AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Vol 270, Issue 3 1063-H1070, Copyright © 1996 by American Physiological Society

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Myocardial VO2 of mechanically unloaded contraction of rat ventricular slices measured by a new approach

S. Yasuhara, M. Takaki, A. Kikuta, H. Ito and H. Suga
Department of Physiology II, Okayama University Medical School, Japan.

We instituted a new approach of measuring mechanically unloaded myocardial oxygen consumption (VO2) by using rat left ventricular (LV) slices in an air-tight chamber filled with oxygenated Tyrode solution. Myocardial slices (300 microns in thickness) freely shortened without external load by electrical field stimulation (St). VO2 without St (n = 6) was 1.69 +/- 0.41 ml O2.min-1.100 g LV-1. VO2 with St (n = 6) increased to 2.28 +/- 0.36 ml O2.min-1.100 g LV-1. VO2 in Ca(2+)-free Tyrode solution irrespective of St was nearly equal to VO2 without St in normal Tyrode solution, indicating that all these VO2 correspond to basal metabolic VO2. The increment in VO2 by St (delta VO2) increased up to twice normal with the extracellular Ca2+ concentration up to 4 times normal. Inhibition of cross-bridge cycling by 2,3-butanedione monoxime (5 and 10 mM) did not decrease delta VO2. These results suggest that delta VO2 consists of VO2 primarily for excitation-contraction coupling but not for cross-bridge cycling.

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