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The cardiac ventricular 5-HT4 receptor is functional in late foetal development and is reactivated in heart failure.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Brattelid Trond, Qvigstad Eirik, Moltzau Lise R, Bekkevold Silje V S, Sandnes Dagny L, Birkeland Jon Arne K, Skomedal Tor, Osnes Jan-Bjørn, Sjaastad Ivar, Levy Finn Olav
Abstract excerpt
A positive inotropic responsiveness to serotonin, mediated by 5-HT(4) and 5-HT(2A) receptors, appears in the ventricle of rats with post-infarction congestive heart failure (HF) and pressure overload-induced hypertrophy. A hallmark of HF is a transition towards a foetal genotype which correlates with loss of cardiac functions. Thus, we wanted to investigate whether the foetal and neonatal cardiac ventricle...
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