title: Intracellular free magnesium and high energy phosphates in the perfused normotensive and spontaneously hypertensive rat heart. A 31P NMR study.
abstract: We have employed 31P nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to examine the relationship between cytosolic free Mg2+ ([Mg2+]in), intracellular pH, high energy phosphates, and genetic hypertension using the Wistar-Kyoto rat (WKY) as a control and the spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) as a model for essential hypertension. The mean systolic blood pressures (measured using the tail cuff method) of control and hypertensive rats (aged 7 to 12 weeks) were 113 +/- 4 mm Hg (mean +/- 2 SE, n = 14) and 162 +/- 5 mm Hg (mean +/- 2 SE, n = 17), respectively. Intracellular free Mg2+ levels were significantly depleted in the isolated Langendorff perfused hypertensive rat hearts (452 +/- 39 mumol/L, mean +/- 2 SE, n = 17) compared to control hearts (756 +/- 52 mumol/L, n = 14); however, intracellular pH did not differ in the SHR hearts (7.02 +/- 0.03, mean +/- 2 SE, n = 7) compared with controls (7.03 +/- 0.03, n = 7). Although we could not demonstrate a statistically significant difference in the levels of P-creatine or ATP, intracellular Pi was two-fold higher (5.71 +/- 2.28 mmol/L v 2.92 +/- 0.66 mmol/L, n = 4) and the phosphorylation potential, [MgATP]/[MgADP][Pi], was correspondingly lower (3.0 X 10(4) +/- 1.6 x 10(4) v 8.3 X 10(4) +/- 1.4 X 10(4) (mol/L)-1, n = 4) in SHR compared to WKY hearts. These data demonstrate free magnesium depletion in heart muscle and indicate an alteration in cardiac bioenergetics in essential hypertension.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, NY 10461.
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Jelicks
authors.forename: R K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Gupta
mesh_terms: D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate / Q000032:analysis* / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000502:physiology; D003401:Creatine / Q000032:analysis / Q000378:metabolism; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D006973:Hypertension / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000503:physiopathology; D008274:Magnesium / Q000032:analysis* / Q000378:metabolism; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy / Q000379:methods; D008297:Male; D009206:Myocardium / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D010710:Phosphates / Q000032:analysis / Q000378:metabolism; D010758:Phosphorus; D010766:Phosphorylation; D051381:Rats; D011918:Rats, Inbred SHR; D011921:Rats, Inbred WKY
chemical_list: D010710:Phosphates; D010758:Phosphorus; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate; D008274:Magnesium; D003401:Creatine