title: Cardiac ischemia and endothelial function in the isolated rabbit heart.
abstract: Truly effective prevention of reperfusion myocardial damage is precluded in part by a lack of understanding of the earliest events which accompany ischemia. The purpose of this study was to assess the coronary endothelial response to two forms of ischemic injury in an isolated crystalloid perfused rabbit heart. Global cardiac ischemia, confirmed by NADH fluorescence photography, was induced either by mechanically reducing coronary flow by 90% (MRCF, N = 11) or by an infusion of N-formyl-methionyl-leucyl-phenylalanine (fMLP, N = 11), a known stimulus for leukotriene synthesis and coronary vasospasm. Compared with control, MRCF resulted in an increase in effluent concentrations of both prostacyclin (152 +/- 22 pg/ml vs 951 +/- 214 pg/ml, P less than 0.05) and plasminogen activator (0.8 +/- .3 IU/ml vs 1.4 +/- 0.5, P less than 0.05) but no detectable increase in effluent thromboxane B2 or leukotriene C4 concentrations. fMLP infusion resulted in an immediate reduction in coronary flow coincident with diffuse myocardial ischemia. In contrast to MRCF, however, fMLP-induced ischemia resulted in a significant but smaller increase in effluent prostacyclin concentration (210 +/- 47 pg/ml vs 606 +/- .55 pg/ml, P = 0.05) and a marked increase in both thromboxane B2 (less than or equal to 33 +/- 4 pg/ml vs 1141 +/- 375 pg/ml, P less than 0.05) and leukotriene C4 (less than 0.25 ng/ml vs 3.3 +/- 1.2 ng/ml, P less than 0.05) concentrations. Additionally, fMLP caused a reduction in effluent plasminogen activator activity (0.5 +/- 0.1 IU/ml vs 0.39 +/- 0.1 IU/ml, N = 4).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
authors.affiliation: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Philadelphia 19104.
authors.forename: R F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Stahl
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Deutsch
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Fisher
authors.forename: D S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Warsaw
authors.forename: V P
authors.initials: VP
authors.lastname: Addonizio
mesh_terms: D015121:6-Ketoprostaglandin F1 alpha / Q000096:biosynthesis; D000818:Animals; D003326:Coronary Circulation; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000378:metabolism / Q000503:physiopathology*; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology*; D004730:Endothelium, Vascular / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology*; D005453:Fluorescence; D008297:Male; D009240:N-Formylmethionine Leucyl-Phenylalanine / Q000009:adverse effects; D009243:NAD; D010781:Photography; D011817:Rabbits; D013189:SRS-A / Q000096:biosynthesis; D013929:Thromboxane B2 / Q000096:biosynthesis; D010959:Tissue Plasminogen Activator / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000096:biosynthesis
chemical_list: D013189:SRS-A; D009243:NAD; D013929:Thromboxane B2; D015121:6-Ketoprostaglandin F1 alpha; D009240:N-Formylmethionine Leucyl-Phenylalanine; D010959:Tissue Plasminogen Activator