AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Vol 257, Issue 1 89-106, Copyright © 1989 by American Physiological Society

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Transcapillary adenosine transport and interstitial adenosine concentration in guinea pig hearts

R. D. Wangler, M. W. Gorman, C. Y. Wang, D. F. DeWitt, I. S. Chan, J. B. Bassingthwaighte and H. V. Sparks
Department of Physiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48824.

We used the multiple-indicator-dilution technique to observe the capillary transport of adenosine in isolated Krebs-Henseleit-perfused guinea pig hearts. Tracer concentrations of radiolabeled albumin, sucrose, and adenosine were injected into the coronary inflow; outflow samples were collected for 10-25 s and analyzed by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and by gamma- and beta-counting. The albumin data define the intravascular transport characteristics; the sucrose data define permeation through interendothelial clefts and dilution in interstitial fluid (ISF). Parameters calculated from adenosine data include permeability-surface area products for endothelial cell uptake at the luminal and abluminal membranes and intraendothelial metabolism. We found that in situ endothelial cells avidly take up and metabolize adenosine. Tracer adenosine in the capillary lumen is twice as likely to enter an endothelial cell as it is to permeate the clefts. There was no adenosine in the arterial perfusate. Under control conditions, the steady-state venous adenosine concentration was 3.6 +/- 0.8 nM, which from the flow and the parameters estimated from the tracer data gave a calculated ISF concentration of 6.8 +/- 1.5 nM. During dipyridamole infusion (10 microM) at constant pressure, the cell permeabilities went essentially to zero, whereas the venous adenosine concentration increased to 44.0 +/- 12.6 nM, giving an estimated ISF concentration of 191 +/- 53 nM. With constant flow perfusion, venous concentration during dipyridamole infusion was 30.9 +/- 6.3 nM, and estimated ISF concentration was 88 +/- 20 mM. We conclude that in this preparation, at rest, the ISF adenosine concentration is about twice the venous concentration and the ISF adenosine concentration increases with dipyridamole administration.

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