Comparative study of changes in myocardial activity of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), succinate dehydrogenase (SDH), and capillary density distribution in the experimental models of diabetic and postinfarction damage of rat heart was performed. Data showed that decrease in LDH and SDH activities was observed in both pathologies which can suggest abnormal processes of glycolysis and oxidative phosphorylation in cardiac mitochondria. Activity of LDH and SDH in combined pathologies was comparative with the corresponding values of these parameters in control group. The authors hypothesize that these differences can be caused by specifics of myocardial vascularization. The results of the study showed that an increase in capillary density was found in all groups of rats with pathologies compared with control group. However, no significant differences in the intensity of angiogenesis processes were found between groups with pathologies.
It was shown that the energy metabolism of the heart mitochondria of experimental animals and patients is more resistant to damage at combined postinfarction cardiosclerosis and diabetes in comparison with the individual pathology. We found that the changes of free fatty acid content and conjugation of the processes of oxidation and phosphorylation in heart mitochondria are components of the metabolic stability of myocardium at the combined development of postinfarction cardiosclerosis and diabetes mellitus. Our data demonstrate a direct link between the violations of the processes of oxidative phosphorylation and accumulation of free fatty acids owing to change in activity of endogenous phospholipases, in particularly, mi- tochondrial phospholipase A2. Similar results were obtained for intraoperative biopsy specimens of patients’ hearts, and of adult Wistar rats’ hearts. We hypothesized that the preservation of energy metabolism is a manifestation of summing up of compensatory processes at de- velopment of nonspecific response of cells to damage at the early stages of pathological pro- cess
The doses and mode of streptozotocin injection for modeling heart failure combined with type 1 diabetes mellitus have been determined. Combined disease was induced in animals by injecting the selected streptozotocin dose (60 mg/kg intraperitoneally) at the stage of heart failure formation (2 weeks after coronary occlusion). This protocol of experiment led to development of hyperglycemia, body weight loss, and formation of myocardial cicatrix and hypertrophy corresponding to signs of heart failure paralleled by diabetes mellitus.
The influence of amiodarone on intracellular transport of calcium ion in cardiomyocytes of rat was investigated. The experiments were performed on isolated papillary muscles of Wistar rats. Force-frequency dependence (0.7, 1, 2, 3, 4 Hz), extrasystolic and postextrasystolic contractions and post-rest (4-60 s) reactions of rat myocardium after amiodarone treatment (1 μM) were investigated. Decay potentiation coefficient of contraction force was estimated. Results. The analyses of force-frequency dependence has shown that amiodarone prevent the decreasing of the force contraction at increasing of the stimulation frequency. Amiodarone promotes increase of the time constant t<sub>1</sub>(T<sub>50</sub>), that indicate the drug promotes acceleration of Са<sup>2+</sup> transport inside the SR resulting increase of Са<sup>2+</sup> in the places of its release from the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR). Treatment of papillary muscle with amiodarone decreased amplitude of extrasystolic contractions. As known, postextrasystolic and post-rest reactions of myocardium characterize the SR function. We have found amiodarone increased potentiation of postextrasystolic and post-rest contractions. Preliminary caffeine perfusion of muscles preparations cancelled the amiodarone-induced increasing postextrasystolic and post-rest potentiation. However, potentiation decay coefficient before and after treatment with amiodarone didn’t have difference. Conclusions, amiodarone influences on intracellular calcium ions homeostasis by modulation SR functions related with most likely are stipulated either by activation of Са<sup>2+</sup> transport from uptake sites to release sites or by prevent of Са<sup>2+</sup> leakage from the SR
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