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Contribution of Glycogen and Exogenous Glucose to Glucose Metabolism During Ischemia in the Hypertrophied Rat Heart
From the Cardiovascular Research Group (B.O.S., G.D.L.), Departments of Pharmacology and Pediatrics, The University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, and the Cardiovascular Research Laboratory (M.F.A., S.L.H., R.B.W.), Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, St Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Abstract Although hypertrophied hearts have increased rates of glycolysis under aerobic conditions, it is controversial as to whether glucose metabolism during ischemia is altered in the hypertrophied heart. Because endogenous glycogen stores are a key source of glucose during ischemia, we developed a protocol to label the glycogen pool in hearts with either [3H]glucose or [14C]glucose, allowing for direct measurement of both glycogen and exogenous glucose metabolism during ischemia. Cardiac hypertrophy was produced in rats by banding the abdominal aorta for an 8-week period. Isolated hearts from aortic-banded and sham-operated rats were initially perfused under substrate-free conditions to decrease glycogen content to 40% of the initial pool size. Resynthesis and radiolabeling of the glycogen pool with [3H]glucose or [14C]glucose were accomplished in working hearts by perfusion for a 60-minute period with 11 mmol/L [3H]glucose or [14C]glucose, 0.5 mmol/L lactate, 1.2 mmol/L palmitate, and 100 µmol/mL insulin. Although glycolytic rates during the aerobic perfusion were significantly greater in hypertrophied hearts compared with control hearts, glycolytic rates from exogenous glucose were not different during low-flow ischemia. The contribution of glucose from glycogen was also not different in hypertrophied hearts compared with control hearts during ischemia (1314±665 versus 776±310 nmol · min-1 · g dry wt-1, respectively). Glucose oxidation rates decreased during ischemia but were not different between the two groups. However, in both hypertrophied and control hearts, the ratio of glucose oxidation to glycolysis was greater for glucose originating from glycogen than from exogenous glucose. Our data demonstrate that glycogen is a significant source of glucose during low-flow ischemia, but the data do not differ between hypertrophied and control hearts.
Key Words: hypertrophy • glycogen • glycolysis • glucose oxidation • ischemia
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