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Oxygen free radicals in volume overload heart failure

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It has been suggested that oxygen free radicals (OFR) depress the excitation-contraction coupling in cardiac muscle. It is possible that a decrease in the cardiac contractility in the failing heart may be due to an increased OFR producing activity of polymorphonuclear (PMN) leukocytes. We studied the OFR producing activity (chemiluminescence) of PMN leukocytes from blood in dogs with heart failure due to chronic volume overload. The animals were divided into two groups: I) normal, (n = 10): II) dogs with mitral insufficiency (MI) of 6 to 9 months duration, (n = 10). Hemodynamic studies were done to establish the presence of heart failure. Blood samples were collected to measure PMN leukocyte chemiluminescence. There was a decrease in the cardiac index and index of myocardial contractility (dp/dt/IIP) and an increase in the left ventricular end-diastolic pressure in dogs with MI indicating left ventricular failure. The peak chemiluminescent activity of the PMN leukocytes in blood of dogs with failure was about four folds greater than that in the blood from normal dogs. These results suggest that there may be an increased OFR generation in dogs with volume overload heart failure. The decrease in the myocardial contractility in the failing heart might be due to an increase in the OFR produced by the PMN leukocytes.

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Prasad, K., Gupta, J.B., Kalra, J. et al. Oxygen free radicals in volume overload heart failure. Mol Cell Biochem 111, 55–59 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00229574

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