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Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol (December 9, 2005). doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00384.2005
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Submitted on April 19, 2005
Accepted on December 2, 2005

Bioenergetic Protection of the Failing Atrial and Ventricular Myocardium by the Vasopeptidase Inhibitor Omapatrilat

Yong-Mei Cha1, Petras P Dzeja1, Margaret M Redfield1, Win K Shen1, and Andre Terzic1*

1 Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Department of Medicine and Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: terzic.andre{at}mayo.edu.

Deficient bioenergetic signaling contributes to myocardial dysfunction and electrical instability in both atrial and ventricular cardiac chambers. Yet, approaches capable to prevent metabolic distress are only partially established. Here, in a canine model of tachycardia-induced congestive heart failure, we compared atrial and ventricular bioenergetics and tested the efficacy of metabolic rescue with the vasopeptidase inhibitor omapatrilat. Despite intrinsic differences in energy metabolism, failing atria and ventricles demonstrated profound bioenergetic deficiency with reduced ATP and creatine phosphate levels, and compromised adenylate kinase and creatine kinase catalysis. Depressed phosphotransfer enzyme activities correlated with reduced tissue ATP levels, while creatine phosphate inversely related with atrial and ventricular load. Chronic treatment with omapatrilat maintained myocardial ATP, the high-energy currency, and protected adenylate and creatine kinase phosphotransfer capacity. Omapatrilat-induced bioenergetic protection was associated with maintained atrial and ventricular structural integrity, albeit without full recovery of the creatine phosphate pool. Thus, therapy with omapatrilat demonstrates benefit in protecting phosphotransfer enzyme activities and preventing impairment of atrial and ventricular bioenergetics in heart failure.




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