title: Effect of exogenous CDP-choline on choline metabolism in isolated adult rat ventricular myocytes under normoxic and hypoxic conditions.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of exogenous CDP-choline on choline metabolism and phosphatidylcholine biosynthesis in adult rat ventricular myocytes. Choline uptake and metabolism were examined, using [methyl3H] choline. CDP-choline in the medium produced a concentration dependent reduction in the amount of radio-label in phosphocholine and phospholipid but it did not alter choline uptake into the myocytes. CDP-choline also did not antagonize the effect of hypoxia on phosphatidylcholine synthesis; rather it accentuated the hypoxia-induced reductions in cellular phosphocholine and phosphatidylcholine biosynthesis. These results indicate that the exogenous administration of CDP-choline alters choline metabolism in the heart by reducing the formation of phosphocholine and phosphatidylcholine without altering choline uptake and suggest an effect of a CDP-choline metabolite on choline metabolism which is not effective in opposing the effect of hypoxia on phosphatidylcholine biosynthesis.
authors.affiliation: University Hospital Research Center, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
authors.forename: S W
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Rabkin
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002794:Choline / Q000378:metabolism*; D003566:Cytidine Diphosphate Choline / Q000494:pharmacology*; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects*; D000860:Hypoxia; D009206:Myocardium / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism*; D010713:Phosphatidylcholines / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar
chemical_list: D010713:Phosphatidylcholines; D003566:Cytidine Diphosphate Choline; D002794:Choline