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PKC ? and ?II regulate angiotensin II-mediated fibrosis through p38: a mechanism
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Chichger H
; Vang A
; O'Connell KA
; Zhang P
; Mende U
; Harrington EO
; Choudhary G
Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol
2015[Apr]; 308
(8
): L827-36
PMID25659900
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Pulmonary hypertension (PH) eventually leads to right ventricular (RV) fibrosis
and dysfunction that is associated with increased morbidity and mortality.
Although angiotensin II plays an important role in RV remodeling associated with
hypoxic PH, the molecular mechanisms underlying RV fibrosis in PH largely remain
unresolved. We hypothesized that PKC-p38 signaling is involved in RV collagen
accumulation in PH and in response to angiotensin II stimulation. Adult male
Sprague-Dawley rats were exposed to 3 wk of normoxia or hypoxia (10% FiO2 ) as a
model of PH. Hypoxic rats developed RV hypertrophy and fibrosis associated with
an increase in PKC ?II and ? protein expression and p38 dephosphorylation in
freshly isolated RV cardiac fibroblasts. Further mechanistic studies were
performed in cultured primary cardiac fibroblasts stimulated with angiotensin II,
a key activator of ventricular fibrosis in PH. Angiotensin II induced a reduction
in p38 phosphorylation that was attenuated following chemical inhibition of PKC
?II and ?. Molecular and chemical inhibition of PKC ?II and ? abrogated
angiotensin II-induced cardiac fibroblast proliferation and collagen deposition
in vitro. The effects of PKC inhibition on proliferation and fibrosis were
reversed by chemical inhibition of p38. Conversely, constitutive activation of
p38 attenuated angiotensin II-induced increase of cardiac fibroblast
proliferation and collagen accumulation. PKC ?II- and ?-dependent inactivation of
p38 regulates cardiac fibroblast proliferation and collagen deposition in
response to angiotensin II, which suggests that the PKC-p38 signaling in cardiac
fibroblasts may be involved and important in the pathophysiology of RV fibrosis
in PH.