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Direct observation of the "oxygen paradox" in single rat ventricular myocytes.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  4006097     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
By phase contrast microscopy with video length tracking, we followed the sequence of morphological changes in individual isolated rat ventricular myocytes during anoxia followed by reoxygenation. Cells appeared normal during early anoxia. After a duration of anoxia T1, which varied from 17-47 minutes in different cells, each cell abruptly contracted an average of 33% in length to an inert rectangular form presumed to be a rigor state. Cells which were reoxygenated before the onset of rigor showed normal morphology and an unchanged extent of shortening on field stimulation, compared to control. Cells that were reoxygenated after a time in the rigor state, T2, either partially recovered to a shortened rectangular form capable of stimulated twitches or rounded up rapidly to a disordered hypercontracture form. The distribution of T1 was the same for cells which recovered and which hypercontracted. In contrast, the outcome of reoxygenation depended markedly on T2: all cells that were reoxygenated after less than 10 minutes of rigor recovered function, whereas all cells that spent more than 20 minutes in rigor hypercontracted when reoxygenated. The hypercontracture appears to be the cellular analog of the "oxygen paradox" in whole hearts. Its occurrence is reliably related to duration of rigor state but not to duration of hypoxia, because of marked cellular variability in the time of onset of rigor.
Authors:
M D Stern; A M Chien; M C Capogrossi; D J Pelto; E G Lakatta
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Circulation research     Volume:  56     ISSN:  0009-7330     ISO Abbreviation:  Circ. Res.     Publication Date:  1985 Jun 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  1985-07-30     Completed Date:  1985-07-30     Revised Date:  2007-11-14    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  0047103     Medline TA:  Circ Res     Country:  UNITED STATES    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  899-903     Citation Subset:  IM    
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Adenosine Triphosphate / metabolism
Animals
Anoxia / pathology,  physiopathology
Cells, Cultured
Coronary Disease / pathology,  physiopathology*
Myocardial Contraction
Myocardium / cytology*,  metabolism
Oxygen / metabolism*
Rats
Time Factors
Grant Support
ID/Acronym/Agency:
HL 17655-11/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS
Chemical
Reg. No./Substance:
56-65-5/Adenosine Triphosphate; 7782-44-7/Oxygen

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