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02-1043R3 Online Methods Supplement MATERIALS AND METHODS The investigation was performed in accordance with the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (NIH publication No. 85-23, revised 1996). Male 16 to 18 week-old Wistar rats with free access to standard rat chow and tap water were randomly assigned to one of the following groups: 1) Control (Ctrl, n=10): receiving a daily injection of 0.9% saline i.p.; 2) Iso (n=12): receiving 5.0 mg/kg (±)isoproterenol hydrochloride (Sigma) dissolved in 0.3 ml saline i.p. once daily,1 and 3) Iso+BIIB (n=8): receiving 3.0 mg/kg/day BIIB723 (Boehringer-Ingelheim) in the drinking water plus the daily injection of Iso. The solution of BIIB723 was prepared every day according to the daily records of water consumption and body weight (BW), the latter measured every 2 days. Systolic blood pressure (SBP), by indirect tail-cuff method, and heart rate (HR) were determined weekly during treatment, which lasted 30 days. At the end of treatment, animals were euthanized under deep ether anesthesia, the hearts removed and subjected to further analysis. The ventricles were blotted and weighed (HW) and HW normalized by BW (HW/BW ratio, in mg/g) was used as hypertrophy index. Only one rat, from the Iso-treated group, died during the protocol. Measurement of pHi: One papillary muscles isolated from the left ventricle (LV) of each heart, isometrically contracting at 0.2 Hz were used for pHi determinations with the epifluorescence approach previously detailed.2 Briefly, muscles loaded with 10 mol/L BCECF-AM (Molecular Probes) were superfused (4 mL/min) with bicarbonate-free (HEPES)-buffered solution (pH ~7.4).10 NHE activity was estimated in terms of steady pHi values. To measure intrinsic buffer capacity (i), muscles were acid loaded by transient (10 min) exposure to 20.0 mmol/L NH4Cl followed by washout with Na+-free HEPES buffer 02-1043R3 Online Methods Supplement (NaCl was equimolar replaced with N-methyl-D-glucamine). i was calculated as i= + 4 ]i i. Acute in vitro NHE- Echocardiographic examination: Rats were monitored echocardiographically under light anesthesia (35 mg/kg pentobarbital sodium i.p.) a day or two before sacrifice. Twodimensional targeted M-mode tracings were recorded through the anterior and posterior LV walls (paper speed 50 mm/sec) during 10 cycles with a 7 MHz transducer. Anterior and posterior end-diastolic thickness (AWT and PWT, respectively), end-systolic wall thickness and LV internal dimensions were measured using the American Society of Echocardiography leading-edge method from at least 3 cardiac cycles.3 These tracings were analyzed with an off-line analysis system (Scion Image) by a single observer blinded to the experimental group. LV mass (LVM) was calculated from the formula: LVM = 1.047 X [(EDD + AWT + PWT)3– EDD3] where 1.047 is muscle specific gravity and EDD is the LV end internal diastolic diameter.4 Endocardial fractional shortening (FS) was calculated as: (EDD – ESD) / EDD x 100 where ESD is the LV internal systolic diameter. In our hands, the correlation coefficient between the estimation of LVM by echocardiographic examination and the LVW at necropsy was r = 0.92 (n=21, P<0.001). Histomorphometric studies: After the isolation of a papillary muscle, the LV was fixed in 10% buffered formaldehyde for 24 h and embedded in paraffin. Serial sections of 4 µm, obtained at different levels were stained with hematoxylin-eosin for cell morphometry or picrosirius red (Direct Red 80, Aldrich) for collagen quantification. Sections were analyzed under the microscope (magnification x250), and the fields were digitized. An image analysis system (Imaging Technology, Optimas 5.2) was used to measure cell parameters. Cardiomyocytes cross-sectional area (CSA), collagen volume fraction (CVF), and the 02-1043R3 Online Methods Supplement reference area (RA) were determined in each group for an average of 10 micrographs. To determine CSA, only round to ovoid cells with visible nucleus were considered and each cell was individually traced. No less than 250 cardiomyocytes from each heart were examined. CVF was calculated as the sum of stained collagen areas divided by the total RA x100, with perivascular collagen excluded. Since the greatest degree of fibrosis in the treated groups was confined to the region lying below the endocardium, the LV wall was halved into a subendocardial (inner half) and subepicardial (outer half) region and CVF separately quantified in both regions. Western blotting: Heart tissue was homogenized in 7 volumes (w/v) of ice cold homogenization buffer containing (in mmol/L) 20 Tris pH 7.4, 300 sucrose, 1 DTT, 4 EGTA, 5 EDTA, and HaltTM protease inhibitor cocktail kit (Pierce Endogen). The homogenate was centrifuged at 5000 x g for 15 min at 4 ºC. The supernatant was centrifuged at 100000 x g for 60 min at 4 ºC. The resulting membrane fraction was resuspended in homogenization buffer followed by brief sonication. Cardiac membranes were denatured in NuPAGE 4X LDS sample buffer (Invitrogen) and equal amounts of protein (45 g/lane) were subjected to PAGE on 4-12 % Bis-Tris gels (Invitrogen) according to manufacturer’s instructions. Separated proteins were transferred to nitrocellulose membranes. Nonspecific binding sites of nitrocellulose sheets were then blocked for 1 hour at room temperature with 10% nonfat milk in TBS. Immunoblot analysis was performed with rabbit polyclonal antibody for NHE-1, 1/2000 (a kind gift from Dr Donowitz, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD) overnight at 4 C. After washing with TBS 0.1% Tween 20, membranes were probed with the secondary antibody couple to peroxydase (anti rabbit IgG 1/5000; Amersham Pharmacia) for 1 hour at room 02-1043R3 Online Methods Supplement temperature. Blots were washed several times and then treated with the ECL-detection reagent (Amersham Pharmacia) and exposed to X-ray films. The autoradiographies were quantified by densitometry. A membrane corresponding to a gel were one sample of each experimental group was loaded following exactly the same protocol than that described above, was incubated with secondary antibody alone to confirm the specificity of the primary antibody. Statistics: Results are expressed as mean ± SEM. Statistical analysis of results was performed using Student’s t test or one-way analysis of variances (ANOVA) followed by Student-Newman-Keuls test, as appropriate. Significance level was set at P<0.05. REFERENCES 1. Mészaros J, Khananshvili D, Hart G. Mechanisms underlying delayed afterdepolarizations in hypertrophied left ventricular myocytes of rats. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2001;281:H903-H914. 2. Ennis IL, Alvarez BV, Camilión de Hurtado MC, Cingolani HE. Enalapril induces regresion of cardiac hypertrophy and normalization of pHi regulatory mechanisms. Hypertension. 1998;31:961-967. 3. Sahn DJ, DeMaria A, Kisslo J, Weyman A. Recommendations regarding quantitation in M-mode echocardiography: results of a survey of echocardiographic measurements. Circulation. 1978;58:1072-1083. 4. Litwin SE, Katz SE, Weinberg EO, Lorell BH, Aurigemma GP, Douglas PS. Serial echocardiographic-Dopler assessment of left ventricular geometry and function in rats with pressure-overload hypertrophy. Chronic angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition attenuates the transition to heart failure. Circulation. 1995;91:2642-2654.