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Myocardial cell vulnerability to exogenous phospholipase attack

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Myocardial cell vulnerability to phospholipase C (PC-PLC) attack was investigated in three different preparations of rat myocardial cells: triacylglycerol (TG)-loaded, hypothermic/rewarmed and energy depleted myocytes. The attack by PC-PLC was evaluated as PC-PLC induced glycerol output due to the combined action of phospholipase C and intracellular lipases. PC-PLC induced glycerol output was significantly higher (p < 0.05) in all three myocyte preparations, compared to their respective controls. Cell morphology (% rod shaped myocytes) of TG-loaded or hypothermic/rewarmed myocytes was not different from their controls, whereas energy depleted myocytes almost exclusively were rounded up, due to hypercontraction of the myofilaments. Hypothermic/rewarmed and energy depleted myocytes showed a significantly higher release of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), compared to their controls although the difference was much more pronounced in the latter. Finally, the cellular contents of ATP were maintained both in TG-loaded and hypothermic rewarmed myocytes, while energy depleted myocytes contained only about 25% of the normal ATP level. These results demonstrate that attack from exogenously added phospholipases can occur, not only in seriously damaged cardiac myocytes, but in myocytes with a more subtle damage as well. (Mol Cell Biochem 116: 47–52, 1992)

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    Terje K. Steigen, Truls Myrmel, Kirsti Forsdahl & Terje S. Larsen

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Steigen, T.K., Myrmel, T., Forsdahl, K. et al. Myocardial cell vulnerability to exogenous phospholipase attack. Mol Cell Biochem 116, 47–52 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01270568

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