Circulation Research, Vol 63, 628-634, Copyright © 1988 by American Heart Association

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Radiolabeled acetate as a tracer of myocardial tricarboxylic acid cycle flux

DB Buxton, M Schwaiger, A Nguyen, ME Phelps and HR Schelbert
Department of Radiological Sciences, UCLA School of Medicine 90024.

The kinetics of [1-14C]acetate oxidation in isolated perfused rat hearts have been determined over a range of perfusion conditions. Effluent measurements demonstrated that 14CO2 cleared biexponentially over 50 minutes after bolus injection of [1-14C]acetate into normoxic hearts perfused with 5 mM glucose and 10 mU/ml insulin. The clearance half-time (t1/2) for the predominant initial clearance phase was 3.1 +/- 0.5 minutes (n = 4). MVO2 was varied over a fourfold range by hypoxia and phenylephrine stimulation (t1/2, 7.2 +/- 1.2 and 2.2 +/- 0.2 minutes, respectively) and in the presence of alternate substrates (lactate, 2 mM; DL-3-hydroxybutyrate, 20 mM; and palmitate, 0.1 mM), which did not modify either tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle flux or acetate kinetics. A good correlation (r = 0.93) was observed between k, the rate constant for the initial phase of 14CO2 clearance, and TCA cycle flux, estimated from oxygen consumption. In contrast to results with [1-14C]acetate, lactate (2 mM) increased t1/2 for 14CO2 clearance from a bolus injection of [1-14C]palmitate from 3.0 +/- 0.4 minutes (n = 3) at control to 4.3 +/- 0.2 minutes (n = 3, p less than 0.01). Addition of acetate in nontracer amounts (0.5 or 5 mM) caused significant underestimation of TCA cycle flux when estimated with [1- 14C]acetate. 14CO2 clearance accounted for 88-98% of total effluent 14C between 10 and 20 minutes after [1-14C]acetate bolus injection; rate constants for clearance of 14CO2 and total 14C clearance were very similar during this period, and these two rate constants did not differ significantly from each other under any conditions tested.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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