title: [Effect of ischemic preconditioning on free radical centers of the isolated rat heart during ischemia and early reperfusion].
abstract: The effect of ischemic preconditioning on the free-radical state of isolated rat myocardium fixed by rapid freezing at the 25th min of normothermic total ischemia and the 3rd min of reperfusion was studied by the EPR method. It was shown that EPR spectra registered at -40 degrees C consist of two free-radical signals: of the semireduced forms of ubiquinone and flavine coynzymes. It was found that during ischemia and at the beginning of reperfusion, the preconditioning results in a narrowing of the spectra (as compared with control) due to an increase in the narrow ubisemiquinone EPR signal portion, and a decrease in the total concentration of free-radical centers: by 16% in the case of ischemia, and 23% in the case of reperfusion. It was concluded that in both cases the changes were due to a decrease in the concentration of myocardial flavosemiquinones as a result of ischemic preconditioning. We registered the microvawe power saturation curves for these two stages, which corresponded to control and ischemic preconditioning. In the case of ischemia these dependences had similar shapes; however, in the case of reperfusion they differ from each other due to changes in the relative intensities of the EPR signals from ubisemiquinone and flavosemiquinones in the integral myocardial free-radical spectra.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Experimental Cardiology, Russian Cardiology Research Center, Ministry of Health of Russia, Moscow, Russia.
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Timoshin
authors.forename: V L
authors.initials: VL
authors.lastname: Lakomkin
authors.forename: E K
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Ruuge
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004578:Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy; D005609:Free Radicals / Q000378:metabolism; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D019157:Ischemic Preconditioning, Myocardial; D008297:Male; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000378:metabolism*; D015428:Myocardial Reperfusion Injury / Q000378:metabolism*; D009206:Myocardium / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar
chemical_list: D005609:Free Radicals