073_16253-B1 A2A-Adenosine Receptor Overexpression Leads to Arrhythmias

Neumann, Joachim; Gergs, Ulrich; Kirchhof, Paulus; Fabritz, Larissa; Müller, Frank; Drzewiecki, K; Boknik, P.

doi:10.1016/j.jacep.2017.09.094

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“…Our results provide evidence for a contractile effect of the stimulation of A 2A -AR in human hearts and a proarrhythmic effect of A 2A -ARs in normoxia (under basal and drug-stimulated conditions) and hypoxia in mammalian cardiac preparations. Progress reports of this work have appeared in abstract form (Neumann et al, 2017; Neumann et al, 2018).…”

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Evidence for Arrhythmogenic Effects of A2A-Adenosine Receptors

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Adenosine can be released from the heart and may stimulate four different cardiac adenosine receptors. A receptor subtype that couples to the generation of cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) is the A2A-adenosine receptor (A2A-AR). To better understand its role in cardiac function, we studied mechanical and electrophysiological effects in transgenic mice that overexpress the human A2A-AR in cardiomyocytes (A2A-TG). We used isolated preparations from the left atrium, the right atrium, isolated perfused hearts with surface electrocardiogram (ECG) recording, and surface body ECG recordings of living mice. The hypothesized arrhythmogenic effects of transgenicity per se and A2A-AR stimulation were studied. We noted an increase in the incidence of supraventricular and ventricular arrhythmias under these conditions in A2A-TG. Moreover, we noted that the A2A-AR agonist CGS 21680 exerted positive inotropic effect in isolated human electrically driven (1 Hz) right atrial trabeculae carneae. We conclude that A2A-ARs are functional not only in A2A-TG but also in isolated human atrial preparations. A2A-ARs in A2A-TG per se and their stimulation can lead to cardiac arrhythmias not only in isolated cardiac preparations from A2A-TG but also in living A2A-TG.

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confidence: 99%