing the beta 1- and beta 2-peptides were found in 11 (52.3%) of 21 patients with ventricular arrhythmias (p < 0.01), 5 (35.7%) of 14 patients with conduction disturbances (p < 0.05), 3 (13.6%) of 22 patients with atrial arrhythmias (p > 0.05) and 11 (37.9%) of 29 patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (p < 0.05) compared with 15 (14.8%) of 101 control subjects. A rapid increase in the rate of beating of the cultured cardiomyocytes was induced by IgG from a selected group of patients, suggesting an agonist-like interaction with a functional epitope. This response was mediated by stimulation of both the beta 1- and beta 2-adrenoceptors in the patients with primary ventricular arrhythmias but only the beta 1-adrenoceptors in the patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy. CONCLUSIONS: Primary ventricular arrhythmias and conduction disturbances, like idiopathic cardiomyopathy, show a high prevalence of antibodies interacting with functional epitopes of the beta-adrenoceptors, suggesting a common or similar abnormal immunoregulatory process.
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- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Medicinska och farmaceutiska grundvetenskaper -- Mikrobiologi inom det medicinska området (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Basic Medicine -- Microbiology in the medical area (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- Adult
- Animals
- Arrhythmias
- Cardiac
- immunology
- Autoantibodies
- analysis
- pharmacology
- Cardiomyopathy
- Dilated
- immunology
- Case-Control Studies
- Cells
- Cultured
- Female
- Heart Conduction System
- physiopathology
- Humans
- Immunoenzyme Techniques
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Myocardium
- pathology
- Prevalence
- Rats
- Receptors
- Adrenergic
- beta-1
- immunology
- Receptors
- Adrenergic
- beta-2
- immunology
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