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- Title
P2X3 receptor antagonism attenuates the progression of heart failure.
- Authors
Lataro, Renata M.; Moraes, Davi J. A.; Gava, Fabio N.; Omoto, Ana C. M.; Silva, Carlos A. A.; Brognara, Fernanda; Alflen, Lais; Brazão, Vânia; Colato, Rafaela Pravato; do Prado Jr, José Clóvis; Ford, Anthony P.; Salgado, Helio C.; Paton, Julian F. R.
- Abstract
Despite advances in the treatment of heart failure, prognosis is poor, mortality high and there remains no cure. Heart failure is associated with reduced cardiac pump function, autonomic dysregulation, systemic inflammation and sleep-disordered breathing; these morbidities are exacerbated by peripheral chemoreceptor dysfunction. We reveal that in heart failure the carotid body generates spontaneous, episodic burst discharges coincident with the onset of disordered breathing in male rats. Purinergic (P2X3) receptors were upregulated two-fold in peripheral chemosensory afferents in heart failure, and when antagonized abolished these episodic discharges, normalized both peripheral chemoreceptor sensitivity and the breathing pattern, reinstated autonomic balance, improved cardiac function, and reduced both inflammation and biomarkers of cardiac failure. Aberrant ATP transmission in the carotid body triggers episodic discharges that via P2X3 receptors play a crucial role in the progression of heart failure and as such offer a distinct therapeutic angle to reverse multiple components of its pathogenesis. Despite medications, heart failure worsens with time with many patients dying within five years of diagnosis. Here the authors show that blocking purinergic receptors in the carotid body stops heart failure progression, improves its function, reduces sleep apneas and systemic inflammation in male rats.
- Subjects
HEART failure; CAROTID body; PURINERGIC receptors; SLEEP apnea syndromes; TREATMENT failure; CHEMORECEPTORS
- Publication
Nature Communications, 2023, Vol 14, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2041-1723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41467-023-37077-9