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Cyclic mechanical stretch associated with pulsatile blood pressure can modulate cytoskeletal remodeling and intracellular signaling in vascular endothelial cells.
Vagal tone is likely to be lower in patients with HF in whom there is an increased firing from cardiac mechanoreceptors stimulated by the mechanical stretching associated with cardiac dilatation leading to the cardio-cardiac sympathetic reflex [ 17, 18].
A high level of mechanical stretch is associated with increased epithelial cell necrosis, decreased apoptosis and increased IL-8 level [ 3].
Emerging evidence has associated mechanical stretch with the local formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the myocardium [23 25].
Mechanical stretch of human lung endothelium is associated with MMP release [ 38].
In experimental vein grafts, mechanical stretch due to arterial pressures is associated with rapid disruption and degradation of α-actin filaments in SMCs along with SMC death within the first day after vein grafting surgery [ 3, 4].
However, the ligand-independent mechanism by which mechanical stretch promotes β-arrestin-biased signaling remains unknown.
This finding was associated with a novel observation that mechanical stretch can increase BNP and NPRA expression in human cardiac fibroblasts, which could have important implications in modulating myocardial fibrosis.
The effect of cyclical mechanical stretch on TGFβ induction of myofibroblast differentiation in primary human cardiac fibroblasts and whether differences in response to stretch were associated with changes in the natriuretic peptide system were investigated.
Commonly implicated factors associated with degeneration include upregulated inflammatory cytokines, loss of resident cell populations, altered biomechanics, uneven loading of the spine and excessive mechanical stretch of tissue and cells [ 2].
Application of cyclic mechanical stretch improved contractile function, cardiomyocyte alignment along the stretch axis and gene expression of cardiomyocyte markers.
