title: Hypoxia-dependent changes of enzyme activities in different fibre types of rat soleus and extensor digitorum longus muscles. A cytophotometrical study.
abstract: Using cytophotometry activity changes of succinate dehydrogenase, glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase and myofibrillar adenosine triphosphatase were measured in 3 fibre types of soleus and extensor digitorum longus muscles under normal and experimental conditions. Fibres were typed by means of cytophotometrical data into slow-oxidative, fast-oxidative glycolytic and fast-glycolytic ones. After experimental hypoxia of 20 min duration a significant increase of enzyme activities was observed especially in slow-oxidative and fast-oxidative glycolytic fibres of both muscles, e.g. succinate dehydrogenase activity increased by 21% in these fibres of soleus muscle and by 23-26% in these fibres of extensor digitorum longus muscle. Moreover, an increase of glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase activity by 10% in slow-oxidative fibres and by 28% in fast-oxidative glycolytic fibres and a 10-12% increased ATPase activity in all fibres of extensor digitorum longus muscle were measured. Treatment with Ginkgo biloba extract for 3 months before exposure to hypoxia resulted in increased adenosine triphosphatase activity in all fibres of both muscles and in decreased succinate dehydrogenase activity of slow-oxidative and fast-oxidative glycolytic fibres of extensor digitorum longus muscle. These results could be interpreted as a protective effect of Ginkgo biloba extract.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Anatomy, University of Leipzig, Germany.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Punkt
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Unger
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Welt
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hilbig
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Schaffranietz
mesh_terms: D000251:Adenosine Triphosphatases / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D005993:Glycerolphosphate Dehydrogenase / Q000378:metabolism; D006019:Glycolysis; D008297:Male; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000201:enzymology*; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D010100:Oxygen; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D013385:Succinate Dehydrogenase / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D005993:Glycerolphosphate Dehydrogenase; D013385:Succinate Dehydrogenase; D000251:Adenosine Triphosphatases; D010100:Oxygen