title: Effect of oxygen deprivation on metabolism of arachidonic acid by cultures of rat heart cells.
abstract: To investigate the mechanisms responsible for the impairment of phospholipid metabolism observed in ischemic cells, we have studied the effect of conditions simulating ischemia on the metabolism of arachidonic acid (AA) by muscle (M-) and nonmuscle (F-) cells isolated from newborn rat hearts and cultured separately. In muscle cells, oxygen deprivation induces a significant stimulation of the release of [14C]AA from prelabeled cells associated with a preferential redistribution of [14C]AA into cell triglycerides but not formation of radioactive prostaglandins. Moreover, the fatty acid content of phospholipids, as measured by capillary gas chromatography, appears markedly reduced in ischemic myocardial cells. This fact may be related to phospholipase stimulation during ischemia as suggested by the antagonistic effect of mepacrine or p-bromophenacyl bromide. In contrast, oxygen deprivation failed to induce any significant alteration of AA metabolism in fibroblast-like heart cells. Our results indicate that these cultures of newborn rat heart cells, which exhibit many of the features observed in intact organ during ischemia, may represent a useful experimental model to investigate the pharmacological control of the membrane phospholipid turnover.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology, Hôpital Necker, Paris, France.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Freyss-Beguin
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Millanvoye-van Brussel
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Duval
mesh_terms: D000332:Aerobiosis; D000693:Anaerobiosis; D000818:Animals; D016718:Arachidonic Acid; D001095:Arachidonic Acids / Q000378:metabolism*; D002250:Carbon Radioisotopes; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D002849:Chromatography, Gas; D002855:Chromatography, Thin Layer; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000378:metabolism; D005227:Fatty Acids / Q000032:analysis; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000378:metabolism*; D007700:Kinetics; D009206:Myocardium / Q000378:metabolism*; D010743:Phospholipids / Q000032:analysis; D051381:Rats
chemical_list: D001095:Arachidonic Acids; D002250:Carbon Radioisotopes; D005227:Fatty Acids; D010743:Phospholipids; D016718:Arachidonic Acid