Thyroidectomy of SHR: effects on ventricular relaxation and on SR calcium uptake activity.

Ventricular hypertrophy and hypothyroidism are each characterized by impaired cardiac muscle relaxation and sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) calcium uptake activity. A previous report also showed that hypothyroidism does not reverse ventricular hypertrophy (left-to-right ventricular weight ratios) of spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR). We characterized the effects of thyroidectomy of 8 wk duration on relaxation of ejecting hearts and on SR calcium uptake activity from SHR and nonhypertrophic Wistar-Kyoto rat (WKY) controls. Relaxation was quantified by plotting maximum left ventricular pulse pressure (Pmax) vs. the area under the falling phase of the left ventricular pressure wave at three different pressure loads. Ventricles of euthyroid SHR were characterized by impaired relaxation and depressed SR calcium uptake activity compared with those of euthyroid WKY, confirming earlier studies. Thyroidectomy reduced ventricular relaxation and SR calcium uptake activities to about the same extent in SHR and WKY strains so that these measurements were most depressed in the SHR hypothyroid group. When all groups were considered, the extent of mechanical relaxation ex vivo and the rate of SR calcium uptake in vitro were well correlated.

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