Jiong-Wei Wang, Magda S C Fontes, Xiaoyuan Wang, Suet Yen Chong, Elise L Kessler, Ya-Nan Zhang, Judith J de Haan, Fatih Arslan, Saskia C A de Jager, Leo Timmers, Toon A B van Veen, Carolyn S P Lam, Dominique P V de Kleijn
An involement of Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2) has been established in cardiac dysfunction after acute myocardial infarction; however, its role in chronic pressure overload is unclear. We sought to evaluate the role of TLR2 in cardiac hypertrophy, fibrosis and dysfunction in sustained pressure overload. We induced pressure overload via transverse aortic constriction (TAC) in TLR2-/- and wild type (WT) mice, and followed temporal changes over 8 weeks. Despite similar increases in heart weight, left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction (EF) and diastolic function (mitral E/A ratio) were preserved in TLR2-/- mice but impaired in WT mice following TAC...
August 23, 2017: Scientific Reports