Cardiac purinergic signalling in health and disease #MMPMID25527177
Burnstock G; Pelleg A
Purinergic Signal 2015[Mar]; 11 (1): 1-46 PMID25527177show ga
This review is a historical account about purinergic signalling in the heart, for readers to see how ideas and understanding have changed as new experimental results were published. Initially, the focus is on the nervous control of the heart by ATP as a cotransmitter in sympathetic, parasympathetic, and sensory nerves, as well as in intracardiac neurons. Control of the heart by centers in the brain and vagal cardiovascular reflexes involving purines are also discussed. The actions of adenine nucleotides and nucleosides on cardiomyocytes, atrioventricular and sinoatrial nodes, cardiac fibroblasts, and coronary blood vessels are described. Cardiac release and degradation of ATP are also described. Finally, the involvement of purinergic signalling and its therapeutic potential in cardiac pathophysiology is reviewed, including acute and chronic heart failure, ischemia, infarction, arrhythmias, cardiomyopathy, syncope, hypertrophy, coronary artery disease, angina, diabetic cardiomyopathy, as well as heart transplantation and coronary bypass grafts.Electronic supplementary material: The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s11302-014-9436-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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Purinergic+Signal 2015 ; 11 (1): 1-46
