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Sci Rep. 2021 Oct 13;11(1):20376. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-99632-y.

Increased release of serotonin from rat primary isolated adult cardiac myofibroblasts.

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Emiri Tarbit, Indu Singh, Jason Nigel Peart, Svetlana Bivol, Roselyn Barbara Rose'Meyer

Affiliations

  1. School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD, 4222, Australia.
  2. School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD, 4222, Australia. [email protected].

PMID: 34645867 PMCID: PMC8514503 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-99632-y

Abstract

Elevated blood serotonin levels have been observed in patients with heart failure and serotonin has a role in pathological cardiac function. The serotonin receptor system was examined in adult rat isolated cardiac fibroblast and myofibroblast cells. This is one of the first studies that has investigated serotonin receptors and other proteins involved in the serotonin receptor system in rat cardiac fibroblast and myofibroblast cells. Rat primary cardiac fibroblasts were isolated and transformed into myofibroblasts using 5 ng/ml TGF-β1. Transformation of cells to myofibroblasts was confirmed with the presence of α-smooth muscle actin using Western blot. Serotonin metabolism and receptor protein expression was assessed using Western blot techniques and serotonin levels measured using ELISA. The 5-HT

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