title: Cardioprotective effect of succinate against ischemia/reperfusion injury.
abstract: We investigated the protective effects of succinate, which is a respiratory substrate and a potential antioxidant, on myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury with the whole heart. Isolated rat hearts were loaded with 25-min normothermic global ischemia followed by 30-min reperfusion in a working heart model. Succinate administered either before reperfusion or added to the cardioplegic solution improved the postischemic cardiac function significantly. The hearts arrested with succinate-supplemented cardioplegic solution replenished high-energy phosphates and maintained the total adenine nucleotides during the reperfusion period, whereas those arrested with succinate-nonsupplemented cardioplegic solution replenished the high-energy phosphates less, and also lost total adenine nucleotides during that period. We thus conclude that succinate administered before reperfusion may decrease the degree of mitochondrial damage during reperfusion and thereby reduce the amount of myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Research Institute of Angiocardiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sakamoto
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Takeshige
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yasui
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tokunaga
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000975:Antioxidants / Q000494:pharmacology*; D002314:Cardioplegic Solutions; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D006321:Heart / Q000187:drug effects*; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D008297:Male; D015428:Myocardial Reperfusion Injury / Q000517:prevention & control*; D009206:Myocardium / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D019802:Succinic Acid / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D000975:Antioxidants; D002314:Cardioplegic Solutions; D019802:Succinic Acid