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Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 261: H1481-H1486, 1991;
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AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Vol 261, Issue 5 1481-H1486, Copyright © 1991 by American Physiological Society

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Contractile dysfunction during metabolic acidosis: role of impaired energy metabolism

H. Z. Zhou, D. Malhotra and J. I. Shapiro
Giles Filley Laboratory, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver 80262.

To investigate the mechanisms by which acidosis depresses cardiac function, a Langendorff isolated perfused rat heart preparation was studied using 31P magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Isolated hearts were subjected to normal perfusion conditions or experimental manipulations simulating severe metabolic acidosis, substrate depletion, impairment of oxidative metabolism, or low perfusate calcium concentrations. All maneuvers resulted in marked reductions in oxygen consumption and the force of myocardial contraction (dP/dt). Metabolic acidosis had bioenergetic changes suggestive of impaired energy production, specifically, increases in Pi and decreases in phosphocreatine concentrations, which did not occur in hearts subjected to low perfusate calcium concentrations. In acidotic perfusions as well as substrate depletion and impairment of oxidative metabolism, the change in dP/dt correlated best with the change in the intracellular concentration of monovalent Pi (P(im)) (r = 0.70, P less than 0.01), whereas in hearts subjected to a low perfusate calcium concentration, there was no relationship between dP/dt and the change in Pim concentrations. More detailed analysis of the time course of the metabolic and physiological changes with metabolic acidosis revealed a discordance between changes in Pim and the decreases in dP/dt during the first 20 min of the induction of acidosis and the first 10 min of recovery from acidosis. These data suggest that metabolic acidosis has a major direct effect on energy metabolism in this model. Moreover, impairment of oxidative metabolism in concert with decreases in intracellular pH may be important in the contractile failure associated with prolonged metabolic acidosis.


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