title: Effect of myocardial volume overload and heart failure on lactate transport into isolated cardiac myocytes.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to determine lactate transport kinetics in single isolated rat ventricular cardiac myocytes after 1) 8 wk of myocardial volume overload (MVO) and 2) congestive heart failure (CHF). Twenty male Sprague-Dawley rats were assigned to one of four groups: myocardial hypertrophy (MH), MH sham (MHS), CHF, or CHF sham (CHFS). A chronic MVO was induced in the MH and CHF groups by an infrarenal arteriovenous fistula. Postdeath heart and lung weights were significantly greater (P < 0.05) for the MH and CHF groups compared with controls. Isolated cardiac myocytes were loaded with BCECF to determine intracellular pH (pH(i)) changes after the addition of lactate to the extracellular superfusate. Alterations in pH(i) with the addition of varied lactate concentrations were attenuated 72-89% by 5.0 mM alpha-cyano-4-hydroxycinnamate. Significant differences (P < 0.05) were found in estimated maximal lactate transport rates between the experimental and sham groups (MH = 19.4 +/- 1.1 nmol x microl(-1) x min(-1) vs. MHS = 15.1 +/- 1.1 nmol x microl(-1) x min(-1); CHF = 20.2 +/- 2.0 nmol x microl(-1) x min(-1) vs. CHFS = 14.0 +/- 0.9 nmol x microl(-1) x min(-1)). Western blot analysis confirmed a 270% increase in monocarboxylate symport protein 1 (MCT1) protein content in CHF compared with CHFS rats. The results of this study suggest that MH and CHF induced by MVO engender a greater maximal lactate transport capacity across the cardiac myocyte sarcolemma along with an increase in MCT1 protein content. These alterations would likely benefit the cell by attenuating intracellular acidification during a period of increased myocardial load.
authors.affiliation: School of Human Performance and Recreation, The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi 39406, USA. Ronnie.Evans@USM.edu
authors.forename: Ronald K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Evans
authors.forename: Dean D
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Schwartz
authors.forename: L Bruce
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Gladden
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001693:Biological Transport, Active; D015153:Blotting, Western; D001835:Body Weight / Q000502:physiology; D002021:Buffers; D002087:Butyrates / Q000378:metabolism; D002469:Cell Separation; D003373:Coumaric Acids / Q000494:pharmacology; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D006321:Heart / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D007700:Kinetics; D019344:Lactic Acid / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male; D027501:Monocarboxylic Acid Transporters / Q000378:metabolism; D032342:Muscle Cells / Q000378:metabolism*; D009206:Myocardium / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism*; D009929:Organ Size / Q000502:physiology; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley
chemical_list: D002021:Buffers; D002087:Butyrates; D003373:Coumaric Acids; D027501:Monocarboxylic Acid Transporters; C007175:alpha-cyano-4-hydroxycinnamate; D019344:Lactic Acid