title: Recovery from reperfusion injury in intact canine heart by nifedipine.
abstract: Effect of nifedipine post-treatment (100 micrograms/kg slow bolus followed by 3 micrograms/kg/min infusion) on the functional and metabolic changes of the heart after a brief regional ischemia (I) (20 min.) followed by 1 hr of reperfusion (R) was studied in pentobarbitone-anaesthetized open-chest coronary ligated dogs. In the control group, 1 hr of reperfusion failed to cause any significant recovery of the depressed LVdP/dtmax and that of the elevated LVEDP (LVdP/dtmax, pre-ischemic: 2720 +/- 90 mm Hg/sec., 20 min. of I: 2410 +/- 120 mm Hg/sec and 60 min. of R: 2210 +/- 130 mm Hg/sec. LVEDP, pre-ischemic: 5.25 +/- 0.2 mm Hg, 20 min. of I: 10.5 +/- 0.9 mm Hg and 60 min. of R: 7.5 +/- 0.5 mm Hg). However, 1 hr of reperfusion caused a significant recovery of ischemia-induced depletion of myocardial creatine phosphate (CP) content only, but not that of ATP. On post-treatment with nifedipine (i.e., infusion started just before reperfusion), there was a significant recovery in LVEDP (8.25 +/- 0.6 mm Hg after 20 min. of ischemia to 5.0 +/- 0.4 mm Hg after 1 hr of reperfusion) and there was no further deterioration in LVdP/dtmax, as observed in untreated dogs. More significantly, nifedipine caused a near normal recovery of both ATP and CP contents of the affected myocardium. Therefore, the present study shows that post-ischemic administration of nifedipine prevented reperfusion injury of the ischemic myocardium, as evidenced by both functional and metabolic recovery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.
authors.forename: S D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Seth
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Maulik
authors.forename: S C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Manchanda
authors.forename: M G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Maulik
authors.forename: K S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Reddy
authors.forename: Y K
authors.initials: YK
authors.lastname: Gupta
mesh_terms: D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D004285:Dogs; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D015428:Myocardial Reperfusion Injury / Q000378:metabolism / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D009543:Nifedipine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D010725:Phosphocreatine / Q000378:metabolism; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left / Q000187:drug effects
chemical_list: D010725:Phosphocreatine; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate; D009543:Nifedipine